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Description
Rolling Wooden Plant Stand
A flat wooden disc on wheels, so the pot moves and your back does not
Slats of torch-darkened wood laid across two runners, four swivel casters bolted underneath, two of them with a brake. That is the whole product. You set a heavy planter on it once, and after that you push instead of lift.
It comes in two diameters. Nothing folds, nothing adjusts, nothing needs assembling. The useful part is that a pot you would normally need both arms and a helper to shift becomes something you can nudge across a room with one hand.
Getting it under a pot that is already full
The awkward bit is the first thirty seconds. Here is the way that does not involve lifting the whole thing.
Tip, do not lift
Rock the planter onto one edge rather than picking it up. Most of the weight stays on the floor while you work.
Slide the platform under
Push the caddy in until the pot base is roughly centered on the slats, then let the pot settle back down onto the wood.
Set the brakes
Press down the two side levers with your foot. Release them again whenever you want to move it.
The wheels, described accurately
Hard black tires in steel forks, and two of the four have a brake
Each caster is a glossy black tire held in a polished steel fork, screwed through a square plate into the wooden runner underneath. All four swivel a full turn, so the caddy changes direction without you having to reposition it.
Two of those four carry a small side lever. Press it down and it clamps against the tire. The other two roll freely, which is the normal arrangement on a caddy this size and is enough to stop it drifting on a level floor. It is not a parking brake, and we would not put a loaded pot on a slope and walk away.
On the floor question we would rather be straight with you than reassuring. Hard tires roll beautifully on tile, concrete, vinyl and sealed hardwood. On a waxed, oiled or soft-finish floor, a small hard wheel carrying a lot of weight is exactly the thing that leaves marks. Put the caddy on a rug or a floor mat there.
Three times a week you will be glad it is there
The floor under the plant
The patch under a big planter is the patch nobody vacuums, because moving the plant is a two-person job. On wheels it is a one-handed shove and the floor gets cleaned.
Chasing the sun
Plants want to move with the season and most people do not, because the pot is heavy. Rolling it two feet toward the window in March costs nothing.
Runoff falls through
The slats have gaps between them, so water that runs out of the pot drops through instead of pooling in a ring under the base.
Which of the two sizes you need
One measurement decides it, and it is not the one most people take.
The measurement. Take a tape across the bottom of your pot, the flat base it actually stands on, not the widest point of the rim. A tapered planter can be four inches wider at the top than at the foot, and it is the foot that has to sit on the wood. Pick the platform that is at least as wide as that base. If your pot base measures somewhere between the two, go up rather than down.
What we are not going to tell you
There is no weight rating on this page, and that is deliberate
The product name used to carry a strength word, and the page said nothing anywhere about how much the thing will actually carry. That is the one number a person with a large ceramic planter needs, so a strength claim with no figure behind it is not worth much.
We went looking for the figure. The supplier's data sheet lists the material, the wheel type, the size and the country of origin, and no load rating at all. Look-alike listings elsewhere do print numbers, but the ones we checked disagree with each other and in one case describe the same item as a different material entirely, so they are not evidence. Rather than pick one, we removed the strength word from the name and left the number off.
So here is the honest version:
- We have not published a capacity, because we do not hold one. If a tested rating is what your purchase depends on, buy a caddy from a seller that publishes one. We would rather lose the sale than invent a figure.
- Judge it by what you can see. Slats of solid wood across two runners, four steel-forked casters on square mounting plates. It is built the way a wooden caddy is built, and the photographs on this page are of the actual item.
- Keep it under cover outdoors. We hold no documentation of a weatherproofing treatment on this wood. On a covered porch or a sheltered balcony it is fine. Standing in rain and puddles, untreated wood turns gray, swells and eventually works loose around the screws.
- We are not naming the species. The supplier documents the material as wood and stops there. The dark scorched grain you can see is a surface charring finish rather than a stain, and that is as far as we can go without guessing.
How it is put together
Two runners, four mounting plates, and screws you can see
Turn it over and there is nothing hidden. Two straight wooden runners cross the underside of the slatted disc, and each caster sits on a square steel plate screwed into a runner. That is where the load actually goes, which is why the casters sit on the runners rather than on the slats themselves.
It arrives that way. There is no hardware bag, no instruction sheet to lose and nothing to tighten before first use, which is worth knowing if you were expecting a flat-pack.
Two sizes, one job, done without lifting
A round wooden platform, four swivel wheels, two brakes. Measure the base of your pot, pick the diameter that covers it, and stop dragging your plants across the floor.
Two of four casters brake Both diameters stated, not implied Ships assembled
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