Anyone made an Arbor. Trolley

[MattyF]

Matty do you not find you're lifting all the weight as the wheels are so far at the back?

 

Martin that's great!

 

Yeah to be honest if its fully loaded it will take two too pull it .. I did three trips up a hill yesterday loaded with plum wood by myself and it was hard work .. Would of been a lot more time with a barrow though ... Also I find if you can push it forward it is easyer... It's far from perfect and an arbor trolley would do the job infinitely better but for a tenner and use of scrap I'm not complaining.. I might start marketing my Heath Robinson desighn lol!

What I might do next is try and redesign what of those large dung carts that have an ally frame.. I used a customers , broke the plastic !!! But the lightness and the durability of ally could work! Barrows tend to break when they weakend with rust you don't have that problem with ally and it's light.

[josharb87]

Could you not just move the wheels to the centre on an A frame to balance the load a bit better? The lightness of the ladder is a big bonus I'd guess!

[MattyF]

That was the only straight run I could get a the steel axle through!! Also it would involve having an upward handle like on the Arb trolley I did toy with that idea but this was just a quick solution for the job we had the next day... And I never got around to changing it.. Was really easy to make apart from cutting and drilling the steel bolsters... I will try and get an Arb trolley when funds allow.

[Dan Curtis]

The stein arbor trolley is a great bit of kit but I'm yet to see a home made arbor trolly. I don't own a stein one a d probably will end up buying one but when I look at it I'm always saying to myself I should just make one of those.

I saw the thread "arbor trolly eat your heart out" and liked the towing capabilities.

So has any body made their own? Have I missed a thread on this?

 

I'm not knocking the stein trolly or price I'm just interested in anybody's home made trolleys

 

I'll make you one with another two hours work or so, mine could be modded to drag by hand, fit in a gateway, carry brash etc. while still being able to use it how I was in my thread.

 

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[Treemoose]

MattyF that is £10 well spent

[Breezeblock]

heres ours without the posts stuck in i left them in the van. fitted with solid wheels to stop pesky punctures and it cost us about a fiver got the materials from a customers scrap bin and the wheels came from a gas bottle trolley

[Rich2484]

I'm not sure on solid wheels. I think that one day you really need it will be a long drag through a soggy garden. Would be hard work.

[burrell_]

Matty do you not find you're lifting all the weight as the wheels are so far at the back?

 

Martin that's great!

 

saves the arms josh :lol:

got another project on the go for the 30th of november now

a nice fetching arch so all my projects are on hold

chip box is on its way

2 much to do not enough time

easier to buy shiny new stuff

[Breezeblock]

I'm not sure on solid wheels. I think that one day you really need it will be a long drag through a soggy garden. Would be hard work.

 

its what we had to hand ,beggars cant be choosers

[Rich2484]

its what we had to hand ,beggars cant be choosers

 

Ok.