Foubd a huge cart on garbage today

Where I live, you MUST label a garbage can you actually want the trash men to take, or, no matter how torn and tattered, they'll give it back to you once the garbage is out of it.

Steve

Where I live, they have the same trucks. We have the chest high swing top roller trash cans. They only pick them up once a week. We have to tow them by ATV a quarter of a mile to where they are picked up. There are only the two of us, and we still had to call to get a second trash can, as one was not adequate.

(For the confused, I have four residences in different states, so the previous post is applicable, too.)

Steve

They would make a nice Christmas present to my employees. :)

John

very funny.

Looks more like a shelf stockers cart (like they use in stores to move boxes of merchandise around the aisles) but it's missing the handle from the swivel caster end.

That looks like a cross between a 4-wheel hand truck and a restaurant dunnage rack - used to keep bags & boxes of food off the floor and "away from filth and vermin".

On wheels is nice. because they can roll it into and out of the walk-in fridge or freezer while loaded. Double your storage space by storing stuff "in the aisle" for a day or two, roll it out when you need to get to the permanent shelves.

Technically, if you store any food directly on the floor (even if it's packaged or canned) and the health inspector sees it, (s)he has the power to say "It was on the floor, it may be contaminated. Trash it. Now." (Same thing holds with improper storage temperatures.) And if you don't want the Economy Sized Pile O' Trouble coming down on your tuchis, you do what they say.

They run a restaurant, not a repair shop - to them it's cheaper to toss it and get a new one.

But with the hard rubber wheels you can't leave a really heavy load (over 500 Lbs. or so) sitting on it long term without the casters first flat-spotting and then cracking and falling apart. For that kind of use you need the cast-iron centered wheels with molded on thin tires, or solid cast iron.

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Bruce, this seems to be a material other than rubber, such as polyurethane. Would it change anything?

Might, but I'd try to ID the wheels and look them up in a catalog to make sure what they were made of and the ratings. No sense destroying the wheels, then you have to find or buy another set.

The trick for long term storage of 'overload the wheels' heavy stuff is to park the cart where you want it, then jack it up and slide wood blocks under it to take the load, one end at a time. And you don't have to worry. ;-)

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Bruce, I agree totally with the idea of jacking up the cart.

My old cart, that I made from wood and Harbor Freight casters, is made with non-rubber wheels that do not sag.

I can take extra pictures or write down the manufacturer name of the casters.

They seem to be bigger than my 650 lbs rated casters as far as quantity of iron is concerned.

I use one like that to cart engine blocks around. I also take old shopping carts, plasma cut the baskets off, and use them to do the same thing. I also have a custom-built cart for my 150 lb competition robot which also turns into a table (the two large handles fold back underneath and lock into legs) and which holds over 1500 lbs--I've used it to move my 21" Clausing drill press twice now.

Moving around engine blocks and lathes is the kind of work that I have in mind, also.

When I stored my wood lathe (about 200kg) in the seatainer for a year or so My son forgot the remove the old lawnmower wheels used to roll it around and they cracked with the weight on the headstock on them. Very difficult to roll with a big flat on each wheel. Did a temporary fix with sacktruck wheels but have to scrounge more lawnmower wheels when the next kerbside cleanout is announced, maybe an ad in the local freecycle will find some.

Alan