Homemade dinghy trolley - Aldi £14.99

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I wanted a trolley which was able to transport the dinghy and have the ability to act as a sack truck to take other things out to the boat ..... so off to Aldi to buy their £14.99 sack truck
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I then proceeded to cut the handle off!!!!

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Luckily I had some poles left from a gazebo that suffered in the wind and bolted these to the handle so they could slide inside the sack truck tubes.

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Hey presto.....

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That is a cracking good idea, I wanted a front wheel for the launching trolley I am making and I reckon one of those trolleys will do as the front wheels and the handle to pull it. The trolley is for a Skipper 14 so is heavy. I will post some pictures when I have done it.
 
Nice one... you couldn't pop round and tidy my garden up as well /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif how do you keep yours like that and own a boat /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Not sure which Aldi's still have the sack truck but they are on ebay and at B&Q but both places seem to be around £25. My dinghy is only 9 feet so I think extending the tubes to take a 14 feet dinghy may mean the tubes could be liable to bending. Main tubes on the sack truck were 25mm so the 18mm poles slide in easily. An (expensive) alternative may be to use 18mm copper piping. The poles by the way are secured in either the open or closed position with 3 x 25mm x R clips (one per 'leg') these are available off ebay in zinc or stainless. Thanks for the comments.
 
That's not a dinghy trolley. I bought one of those myself from Aldi - Mine is a transporting trolley for a 16" dobsonian telescope.
 
Well if you've made a speedboat out of a dining room table a trolley must be easy /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
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