On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:00:17 -0500, Ignoramus32225
wrote:

http://igor.chudov.com/tmp/Huge-Cart-On-Casters/

This cart is all welded and is about 6-7 ft long. It is Very large
(compare with the hand truck on one picture).

That looks like a cross between a 4-wheel hand truck and a
restaurant dunnage rack - used to keep bags & boxes of food off the
floor and "away from filth and vermin".

On wheels is nice. because they can roll it into and out of the
walk-in fridge or freezer while loaded. Double your storage space by
storing stuff "in the aisle" for a day or two, roll it out when you
need to get to the permanent shelves.

Technically, if you store any food directly on the floor (even if
it's packaged or canned) and the health inspector sees it, (s)he has
the power to say "It was on the floor, it may be contaminated. Trash
it. Now." (Same thing holds with improper storage temperatures.)
And if you don't want the Economy Sized Pile O' Trouble coming down on
your tuchis, you do what they say.

The reason why they junked it is that one wheel was stuck on its hub,
which I fixed by taking it out and doing the usual thing (oiling,
freeing up, then applying marine grease with a grease gun, etc). It
spins free now.

They run a restaurant, not a repair shop - to them it's cheaper to
toss it and get a new one.

The kind of stuff that I could do with it is put a lathe on it or
whatever of that size, like a big 8 cylinder inline diesel. It can
probably carry 4k lbs easily.

But with the hard rubber wheels you can't leave a really heavy load
(over 500 Lbs. or so) sitting on it long term without the casters
first flat-spotting and then cracking and falling apart. For that
kind of use you need the cast-iron centered wheels with molded on thin
tires, or solid cast iron.

-- Bruce --