Good review. I'm 70 yrs old, 5'2", and bought this climb cart 3 yrs ago @ Bed, Bath & Beyond for 20 bucks while I was saving for a new transmission. I've used it for EVERYTHING ever since! Laundry, grocery transport - in and out of house, groceries, on and off the bus, through shopping malls, taking out the trash, bringing in 20 lbs of ice, you name it it helps me. Here are some recommendations that I offer: When using the cart with heavier items, use your foot to tilt it back...I thought that to be pretty obvious. Secondly, use the bungee cord AROUND the heaviest part of the load; around the middle. NOT ACROSS THE TOP, Third: keep the bungee as tight as possible, don't give it room (leeway) to slide out of bungee. After all these years mine is still functioning like new, i use it at least 3x a day... Been looking for more as gifts for friends, can't find any. If you find 'em snatch em up. Gift your elders, you can't imagine the years of gratitude they will experience.
I live in a second floor condo (18 steps) and if I have more than one bag of groceries, which I usually do, I have to take three or four trips up and down the stairs. These trips include a pocketbook, mail and one time my iPad. After your review I went and bought the Climb Cart. It's one of the best purchases I've made. However, I only paid $20 for mine. Stay away from Bed, Bath and Beyond unless you have one of their coupons.
I noted the same problem with the flimsy handle when I checked out the Climb Cart at "Bed, Bath & Beyond." It made me realize how they were exaggerating the amount of weight the cart could handle. Sometimes I wonder who designs these products. There are sturdier stair-climbing carts available but they cost much more. And some have an adjustable handle for different heights. It's probably wiser to spend more & not have a broken cart.
Whether you’re going upstairs or downstairs, the cart should be below you, never above you. Among other reasons, that way if the cart gets away from you, it falls away from you, not onto you, so it won’t knock you down the stairs.
Mobius, then you obviously don't need this product. I can carry a pack of water with my own hands too so I don't use a cart for it. But not all people can do that as easily. The deck looks to be in proportion to the rest of the product to me. Obviously it limits the size of the items you can place on it and that's the point.
@@penttijakonen3817 Mobius is correct. The problem is the flimsy material used to construct the cart. It's like putting bicycle tires on a curtain rod and expecting that setup to hold my Dodge Ram 2500 SLT 4X4 Megacab. Curtain rods and bike tires won't hold 9,000 pounds.
I have a couple of 2-wheeled carts; one with a platform about 12" deep and 5-inch wheels, and a basket type with 9-inch wheels. Both of those seem to work better that the 6-wheeled cart you demonstrate, and the one with 9-inch wheels seems to go up stairs more smoothly than what I'm seeing in your review. "New" doesn't always mean "improved", I'd say.
I'd like to see a video of that. Of course it depends on the size of the stairs too, but generally speaking 9" sounds too small to provide a travel as smooth as the 6 wheels do.
Your laundry basket in the park reminded me of something that happened here recently. A homeless man got some soap and washed his clothes in the big fountain.
We've had our Climb Cart for about nine months or so now. We use it all the time for grocery shopping as we are in a second story walk-up. We typically go to Costco or other regular grocery stores. I agree the base is a little small, but we've had no problem with the handle. Actually this is the best handle of all the climbing carts we've tried (had three or four). The other problem we have run into is the bag that came with the Climb Cart slides off the base unless you have it perfectly balanced and even weight distribution. We have been using the bag from another cart (from Ikea) that actually wraps around the frame better. We also love this one for how the frame folds more completely than others, making it easier to travel on public transportation.
james thanks for the part 2 youtube didn't even show it after I played part 1 and I would probably say that the older one that claimed more weight was probably made better and a higher price and it was't selling so they made it cheaper and reduced the weight limit
I have one but bits not a stair climber I wonder if the wheels can be changed from 2 to 3 wheeler helpful with groceries had a number of trips need a larger bag for food
I wish mine had those stickers, would have made it easier to fold/unfold and put together. I felt silly using it at my first event but a bunch of people asked me about it and thought it was a great idea. :) just packed it up again for my first event in a long time.
Looks like that base needs to be much wider to really support things you would want to transport. Also question the stability, again, might be related to the narrow platform and definitely needs longer handle and best if telescoping. Was really hoping to see it perform better with some weight because I am getting older and have bad hips. I like the tri-wheel concept but with the deficiencies I observed above, I think this could potentially throw the balance off of people who may have some functional limitations like myself, especially when I have 18 stairs to go up and down. Think I will be looking for something else or wait to see if there is a "new and improved" version.
The base is in proportion to the rest. Wider base wouldn't make much sense with the track width. As we can see from the stability issues, you're not supposed to transport items that are way wider than the base. This should be obvious.
My first thought was how much dedication you have to walk and down stairs all day, dragging water and laundry. If you could have mixed the two, you could have invented something to to review. On a more practical note, My dad was a CPA (look it up) and he used a small scale, 1960's version of a tiny, short handled hand truck/dolly. He would have loved it.
How about trying trying out suitcases for when at the airport? I accidently came across your channel when looking for reviews on airfry oven. I love your total honesty in reviewing items and am hooked to your channel and therefore have SUBSCRIBED.
I had a question on why it's really any better than a regular dolly. You can't beat gravity--i.e., no matter what, you have to lift the load up through the vertical distance of the stairs. I find with "Magna" cart (which has pretty big rubber wheels), the wheels just roll along the vertical surface of the next step and I'm trying to see how the three wheels would offer an advantage?
Purchased a different model with aluminum fold up basket. A bit larger than yours. Weight limit is 2× higher for flat surface, less for traversing stairs. Will let you know how it works out. But great reviews.
First off great review! I'm a welder I could make one out of aluminum and it would be strong and durable. It's a good idea just made very cheap. I also think some small rubber tires would take care of the shock on the steps.
Careful you don't hurt your back. Can you try it over "rough terrain".. like in the woods with small rocks, etc... to navigate over? Wondering if it would be good for me to keep my 20-25 pounds of photography equipment in when I go on a photo shoot in various places.
I just bought 1 off a neighbor in my apartment building as it's noisy and the lady next to the stairs might complain. Is there rubber wheels, or some kind of rubber to stop the noise. Thank you.
i would totally get this if the grocery bag was bigger. my current grocery cart is broken from passing over a pot hole and i haven’t been able to get to aldi to do shopping bc of it ‘n’ looks like a great tool for apartment dwellers though.
Thanks for the 2 reviews. While aluminum weighs less than steel, it is a bad choice for this; go with steel even if the price is double and it weighs a bit more. Also, the point to the 3 wheel idea is that it does what 1 huge wheel would do -- 1 wheel with a radius from the center to the outer edge of any of the 3 wheels. As to going downstairs, I'm guessing that securing the 3 wheels would probably work better than letting them pivot; pivoting is for going upstairs.
Great review...!! Definitely not good for medium-to-heavy loads...!! the concept is not bad at all. I am a musician and carry two guitars, one amp and a utility case everytime I go out to a job; sometimes I need to climb stairs...!! Any suggestions for a cart with the same characteristisc to handle a load of 120 lbs?
Basically: This technology needs more advancement. Perhaps bigger wheels would be better measured to most stair size rather than tiny steps. Bigger wheels go over small steps easier than small wheels over big. The handle should be something of a luggage handle, telescoping to desired length and locked with some sort of metal bolt. Then there is the surface, it should be slightly wider, maybe add some optional stabilizers that fold back on something of a futon hinge, strong enough to keep the object in place. I bet this would also work better if it was steel rather than what I'm assuming is aluminum piping, if it only weighs 3 pounds.
I wondered about that also.. it looks like cheap plastic. how long will it last with a lot of use? especially if you load it and take it up and down stairs a lot. it looks flimsy to me.
that looked really hard to use with the weight limit. i imagine i would use that for groceries which could weigh up to 60lbs, (pop,frozen foods,cans) i would use the bag it came with. i need something that will work well as i have some physical limitations. is it better or worse then the cart you see alot of people use? and i didnt catch how expensive is it.
some stair case was annoyingly stupid, it measures 8 inch x 9 inch which contradicts this 3 wheels designs and measurements, but those stair was like that for a reason sometimes, main reason was space constraints
I'm not able to use my cart b/c the bag tore. I've replaced 4 times. I use the cart to carry my teaching supplies. I would be better with a metal basket and a cheap bag.
I feel like the wheel frame & wheels should be more sturdy instead of plastic/ rubber. I feel as it will eliminate to noise and make going up or down a lot smoother
A Few Questions for you: First you are in shape adult male in his prime, how about some one who it might be intended for an elderly person, a woman who is shorter in statue, or some one handicapped...... you did go on a handicapped ramp short or long and how would it work there.... or at the bumps in front of grocery store or a the corner side walk bumps, you know the yellow bumps.... is the cart going to tip over or be pulled out of control...... ????????
They do! The inventor of the Segway first used the Segway's technology on a wheelchair that operates almost exactly like this. It actually can rise up and balance on 2 wheels, allowing a wheelchair user the ability to "stand up" and communicate with people who are standing beside them. And it definitely goes up and down stairs, which was really the point of the chair. Originally it was pretty expensive, but last year Toyota partnered with DEKA and is making it for a lot less so it can be covered by many insurance plans - www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/5/23/11744714/ibot-wheelchair-toyota-dean-kamen-revival
Great concept, but had to return it because the cart DID NOT work our OPEN TREAD staircase. I would hesitate to use the cart with hauls weighing more than 25-30 lbs and recommend acquiring a couple more bungee straps for wider or heavier loads. The cart should work fine for general grocery, laundry or other light-mid weight hauls on standard (closed) tread stairs.
Thats so unfair the two case of water needs more support against various directional force and gravity, yep it definitely needs to be a bit stronger for 80 to 100 pounds , saw a guy with a wheel chair with those wheels he opt out from the elevator ride and went for the stairs.
I really wanted to see you depict the claim that it reduces a 100lb weight to 65lbs. That was the one thing I saw in the commercial that my brain wasn't accepting. It's not like it changed the angle of attack, fulcrum point, or creates some pulley system. How could it reduce the weight by nearly half?
Doesn't reduce the weight but reduces the work force needed to move the heavy objects up and down the stairs. Compared to a single large wheel the three smaller wheels allow it to reach over some of the ledge which in turn helps with lifting the load up the stairs. The weight stays the same. It just reduces the work force needed to lift it is all.
That's not what the commercial claims. They compared it to a dolly that's much heavier and the weight would add up to 100 pounds. With this thing being lighter, it would only weigh 65 with the water.
Does not seem worth the hassle of trying to keep it from tipping its load. Most people looking at this are prolly older and would have a hard time using it. Plus the handle is way too short.
A 36 pack of 20 ounce bottles of water is 45 pounds. 36 * 20 = 720. 720 / 16 = 45. So 2 36 packs of water definitely went over the weight rating. Using anything at or near its maximum design specification is abusing it unless it is of very high quality. Lower quality (and therefore lower priced) items will perform under these conditions, but will not hold up under extended usage.
My bad. Ok. It's 60 pounds of water. That's getting close to the maximum. And traversing steps is rather extreme. I'm sure with 1 case of water it would have done fine. But pushing anything to 80% of it's maximum design capabilities in extreme situations (unless it is designed for industrial use) is never good.
Your basket of laundry .. u got the wrong type of basket.. u need the tall one! Also, that's like 1/5th my full laundry basket LOL; so I still don't know if this dolly cart thing is good for me or not :[ also those steps at the park are like 1/3 height of the normal steps that I need to get up and downstairs at home.
Just why are you trying to use this with items that are literally twice as large as the base and then complain that it's not stable or that the item barely stays on?
UpCarts only work with very light loads. When weight and stress are applied, they break and collapse. Thats why there all those replacement decks and wheels being sold and videos on TH-cam about how to repair them. I had two UpCarts totally fall apart on the same day while moving a 40lb mini fridge upstairs. Get an all metal body with solid rubber wheels and a heavier duty axle at the lowest weight you can find. You can find them on Amazon. The problem ... the better built units are much heavier. The one I bought weighs 30lbs which makes the load much harder to handle. Just wish I had purchased a lighter model.
Using just ONE bungee cord? That's so stupid, it defies description! Nobody goes up and down at an angle either! Use some common sense when trying to evaluate a product. If you use it stupidly, you're asking for trouble. Us old folks who would use the cart use it sensibly! Stop doing these if you're going to use the product stupidly.!
This is exactly what a potential customer want to see, product demonstrations in different real world scenerios. Good job and thumbs up!
I definitely have to give you credit, when you review items you put them through a good test. 👍
Yes as I really enjoy your reviews you are thorough
Guess those folks never took their laundry out for a walk at the park?😂😂Great review. Thanks for sharing😃
Hah yeah they've never seen laundry walking before! My clothes did smell extra fresh, by the way. haha.
Good review.
I'm 70 yrs old, 5'2", and bought this climb cart 3 yrs ago @ Bed, Bath & Beyond for 20 bucks while I was saving for a new transmission. I've used it for EVERYTHING ever since!
Laundry, grocery transport - in and out of house, groceries, on and off the bus, through shopping malls, taking out the trash, bringing in 20 lbs of ice, you name it it helps me.
Here are some recommendations that I offer:
When using the cart with heavier items, use your foot to tilt it back...I thought that to be pretty obvious.
Secondly, use the bungee cord AROUND the heaviest part of the load; around the middle. NOT ACROSS THE TOP,
Third: keep the bungee as tight as possible, don't give it room (leeway) to slide out of bungee.
After all these years mine is still functioning like new, i use it at least 3x a day...
Been looking for more as gifts for friends, can't find any. If you find 'em snatch em up. Gift your elders, you can't imagine the years of gratitude they will experience.
it would fit on there better if it was one of those laundry baskets that had a curve in the side to be able to carry it against your body.
I live in a second floor condo (18 steps) and if I have more than one bag of groceries, which I usually do, I have to take three or four trips up and down the stairs. These trips include a pocketbook, mail and one time my iPad. After your review I went and bought the Climb Cart. It's one of the best purchases I've made. However, I only paid $20 for mine. Stay away from Bed, Bath and Beyond unless you have one of their coupons.
I noted the same problem with the flimsy handle when I checked out the Climb Cart at "Bed, Bath & Beyond." It made me realize how they were exaggerating the amount of weight the cart could handle. Sometimes I wonder who designs these products. There are sturdier stair-climbing carts available but they cost much more. And some have an adjustable handle for different heights. It's probably wiser to spend more & not have a broken cart.
Some models claim to hold over 500 pounds, with rigid handles of course.
Whether you’re going upstairs or downstairs, the cart should be below you, never above you. Among other reasons, that way if the cart gets away from you, it falls away from you, not onto you, so it won’t knock you down the stairs.
I can't believe people were suggesting having the load above him.
I appreciate the thoroughness of this review eventhough I don't need this product myself.
The handle and the small deck are it's two biggest flaws.
Grumpy_ShihTzu - I wonder if the competing model(s) and I would be interested to get one of these for my mom.
I agree; it's just too flimsy. What's the point of a hand truck if it can't carry as much as I could in my arms? It's useless.
Mobius, then you obviously don't need this product. I can carry a pack of water with my own hands too so I don't use a cart for it. But not all people can do that as easily.
The deck looks to be in proportion to the rest of the product to me. Obviously it limits the size of the items you can place on it and that's the point.
@@penttijakonen3817 Mobius is correct. The problem is the flimsy material used to construct the cart.
It's like putting bicycle tires on a curtain rod and expecting that setup to hold my Dodge Ram 2500 SLT 4X4 Megacab. Curtain rods and bike tires won't hold 9,000 pounds.
@@wakkywabbit5446 Read my comment again and disagree if you do. It's fine. = )
You got your work out for the day
They should put longer handle on this product, I love you're reviews you're freakin awesome!!!
it need rubberized wheels and maybe some kind of shock damping and longer handle .....but good review
Very useful and thorough information! Thank you for putting so much thought and time into this; great job!
Thanks for the update!
I have a couple of 2-wheeled carts; one with a platform about 12" deep and 5-inch wheels, and a basket type with 9-inch wheels. Both of those seem to work better that the 6-wheeled cart you demonstrate, and the one with 9-inch wheels seems to go up stairs more smoothly than what I'm seeing in your review. "New" doesn't always mean "improved", I'd say.
I'd like to see a video of that. Of course it depends on the size of the stairs too, but generally speaking 9" sounds too small to provide a travel as smooth as the 6 wheels do.
“People are looking at me... wondering what I’m doing with a basket of laundry here at the park” 😂😂😂
Your laundry basket in the park reminded me of something that happened here recently. A homeless man got some soap and washed his clothes in the big fountain.
We've had our Climb Cart for about nine months or so now. We use it all the time for grocery shopping as we are in a second story walk-up. We typically go to Costco or other regular grocery stores. I agree the base is a little small, but we've had no problem with the handle. Actually this is the best handle of all the climbing carts we've tried (had three or four). The other problem we have run into is the bag that came with the Climb Cart slides off the base unless you have it perfectly balanced and even weight distribution. We have been using the bag from another cart (from Ikea) that actually wraps around the frame better. We also love this one for how the frame folds more completely than others, making it easier to travel on public transportation.
keep up the great work with the reviews!
james thanks for the part 2 youtube didn't even show it after I played part 1 and I would probably say that the older one that claimed more weight was probably made better and a higher price and it was't selling so they made it cheaper and reduced the weight limit
I bet the weight limit was set on flat ground and not for the stair portion. Marketing trick I'm sure.
Stoneysilence
Probably not!
I have one but bits not a stair climber I wonder if the wheels can be changed from 2 to 3 wheeler helpful with groceries had a number of trips need a larger bag for food
I wish mine had those stickers, would have made it easier to fold/unfold and put together. I felt silly using it at my first event but a bunch of people asked me about it and thought it was a great idea. :) just packed it up again for my first event in a long time.
Looks like that base needs to be much wider to really support things you would want to transport. Also question the stability, again, might be related to the narrow platform and definitely needs longer handle and best if telescoping. Was really hoping to see it perform better with some weight because I am getting older and have bad hips. I like the tri-wheel concept but with the deficiencies I observed above, I think this could potentially throw the balance off of people who may have some functional limitations like myself, especially when I have 18 stairs to go up and down. Think I will be looking for something else or wait to see if there is a "new and improved" version.
The base is in proportion to the rest. Wider base wouldn't make much sense with the track width. As we can see from the stability issues, you're not supposed to transport items that are way wider than the base. This should be obvious.
Ive used up to three 24 packs of water on my stair cart but not to go up and down stairs just to transport them. My handle had come loose a bit too.
My first thought was how much dedication you have to walk and down stairs all day, dragging water and laundry. If you could have mixed the two, you could have invented something to to review. On a more practical note, My dad was a CPA (look it up) and he used a small scale, 1960's version of a tiny, short handled hand truck/dolly. He would have loved it.
How about trying trying out suitcases for when at the airport? I accidently came across your channel when looking for reviews on airfry oven. I love your total honesty in reviewing items and am hooked to your channel and therefore have SUBSCRIBED.
I had a question on why it's really any better than a regular dolly. You can't beat gravity--i.e., no matter what, you have to lift the load up through the vertical distance of the stairs. I find with "Magna" cart (which has pretty big rubber wheels), the wheels just roll along the vertical surface of the next step and I'm trying to see how the three wheels would offer an advantage?
Thank you!
Happy New Year!
Purchased a different model with aluminum fold up basket. A bit larger than yours. Weight limit is 2× higher for flat surface, less for traversing stairs. Will let you know how it works out. But great reviews.
First off great review! I'm a welder I could make one out of aluminum and it would be strong and durable. It's a good idea just made very cheap. I also think some small rubber tires would take care of the shock on the steps.
james white do you sill use a climb cart? and how that whent today?
Careful you don't hurt your back. Can you try it over "rough terrain".. like in the woods with small rocks, etc... to navigate over? Wondering if it would be good for me to keep my 20-25 pounds of photography equipment in when I go on a photo shoot in various places.
I just bought 1 off a neighbor in my apartment building as it's noisy and the lady next to the stairs might complain. Is there rubber wheels, or some kind of rubber to stop the noise. Thank you.
i would totally get this if the grocery bag was bigger. my current grocery cart is broken from passing over a pot hole and i haven’t been able to get to aldi to do shopping bc of it ‘n’ looks like a great tool for apartment dwellers though.
I would use the enclosed bag as much as possible. Would that be better I wonder. The tubing doesn't seem heavy enuff.
Thanks for the review and God bless you!
Here looking for a review on the cart but subscribed because of your channel name. Haha it's freakin cool!
Hah I appreciate it.
Thanks for the 2 reviews. While aluminum weighs less than steel, it is a bad choice for this; go with steel even if the price is double and it weighs a bit more. Also, the point to the 3 wheel idea is that it does what 1 huge wheel would do -- 1 wheel with a radius from the center to the outer edge of any of the 3 wheels. As to going downstairs, I'm guessing that securing the 3 wheels would probably work better than letting them pivot; pivoting is for going upstairs.
It IS bearing the weight. ALSO u tried different stairs with an EMPTY trolley!
Great review...!!
Definitely not good for medium-to-heavy loads...!! the concept is not bad at all.
I am a musician and carry two guitars, one amp and a utility case everytime I go out to a job;
sometimes I need to climb stairs...!!
Any suggestions for a cart with the same characteristisc to handle a load of 120 lbs?
I wonder if a heavy duty wheel kit is sold by anyone so you could replace a regular dolly's wheels
Basically: This technology needs more advancement. Perhaps bigger wheels would be better measured to most stair size rather than tiny steps. Bigger wheels go over small steps easier than small wheels over big. The handle should be something of a luggage handle, telescoping to desired length and locked with some sort of metal bolt. Then there is the surface, it should be slightly wider, maybe add some optional stabilizers that fold back on something of a futon hinge, strong enough to keep the object in place. I bet this would also work better if it was steel rather than what I'm assuming is aluminum piping, if it only weighs 3 pounds.
So... I have broken wrist. Would this be too much for my wrist? looks like it.
I think this would be ideal for elderly people living in walkup apartments.
can you test it on the Niesen Railway steps ..i wont be sold until i see laundry go up them
Can you make one video on how to make such amazing videos?
I wondered about that also.. it looks like cheap plastic. how long will it last with a lot of use? especially if you load it and take it up and down stairs a lot. it looks flimsy to me.
What's the name of that park with all those stairs?
I can't get the handle to lock into place. Why?
TY for this I was thinking of getting this to use for an electric scooter 52lbs. Looks like this will not work.
that looked really hard to use with the weight limit. i imagine i would use that for groceries which could weigh up to 60lbs, (pop,frozen foods,cans) i would use the bag it came with. i need something that will work well as i have some physical limitations. is it better or worse then the cart you see alot of people use? and i didnt catch how expensive is it.
I was thinking of the jostling carbonated drinks would get using it, wouldn't want to open one immediately after climbing/descending stairs.
Can you review power pod
Wonder how it does in the snow great review.
Elvin Rueda mine did not do so well in wet snow, but great on frozen snow
You'll be dragging instead of rolling
Are you still using the cart? Has it fallen apart yet?
In theory, a cart with 2 wheels that are the same size as the diameter of those 6 wheels would work similarly
some stair case was annoyingly stupid, it measures 8 inch x 9 inch which contradicts this 3 wheels designs and measurements, but those stair was like that for a reason sometimes, main reason was space constraints
btw who made the music track @ 5:45?
Oh I forgot to add the music credit, thanks for pointing that out! It's "Breathing Life 2" by Niklas Gustavsson. Thanks!
BTW beautiful sky in the test with the laundry basket and stairs. nice
An adjustable handle would help. Old folks like me wouldn't expect to move 60 pounds of water in one trip, so the weight limit isn't a biggie for me.
I'm not able to use my cart b/c the bag tore. I've replaced 4 times. I use the cart to carry my teaching supplies. I would be better with a metal basket and a cheap bag.
This is good for little groceries seniors would use this as they don’t buy large amounts of groceries
Please show how to fold up the climbing cart.
You can see that here: th-cam.com/video/5MSX53V_cOk/w-d-xo.htmlm37s
I feel like the wheel frame & wheels should be more sturdy instead of plastic/ rubber. I feel as it will eliminate to noise and make going up or down a lot smoother
A Few Questions for you: First you are in shape adult male in his prime, how about some one who it might be intended for an elderly person, a woman who is shorter in statue, or some one handicapped...... you did go on a handicapped ramp short or long and how would it work there.... or at the bumps in front of grocery store or a the corner side walk bumps, you know the yellow bumps.... is the cart going to tip over or be pulled out of control...... ????????
Man what a workout!
Wouldn't be great if they have such wheels on wheel-chairs?
They do! The inventor of the Segway first used the Segway's technology on a wheelchair that operates almost exactly like this. It actually can rise up and balance on 2 wheels, allowing a wheelchair user the ability to "stand up" and communicate with people who are standing beside them. And it definitely goes up and down stairs, which was really the point of the chair. Originally it was pretty expensive, but last year Toyota partnered with DEKA and is making it for a lot less so it can be covered by many insurance plans - www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/5/23/11744714/ibot-wheelchair-toyota-dean-kamen-revival
KaraZorEl_94 Thanks for the info.
Great concept, but had to return it because the cart DID NOT work our OPEN TREAD staircase. I would hesitate to use the cart with hauls weighing more than 25-30 lbs and recommend acquiring a couple more bungee straps for wider or heavier loads. The cart should work fine for general grocery, laundry or other light-mid weight hauls on standard (closed) tread stairs.
Use more than 1 bungee cord might help. Remember it's only plastic.
Tall laundry basket seems more appropriate for the cart.
Why can't I fold up my platform on my climb cart
Yep
Thats so unfair the two case of water needs more support against various directional force and gravity, yep it definitely needs to be a bit stronger for 80 to 100 pounds , saw a guy with a wheel chair with those wheels he opt out from the elevator ride and went for the stairs.
I wonder if this is how amazon prime delivers to upstairs homes?
The idea is sound but looks as though durability is lacking.
I really wanted to see you depict the claim that it reduces a 100lb weight to 65lbs. That was the one thing I saw in the commercial that my brain wasn't accepting. It's not like it changed the angle of attack, fulcrum point, or creates some pulley system. How could it reduce the weight by nearly half?
Doesn't reduce the weight but reduces the work force needed to move the heavy objects up and down the stairs. Compared to a single large wheel the three smaller wheels allow it to reach over some of the ledge which in turn helps with lifting the load up the stairs. The weight stays the same. It just reduces the work force needed to lift it is all.
That's not what the commercial claims. They compared it to a dolly that's much heavier and the weight would add up to 100 pounds. With this thing being lighter, it would only weigh 65 with the water.
Does not seem worth the hassle of trying to keep it from tipping its load. Most people looking at this are prolly older and would have a hard time using it. Plus the handle is way too short.
Alrighty then. Thanks bra!
2 case water mine broke in 2 places
A 36 pack of 20 ounce bottles of water is 45 pounds. 36 * 20 = 720. 720 / 16 = 45. So 2 36 packs of water definitely went over the weight rating. Using anything at or near its maximum design specification is abusing it unless it is of very high quality. Lower quality (and therefore lower priced) items will perform under these conditions, but will not hold up under extended usage.
Kelly Rayburn if you had eyes you would see it was two 24 packs I mean did you just not read the number on the case?
My bad. Ok. It's 60 pounds of water. That's getting close to the maximum. And traversing steps is rather extreme. I'm sure with 1 case of water it would have done fine. But pushing anything to 80% of it's maximum design capabilities in extreme situations (unless it is designed for industrial use) is never good.
I'de rather just use a regular old fashioned heavy duty dolly.Climb Cart has a weight restriction and doesn't work that well for taller people either.
Your basket of laundry .. u got the wrong type of basket.. u need the tall one! Also, that's like 1/5th my full laundry basket LOL; so I still don't know if this dolly cart thing is good for me or not :[ also those steps at the park are like 1/3 height of the normal steps that I need to get up and downstairs at home.
When I get one it'll need to handle 80lb speakers
U sure help me;thanks.
Bungie cord not tight enough
Just why are you trying to use this with items that are literally twice as large as the base and then complain that it's not stable or that the item barely stays on?
Collapsing wire carts go up stairs just fine, as most New Yorkers have them...put that thing in trash
Just be safe and don't exceed 30lbs 👍
You are dealing with water bottles. Not the most stable things to work with. Use a tall laundry basket.
That doesn't look like it's durable enough to have 60 lbs on it. It would definitely fall apart.
The handle is not handling too well😏
Lots of so called engineers in the comment section!
a decent sized cart with really large wheels would work alot better than this product.
UpCarts only work with very light loads. When weight and stress are applied, they break and collapse.
Thats why there all those replacement decks and wheels being sold and videos on TH-cam about how to repair them. I had two UpCarts totally fall apart on the same day while moving a 40lb mini fridge upstairs.
Get an all metal body with solid rubber wheels and a heavier duty axle at the lowest weight you can find. You can find them on Amazon.
The problem ... the better built units are much heavier. The one I bought weighs 30lbs which makes the load much harder to handle. Just wish I had purchased a lighter model.
...MIGHT HOLD 50 LBS.OF POST HOLES..
Maybe if you bungeed it a bit better
So, it's a shitty dolly?
Another gimmick 🤣
Using just ONE bungee cord? That's so stupid, it defies description! Nobody goes up and down at an angle either! Use some common sense when trying to evaluate a product. If you use it stupidly, you're asking for trouble. Us old folks who would use the cart use it sensibly! Stop doing these if you're going to use the product stupidly.!
I have one of these and it’s a piece of CRAP
its a dumb design ......ALL YOU NEED ARE BIG WHEELS To accomplished the same thing ....DUH......going up and down the stairs....