Gorilla Carts GOR866D Heavy-Duty Garden Poly Dump Cart with 2-In-1 Convertible Handle, 1,200-Pound Capacity, 40-Inch by 25-Inch Bed, Black Finish

As the summer started, I had a big yard project on the horizon. All the beds on my house had crappy clay soil from the foundation dig out. At the same time, I had some bad low spots under my raised deck that caused standing water by my foundation. So I planned to dig out all the dirt/clay from the beds, put it (and spread it out) under the deck, and then fill the beds with a load of topsoil. Dreading moving all that soil in a wheel barrel, and not knowing how I'd move a wheel barrow under the 4 foot high deck, I decided to get a lawn dump cart.I figured I'd use my garden tractor to haul all the dirt.After doing some research, I came to like the Gorilla Dump Carts. This one here, GOR866D, is their second biggest model. Both this one and the GOR2540D are rated to carry 1,200lbs. The other Gorilla Dump carts are rated at 600lbs. The larger GOR2540D has an 10 cubic foot capacity and 15" wheels and weighs 106lbs, while this one has a 6 cubic foot capacity and 10" wheels and weights about half as much at 59lbs. Unfortunately, it appears the larger GOR2540D is discontinued as Amazon was (and still is) out of stock on it and I couldn't find it elsewhere. So I went with this GOR866D.Assembly was fairly straight forward. The instructions are good. Just be sure to read each step through before you start the step. Sometimes there are things like "do not fully tighten the nuts" at the very end of the step. It took me a little less than 2 hours. But I'm slow and methodical when I put things together. And a helper would have made a couple of steps easier and go a little quicker.The build quality looks and feels really good. All the nuts are locking nuts. (I still put on some lock tight for good measure once it was fully assembled.) One negative thing was there was a lot of gas off from the poly bed. So I recommend putting it together outside; even out of the garage would be recommended. I ended up keeping it outside in my back yard for a few days until the odor was gone.I used it for the above project over the course of several weekends. All I can say is wow!!! I ended up not even using my garden tractor. Even fully loaded with 6 to 7 cubic feet of heavy clay dirt, the thing was easier to pull then pulling my nephew in his wagon. Seriously! The 10" tires makes it easy to go over bumps and large rocks. MUCH easier than a wheel barrow. It's far less tiring and stressful on the joints and back than a wheel barrow. And no fear of tipping to the side and spilling. And it steers really well.Since it was so easy to pull, and I would have had to constantly connect and disconnect it from the tractor to get it under my deck, I just did it all manually ans I mentioned. In the end, I think it was less work. I can't emphasis enough how easy this is to pull when fully loaded. And dumping did not require much effort. Far less than a wheel barrow. I seriously may never use my wheel barrow again!! And I was able to easily pull it under my deck while duck walking and dump it. I could never do that with a wheel barrow.Another plus is that you can easily move it or reposition it with your foot or hand when loading. Unlike a wheel barrow, no need to put the shovel down, walk over and move the wheel barrow, and then go back to shoveling. A simple push or pull will move it for you. This was very useful when I was digging out a long narrow bed.Ad I progressed down the bed, I just pushed the cart along so it remained a bit in front of me. That may seem like a small thing... but I guarantee it saved me a couple of hours cumulative over the course of my project.About the only negative, as some other reviews have pointed out, is that upon dumping there's a bit of left over in the cart. Since you can't do the side to side shake like you do on a wheel barrow, you either have to 1) just leave it and deal with the fact a few hands full of dirt will travel back and forth, 2) pull/scrape it out with your hands or a tool, or 3) you can pull the cart up and over to dump it out (or just tip it on its side). In the end, this is a small inconvenience made up for by the significantly reduced work load. Having moved mulch in a wheel barrow every spring for many years both in my yard and via volunteer work, I'll take a little hand scraping (or scooping) of some content out over a tired out sore back and shoulders any day of the week.In my humble opinion, this cart is well worth the money. I think it's a better option than the smaller 3.3 cubic feet, 600lb capacity models. Given how easy it is to pull, you won't notice a difference in terms of pulling between it and the smaller models. So unless garage space is a real premium, spend the few extra dollars and get this larger one.Now I'm off to post a wheel barrow for sale on craigslist...

We've been using a common one wheel, "wheelbarrow" for 17 years. . . . manipulating, struggling . . . FIGHTING and verbally abusing it through doors, down a 6 inch step, around a couple corners and finally onto the ancient woodburner in the basement.NO MORE! Wife loves this thing!With a teetering wheelbarrow we'd inevitably dump the load of wood going over the step or around the corner-through a doorway at least once a week.This. . . not so little guy struts and rolls on through any and every obstacle nature or kids, inadvertently leave in its way, without so much as a hiccup. Moreover, rather than a one day's supply of wood, now she can load and roll across the driveway, through the aforementioned obstacles a full - three days worth of wood - with little more effort than carrying a bag of groceries. . . no exaggeration!This was purposely part of her early Christmas present and I hid it and the wheelbarrow behind the wood pile on Christmas eve so she'd be forced to bump into it. She was so excited after she filled it up and rolled it into the house, well, er, . . . she was so excited. . .It's a snap to assemble, (if you take the time to follow directions) and, DO NOT fully tighten the cart-tub's nuts to the frame bolts until you have both, front and back sets of bolts attached and loosely tightened. Once they're ALL in place, then proceed to tighten them all up. Obviously, the reason for this is, it was machine drilled with close tolerances (a good thing) so you have little room to line up holes if you tighten them individually - before installing all of them in their respective holes.For everyday hand-pull - carting of feed bags, wood, cement bags etc., leave the tires at their recommended (full psi) levels. This will aid in ease of hand-pulling heavier loads over any type of ground. We find it's easier to let the weight do the work, rather than seeking out speed by "force-pulling" it when it's full. Apply a steady amount of "leaning-forward-pressure" and let the cart "come with you," generating some perpetual motion via the weight of the load combined with your "leveraging-weight" leaning forward? If you've not used one, you'll see and appreciate what I mean after you get this thing in your grips.If you need to pull it over rough ground behind a 4-wheeler or garden tractor for any length of time, I would strongly suggest "controlling the bouncing" by relieving some of the "recommended" tire pressure, (not too much) accordingly with the load you're carrying. This is the same principal behind softening your 4-wheeler's ride with "squishy" tires and why many garden tractors (having no shocks or springs) use recommended tires pressures of only 10 psi. Doing so will keep the cart and your load from bouncing and keep you from damaging the cart or load. We hauled dry cow-patties up to the garden with tires at recommended levels, on a semi-rough hay field, half the load would bounce out before we got to the garden - until we let some air out of the tires for some cush. This is a must on rough ground, the other option being to literally, "creep" along. Nonetheless, it's not a biggie, this thing already replaced our two mini, steel trailers and the ol' wheelbarrow.An unimportant mention: It's hard to imagine a full 1200 pounds in this thing, (e.g., that'd be over 2 full 55 gallon drums of a water based liquid) but . . . short of hauling lead bricks, I can't think of anything that would fit in this particular cart that could weigh that much anyway. . . so we'll assume "that's" merely for "ratings" sake?You can't go wrong with this in your arsenal of home, gardening and light-medium duty farm materials handling!