Sometimes I have to make up little jigs or tools to help me around the shop. I was working on a built in project the had a fairly large maple countertop, and it was a bit too heavy to move around myself safely. So I designed and built a pair of dollies to help carry it. The design allows them to automatically clamp down on the countertop as it’s lowered between the upper jaws.

The 13’ long maple countertop loaded up in the dollies.

Even with the snow on the ground, these little dollies made it a breeze to load up the countertop. Certainly not the prettiest things I’ve ever built, but extremely helpful in a situation like this.