I very much appreciated the fact that you bothered to pick up all these heavy machinery just for us to give us great end easy to build ideas. Thank you

Absolutely blown away by the simplicity of your design. You, sir, are a genius!

Back again mobilizing more things for the workshop, utilizing Carl's design principal. I see 47 people upset that they didn't consider logic! Thanks again for making this video Carl. Tom

Thank you so much for this. Men like you are what we need more of.

This is a lot more useful than the majority of retractable caster videos which self-indulgently show some yahoo sawing and screwing for 10 or 15 minutes. Thanks.

Ha...Ha.. Way to go Mr Carl... Simplicity at it's finest.. I'm sure you have some great videos, showing the simple ways to get the same things done the rest of us have done a good job complicating.. Thanks for the video, and taking the time to show the simplicity and Genius of your designs.. Kudo's... I'll be watching all of your videos to see what else special is hiding in there.. Ha..Ha.. :) Thanks again Sir!

Great German engineering! I have never seen so many tools crammed so neatly in a garage!

Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS) is something we don’t do these days. Too many people over-engineer their designs but these are simple and elegant (definitely not stupid). Kudos sir. I will be copying them for my new router table.

Very clever and oh so simple. Thanks for sharing a solution that many small shop guys are seeking.

You Sir, are a genius. This is exactly what I am looking to build for my tablesaw.

Sir, you are indeed a master. Just now found this. Thank you for sharing.

Thank You for sharing your ideas. This is the simplest solution to the problem of moving heavy tools around.

Mobility engineering level: Genius

Great original solutions. Good videos. The best on you tube for serious woodworkers with small / garage / basement shops.

Thanks for showing everyone your ingenuity. I now have some ideas for my shop!

This is the best system that I have seen yet. I bought the plans. Thank you Carl.

A Very smart and Humble Man; thank you for sharing your knowledge for all to learn!

Who seriously disliked this video? What tools...this chap is brilliant! Thanks for showing us this, will be copying your design!

You are surely an engineer such ingenuity with your concepts

This is the best video I've seen in a long time. These castor levers are better than castor locks, which don't give you a stable base and only prevent a cart from rolling away.

Brilliant, thank you for these ideas on how I can make my woodworking workshop more flexible and easy to manage!

The simple and least complicated solutions are always the BEST solutions. Excellent!

great solutions. simple and effective. easy to rebuilt and adapt. greetings from a young german woodworking beginner!

You found out how the pyramids in Egypt were built. Thank you so much for sharing this wonder with us!

One of the most useful videos I have seen on KZfaq! Thank you very much.

Thanks Carl. I was really disappointed with the off the shelf retractable casters. You approach is perfection. Thanks again.

Well, I guess I'm done watching retractable casters videos. This is the BEST one, hands down :-) Excellent system -- congratulations. Both the foot-activated and hand-activated versions are incredibly practical and simple.

Thank you for sharing your very smart and simple design. I say simple because it is easy to use not because it didn’t take a lot of design thought. So well executed. I have to keep rewatching your videos so I can figure it all out. I like how you modified each one for the specific tool and the individual need. Bravo! Thank you, thank you, thank you! You are a master.

When I served my Carpentry Apprenticeship, I wisely (in hindsight) chose to work with the older guys on site. They were in their 60's and were practical blokes just like you. They showed me shortcuts and skills that they had learned over the previous decades. I look back now and treasure those times and greatly appreciate the knowledge that they shared, again . . . just like you.

Brilliant. The creativity is mind blowing. I was going to say you're a genius but someone already did! Thank you!

Simple and elegant designs for all of them. I’m amazed.

Wow! You are my hero. No joke! I just put casters on my tools but I am going to modify now because this system makes so much sense.

Incredible design! I am amazed by the simplicity and strengh. You are a genius. Thank you for sharing

Wow, I know many have said this but , you are a genius. The pure simplicity of your designs are incredible. I have a small garage shop that can use many of these solutions. Thank you for sharing your brain with us mere mortals.... cool stuff.. I will have to re watch this many times before I attempt to duplicate some of your ideas. Wish me luck....

Pure genius... Best retractable caster design that I've seen. I don't bother to subscribe unless I'm blown away. You just made me a subscriber.

Best I've ever seen. All others are just imitations of your fantastic design.

Real nice job showing all the different ways to mount retractile casters

Absolutely simple, but extraordinary creative mind. Genius.

You are a fine designer and a gentleman. Thank you for sharing.

Genius! Thank you for the tour of your shop and your caster systems. I'm going to implement the system you used under your wood lathe for my work. bench. Amazing workable simplicity.

Carl, these systems are insanely brilliant! I especially liked the one you made for the tool chest. I’m looking at videos that people are posting today with similar designs but you’ve been doing this for a decade or more. Thank you!

Absolutely wonderful. Very simple and elegant solution. Great for any shop. I will certainly use your design to make my very small shop more functional. Thanks

Simply the most elegant solution I have yet seen to a problem we all have! Thanks for sharing in such a lucid manner. Your installation methods are what caps the method and raises the bar to true ingenuity. I have a few mobile bases that need your method. Thanks again.

You Sir in my opinion are an absolute genius and I salute you I only wish I had the memory to remember how to utilise the designs thank you for taking the time and effort to show Us the brilliance

Brillant, simple, perfect, clean and perfectly presented. Bravo.

Was looking for retractable base ideas. Yours design strikes me as the most ergonomic. Thank you. I enjoyed your other videos too. keep them coming.

Wow! What a great system! Just watched 20 videos on making your own retractable casters and by far yours is the best! You are a genius my friend .Thanks for sharing! :)

Awesome of you to show your work I intend to use your ideas on my shop equipment. Thank you very much Sir.

Thank you, I plan to use your design in a mobile kitchen island I am building for my wife. Perfect solution to my problem!

I am shocked just like everyone else! I can't believe it's so simple and works so smoothly! I'm going to attempt to make one for my old Delta table saw I'm renovating! Thank you for taking the time to show and describe how you did each one. You really are talented!

I was about to make retractable casters for my metal lathe. This looks like a very good solution, thanks for sharing.

Brilliant Carl!! Just what I'm looking for on a kitchen island. I came across your video by accident and am so happy I did.

Thank you for sharing this video and thank you for showing and describing In detail, how you manufactured each one.

You are a retractable caster GENIUS - THANK YOU FOR THE IDEAS AND INFO. GREAT VIDEO

Great!! It's amazing how easy even the heavier items like the toolbox and lathe are jacked up.

Fantastic! I have the same kind of metal angled stands for my power tools and wasn't enamored of any of the other solutions on the net. This is the way to go and I will make some of these tomorrow!!! Thank you!

So simple it hurts. Well done.

These are ingenious!! I'm so impressed. I have a jointer very similar to this one, yet I think it's older. A 1948 delta. Thanks for the idea, I'm on it!!

Your innovations are truly inspirational, I salute you sir.

Thank you for sharing. Showing how you made the idea fit various tools was very helpful as it will solve the problem of every base being different. How kind of you to help everyone else with this solution!

Thank you for sharing. Your mobile bases are the best I have ever seen. I have reached the point where my garage is full and mobile bases are my only answer. I look forward to watching all of your videos. Your channel is the first I have ever subscribed to because it is the best I have ever viewed.

*I CAN'T look at anything in this world without thinking of how to caster it !!!* Brilliant work mate

You are the best I've seen so far. I will record and store on my computer for future referral. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with all of us.

Your skills are amazing and ingenious! Reminds me so much of my father. Plus you are so very generous with not only explaining how they work, but also taking your equipment apart to show your work. Thank you for sharing this. I have so many ideas for my small garage shop.

I wonder if some day you won't regret not patenting this idea. I've built similar systems, but yours is far more sophisticated. I came across this while researching how to move my planned router table, and this is the best way I've seen. I expect I'll be doing something very much along these lines. I built a base to make my 350 lb (160 kg) table saw movable, and it's vastly more complex than this. I wish I'd seen this video years ago. It would have saved me a lot of time and effort, though it wouldn't have given me an excuse to begin to learn welding. Thanks for sharing!

Incredible! You, sir, are a genius. Excellent design on these and an excellent walk through as well. Thank you so much! I'm must finishing building my small 14'x14' wood shop and want to put everything on wheels so this was super helpful.

hi there sir! Only just seen your video... great ideas and you made them look so simple i wonder why i never thought of them .. thats the sign of a very smart man. I tip my hat to you sir!

Brilliant! Big advantages are that they don't slam down. The system I bought at Rockler drops my jointer so hard it goes out of alignment.

Perfect, easy to build design, earned you a like.

Just unpacked my 14'' harbor freight saw and decided to see what I can do to improve it. I was planning on putting castors on it since all my other tools have them. (garage shop). For this machine, I will use you're retractable design. Thanks so much for sharing you're knowledge with us.

Carl, THANK YOU for taking the time to show us all this ingenious, elegant and adaptable system! You may have single-handedly saved the backs of thousands of fellow craftspeople and maybe prevented a few hernias too!

Fantastic knowledge and ingenuity you are sharing with the KZfaq community, Mr. H! Thank you.

Just what I have been looking for, simple and functional. Thank you.

I feel like I've seen every "retractable caster" video on YT and this is by far the best execution I've seen! Thanks a lot for sharing

Good... gods! Carl, you're a wonder! I hope the irony of of a simple, foot-operated caster system being what elevated you to something of a hero of mine is not lost on you. Outstanding work, sir!

Because I want to build my own Router cabinet I will now incorporate the one that he built for the drill press I started thinking how I was going to do it so I decided to check out youtube and here we go thank you!!!

This is what youtube could have been. Thanks rockler,festool, et al.

You're da man, thanks !! That's what well engineered devices looks like - a great design is simple, effective and elegant. "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." ... so consider yourself very flattered for I'm copying the designs for my humble garage/shop :-)

Carl, ur one smart cookie. Those are all very nice, practical and effective designs. Very admirable my friend.

Awesome simplicity..easy to build and no nonsense..

I found this information you use very useful for me to use in my little shop.I think you are brilliant for thinking of this useful ideas

Very simple and solid construction!! Respect!!!

Wow! You are brilliant. The best I’ve ever seen. Bravo!

Genius is an appropriate term for you Carl! Very impressive.

Ingenuity meets top workmanship. Thanks! Plan on using this video to get one of my workbenches mobile.

Very creative... the type of engineering you can't teach!!!

Carl, Thanks for the reply. Following your description and watching your video again and , I finally got it. Have started to make one for my band saw. Thanks again Looking forward to see more video from you. Ronnie.

You, sir, are a genius! Not only do they work great, but the whole system looks incredible! You wouldn't be able to tell that they are homemade! Thank you for sharing!

Excellent design. Simple and effective. Thank you for sharing.

Just bumped into your excellent video. The physics of the mechanism is elegant in the use of levers to achieve the torques necessary to lower the wheels and lift the equipment, yet able to be adapted to suite numerous machines. Your explanation is great, easy to follow and allowed me to see how the mechanism/setup can be modified to suite my particular scenario. Due to space and weight restrictions I want to use a linear actuator to move the mechanism. Your video was the first I've seen where I could fully see and understand the principle levers (or lever action) necessary. This allowed me to design a better and simple way to do this, all based on your design; many thanks for saving me numerous lost hours on unnecessarily complicated prototypes. I now see how I can use some threaded rod and an electric motor to move the mechanism, be it either by an electric drill connection or permenantly fixed gear head motor.

Carl I have been copying your ideas since i retired. I have managed to follow your video very easily. The one thing that i noticed on the saw table retractor peddle catch is you have to get it just perfect, or it won't connect properly. I retired 6 years ago and now find i have to construct a more robust body than my previous one. So here i am again meticulously going over your video again and again to pick up on anything that will make this build superior to my first. There are many retractable devices on KZfaq but NONE compared to yours . Many thanks Carl you are such an inspiration Gerald South Wales UK

Absolutely amazing genius design Sir!!! I will use it for all the machinery I have in my workshop. Thank you very much for such a great idea!!! I wish you strong health and many many years of life. Please, keep going and we will learn a lot of clever staff from you.

Awesome! Wish I had a grandpa like you growing up. Glad I'm still able to learn from you now though.

Very nice approach in wood. I made something similar years ago using one trolley mounted at the rear of my TS and used two Fixed Shopping Cart wheels fastened to the front legs of the TS and mounted flush to the (concrete) floor so that, raising the rear (lowering the trolley with the swivel caster wheels) lifted the front legs off the 'feet' and allowed me to move ('dance' with) the TS. Your design allows hiding all the mobile parts and is 'elegant.' KUDOS

What a great method of making tool stands mobile without having to tilt (my craftsman table saw) or use locking castors which are not really stable. I am going to use this idea! Many thanks for sharing your designs.

I enjoyed your video explaining your use of many different caster devices on various power tools. Your design is very simple and effective. I will rewind and stop so I can copy to paper your design to make for my power tools. I have a one car garage.

Wow I've never ever seen so many impressed comments especially coming from people that are probably already skilled in the trade, like myself, not only are your designs simple and effect, there is hardly any moving parts to go wrong and each device is fully removable, thumbs up from the uk

Great ideas! I'm going to go make some sawdust now. It will be nice to be able to move my table saw, band saw, and lathe without hurting my back.

Wow. You made several great variations of retractable casters. I’m going to try to use the information you presented to make a set for a radio arm saw. Thank You!!

LOVE THIS!!!!!!! I have a Shopsmith Mark V and have fixed wheels on it now, but they have a big clunky design. I have been unable to come up with a better more efficient way of redesigning them. After watching this video I now am inspired to utilize your system, especially the one you have on your lathe. If I make a video of me constructing them, I will link to yours. Thank you for your inspiration.