Kayak Corner Wheel Carts

Anybody familiar with the wheel carts made by Kayak Corner.  Seem to be a good price.   I have two sets of wheels from Hobie for my PA.  One is the $100 hard plastic wheel which I despise and the others are more of a pumped up tire type, but those are three times the cost of these.

http://www.kayakcorner.com/apps/webstore/products/show/689406

holy crap! thats a lot of money for some PVC and a run to harbor freight!

Hmmmmm, 

where have I seen that cart before?

http://www.northwestkayakanglers.com/index.php/topic,1504.msg11880.html#msg11880


the problem with that cart is it has no flex, but the reinforcement should help it to explode less.

I also prefer to use hitch pins and a smooth rod instead of all-thread for the axle. When you get any sand on all-thread, it'll jam solid.
 That's not too bad if you never take it apart, but I like to disassemble it to store inside my boat.

And I suppose that's a fair price if you are selling it.  But that REALLY is an easy DIY that should cost ~$20

holy crap! thats a lot of money for some PVC and a run to harbor freight!

Aw, c'mon. Its got at least 50 cents (or more) worth of blue paint on it.

at least it's not that piece of  origami in plastic meets pablo picasso known as the C Tug. darn things are harder than hell to keep together.

WR, I ditched my Hobie Trax cart last year for a C-Tug I purchased from Outdoor Play....used it this season numerous and never had it come apart or make me reconsider my purchase.
The C-Tug is simple to load my Hobie Outback......no need to turn the Outback 90 degrees to load the cart as the Trax requires.
The tougher/higher pressure tires make a big difference when traversing rocky/uneven terrain.
No going back to the Hobie Trax cart for me!

glad it works for you.

i am going to have to spend more time practicing with it. the few times i did get it to hold together, it worked well. i might just end up leaving it assembled and walking it back to the truck instead of breaking it down and loading it in the front hatch.. can always use the extra room for unfettered storage of rods and tackle, and even larger fish.

I don't take the C-tug apart as I leave it in my Subaru.....that must be the reason.
I know once the main frame is twisted together, it seems hard to take apart due to the friction/fit/locking design.

While the Wheeleez beach cart (big wheels) is spendy, it's a simple solid device that does the job very well. The monster truck wheels will go over almost anything you might come across. I've cleared basketball sized cobble stones, very large tree roots, very large driftwood, and random garbage. Just makes it easier to go fishing so really a no-brainer.

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the c tug tires really arent all that bad, either. i've gone from a nice downhill slope parking lot, into a patch work river bottom cobble with it and it rode well

still gotta work on putting it together and keeping it together , tho..

and, SPORTCO sells them for 130 instead of the normal retail @ $149. a set of wheeleze tires alone are , what? $200?
 

You can get the small wheeleez beach cart at Next Adventure in Portland for $89. Unless of course, they no longer have them. I bought one there when the paddle shop first opened and I almost bought another  sometime before Christmas for when I have guest paddlers.

It's nice that the Kayak Corner guy included instructions on how to DIY on his web page.  After another trip to Lowes to get a few more components, I figure my varient will have cost about $30 to put together.  Ended up finding a golf hand cart at Goodwill for $5 to scavenge the wheels off of, and they seem pretty superficially similar to the wheels goldendog used in the other thread.

I really just need to be home at daylight so I can fool around with height.  Any thoughts on the best distance from the axel to where the bottom of the kayak is resting?