I have a second-generation Garden Way cart--still available form the original manufacturer, but no longer under the "Garden Way" brand. www.cartsvermont.com/
You can replace the plywood (or any other part) to keep them going . . . and even I can handle them, with a bad back and lots of arthritis. In fact, the cart is a lot of why I can still do any gardening. One of the few items we argued over from my mom's estate--but I "won." I did promise my "baby" brother he would get it when I give up gardening. No signs of that happening yet, tho. Margaret ---- Andrejs Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
