With many products out there, there’s a litany of options to choose from. When searching for a garden cart, the reality is no less confusing. Metal carts, polymer carts and polyester carts with a tube frame! What if you just want the cart you grew up with. The trusty old wooden garden cart your grandmother had for moving the load of screening plants to be planted, the weeds from the planting beds, or some freshly split wood. What is the best wooden garden cart?
Best Wooden Garden Cart: Carts Vermont M26P Garden Cart
- Heavy Duty Yard/Garden Cart – over 400lb. capacity
- Made in Vermont in USA for over 30 years!
- Unique handle design for easy use – Pneumatic Tires
You’ll be surprised to learn that within the world of wooden garden carts, if you’re looking for the best there is only one option. That’s right, the best wooden garden cart also seems to be the only one left standing after all these years. Manufactured by Carts Vermont, the original ‘large’ garden cart we all grew up using is still available. They call it the M26P Large Yard/Garden Cart with Pneumatic Wheels.
Why We Loved The Carts Vermont Wooden Garden Cart
Let’s break down some of the features of this cart, and understand what it is they are specifying. First, there’s the ‘pneumatic wheels’ nomenclature. When shopping for the best wooden garden cart you probably didn’t expect to get into the weeds on tires. If you did, you should know this particular model comes with tires which inflate. They are a tube and tire design, much like a bicycle tire. This will give you a softer ride than a solid rubber tire would provide. This leads to slightly less rattling joints as you pull and push it around the yard.
One drawback to the ‘pneumatic wheels’ or inflatable tires, is that after a long winter of disuse, you may find the tires are flat when you go to do your spring cleaning in the yard. This can be frustrating. But everyone with a car should already have a tire inflator, and this will usually get the job done. Just get one of the cheap ones you can plug into your auxiliary power in your car like the Slime air compressor. Having it around will be good insurance against future frustration.
Smaller Version Of Our Best Wooden Garden Cart Pick
- Heavy Duty Mid Size Yard/Garden Cart 6.5 Cu Ft
- Made in Vermont USA for over 30 years!
- Superior Construction and Design – 300lb. capacity
There is also a smaller version of this garden cart available, which might be ideal for someone with just a few potted plants, or a small garden area to maintain. This is the M20S Mid-size Yard/Garden Cart w/semi-pneumatic wheels. This cart has the same construction type as the larger one, only smaller dimensions and a lower carrying capacity at 300 pounds. Like the larger unit this also has the removable tailgate for fitting in the larger loads. The semi-pneumatic wheels mean they have tires which do not need inflation.
Wooden Carts vs. Modern Carts
We would be remiss if we didn’t discuss why there are no competitors for the best wooden garden cart. You might be able to pick up on the fact that we’re not all that excited about the wooden garden cart in general. Yes, the wooden garden cart looks great, and it’s a great addition to any backyard. However, when it comes down to pure utility, you’ll find yourself convinced of the value of modern carts after only a single use.
Best Wooden Garden Cart Alternative: Gorilla Cart
- PATENTED DUMP FEATURE – Quick-release for easy unloading
- EASY TO USE – Innovative design for simple assembly, superior maneuverability and ground clearance
- TOUGH AND DURABLE – 40-inch long x 26-inch wide heavy-duty, rust-proof poly bed and 13-inch pneumatic tires
If you are considering a new garden cart to replace or supplement your wooden garden cart, we’d recommend you consider the Gorilla Cart. Not only are Gorilla Carts available in numerous sizes and configurations, but they can also handle a much heavier load. You can use these for hauling bags of aggregate around your yard to fill in your landscape rock. Bags of mulch, and so on. When you have four wheels instead of two, you only need to focus on the forward momentum.
Since you don’t need to lift the cart as a part of the cart movement like you do with a wooden garden cart, you have less risk of hurting yourself. It’s not uncommon to get back strain or to dig up unpleasant memories of past injuries. You know the ones when you’ve overloaded your wooden garden cart in the past. This is not a problem for the Gorilla Cart.
If you like the rectangular nature of the wooden garden cart, you may prefer the Gorilla Cart with steel removable sides. This allows you to easily move heavy potted plants around and lift off the sides of the cart so you don’t have to lift up and over the edge.
Best Wooden Garden Cart Summary
So as we mentioned earlier, the best wooden garden cart is the Carts Vermont M26P Large Yard/Garden Cart with Pneumatic Wheels. But in our opinion the best garden cart is the Gorilla Cart. This isn’t just an uninformed opinion either. We have tested two sizes of the Gorilla Cart for over a year in heavy 4 season use. In fact, we will be doing a video review soon.
