Tuesday 22 November 2011

Art à la cart

I promise that this is the last post about my cart/trailer. An avid reader ticked me off not long ago for leaving the saga of the cart development unfinshed. So here is the end point of the story, the final cart, the pinnacle of cart refurbishment.

Please note: Silvery steel reinforcement where the handle joins the body, to strengthen it where it broke last time, firmly attached by screws.

And note also the fine extra cross-member in pine, cunningly placed to stop the full water containers sliding to the back of the cart and overloading it (which also contributed to its breaking last time)

And the shorter stiffer handle, so less likely to snap. All in all, the perfect embodiment of cart art.



I am now offering consultancy on garden cart design and construction. Excellent value, good rates, results guranteed. Yes, you will be guaranteed to get a result. The kind of result is open to discussion.

I was going to write a poem extolling the virtues of the finished product, but it has been done before, in a different context, by an genuine expert. Enjoy.

4 comments:

the fly in the web said...

A cart worthy of the northern bard indeed.

Jonathan said...

I for one will miss the cart posts. Can we hope for a come-back tour (at least of the plot) some time in the future?

Mark In Mayenne said...

Perhaps I could a post on the cart hard at work transporting water and other heavy things around the garden?

The bike shed said...

Ah the old cart again - its like a soap (box) opera

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