4' Firewood Rack Project Plan Bundle | Metal Fabrication Shop Project

Give your students a practical, functional metal fabrication project with this 4' Firewood Rack Project Plan Bundle. This intermediate shop project walks students through fabricating a steel firewood rack using 2" × 2" × 14ga square tubing and steel plate. Students practice measuring, layout, angle cutting, fitting, tack welding, MIG welding, grinding, and finishing while building a durable finished product.

Designed for Agricultural Mechanics, Welding, Metal Fabrication, CTE, and high school shop classes, this project is estimated to take 3–5 class periods depending on student skill level, equipment access, and class size.

What’s Included

• Printable 4' firewood rack build instructions
• 5-sheet fabrication drawing packet
• Cut list and material requirements
• Tool and safety checklist
• Step-by-step build procedure
• Student check points throughout the project
• Cleanup expectations
• Reflection / exit ticket
• Project Rubric
• DXF file reference for cutting plates included

Project Skills Covered

Students will learn and practice:

• Reading fabrication drawings
• Measuring and cutting square tubing
• Cutting miter angles
• Fitting angled rails to vertical posts
• MIG tack welding and fillet welding
• Welding plate to tubing
• Grinding and finishing a functional metal project

Materials Used

Each project uses a 2" × 2" × 14ga square tubing and ⅛" or 14ga steel plate for foot plates, caps, and side plates. The cut list includes vertical rails, angled rails, bottom rails, spacer rails, foot plates, side plates, and caps.

Drawing Details

The included drawing packet provides front, side, top, and detail views for the rack with dimentions. 

Perfect For

This project is ideal for instructors who want a hands-on welding and fabrication assignment that results in a useful, real-world product. It works well as a shop project, ag mechanics unit, welding assessment, or student-built item for home, farm, or outdoor use.

Digital download only. No physical product will be shipped.