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How to pick a collapsible cart
Decent cart. Relatively inexpensive. If you're spending too much time looking for crappy not-that-expensive carts, here's what to look for:
1) Does it collapse "automatically/easily" or do you have to do some other stuff. This one collapses by pulling up on a tab in the middle. Others (the heavy-duty one) require you to partially disassemble some of the bars to take it apart.
2) can you use it as a flat-bed hand-truck (ie: to drag something that's too big to fit inside)? No... this one does not. The rails prevent you from being able to lay things flat across it.
3) is it light, small, compact? Yes, this one folds down pretty small, pretty easy to fit into a trunk or behind a door. It's lightweight enough to pick up and put in a trunk w/o problems.
4) Durability or weight it can carry. This one performed admirable when loaded up in a single layer of glass bottles + liquid which is about the heaviest thing you can carry by space. Basically unless you're hauling sand, concrete, or cat-litter, if you take it slow it'll do alright.
5) All-terrain capabilities. I've only used this on flat & level surfaces. I wouldn't use it on anything like grass... maybe dirt, definitely not mud or sand.
Basically if you're looking for a basic cart to carry random crap around, this will do. The other ones I looked at were heavier, more expensive, or more complicated to expand/tear down.
Edit: Another criteria after having this cart for ~5+ years... how well does it self-stand when stored? This one never _quite_ sits right when up against the wall by itself. If you care about it, you'd want to put some sort of special hook or loop-of-string somewhere to keep it upright. There was another cart that I found, the Radio-Flyer one with canopy and zip-down seat-sides (for kiddos), and that seems like a good choice.
October 2016 · Patio Lawn and Garden · verified purchase