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    This document provides instructions for building a handy cart to haul heavy loads using a yard tractor. The cart can haul about 7.5 cubic feet or 1000 pounds of material like dirt, stone, leaves, or grass clippings. It is made of 3/4 inch plywood with a metal axle and uses parts from old wheelbarrows or cars to keep costs low. Proper placement of the axle slightly behind center makes dumping loads easier from the tractor seat.

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    This document provides instructions for building a handy cart to haul heavy loads using a yard tractor. The cart can haul about 7.5 cubic feet or 1000 pounds of material like dirt, stone, leaves, or grass clippings. It is made of 3/4 inch plywood with a metal axle and uses parts from old wheelbarrows or cars to keep costs low. Proper placement of the axle slightly behind center makes dumping loads easier from the tractor seat.

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    This document provides instructions for building a handy cart to haul heavy loads using a yard tractor. The cart can haul about 7.5 cubic feet or 1000 pounds of material like dirt, stone, leaves, or grass clippings. It is made of 3/4 inch plywood with a metal axle and uses parts from old wheelbarrows or cars to keep costs low. Proper placement of the axle slightly behind center makes dumping loads easier from the tractor seat.

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    Lawn Trailer

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    This document provides instructions for building a handy cart to haul heavy loads using a yard tractor. The cart can haul about 7.5 cubic feet or 1000 pounds of material like dirt, stone, leaves, or grass clippings. It is made of 3/4 inch plywood with a metal axle and uses parts from old wheelbarrows or cars to keep costs low. Proper placement of the axle slightly behind center makes dumping loads easier from the tractor seat.

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    No-sweat hauling of heavy, bulky items is yours when you hitch this wagon to your yard tractor

    Handy trailer
    for yard tracs
    By

    HANK

    ADAMS

    A little wagon building


    gives you big load-hauling
    capacity to save time
    and your back
    in yard work

    I F YOU'VE INVESTED in one of those popular


    garden tractors or riding mowers, this handy cart
    will give you extra benefits.
    It would cost about three times as much to get
    similar features in a commercial cart, and you
    can cut building costs in half if you can swipe a
    wheel or two from obsolete wheelbarrows.
    Built to the dimensions shown on the opposite
    page, the cart has a heaped capacity of about 7-1/2
    cu. ft., or roughly 1000 lbs. of dirt or stone. With
    the stake sides in place, it will haul a huge pile of
    leaves, grass clippings or trash. It takes 5-1/2-7 hp
    to haul half-ton loads, so if your power unit has
    less, you'll either have to make a smaller trailer
    or be careful how you load this one.
    The body is 3/4-in. exterior plywood, assembled

    It beats a wheelbarrow! For this job, the tailgate comes off and lets you dump loads from the seat

    Drill the axle hole after gluing the upper bearing


    block into the beam and fastening the lower bearing
    to it with lagbolts. Use joint line to center bit

    To assure a square assembly, weld the axle to the


    drawbar unit and fasten it to beams before you drill
    1/4-in. holes into the trailer bed for carriage bolts

    with screw-type nails and waterproof glue. The


    top edges are capped for durabilitythe metal
    raceway used for certain wiring will fit over 3/4-in.
    panels.
    Centering the body over the axle makes dumping easier, but a balanced load tends to lift
    against the hitch. It's best to locate the axle 2 or
    3 in. behind the center; this also increases the
    dump angle. Before mounting the axle, apply
    stick graphite to the bearing surfaces.
    A steering tie rod and ball joint from an old
    car provide a universal hitch. In the model
    shown, the tip of the tie rod is welded inside a
    drawbar made of hat-section channel. This could
    also be U-channel, or even 1-1/2-in. pipe.

    No accidental dumps when you install a gate latch under the trailer bed to engage an eyebolt in the drawbar. Bumper block, behind latch, keeps bed level

    Mount the slide bolts horizontally at lower corners


    of the tailgate. When the gate is pivoted up and
    back, extended bolts on sides' top edges hold gate

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