eldubya
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My wife and I garden on a mountainside. Both of us are getting clearly getting too old to carry 40 lb bags of garden soil and heavy garden stuff up the 60-yard-long incline from where we park the pickup truck. Each of us has gotten nasty sciatica from it. So we're looking at the options for powered carts, and we need adult supervision.
The climb is a total length of 60 yds. The worst part is a 10-yard stretch of about 25 degrees followed immediately by a 5 yard climb of 30 degrees.
Excavating out a track to flatten the climb won't work, because there are so many rocks. We've found that medium sized rock may be just the tip of a washing machine sized one.
We've looked online at several types, both gasoline and electric. We were almost about to buy a DR Power Wagon but were afraid it wouldn't pull the gradients we have here.
One question is, we probably would never load to the 500 lb load capacity these power wagons have. So if you lighten the load to, say, 200 pounds, what gain will that give you on the steepness of hill you can climb? I don't know how to calculate that.
So what are some suggestions for a good power wagon for us? I'd like to cap our budget at $1,500 if possible. Although, what price do you put on a bad back? We have to do something.
The climb is a total length of 60 yds. The worst part is a 10-yard stretch of about 25 degrees followed immediately by a 5 yard climb of 30 degrees.
Excavating out a track to flatten the climb won't work, because there are so many rocks. We've found that medium sized rock may be just the tip of a washing machine sized one.
We've looked online at several types, both gasoline and electric. We were almost about to buy a DR Power Wagon but were afraid it wouldn't pull the gradients we have here.
One question is, we probably would never load to the 500 lb load capacity these power wagons have. So if you lighten the load to, say, 200 pounds, what gain will that give you on the steepness of hill you can climb? I don't know how to calculate that.
So what are some suggestions for a good power wagon for us? I'd like to cap our budget at $1,500 if possible. Although, what price do you put on a bad back? We have to do something.