I find it odd that in many of the hand truck promotion videos they never show using their hand trucks going up and down stairs, and that is what most people are most concerned about when they buy these things. Thanks for making this video! It gives lots of things to consider when buying one of these things.
Okay. I really like this comparison. I especially liked the force gauge. That way you've got real data to show for the effort you'd need to lug around a bunch of stuff.
Aries, thanks for the feedback. Glad you liked my approach. You might also be interested in this follow on video where I upgraded the wheels: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6nGT9mCnswQ.html
The six wheel is an amazing home tool that should be available for use in every home! I have steep cellar stairs and it works like a charm and I am 82 yrs of age!,
My wife does massages in people's homes and that fidget spinner dolly is just the ticket to reduce her trips back and forth for things like her towels, sheets, and heater. Thanks for posting this, I appreciate it!
Markus, figit spinner dolly, what a great description. Glad to hear its working for you, I gave mine to a couple in their 80s, and it seems to be working for them to safely get things up and down the stairs.
They each have their place. It's a matter of budget, space and how one uses it for. If you have a business or move a lot of heavy things around in a shop,garage, warehouse or some business for example, then the big heavy duty one. If you just need one for occasional light duty moving then the two wheeled one would work. But forget about using stairs. If you you want something to go up stairs or to cover your bases and are ok spending more for the flexibility then the fidget one for lighter duty or a more solid built one. Even a cheap junk one would have it's place depending on what one's needs were.
I'm torn today about going with a 881 pound electric stair climber dolly or one similar to your stair manual climber. The bottom line is I have a fairly steep pretty narrow L turn descent of stairs down from main floor to 12 foot deep basement in a 1950's built home. Will the landing to make the L is narrowed through a 29" door frame even if door is removed. And then steps go from enclosed carpeted stairs to OPEN no skirt under any of the steps down to the basement which is a pretty long run. Steps themselves are decent width or depth and length but there not closed so one can not use the baseboard or skirt to push against to make the next step up as you demonstrate with the stair climber here that's a manual. There are different styles of electric stair climbers too. One has tracks and several reviewers mention they can damage the edges of non covered or carpeted steps pretty bad. And though they are a few hundred dollars less than the fancy step up one I'm looking it they also do not carry as much either load rated on the steps. Another thing to watch out for is some sellers give a load rating but that's for flat surface use and it drops quite a bit when it comes to steps. And often the cheaper less expensive 150 to 100 price range for the smaller manual hand truck/dollies the wheels are first to fail. They just can't handle even half the weight they are suppose to manage on the steps or surface ground level. So I'm still leaning towards the super duper model that does not use a track and is electric and costs a bit over 1000 dollars the same I found for 1075 to 1115 today on Amazon dropped off around 300 give or take due to extended BLACK Friday sale prices. Over our 20 years in our older home we've had to remove and replace 5 full size electric water heaters. My husband is now 86 and I'm 5' and not nearly as strong as I was 20 even 10 years ago. So handling these beasts is really difficult. We also live in a rural area where we bring in our own bags of water softening salt and turns out we are both having more problems handling those too. Finally it's difficult in our area to find anyone to hire to help. Last handy man we did hire for a water pipe leak repair and my husband did most of the work 2 years ago also helped himself to a custom made cot mat and of course when confronted insisted he did not take it but also alluded to telling me you had 2 you could share. Mind you we paid him exactly what he asked for and at the time was nervous he said he was charging too much maybe he was one of those low self esteem people. I custom made the cot mats using not only new products but a 1800 cotton sheet no ironing needed which was inherited from his grandparents in the 70's and that had been an unused wedding present to them. Very heavy duty beautiful fabric you can not find today and never needed ironing. We used that on the upper sleep side of the mats and these were made to fit the over sized camp cots. I went to camp the next month after he'd been in our home and my husbands mat was missing. Mine is shorter for a smaller cot but my husband who's 6' has an 80" by 36" cot. I'm the one who camps more often over our 50 plus years of marriage. So the point of the story is we were ripped off and doing the math to remake another mat similar would cost over 200 dollars. I'm just sick of course as the sheet was special to my husband. We do not live beyond our means and many would say too frugal so we take the loss pretty personal. I'm leaning towards spending the 1000 plus towards the hand truck in hopes it keeps us managing our own affairs a few more years. We retired here in 2001 planning to be our forever home. Yes at that time we were quite a bit younger and thought we had a firm understanding of age issues to come. However the area lost over 40 percent of it's jobs since moving here and population has reduced and average age has increased so a lot of our neighbors and fellow area residences are facing similar situations. I'm not a fan of the electric monster perse. But again if we can avoid injuries at our age when we have to step up to the task due to no other options it may be money well spent. My only hesitation is how to store it and still get good use out of it for the monthly use of taking down 4-6 40 pounds of salt (by the way we have super hard water which is the problem behind the failed hot water tanks and we did look into replacements such as electric on demand types but were told by two different makers that it can't be done in this home. I will look into that again because I really have trouble making sense that it can't be installed here. But with 2 different hot water zones in this 3 upper stories of this house maybe they have a point. We've had problems we've worked around for plumbing in LP too but have succeeded with those. I refused to take no for an answer when we moved up here for that. )
Great video, I don't think you talk too much, LOL. I think you are very entertaining and informative. it kept my attention. question at the four: 30 mark You mentioned that aluminum is preferred over plastic. are you talking about the wheel itself in addition to the I don't know is that called the axle whatever the thing is the wheel is attached, which is definitely aluminum. I asked because other hand truck show wheels that have white plastic inside of the wheels. finally, do you have any opinion about the the bag itself? I will primarily be using this to carry groceries up my Brownstone concrete stairs thanks!
Dana, good questions. I'm fine with the wheels having plastic structure. The axles are steel bearing races. Many of the 6 wheelers have plastic that connects the wheels on both sides I can't see these working long term, poor material choice in my opinion for thee parts touching the stairs. The bag works fine, I don't use mine all the time. Let me know how the bag works for you.
You should have done one more test which would have been using these 3 on floating staircases Where there is open air space in between each step. I live in an [outdoor] apartment on the 2nd floor And I would love to find a stair climber that can work on those types of steps but I have yet to be able to find one.
@@MakeItorBreakItNow an appliance dolly with small wheels and stair climbers/rollers is ideal for moving equipment up stairs if you don’t have an electric. The most important factor is having your load secured to the dolly. Nothing else matters in the long run. A secured load and safety for the user are all that matters. If you can’t take the load up the stairs all at once, then get help. Edit: I used to clean sewers for a nationwide, plumbing company, and the sewer machine weighed 260 pounds, and it usually went up and down four flights of stairs every day courtesy of my shoulders, legs, and back
Harbor freight used to sell a what they called a "bigfoot" hand truck (I don't see it on their site anymore). I have one, the tires are pneumatic (innertube) and about 13" in diameter. Having to air them up can be a nuisance if you are in a hurry, but otherwise they work great for such a scenario. On the downside, it is a little more wobbly with heavy loads, given that such large tires can compress an rebound a bit. Also, the axle (fulcrum) being higher off the ground reduces your mechanical advantage when lifting and setting down heavy loads. Edit: I could see the tires getting wedged if the gap was large enough.
I used to work in the appliance industry. There is a dolly out there that I had used and it had wheels on the bottom, but a little further up. It had a track system similar to what you would see on a tank for example. It would make it easier going upstairs And wouldn’t damage stairs because the tracks were made of a heavy duty rubber. Mind you this is a professional series handtruck. They might have lighter duty ones made nowadays for home use. Also, in this day and age, you can actually rent similar dollies from Home Depot, or similar businesses.
Do you know how to take the sliding vertical rails out of the lightweight green folding hand truck and re-install them? I use a truck just like that for moving stacks of tool boxes in and out of a workshop, and I want to put some metal rings around the rails to provide a moving anchor point for bungees, but I can't figure out how to take the rails off to put the rings on.
Okay, I've looked it over, there seems to be some pins and rivets you'd need to pop or drill out, could be messy. Maybe use some 500lb paracord loops with or without rings? Maybe I'll try that myself and see how it works.
@@MakeItorBreakItNow I've actually found some carabiner clips that fit around the rails, and they work fine. Paracord loops or big zip ties would also be good options.
Thanks a lot for this video, fantastic. You seemed to handle 50 lbs with ease on the six wheeler. Do you think you could get twice the load (about 100 lbs or 45 kg) up stairs with it? That’s how much I’d need to be able to manage and I’ve yet to find a way to test it before buying. Thank you!
I have concrete very much like these but the steps going up to my condo are very steep and none of these work on those stairs. 😕 I’m thinking a cart with extra large wheels
Great name by the way... Here's a link: amzn.to/3WMMi4O to the milk crates, they vary in price depending on where you get them and what color you want.
I got my Free Milk Crate from Family Dollar Store… It’s across the Street from my apartment… I could get a free one from a Gas Station also.. No need to buy one👍🏽
Magliner hand trucks have extra addon sliders for climbing stairs. Wonder how much less effort that is. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7s2LCsHbmGc.html Also the 6-wheel design makes pivoting corners much harder than 2-wheel. Had a hard time turning on narrow stairway that had 90 degree corner turns.
2:15 Inner tubes are just terrible.There's a reason inner tubes were made obselete by tubeless tires 2 decades ago. Why don't I just go buy a horse and buggy while I'm out? Go to Amazon or Walmart and buy a $20 tire inflator that will fill these tires in under 10 seconds at your home. Work smarter not harder. You're welcome. This guy is scraping the bottom of the barrel with every excuse he could think up. Exactly what a shill would do. I've been using the same handtruck like this for 3 decades and never had a single issue other than putting air in the tires once in a while. These aluminum/plastic handtrucks won't last you a year, and won't be able to handle even a third as much weight.
