4' Steel Firewood Rack Project Plans: Welding Drawings, Cut List & DXF Files (Ag Mechanics / Metal Fabrication)

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Give your students a practical, functional metal fabrication project with this 4' Firewood Rack Project Plan Bundle. This intermediate welding project walks students through fabricating a steel firewood rack from 2" × 2" × 14ga square tubing and steel plate. Students practice measuring, layout, miter cutting, fitting, tack welding, MIG welding, grinding, and finishing while building a durable, useful 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 checkpoints throughout the project
• Cleanup expectations
• Reflection / exit ticket
• Project rubric
• DXF files for cutting the plate parts (foot plates, caps, and side plates)

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

Drawing Details

The drawing packet gives front, side, top, and detail views of the firewood rack with full dimensions, so students can cut, fit, and weld each part from the print.

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 firewood rack for home, farm, or outdoor use.

Digital download only. No physical product will be shipped.