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Garden Carts and Wagons

Posted by nancedar z7 NCWakeForest (My Page) on
Thu, Jun 14, 07 at 20:24

I have a couple acres in production for my local "organic methods" farmer's market. I keep the paths between the rows cleared with a wide tiller and use newspaper shreds under the plants in raised rows. I have been looking at the various carts and wagons to make my life easier and am in a quandry. I need a cart to move the potted plants and baskets of harvest but also a dump cart to haul off the weeds. Is there a cart that would do both or should I break down and buy two? I also don't know if poly (plastic) holds up as well as painted metal and worry that the lightweight ones are ergonimcally better for this old lady but "lifetime" has a place too. Any suggestions?

Nancy the nancedar


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RE: Garden Carts and Wagons

it all depends, how wide are the paths in my green house i have only 30" of path max so i use a smaller cart or a double wheel barrow depending on what i am hauling in my garden paths are 5' wide so the bigger vermont cart works for everthing and does a great job as does the riding tractor and the cart behind it
all my plastic stuff has heldup well and i like the no rust


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RE: Garden Carts and Wagons

We have two wheelbarrows, a small, single-wheel, metal tub, and an extra large, two-wheeled, plastic tub, construction barrow. I use the 'standard' quite often, because I'm too small to man-handle the two wheeled job when it's full. It doesn't turn very well, but I do like the plastic tub!

The metal tub on the little one is rusted and cracking (I think it's 13 years old). I think I will buy a plastic tub single wheeler to replace it some day.

I have always wanted one of the large red wagons that you can pull by hand or with a tractor. We also have a polar bear trailer that we use with the truck to get sawdust, gravel, hay, deliver manure, etc. It dumps, and can be pulled with a garden tractor for those big brush clearing jobs.

Hope this helps.
Kitty


 
 

 

 


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