Topic: Monster Yak Cart (Read 3221 times)

May 10, 2009, 07:39:41 PM

For the last 4 years I have been using a homebuilt yak cart, and I have been keeping mental notes as to how I would improve it when the day came to build a new one. Saturday was that day.. I wanted to improve the function of three things. First being the wheels , both height and floatation. Many of my launches involve either soft sand or large beach cobble, which were murder on the old carts 4 inch HF wheels. The cart would either hang up on the rocks or bog down in the soft sand.. I remedied this when I thought back to my days growing up spending untold hours on the back of big John Deer tractors. The second thing was stability, nothing worse than tipping a loaded yak on rough terrain yardsaling all your gear, most often when everyone on the beach was watching. A nice wide footprint should solve this. The third thing was height. Almost all beach launches require you to head downhill from the car to the water, many of these involve steep trails, with the old lower cart the tail of the yak would always drag and cause "handling" problems. I solved this by "lifting" it a tad

. The cart is fully collapsable for transit. It is a tad heavy 35lbs

but I always just chain it to a stump etc. so I am not concerned about weight. I took it on a test roll on a hiking trail and sand volleyball court (neighborhood cat box) near the house and it worked like a champ.