Strangely familiar. Significantly cheaper.

My partners wife bought us this log cart from northern tool. It's cheap for sure. The handle always feels like it's going to snap off at any time. We've primarily used it for brush and as of yet haven't made upright, but used saplings in the holes to give us our brush holding capacity. Only used it a few times and it's been love hate. Not a quality item, there is slop in tbe handle as someone mentioned. My partner likes to engineer everything to make it work so he bough a wider axle and solid tires as the ones that came with it were so cheap that when inflated to recommend pressure, the sidewall blew out on one.
The chain to hold logs has no attachment point to secure it to the cart so unless you do what we did. You have to drag it around with you. We added a clamp to the bottom of the frame to hold chain, and a small hook on the handle help with a hose clamp to hold other end of chain. It's also not a very long chain. When it's loaded properly, it will pull the brush fairly well, but the handle position/shape makes it awkward to use. Definitely a short term solution until we buy the arbor trolley.
 
stheis004 said:
That is definitely worth looking into for the price difference of that and the trolley. I'd think it'd work, especially for brush if you can come up with the extension arms. Has anyone tried to use one of those gorilla carts for tree work?... I've never had my hands on one, but some are rated to over 1,400 lbs... The sides go on and off, build some kind of extensions for brush stacking...?
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I've one of those Gorilla carts, bought it at Home Depot a year ago when it went on sale for $110, just used it yesterday to haul a bunch of limbs. Don't know if it will hold 1,400 lbs, and if it does I don't know if I could pull it across a lawn. But my Kubota B7610 could :)
Seems sturdy. I had mine shipped to my house and when it arrived it looked like UPS had dragged it behind their truck for a mile. It was missing a few washers etc. So I called the company to complain about their flimsy cardboard box packaging and they immediately dropped shipped the complete bolt package without asking.

And about the NT log carrier - a 20" red oak 4' may exceed it's capacity.
 
Any update on this? Back to part time on my own and renting a mini makes Saturday's long and unprofitable and we all know how much a dolly sucks
 
Well, the changes we made to get it like the Arbor trolley gave made it nicer, but i wasn't happy with thr original purchase of this, thrn the modifications upped the cost to the point wher for not mych more money......should have just got the Arbor trolley
 
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