Platform Feet

I used these dense plastic feet to mount casters to the legs of my cedar planters. I used high strength epoxy to glue the feet onto the bottom of the steel legs, then I drilled a hole and installed a sheet metal screw into each side of the legs, close to the corner of the angle iron. This will keep the legs from pulling off due to torque applied by the casters. I bought some 2" casters from Ace Hardware that have 1/4" mounting bolts and used 1-1/2" washers under the nut to spread the load across the top of the plastic feet. Two of the wheels have locking levers. Now I can roll the planters to different locations on my patio without doing any damage to the boxes, and lock the wheels to keep the wind from blowing them around.

They fit well and are seemingly sturdy. But when I installed casters to allow me to move the planter around some (mine is on a roof terrace) they dislodged easily. Had to give up on the idea and only use the feet. “Cedar Planters” need to design legs or platform feet with casters (2” would be ideal)!

This is my 2nd planter. This one is the upgrade. A jig had to be off as the 2 half built sides would not slide in the allocated slot. I had to trim 2 boards on each side. Tolerances seemed much tighter on the previous one. And I like t or I would have purchased the 2nd one.