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I partner with a lighting guy for a lot of youth events in my area. He uses a lot of tripod stands for his lighting setup. After nearly seven years of carrying all of his stands in canvas stand bags, I built him a cart. This started with a retired hospital laundry cart, some pine 1x4 and some good-old PL. All in all, this reduces the load-in / load-out by at least eight round trips to the trailer.

Here's another couple pictures. There are 27 triangular slots for the tripod stands. The extra vertical spaces are handy for cross tubes and tees.

Excellent!

Bruce Weldy wrote:Excellent!

I agree. That's awesome! I need to do something similar for mic stands...
I gotta say though...that's a whole lotta tripods! What would you call that many? A troop of tripods? Maybe a forest of tripods?

I'm getting ready to do a mic stand addition to my main gear cart. I forget where the thread went (can't seem to find it) that I did some time ago about my 'everything' cart. I'll repost when the modifications are done. I usually carry at least 8 mic stands. I need to get a couple more shorty desk-top stands. They really are handy for putting the '57s in front of guitar amps....

This lighting stand cart was a real joy to make: We were going back and forth about dimensions for a couple weeks when low-and-behold, I ended up at the ER with my youngest (who had just that evening done his first FOH gig (at 10 years old)). I saw the laundry bin and thought "that's perfect". I remembered that the Goodwill stores use these quite a bit. After wheeling and sealing at the Goodwill, I brought home a pair of them for $150.

The math for the woodwork ended up being dirt simple, I can show anyone who may be interested. The two frames involved used up exactly 10 eight foot 1x4s in total and took about 3 hours to cut and assemble. The cart was not modified at all.