Now that I am working on an acres scale again, and moving materials about, the issue of how much of what you can get in what size cart thing is ever present.
I recently bought a wheeled swivel jack for my trailer (4x6 by 16" high, 32 cubic feet filled flush, more if you mound it) to make it a three wheeled affair that can be hand pushed in the orchard. It can also be pulled by the little lawn tractor we use for spraying, hauling, mowing, etc. Now, we also have a little trailer for the tractor that is about half the size of the big one at 15 cubic feet, still twice the size of even a big wheelbarrow. This too could be tricked out with a third swiveling wheel in front, a pair of cart handles a la David Tresemer (see his Handcart Handbook) and shazam! a big human powered cart! I will say when these things are filled with several hundred pounds or more of stuff it is pleasant to put Ahriman to work to haul them. Even a little lawn tractor can be set to creep forward while you spread compost, rock dust, wood chips, etc, out of the back of the trailers....and reins can be made to steer, etc. We disable the rider on safety feature by putting a couple of big rocks in the seat. In the days of the horse, wagon wheel carts holding more than a cubic yard were commonplace, and using Tresemer's plans there is no reason why a two wheeled cart could not be made to haul 800 to 1000 pounds, on level firm ground with good wheels I can pull or push that.... http://villageearth.org/atnetwork/atsourcebook/chapters/agtools.htm#The%20Ha ndcart%20Handbook Frank Teuton---has carted about a few cubic yards of compost and stuff.... - comes out at 199.98 us > gallon - still no way this is gonna fit in any wheel barrow that I ever saw > > LCharles > >
