Well Bob, it's like this:
The On-Line TBN answer:
1. It was nothin. Took me about 20 minutes and she was done.
The reality:
2. It took ME (I'll define "ME" further below) about 90 minutes. Tools required? Pair of plyers, a cresent wrench or a ratchet set, hammer. That's it.
"ME" = I've always prided myself on my ability to put things together. I've taken a lot o things apart just to see em nakie and to see what they were sayin and if I could put em back together. In fact, if I had a nickel for everytime I was convinced that something broken was fixed by merely dissassembling and reassembling it, I have about 5 bucks.
Sorry, I digress.
Bob ... the challenge with my wagon was the following. The mfg instructions were naught, just a numbered parts blow up. The parts themselves were not numbered, so it took some study of the diagram.
To be brutally honest, I assembled a couple of parts upside down. Easy to do under the circumstances. This was the jack/dump assembly (a separate parts diagram) and had to undo a lot of my work.
In the end though, it was still fun putting it together, even though my screwup doubled the time.
I wouldn't be surprised if this mfg. improved their documentation cause I called up and let em have a taste of my feedback.
Again, this unit is serving me well and all of the above notwithstanding, I'd certainly to it all over again.
Since you don't read instructions and their may not be any, you are a shoe-in for this product line! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Bob, what piece are you considering? If I can help out, by all means, let me know.
For the record, I got
this wagon from them, a 1 ton load capacity. ANY machine you own would tote this wagon around with ease. Even that red and white gizmo you just got.
I'd say a 4 stars outta 5 for this wagon.
Pros:
Built like a brit shick house.
Simple design
Easy to maintain
Not too expensive
Good folks on the phone
Cons:
Poor instruction manual (may have gotten better though)
Wished the dump angle was about 5 deg. greater (but hey, it's enough to get gravity to help out)
With the wheels at the corners and the front pair doing the turning, backing this wagon up (especially empty) takes some patience. The other types of wheel positioning would be better, but it depends on the size wagon you might like.
