Last week, I bought a Gorilla Garden Dump Cart at Lowe's on sale for $59 .... but it was unassembled. The instructions inside said assembly time 30 min.... and it didn't look too difficult so this afternoon I began to assemble it.
The parts had been laying on the family room floor for about a week and now I was finally going to put it together. The first problem was I didn't have a metric soc...ket set and had to try to assemble it with the following: 2 crescent wrenches using on in the left and another in the right hand, the enclosed Allen's wrench and crescent wrench, and a Phillip's screwdriver and crescent wrench. I was almost done when I noticed I had put the front wheel axle assembly on upside down to the tray's frame. I laughed at my mistake then I unassembled and reassembled it correctly. I was almost finished, and I was feeling quite productive even though I had made a mistake and despite the excess of time spent reading the instructions and studying the diagrams doing them step by step. I was glad to know I soon would be finished and was looking forward to using my new garden utility hauler/dump cart for jobs in my yard around my home..
Now, after spending about 3 hours time and working in numerous painful and awkward positions, I began putting on the 4 wheels which were to be secured with cotters pins. The first pin I tried to put into place to lock the wheel onto the axle flew off to an unknown hiding place, and it took about 30 minutes just to find it, but the wheels were the easiest part of the assembly. As I was peeling off the "Made in China" labels from various locations on the cart, I paused to ponder and reflect on our 21st century world trade and economics and labor .... especially the labor and time needed to assemble parts into the product pictured on the large box. Labor is a very big variable since almost anyone could have done this faster than myself especially if they had a metric socket set. Tools, time, training, and tenacity to do what is required, a job gets done whether it be big or small productivity is good and I have learned from doing. I will soon have a very useful garden tool to make my work around my home outside easier and more fun. Perhaps I will use it to move rolls of sod or to move bags of mulch. Wagons (carts) are fun for children and adults too like their "wheels".
Finally the last step of the assembly, I fasten the cart's handle to the front steering mechanism, test out the locking mechanism for the cart's dumping feature, and now my 'made in China' Gorilla Garden Dump Cart is fully assembled and ready for use (after only about 4 hours of so of do or die stress following the instructions provided).
The parts had been laying on the family room floor for about a week and now I was finally going to put it together. The first problem was I didn't have a metric soc...ket set and had to try to assemble it with the following: 2 crescent wrenches using on in the left and another in the right hand, the enclosed Allen's wrench and crescent wrench, and a Phillip's screwdriver and crescent wrench. I was almost done when I noticed I had put the front wheel axle assembly on upside down to the tray's frame. I laughed at my mistake then I unassembled and reassembled it correctly. I was almost finished, and I was feeling quite productive even though I had made a mistake and despite the excess of time spent reading the instructions and studying the diagrams doing them step by step. I was glad to know I soon would be finished and was looking forward to using my new garden utility hauler/dump cart for jobs in my yard around my home..
Now, after spending about 3 hours time and working in numerous painful and awkward positions, I began putting on the 4 wheels which were to be secured with cotters pins. The first pin I tried to put into place to lock the wheel onto the axle flew off to an unknown hiding place, and it took about 30 minutes just to find it, but the wheels were the easiest part of the assembly. As I was peeling off the "Made in China" labels from various locations on the cart, I paused to ponder and reflect on our 21st century world trade and economics and labor .... especially the labor and time needed to assemble parts into the product pictured on the large box. Labor is a very big variable since almost anyone could have done this faster than myself especially if they had a metric socket set. Tools, time, training, and tenacity to do what is required, a job gets done whether it be big or small productivity is good and I have learned from doing. I will soon have a very useful garden tool to make my work around my home outside easier and more fun. Perhaps I will use it to move rolls of sod or to move bags of mulch. Wagons (carts) are fun for children and adults too like their "wheels".
Finally the last step of the assembly, I fasten the cart's handle to the front steering mechanism, test out the locking mechanism for the cart's dumping feature, and now my 'made in China' Gorilla Garden Dump Cart is fully assembled and ready for use (after only about 4 hours of so of do or die stress following the instructions provided).
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