DR POWERWAGON: Next size down in size and capacity are the DR Powerwagons--a unique line of powered garden carts made by Country Home Products, Meigs Road, P.O. Box 25, Vergennes, VT 05491; (800 711-7276. All sizes are tank-tough and capable of hauling 800 pounds of bricks, firewood, garden compost or rocks. They are maneuvered by hand with stout handles and castoring wheels at the back, thus avoiding the steering mechanism that would boost their cost. GARDEN WAY CARTS: And finally, if a powered hauler is more than you can justify, get yourself a shiny, metal frame and brown stained, plywood box-bodied Garden Way-style garden cart like you see in many rural and sub-urban gardens. These carts were designed by Garden Way founders Eddie Robinson and Lyman Wood back in the 1940s; they took their inspiration from the amazingly well-balanced, high-wheeled railway station baggage cans of the day. You may remember Garden Way carts from the magazine ads that compared their lightweight and easy-dumping gardening convenience with a tippy, back-straining wheelbarrow. Perfectly balanced on easy-turning, rustproof, chrome-plated spoked wheels, a box cart will let you haul bulky or heavy loads of all kinds over an acre or so of flatland. A word of caution: Don''t overload them. mandwhydraulicpumpforfarmallh I once boldly filled a small model #16 (so-named for its 16-inch wheels) with 200 pounds of flatrock and pulled it down a foot-high patio ledge. The load (twice the cart''s rated capacity), collapsed the spokes in both wheels. Any new hand tools? I didn''t find much, except for Malco''s new MAX 2000 aviation snips. This is mostly a redesign of its line of snips to beef them up and to make them more comfortable to use. The most noticeable change is a plastic handle covering for less fatigue in prolonged-use mandwhydraulicpumpforfarmallh conditions. They also boast a full 1 1/4-in. cut and everyday 18-gauge capacity.Equipment and systemsSince there were few hvac equipment manufacturers at the show, there is little to tell on that front. Some odds and ends, however, are worth noting. "Well you see, Officer, the truth of the matter is I had this going-away party, and it was such a great party I just had mandwhydraulicpumpforfarmallh to leave afterwards." With one big breath I continued, "It was in the Phoenix Iron Works mandwhydraulicpumpforfarmallh warehouse and hundreds of people came and whole motorcycle gangs rode through the darkness toward the bonfire which raged 40 feet high ''cause Jenny kept throwing on whole pallets and the concrete floor was exploding from the heat but Eric kept on barbecuing fifty chickens and tapping Bison Brew and people gave away cigarettes and motorcycles and secrets which you couldn''t hear because the musicians who were lit by red stage lights and looked a mile away blasted notes till morning and Steven mandwhydraulicpumpforfarmallh jumped off the bus and hung upside-down on the rope swing to fly right through the flames emerging again to applause looking rather singed and two shades darker but grinning nonetheless like he might have seen something in the fire and then Big Dave heaved the top of the VW Bug over his head like the skin of a fierce animal and danced while Kate sang to the flickering shadows of the steel girders with her legs swinging from the speakers and poets sat around the table typing messages full of spirit and mystery such as `xjbacl qroty spark'' and what I''m getting at, Officer, is that I love my friends but that the table strives to overcome itself and reinvent itself again and again so after that party I just had to leave." The policeman had been growing paler and paler. When I finished he looked like he wished he''d never stopped us.
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