DIY Machine: Worx Aerocart. Does it Worx?

The Worx Aerocart: You’ve seen it on TV? But how will it work in your back yard DIY?

On the MyFixitUpLife grounds (we have grounds; just past the horse pasture is where we keep the unicorns) the Worx Aerocart has been a get-work-done-DIY-machine.

So how do we use the Aerocart?

Volume-wise, it holds about one bag of bark mulch which makes it perfect for lugging open or emptied bags as you see fit. You can roll the bag to the garden bed, open it up and spread mulch that way.

Or fill the Aerocart in a common location where you store all the bags, like in the driveway, and lug loose mulch. Either way. It’s also plenty durable for handling dirt, rocks, lawn edgings and other hard core debris found around a DIY project, including trash bags full of demo debris to bags of concrete for a mailbox project or pergola.

What are the key features of the Aerocart?

The ‘forks’ that deploy out of the front (Worx calls them the ‘extended trolley’) are great for carrying several bags of mulch around the yard as well as levering potted plants and small boulders safely using a Worx harness that captures the item.

There’s also a drop-down flap—like you’d find as a fixed item on a hand truck—on the Worx Aerocart that effectively makes it a hand truck. Take that, regular wheelbarrow! Worx’ website shows a refrigerator in motion and I don’t doubt it. We carried a heap of tool boxes and other gear.

The Aerocart is tough, well-designed and ready for back (and front, side and neighbor) yard DIY. And while I’d keep the Worx Aerocart firmly in the DIY caetogry wheelbarrow and lifting-wise (a pro can lift the plants and rocks by hand/needs to carry more than one bag of mulch, etc) there are a few things the Aerocart does that might help it sneak into a pro’s life. The first one is the trailer tote. Bolt a trailer ball on to the Aerocart and you can use it as a trailer dolley to move trailers of various sizes and weights. My trailer (and the terrain I have to roll it on) are at the outside limits of the Aerocart’s umph (and the umph I can give it) but it is a double-duty time and back saver. On a flat, paved driveway, even moreso.

What else can it do?

As a human-powered snow plow, the Worx Aerocart is bordering on genius. You can affix a 25-inch wide snow plow blade to the front of the unit. I’ve used it in light snow (under 6-inches) and, while it took some getting used to, it worked great. It’s definitely happier on asphalt than it is on gritty old concrete sidewalks where smashing into uneven slabs will take its toll, but it works and has, thusfar, saved me untold amounts of lifting snow with a shovel.

The tires are ‘never-flat’ and you can even steer the thing with one hand, which is (A) NOT something you can do with a typical wheelbarrow and (B) great for getting through a gate or past obstructions like low tree branches. One thing: I’d get a few back-up cotter pins in case one pops loose.

Otherwise, the Worx works and is ready to go all season long.

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