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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Jun 30, 2008, at 10:09 PM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

> It's the small wheels and four of them that I see as the weakness in  
> the
> system.  A wheelbarrow is an effective second class lever with the  
> wheel being the
> fulcurm.  You are concentrating the downward vector balanced on one  
> wheel.
> But a four-wheeled cart amplifies the irregualarity of the ground.

All that has been said is true. There is another positive factor to  
the four-wheeled design, and that is stability. One stops to load or  
unload and the cart does not tip. The two-wheeled garden carts have  
the stabilizer tubing under the handle to do this.

I like the fold-down sides. And I have thought of a simple design to  
quickly convert the handle to a pull-tongue behind my garden tractor  
or the golf cart. The prime negative is the small size of the wheels,  
if used on rough ground.

Of course here in the Ozarks everything is plumb, square and level.