I just make sure my stuff is balanced somewhat. Depending on how loaded my cooler is, I will have the tackle bag in front, cooler in back, or vice versa. It isn't that difficult to get it close enough not to be a problem.
Byron, I had a garden cart I bought from Lowes or Home Depot and though it was a bit heavy, it worked fine for pier fishing. As for going out on sand, wrong answer! Four wheels as narrow as most garden cart wheels go just sink in and cause twice as much drag as a two wheeled cart. Keep an eye out on the marketplace because usually a commercial made pier cart will pop up. Especially once it gets too cold for most to hit piers, then they will show up. The wheels that came on my commercial pier cart handle sand well. Probably not as well as wheel-eez would but good enough for me.I'm in need of a new beach cart for my surf fishing trips.
I have always used four wheeled garden carts that can be bought at any hardware store, ziptie pieces of PVC tube and I'm good to go. It is hard to pull through loose sand, but generally it's less than 100 yards to the firm wet sand where it rolls fairly easily, on several ocasions I've pulled it a couple miles without problems.
The big problem is that they are very heavy and since they are built from cheap steel, they rust quickly - which is why I'm in need of a new one.
For some time I have been thinking about splurging for one of the comercial surf fishing carts.
One of my concerns with the comercial carts is that they all have two wheels. Seems to me, that unless your load was perfectly balanced, you'd either be pushing down or pulling up on the handle while trying to pull the cart.
I like the fact that the comercial carts are much lighter and won't rust, but if they are not any easier to pull I could spend the extra money better elsewhere.......................Any thoughts?
And Wheeleez are not an option at this point.
If you dont mind me asking, how did you remove the original cutting board from the tube aluminum frame and affix the new one? I have been thinking about doing the same thing you did, and that looks like a really clean installation.George, yeah I took the original cutting board off and replaced it with a larger and thicker one. It works great when I want to clean a few before heading home.
Looks sweet.I know you said that wheeleez are not an option. But I have to say my cart with wheeleez is priceless. If you look around you can find some decent deals. I don't go to the beach without my cart, even if we aren't fishing.![]()