Garden Trolley

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Off Someone Else’s Trolley

I decided that I wanted a very strong and maneuverable garden trolley that would carry about 200kg of slabs or aggregate. That meant that the under-chassis had to be made of steel which I just couldn’t be bothered to make from scratch.

Fortunately there are three sizes of garden trolley on the market with just such a chassis. The same trolley varied in price greatly so do shop around. Wonderfully many can be delivered. I purchased mine for £70 with a large drawer bar and Ackerman steering.

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Cart think of a better solution !

Non-Assembly

Once it arrived I didn’t proceed to assemble it as the manufacturers instructions. Mine had a tipper action so I assembled the steel frame and attached it to the hopper but put it to one side for moving soil around when needed.

My flatbed is 950 x 500mm made of five 25mm timber planks with a 40mm square section frame underneath. The bought steelwork was attached with sturdy 30 x 6mm countersunk screws through all the frame holes plus a few.

Crucial Space

Their tipper mechanism has the stays for the back wheels 27mm higher than the rest of the frame. I therefore had to allow for that with an extra spacer panel (see red right and below right).

Another issue is that there will be considerable front to back forces on the front chassis caused by pushing or pulling the towbar and when the front wheels encounter an obstacle. Therefore an extra stay must be added (see grey stepped steel plate by green arrow below).

Getting Tyred

The original 250mm wheels are furnished with pneumatic tyres and are perfectly up to the job. However I have Hawthorn and holly bushes in my hedges so had suffered punctures which prompted me to invest in foam-filled tyred wheels. They happen to come in a rather loud yellow !

Extra Steering Strength

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