George, We never had to approach the scale of loads they move over there, but when we lived off grid for some years, we found the Garden Way Cart. Agway sells an absurdly crappy imitation of it these days, but the original from Vermont was a real working machine. Wheels were supposedly made for harness racing sulkies. Our cart carried everything from potatoes to firewood, rocks and concrete blocks to buckets of maple sap, not to mention kids. My father bought it for us on the strength of Rodale's advertising and it put our wheelbarrow pretty much out of business from the day we got that cart. I think it must have been pretty close to 30 years ago we got it and it is currently down in the woods below our house, missing the end panel of plywood, but still moving the occasional load.
And I think it was yesterday that I saw a guy on a bicycle pulling a trailer that was probably 6' long with wheels near the middle of it. He had a rubbermaid box on the trailer and another rubbermaid box on the rack of his bike. He was heading up Cliff St past our house. Andrejs George Frantz wrote: > emmy, > > I love my wheelbarrow too, but my brother in-laws in Viet Nam all have > single-axle handcarts with a box roughly 5 ft. long, 3 ft, wide and 2 ft. > high. The rubber tires are about 2.5 feet in diameter. They are designed > and built in such a manner that they are balanced over the axle. > > Even when pulling one loaded with 2,000 - 3,000 lbs of bricks you have to > put a slight downward pressure on the handles as you pull it along. > > They beat my wheelbarrow any day! > > Of course you can't buy such inferior Third-World technology in this > country. > > _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
