As of a couple of weeks ago I am a proud kayak owner.  I wasn’t exactly in the market for a kayak, I’ve kayaked a couple of times and enjoyed it, but never thought much more about it than that.  I do, however, live a couple of blocks from the beach…and I don’t surf…so when I came upon a nice kayak for only $100 at a garage sale, I knew what I had to do.

I haven’t taken it out yet because my paddle hasn’t arrived from Walmart.com yet, and because (until yesterday) I had no way to get it to the beach.  I figured I could build my own Kayak cart (damned things are expensive to buy), so I went to a thrift store to see what I might be able to find there with wheels on it…lo and behold, a walker for only $5!

I didn’t know exactly how at the time, but I figured I could make a kayak cart out of it…so here’s what I did.

Parts:

1. Walker ($5).  This is the tough one and obviously the one that makes this tutorial pretty useless, unless you happen to have one of these sitting around.
2. 6′ Luggage Straps, pack of 4 ($7 at home depot)
3. Miscellaneous Zip Ties and a couple of 2.5″ bolts ($1)
4. x4 Pipe Clamps (not sure if that’s what they’re called, you’ll see in a minute) $6

Step 1: Saw the back two legs off of the walker

Step 2: Using the pipe clamps, fasten the wheels back onto the walker as shown here:

Step 3: Once you’re satisfied that the wheels are on correctly and as straight as you can get them, drill a hole and run a bolt through the two poles so it stays in place

At this point I used some zip ties to clean up the pipe clamp part

Then I used some more zip ties to attach the straps to the frame

And voila, we have an easy  $12 kayak cart!