Where can I purchase a Gardenway Cart?

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Twenty-two years ago my new husband and I purchased at Gardenway Cart. The cart lasted longer than the marriage. I want to purchase a new one, but Gardenway.com is only Troybilt tillers, etc. Those carts are wonderful. Where can I order one?

-- Darlene in Ohio (abcdefg@yahoo.com), February 20, 2002

Answers

ms. darlene, is this one of the plywood & bicycle wheel type carts?

-- bj pepper in C. MS. (pepper.pepper@excite.com), February 20, 2002.

ahh, answered my own question! it is!

enter vermont carts into your search engine & you will get lots of references for parts & suppliers.

-- bj pepper in C. MS. (pepper.pepper@excite.com), February 20, 2002.


Pepper, thanks for the response, but when I enter Vermont carts in my search engine, I get about everything under the sun except garden carts. Can you give me a little more specific information?? Thanks.

-- Darlene in Ohio (ABCDEFG@YAHOO.COM), February 21, 2002.

You're obviously not using google as your search engine. I can't say this strongly enough, and I obviously haven't said it often enough yet. USE GOOGLE. Greatest tool on the Web. It delivers the advantages that hypertext and the Worlwide Web were supposed to deliver. It always delivers relevant answers (with only one exception I can remember in thousands or tens of thousands of uses). Actually I can't remember the exception, but I DO remember that ONCE google didn't deliver, and I had to use dogpile, because it was such a shocking occurrence. Go there and try your query. www.google.com

-- Don Armstrong (darmst@yahoo.com.au), February 21, 2002.

homesteadhelpers. com has a line of them.I have two of them and a wood hauler.They work great.

-- liz loyek (liz18436@yahoo.com), February 21, 2002.


sorry for the delayed answer ms.darlene, i don't get online as often in the spring!

http://www.logsplittersandmore.com/vermont_carts.

www.homsteadhelpers.com -> parts & carts.

http://www.totallygardens.com/tools/carts.htm

www.google.com is the search engine i used. have fun shopping! i have the big brute, the lower handle makes it eaiser to load & unload bulky things. hope this helps!

i think www.metacrawler.com is a terrif search engine as well mr. armstrong, not as good for commercial goods as google tho!

-- bj pepper in C. MS. (pepper.pepper@excite.com), February 22, 2002.


I agree that Metacrawler is not bad. These days I'd use Fast http://www.alltheweb.com/ and Metacrawler http://search.metacrawler.com/ before Dogpile http://www.dogpile.com/ .

However, always and (so far) forever, google http://www.google.com/ before all.

-- Don Armstrong (darmst@yahoo.com.au), February 22, 2002.


I've enjoyed my Gardenway cart for 20 years. What first sold me on it is still the reason I enjoy it ~ having that front 'door' that lifts and allows for easy dumping.

Back when I purchased, it was only sold by one place, today, it's available in just about every catalog that has to do with ranching/farming/gardening.

-- ~Rogo (rogo2222@hotmail.com), February 23, 2002.


yeah,mr armstrong, google is my opening page. it helps remind me that i need to use the computer for research, not just entertainment! boy i am glad that the oylimpics are over tho...

just took alltheweb.com for a spin, wow, that was fast! me w/ a 24,000,bps connection,that's saying somthing!

-- bj pepper in C. MS. (pepper.pepper@excite.com), February 25, 2002.


oh yeah,ms darlene, have any luck shopping for a new cart?

-- bj pepper in C. MS. (pepper.pepper@excite.com), February 25, 2002.


HOLD ON A MINUTE!!!

I have not seen ANY cart the equal to the original Gardenway cart. I even looked at www.homesteadhelp(ing?).com, and they professed that the successor company to Gardenway, "Carts Vermont", is sold by them.

Well, I looked carefully at that cart, and it too suffers the lack that made the Gardenway carts so terrific - and something prior posters have mentioned.

They DO NOT HAVE the hinged, swinging front gate that was so useful. Their carts, and all such carts that aren't the Gardenway that I have been able to find (my family's Gardenway was new about 25 years ago - an my sister has inherited it), have at best a lifting front gate.

This is an inferior feature. The removable swinging front gate was terrific. One of the problems of the current fronts is that a lip of sheet steel remains at the bottom once the gate is removed. This catches soil, leaves, etc.

Bring back the hinge!

-- Audie (paxtours@alaska.net), February 25, 2002.


I have a rather cheep version from Harbor Freight Tools, it has a hinged swing gate, and no lip in the bottom of the bed. Item 30422- 3RPH 6.5 cu.ft. and Item 30421-4RPH 11.3 cu.ft.

I took mine apart and sealed all the wood before I ever used it, and it is holding up pretty well.

Peacefull Vally Farm Suppy has some also, their web site is www.groworganic.com but I don't think any of theirs has a hinged front.

-- Thumper/inOKC (slrldr@yahoo.com), February 26, 2002.


The Carts Vermont garden carts we carry are a direct descendant of the Gardenway cart. Gardenway invented the cart and manufactured it for a short time. Carts Vermont was formed by some Gardenway employees as an independent manufacturing company to produce the carts for Gardenway and market to other outlets. Gardenway quit selling the carts in the mid nineties when they shifted their emphasis to power equipment only. We became involved with the carts in 1989 when we became a Gardenway equipment dealer. We are located in Vermont only 50 miles from the factory and carry all models of the cart and the woodhaulers. We also stock most replacement parts for the carts.

The current cart has basically the same design as the old cart. The first cart had a fixed front. The design was later changed to a slide out front. For about ten years the cart was made with the swinging dumpfront. Many people liked this feature but it proved to not be as reliable as the slide out front. It required more moving parts to fail and the design made the front support weaker causing the sides to eventually bow out resulting in a poor fit for the front. In the mid nineties the company switched back to the slide out front. Because the current cart is the same design as the old cart most parts will fit. The swinging dumpfront can even be converted to the current slide out front.

For more information about garden carts visit our website at www.homesteadhelpers.com or call us at 800-649-9147. We also carry some of the products from the old Gardenway catalog plus a useful line of home and garden products.

-- ALL SEASONS HOMESTEAD HELPERS (ashh@together.net), May 09, 2002.


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