Sold under many different brands and available in many colors. This simple dump cart for your riding mower is one of the best, cheapest, and most useful add-on's you can buy.
I agree! Best money I ever spent I purchased mine over 30 years ago. I also agree about the tires, Replaced them several times mainly due to it lives outside and the sun and weather takes it toll on them. I just purchased two "No flat" tires for it. Time will tell on how long they will last.
My grandparents got one of these under the Craftsman name with their lawn tractor when I was in high school in 1987. They used it like crazy and when my dad took it over , he did the same. With him passing away, I started using it to help clear up the yard for my mom. The wheels are dry rotted, but the tubes are still good. The frame is still true and the cargo area is a bit dented, but the thing still works. The last time I used it, I bent the axel somehow after hauling away over 50 loads of burnt dirt though. gonna have to fab a new oneIIRC, they're all made by AYP (American Yard Products)
Got an identical one at a yard sale for $15. No idea of the brand. Put some new tires and tubes on, thinking about disassembling and repainting sometime soon. The handiest thing and the best $15 I ever spent!
I bought one of these 10s a week ago (Agri-fab). I don't feel it's as sturdy as you describe its 10-year-old counterpart to be, but once assembled it feels less flimsy than it did out of the box. Mine listed the max payload as 350lbs.
I think I have the exact one but in grey, mine sat under a tree and bushes for 10 years when I took it out recently the tires weren’t dry rotted. Only costed 100 dollars new. 10 dollars a year. Money well spent
I believe I have the exact same one, or damn close! I bought it for my dad back on ‘89 or ‘90. It’s all rusted but still solid, I’ve hauled rock, wood, cement precast steps, you name it. I think I might replace it this year though, because it’s just old, has a lot of bends in it from years of abuse, and it’s going to need new tires/wheels soon.
yea i bot one from harbor freight years ago, some generic put together one. the red paint faded to pink ( in the south) like in a month, tires fell apart eventually. mine was like $80 i think. my nephew gave me a 12 or 15 cubic foot one, so sold my old cart for $10 to some nieghborhood kid.
Im just about to buy one. Here in Canada we have Princess Auto. They carry it under the name Red Rock. Glad to hear its a good buy. I’ll pay $100 Canadian. Capacity is listed as 500lbs
That's so funny I was just fixing to a tell you I scored a Blue Hawk for $44+ tax at Lowes, hadn't got it yet but it sounds like got what I paid for. Oh well work it until it can't.
I purchased the same Murry cart in September of 2000. This is the 18th year I've been hauling shit around my property with that little dump cart. The bottom rusted a little bit and I've been replacing the tires but it's still works just a little squeaky. Bird baths, Jackhammer concrete, gravel, logs and every other use you can imagine. It's the 10 cubic foot 500 pound capacity unit. Menards sells one that's a 750 pound capacity and it's slightly better built.$140 on sale right now for $120. Looking on RU-vid for assembly videos so I can ignore the instructions that came with the new dump cart. Not that many parts fairly straightforward the dump cart itself comes pre-assembled because it's a welded box.
@@FarpointFarms yeah I had one of the bigger Ground Work brand ones from Tractor Supply and I replaced those I think three times lol I ended up actually using front rims from a junker ridding mower I had. I also bent the axle on it once and had to replace that even! Lol
One company that made these was Ohio Steel. I just grabbed an old Craftsman lawn cart. It doesn't dump though. The old guy I bought it from said it was his Dad's , who passed in 2000, and he had it long before that. After some research the guys on mytractorforum think it is from the 90's. Hows that for longevity.
Bought a Walmart one, like 20 yrs ago, $85.00 ,used and abused it, took the bed off, reinforced with treated wood, hauled multi tons of dirt, branches, logs, debris, made me thousands of dollars over the years, when I can't get the Bobcat in the yard. Fixing to take the leap, put flat free tires on it ,they will probably cost more than the thing did new. They are all probably made in China, sold under dozens of different names.
Harbor Freight has em now (that'd be the red ones lol) Just picked one up this morning, was priced at $139. Guess I could have waited for a discount, but i have no patience for that. About to screw all 7000 nuts and bolts together, that, I have patience for. Like adult LEGOs. The consensus seem to be the tires are kinda lame, and I agree, having not even opened the box yet. But also, like everyone else says, you really can't complain for the price (even tho I paid almost double what you did) that was... Yikes, 19 years ago. Best part, the red matches my 18 year old Craftsman DLT 3000 hahaha
@@FarpointFarms the quality of the hardware that came with mine was the frustrating part. I stripped the threads off so many nuts, i question if they're even tapped the same pitch as the bolts. They were twisting off with just using a flathead screwdriver.
I bought mine at Harbor Freight. Sadly, you can NOT replace the tires with the cheapo ones that HF sells, because those have a 5/8" axle bore, while the cart tires have a 3/4" bore. The cart tires are cheap and only last two years. I'm four years in and have spent more on replacement tires than I did on the cart itself. I'd like to try to figure out how to swap out the 3/4" axle with a 5/8" one so I could use the reasonably-priced (and higher quality) tires.
Try this. See if you can pop out the bearing in the rims. I helped a friend do this and I can't remember the axle size, but I think it was the same. We used a screw driver to pry/pop the bearings out of the rims, and then got a new set of tires/rims. Then we popped the bearings out of the new set and re-installed the old ones that were a diffrent size. It worked great! I do know what you mean though. I too have been though at least 5 sets of tires over the years costing much more then the little trailer ever did!
So are you saying to remove the 5/8 bearings from the new wheels and replace them with the 3/4 bearings from the rims of my old cart wheels? I'll have to take a look at that. Thanks for the tip!
That's because companies do not want you to do a video 20-30-40 years from now talking about how this cart is. The company just figures they lost money from you because you may have come back every 10 years to buy a new one. Companies actually design products to fail after a certain amount of use. It's called import the same product from China built to American specs with thinner cheaper parts. In the old school days vacuum cleaners would last 70 years. Today they last 2-6 years. Now they want to charge you a carbon tax for all the pollution they caused with their manufacturing processes that polluted the world to begin with. Must be nice to be filthy rich when normal everyday Americans keep having to buy the same products over and over again. 😆
the axels the part that scares me I guess its such a simple system that it cant go more than 15 miles per hour and definitely not on the highway. I wanted to put a surfboard on each side above the wheels and Charlie my dog riding in the middle with a net over the top to keep him in because hes a runner. these fucking cops here are a pain in the but without pavements its hell here when youre struggling up the hills peddling with a trailer there are a bout 30 cars on your tail and youre waiting for their patience to run out and give you the finger.
I am not sure what brand it was. I got is as a left over from a promo where if you buy a riding mower then you got a free cart. They had tons left over
Use mine with ATV for firewood. Tongue bent on first load due to bumper path. Had to beat back into shape and take off dump option. Changed tire no-flat tires, tires are so cheap they dry rotted within 3wks of summer use and store in shed when not used. You be better off finding an old frig and put wheels on it. Have a freind weld you one up even better.
Orig or current mmanufacture is Agri-fab rating is only 350llbs and these brand new on ebay for as little 115 bucks free shipping....everyone complains at how much work they are to assemble ...just a lot of screws is all though ...you are warned!
Thanks for the info. I do remember that when it came time to assemble there were a LOT of steps and a ton of little screws. Plan on 1/2 a day out in the driveway putting this thing together.
Same feeling here. The equipment is good enough for small garden/farm tasks. Easy to maneuver, etc. But what really kills me are those shitty tires. In fact we can say that about ALL these Chinese type of equipment. With pretty much the same type of tires! Be it trailer, wheel barrow, carts... Couple of years and start leaking all over the place!
Yesterday on my way home from work I saw this exact model trailer. Being towed down the road at at least 55mph behind a Geo metro! Can you imagine the little wheel bearings just melting down at those speeds...Ha! People are nuts and will without a doubt almost always abuse just about anything mechanical they can get their hands on.
guys I want something like this to slowly pull my dog behind a 250 Honda cfr dirtbike on a tour. I usualy cycle around Europe on various types of bicycle, MTB or cyclo- cross. carrying a dog in a doggy trailer especially in the UK is tough going as many old farm roads don't have pavements so youre forced out onto the highway and the cops want to bust you because they too lazy to chase terrorists so they pick on pensioners. so im buying a 250 dirt bike and looking for a tough trailer. .the law in the UK is a bike from 125cc upwards can only pull 2/3rds of its kerb weight. this trailer probably weighs about 50 kgs? if you ad the weight of my dog 20kgs then a survival pack 30kgs you reach the limit you are allowed to pull by a bike weighing 146kgs. in my research I've found the problem is trailers are either to large and heavy or too small and wont be allowed on a public road. The tyres they supply with these trailers look pretty plastic and weak. the axel to wheels system on this Agr-fab style cart suits this vehicles purpose for farm work but if you up to 40 miles per hr on the highway shoulder it looks dodgy . youd have to carry a Grease gun with you full time the bearings would burn out. the UK has a poor se[lection of trailers on offer that don't cost an arm and a leg. there is one smallest car trailer here that weighs in at 55kgs empty I think but it is slightly larger than this one in the video but the axel and wheels are perfect for the highway. its selling for £250.00Any advice for a pensioner guys , Im trying to get my dog to tour to Spain and back but this time not on a bicycle. great video thankyou you sure got good use out of that trailer and an amazing price too. its 4 times that now in UK in 2017
I wouldn't recommend taking a trailer like this at road speeds over 15mph. The tires are not rated for road use, and there are no bearings, they just used bushings that need to be lubed. at 40mph that it would need to be lubed every 20 minutes or so, or they would rapidly melt down. I think your best bet is to build a custom trailer for your needs, or find someone with a welder that could rig something up for you. There are bicycle trailers out there that have larger wheels, and are rated for road use, but not 40mph. Good luck!
