[AG-EQ] Garden carts

[Tracy Carcione]

Hi Jewel.
Those sound like good garden carts.  My problem with my wheelbarrow is that
it has an inflated tire, which sooner or later loses its air.  Then I either
have to push it around on a flat tire, or haul it a few blocks to a gas
station and get them to refill the tire.  
I thought, when I was a kid, we had wheelbarrows with solid wheels, which
would be much better.
So what kind of tires does your small house of a garden cart have?
Tracy


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Subject: [AG-EQ] Garden carts

Taking you back a year or more, you may remember that, firstly, Petrus and
then I bought JobMate 
garden carts.  However, it was some time before Petrus had his assembled
while I had bought one, 
already assembled from Mitre10.
It is rare, in the extreme, that I buy something and then do not have to
correct everything that the 
original manufacturer/designer had overlooked, so I will refresh your
memories by giving you some 
examples.
Firstly, the 4-wheeled garden cart, which, if left on a slope, had a
tendency to take off downhill, 
so I had a friend add a brake to it which consisted of a disused long bolt
welded to a length of 
chain that was, permanently, attach to the cart:  that is:  short length of
chain, not bolt, and to 
brake the cart, the bolt was pushed through a hole that had been drilled in
the hub of one of the 
rear wheels and then restede on part of the steel frame that supported the
plastic body.  If the 
cart moved, the bolt would slide forward until it came up against part of
the supporting framework 
and could go no further, thus I had a very efficient braking system.
My second adaptation was to a heavy digging spade.  Pressing the spade into
stony, root-filled 
conpacted clay did no favour to one's  footwear, so I had the same friend,
with his home workshop 
welder attach a length of round pipe to the top edge of the spade blade, and
a similar digging fork 
was useless as the end of the tines were squared off rather than being
pointed.  I could have had 
Sam simply grind them down, but I was sure that there must be digging forks
that had pointed tines 
that would penetrate the type of soil I mentioned above, and so there was,
so a simple "return and 
replace" fixed that problem.
I have now added to or I should say:  have had added to my fleet of garden
carts:  an absolute 
monster which is dedeicated to the shifting of garden refuse and rubbish but
I have little doubt 
that it could also be called upon to move one of today's tiny houses, or, at
a pinch, could, 
actually be used as a tiny house.
It is a 3 wheeler and was, originally, intended, or so I believe, to be
attached to a quad bike or 
ride-on mower, but it can be moved by hand quite easily. 


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