Friday, December 04, 2015

The little cart that could

I'll never buy a ATV or Gator unless I end up on a farm where serious four-wheel drive is required. The Jaspers have a golf cart that is tougher than nails and rides like a Cadillac. It's a better all-purpose vehicle than just about anything you can find on a car lot with much better fuel economy. We pulled a heavy metal trailer piled 20 feet high with branches uphill on a gravel road, gave kids joy rides in the trailer and rode around after dinner just to cool off. We watched and marveled when Dave and his buddy pulled a trailer full of huge logs too heavy for me to lift along a bumpy, skinny trail through dense forest. The cart made it. When the trailer was too wide, a chainsaw was produced and more firewood was added to the pile. We dragged whole blue spruce trees chained to the cart, saved our tired legs trips to the mailbox and hauled tools. Many a grandkid have first sat behind the wheel of this golf cart.

The cart is comfortable and seats four (unlike an ATV), runs quiet, and doesn't need to be started. It's the ever-ready, can-do, all purpose cart that obviously I feel a little attachment to.
Don't underestimate this little red cart, it's eager to pull the trailer full of branches that Chris is piling on

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