Heavy Duty 4-Wheel Dolly with 8-Inch Wheels

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Here it is … the heavy duty 4 wheel dolly cart I always needed but could never find. So I designed and built my own. They’re now available for purchase. You can pick them up here in Pearland (just south of Houston). Or we can ship them to you.

Seriously, if a cart like this had already existed somewhere in the market, I would’ve bought 3 or 4 of them. But I never found anything quite like it. So I went ahead and built my own. And let me just say … I use them all the time and they have saved my back on several occasions.

As you’ll see on other pages of this site, we provide raised garden beds in Houston and surrounding areas. As you can imagine, they’re heavy and it’s a challenge to mobilize them.

When I first started delivering them years ago, I didn’t have the utility trailer that I have now. I had to rely on a guy who had a truck. Not only did I need his truck, but I also needed him. He would help me lift up the heavy garden beds and carry them to wherever they needed to go. This is typically a long walk from a client’s driveway to their backyard.

It didn’t take long for me to realize I needed a solution.

Heavy Duty 4 Wheel Dolly Cart with 8-Inch Wheels

Of course, there are many carts and dollies on the market. I would’ve purchased any one of those, but none of them had all the features I needed. Those exact features now come standard with our heavy duty 4 wheel dolly. These include 8-inch rubber wheels that swivel, a strong platform with grip tape that helps to prevent your heavy object from sliding off the platform.

The resulting dolly I designed and built made everything easier. I no longer needed anyone’s help delivering heavy garden beds. I simply lift one end, slide the dolly underneath and then I do the same thing at the other end. Sometimes I also clamp them to the piece, as shown in the photo above. Works like a charm. If these dollies make my job easier in this specific application, I’m sure there’s a countless number of other applications where they can be used.

8-Inch Swiveling Rubber Wheels

Big swiveling wheels are essential. I need these dollies to easy go over pavers, driveway edges, roots, debris and generally uneven ground. A big oak tree regularly drops acorns on our driveway, for example. They’re everywhere! As you can imagine, acorns are problematic for those little dollies you’ll find at Harbor Freight and Home Depot. Their wheels are less than 3 inches high. Therefore, they jam and get stuck on acorns and other debris instead of going over it.

The big 8-inch wheels on our dollies go over acorns as if they aren’t even there! And since these big casters also swivel, they have no trouble pivoting or going in any direction. As each of the four caster wheels is rating to carry 280 lbs each, the overall capacity of our dolly is more than 1,100 lbs!

Thick, Strong Platform

Equally as important as the casters below, the upper platform of our dolly is built rigidly strong with thick material. The four boards that comprise the platform overlap one another with incredibly strong half-lap joints. The 1-1/2″ thickness of the platform enables the dolly to support all of the 1,100+ pound combined capacity of the four wheels.

Furthermore, we put a grippy material on top of the platform to reduce the possibility of the object slipping off.

Lead time for these 4-wheel heavy duty carts is 2 to 3 weeks. When placing the order, please specify if you’d like all four wheels on your cart to swivel or if you’d like them rigid, which means they’ll go only forward and backwards.

 

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