Need a yard truck?

[Fuddyduddy1952]

I want to build one of these motorized wheelbarrows out of a rear-engine rider:
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You'd have to figure out a way to steer it, but it's doable.

 

[D&D]

OK, I said it was cool, but done wrong. That's like me saying it was creative. If you think the welds are worthy of what he built...
Also, HE said it was heavy, at that point, change location of hinges.

Wow, a beginner that’s also a certified inspector. Never met one of those before.

 

[Runner]

Here's another motorized wheelbarrow piccy I got off the web somewhere. The load box pivots and you steer it by moving the handlebars (just like the JD model previously shown).

Here is a detail pic of the pivot point on the green one.

They don't do anything I can't already do with stuff I've got, but I just want one.

 

[Runner]

OK, cool idea, poor implementation. Dump body close to worthless, as he describes as very heavy, empty. No tie down areas. I'm a beginner welder, and I see welds worse than mine. Really wouldn't take much to have it done right though.

I think he was trying to make it look like a full-scale off-road dump truck, but it just limits the capacity of the bed. I would have just made a rectangular box and made it bigger.

He has a plasma table to cut out all the odd shapes required to make the bed.

 

[Shawn T. W.]

You'd have to figure out a way to steer it, but it's doable.

I'd think a Z-turn base would take care of that, instead of a tractor ...

 

[Mtsoxfan]

I think he was trying to make it look like a full-scale off-road dump truck, but it just limits the capacity of the bed. I would have just made a rectangular box and made it bigger.

He has a plasma table to cut out all the odd shapes required to make the bed.

Best watch out, D&D doesn't like it when people critique others work.
I agree, and it's still a cool idea.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

A simple steering is a pipe on mower front, bottom flange on mower, bracket near top. Steering wheel on top. A bracket either side of cart near top. A cable one bracket, few loops around pipe then to other bracket.
Or simpler yet two pipe flanges, three sections pipe, two elbows. Flanges on cart at top.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Here's a funny story (& I have lots ). Growing up on the farm was great, like having two Dad's, Dad & Mom's Dad who was a mechanical engineer, M.D., D.O., Surgeon. "Doc" everyone simply called him. His wife, my Grandmother, was this tiny 4'11 ,98# lady who loved gardening. So Doc builds her a cart from a 1960 "Poplar Mechanics" issue.
He gets lots of 3/4" marine plywood, black iron pipe, fittings, braces, and wheels that I'm sure were for a motorcycle. It had a pipe handle and feet with flanges.
After many hours and who knows how much glue, screws, primer and paint it's finished. You could haul two wheelbarrows in it with room to spare.
Doc had to get Dad & me to help wheel it over for the presentation. Grandmother came out and her head was barely above the handle.
"What is it?" She asked. Doc said "It's your new garden cart I made! See (he said with a grunt as he lifted the handle) it even dumps!"
She pushed hard as she could and it didn't move. "The dump is where it needs to go".
We used it hauling stuff to the lake or to fix the well. We tried hauling wood but I'm sure that explains why we've all had hemorrhoids.