We built a stand for our old outboard. We used the plans linked from the Stingy Sailor web site by D. Hayes Jr., with some modifications. The motor we wanted to put on the stand is a long shaft Johnson Sailmaster, so the uprights on the plans were too short and we needed to make them longer. We also wanted to be able to get a trash can under to motor on the stand for testing, as an outboard motor flusher doesn't work with the design of the Johnson motor. Otherwise the plans worked well.
We used scrap lumber that we had lying around. We just had to buy four casters at $6.29 a piece and a box of 2.5" deck screws at $10.25, and sixteen 5/16x1" lag screws at $0.31 each for a total of $40.37 plus tax. It took about five hours, but we aren't really fast at this kind of stuff and more experienced carpenters could probably do it in less than half the time.
Read the plans carefully, as it isn't clear from the parts list that some of
the angled cuts need to be on the 4" side of the 2x4 and some need to be on
the 2" side. We did that wrong on a couple of pieces and had to re-cut. It was
obvious in retrospect, but at the time it was a "doh!" moment.
Most of the work was done with miter saw, but there is one piece that we
needed an 8° angle on a 24" rip cut, so used the table saw. All of this work
could also have been done using just a saber saw, or even a jig saw, although
it would have been slower. Other than that, it just needed an electric drill,
and used a socket wrench to put on the castors. This is not precision
carpentry, so junk wood and bad tolerances are allowed.
