Instant Outboard Motor Stand From Shopping Cart

Here's a slick outboard motor dolly you can make from a shopping cart in a minute.
It's good for moving the motor around and keeping it from falling over.

My granddad used to say: "To make a carved bear, take a piece of wood and cut off everything that doesn't look like part of a bear."

So start cutting.

I'm lucky to live in an area with lots of homeless people, so there's never a shortage of shopping carts.
I picked an especially small sturdy one for this project.

Grind off the sharp burrs you made when you cut off the basket.

I left a little bit of the basket part attached. You'll see why in the next step.

Bash on it until it's shaped like this.

Remove the baby seat back wall of the shopping cart.

Wrap it with a carpet scrap and wrap that with a bicycle innertube to hold it on.

Hook your motor's clamp over the push handle and use innertubes to secure all the dangling cables and stuff.

I innertubed the clamp over the push handle cuz I was in a hurry. If I had more time I'd bolt a board to the push handle and clamp the motor to that.