My garage and my shed are at opposite corners of my property. I’m doing a lot of walking every time I want to straighten up the garage or take things out of the shed for maintenance. I figure a yard wagon would help a lot. The Gorilla carts are nice but I don’t want to eat up that much space in my shed. Also, I’m guessing that storing a Gorilla cart outside is not a good idea. If I’m wrong say so because those are nice carts. I’m not against a tarp or a small shingled top attached to a fence post.

If a folding cart is sturdy enough and what you’d recommend, what do you like? The wheels need to be good size as my lawn can be quite wet in the spring and I don’t want to be sinking and tearing it up. This will be used for tools, bags of dirt/mulch, extension cords, hoses, sawhorses, paint cans… I’m not hauling stacks of firewood or yards of gravel. I just want to make less trips around the house.

I’ve been very happy with my Gorilla cart. I really like the dump bed. It’s lightweight enough that you can easily store it vertically to save a bit of space.

A gorilla wagon works great for me. I would recommend getting the solid tires, and buying extra circlips to keep the wheels on. Only
thing I don't haul in it is big rocks.

Ours has lived its' whole life outdoors, 12-15 years, and still works fine.

I would still go with the Gorilla cart.
Mine has proven useful for so many things over the five years I've had it.

What about a Garden Way folding aluminum cart?

https://www.amazon.com/Manufac...id=1773604151&sr=8-8

Previous posters are correct about the Gorilla carts living outside. I've had them for years, my biggest one right now is the special order giant model. You will get a little rust of some of the metal connections, but this is normal for yard carts. It won't affect the life of the cart dramatically, but you can get you some lanolin based rust preventative spray cans and spray the metal parts that are starting to rust, and it may slow down the natural decline of anything left outdoors. Besides, by the time the metal frame and hardware finally wear out, it will be time to replace the cart. No biggie. Once you have any gorilla car you will never go back to not having one.

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Originally posted by ridewv:
What about a Garden Way folding aluminum cart?

https://www.amazon.com/Manufac...id=1773604151&sr=8-8

That might work for LIGHT duty. But it won't work for transporting heavy materials, and it doesn't look like you can tow it behinds a riding mower or lawn tractor.

I have the Gorilla Cart Steel. Folding sides make it extra useful. If I need to carry loose product, like mulch, I just line with Contractor grade black bags.

400m
How big is your property?
What is the distance between your shed & your garage?
Hard to recommend anything without knowing.

It’s not very big. About 1/4 acre. It’s just that the garage and shed are at opposite corners.

The more I see these Gorilla carts, the more I’m liking it. The 7 cu ft cart can be had for $282 with the never flat tires. Costco has a 9 cu ft with never flats for $279. I’ll need to go see the size difference.

The toughness and flexibility (more like lack of brittleness or propensity to crack) of the better quality big plastic 4-wheeled carts is the best I've ever seen. The amount of abuse and overload they can take is more or less unlimited. When you eventually DO wear one out, you won't feel bad about it, because you'll be surprised how long it lasted with all the work you did with it for such a long time, and at that point it won't owe you anything, and you'll be fine about buying a new one.

Note: IF you use it as a platform for running a circular saw, your blade will go through it like butter without letting you know or making a sound. The plastic tubs are thick and tough, but no match for a carbide or steel 7-1/4 or 10 inch circular blade at 6,000 RPM. Don't ask me how I know. You can still repair it but it ain't pretty.

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Originally posted by 400m:
It’s not very big. About 1/4 acre. It’s just that the garage and shed are at opposite corners.

The more I see these Gorilla carts, the more I’m liking it. The 7 cu ft cart can be had for $282 with the never flat tires. Costco has a 9 cu ft with never flats for $279. I’ll need to go see the size difference.

I've never used never flat tires, or know how long they last, but regular air tires don't last forever, but will last longer if you don't have to leave the cart outside where sun and rain will degrade the tires through natural oxidation, same as car tires. If you get solid tires do some research about how long they will last, since replacing regular air tires are prob easier and cheaper than replacing solid tires. fwit my experience is that any good plastic car will far outlast any air tire, similar to riding lawn mowers, which may go though a few or several sets of tires for home use for mowers that are maintained and kept in a shed.

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Originally posted by ridewv:
What about a Garden Way folding aluminum cart?

https://www.amazon.com/Manufac...id=1773604151&sr=8-8

That might work for LIGHT duty. But it won't work for transporting heavy materials, and it doesn't look like you can tow it behinds a riding mower or lawn tractor.

I thought it was hand operated and for light duty?

I went to Costco to look at that 9 ft.³ cart. That thing is massive. it might be too large. I’m going to go look at a 7 ft.³ cart tomorrow. The bummer is that the 7 ft.³ is $282 at Amazon and Costco had the 9 ft.³ on sale for $249. Both with the never flat tires.

I just bought the steel flatbed with the removable sides at Walmart. I scanned it with the app, and it said $99, but it was $119 at register.

I should have ordered it online first and picked it up to get that price.

I’m moving now, so it helped a lot. I just threw away my Gorilla dump because the tires rotted. I didn’t have the time to mess with ordering new ones.

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I wish I had some property to utilize my Polaris sxs more. I use it for hunting but I could get a lot more use out of it with a larger property.

Leaving things outside isn’t a terrible idea, of course depending on what it is. With something like a cart, wheelbarrow, or small trailer I’d first set it to avoid collecting water, obvious.

With these high winds recently my wood splitter cover seems to of left my property. I’ll be out more today, no sign yet, still in great shape.

The winds started strong from the south, then all the way from the north. It could be most anywhere.

I prefer to hire this stuff out.