Turn Your Bed Into a Bike Trailer

This is the quickest bike trailer I've ever made.

I like it because it's light and has plenty of space to lash
) a new mattress
) an old mattress
) armloads of donuts to deliver to hungry clueless harvard students
) all the computers you can find
) monitors
) old lab supplies to fortify your home

it's also a rolling music video stage. If you put Will Bosworth ( howtern) on it, and he starts singing, film that.

That guy's a rockstar, and you can't miss him singing.

So this is going to become a bedframe with wheels.
I'm using bike wheels because they grow on trees around here.
I learned that bike wheels need bike forks.

Fortunately, bike forks also grow on trees.

I'm gonna weld this all together. You can also drill holes and use a pair of bolts.

I got the mattress frame from a dumpster labeled "Metal only"
At first I thought, "Should I be wearing more hairspray?"

When I popped over the edge of the dumpster, I realized what was meant: All the metal I've been looking for.
Pipes, angle iron, tubing, solid metal, - beds -
so I grabbed two bedframes like this and biked back to my favorite machine shop.

First, put on "Oh! The Grandeur!" by Andrew Bird.

I found out that waring a hankerchief on my head under a welding helmet is the best thing ever. Warm and comfy and cozy, it feels way better than the sweatband in the helmet, and makes everything fit perfectly.

Weld on!

Also, welding magnets are a fabulous idea. They exist to hold your metal at a right angle, and right where you want it.
Fortunately, all the metal I weld with this welder is ferromagnetic, so these are perfect every time.

I tie the fork to the chair to hold it at the right height.

The chair is also the perfect place to sit while I weld.

From some bike tree dumpster.

And then lash a bar on the front, so you can hitch up to a bike!