Wood Rotisserie Plans

[JoeK]

A couple people have asked for something on the rotisserie I built. I'm primarily a wood worker, and wood is a lot easier to get and much more familiar to me. So I decided to make mine primarily out of wood. There is some welding involved, but its' pretty minor and could easily be farmed out, just welding tubes to flat plate. The 4" x 16" plate was bolted to long pieces of 1 3/4" x 9.25 LVL, which is a wood product like really thick plywood. Your big box store won't carry it, but your local lumber yard likely will. you could easily do this with metal plate or channel, still bolting it together if you are trying to minimize welding.

 

To mount this to the car:

 

At the front, I welded some plate 1/8" plate to some 1x2 tube steel, bolted the tube to the sway bar mounts, and bolts the plate to the LVL.

 

At the rear, the LVL is bolted to the bumper mounts, with some spacers in between the LVL and the car.

 

Materials:

2/10' - 4x6

2/8' - 2x6

1/2 sheet of 1/2" plywood

3" and 1 5/8" screws

6 swivel casters. I used metal wheel casters form HD, they were like $5 each and have worked great

[auxilary]

Awesome, thanks!

[kh240]

I researched bunches of rotisseries to sort our something to meet my needs.  Since this is the latest rotisserie thread I'll add mine here.  My requirements were - cheap, no weld & has to roll easily over a 1" lip on my garage floor.

 

I bought 2 harbor freight cheapo engine stands and cut off the uprights.  I cut down some 2x4 wood to just fit very tightly into the engine stand upright.  Then drove the wood home until flush on the bottom.  Mounted to a 2x6 using 2 lag bolts.  Added some harbor freight large pneumatic wheels, a couple wood diagonals, and then tied the ends together with long 2x4's.  I would not use it in an every day shop, but so far, so good.  

 

I used the leftover HF engine stand metal to weld up the mounts for the car.

 

Thanks a bunch to all who post their ideas on these.  It helped me a bunch for my solution.

 

[gdv350ss]

Check out this link for some other low-cost "interesting" ideas from the VW crowd:

 

http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?4135809-May-I-see-your-homemade-rabbit-rotisseries&highlight=Rotisserie

Edited January 1, 2016 by gdv350ss

[TUME]

http://forums.hybridz.org/topic/122915-welder-tools-rotisserie-advice/page-2?do=findComment&comment=1151443    Not entirely wood, but U got the point. Simple is beautiful...