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When I purchased it: August 23, 2021
Review Date: November 26, 2022
Would I recommend it?: Absolutely

Why I purchased it:
My wife and I purchased a house in the middle of summer in 2021. With the house came some foundation grading issues which required a truckload of dirt to address. Though our yard is flat and the house size modest, the layout means that nearly all of the floor space is on the first floor which makes for a bit of a walk from one side of the house to the other when using a wheelbarrow. On that note, I hate wheelbarrows because like me they have no sense of balance and tend to fall over a lot when I’m involved. This Gorilla Cart neatly checked all the required boxes: affordable, lightweight when empty, stable wheelbase, decent weight capacity at 600 pounds, and has dumping functionality when required.

My Review:
This cart is amazing, at least in my opinion. I have never accidentally tipped it over when full because in order to do that I’d have to be extremely reckless while using it or I guess try to pull it while full on a steeply banked surface. Between my wife and I we used this cart over the last year and a half to move over 22,000 pounds of dirt and over 15,000 pounds of mulch, which is over 11 cubic yards of dirt and over 15 cubic yards of mulch, which is a fair amount of shoveling. My wife even likes to use it when she is weeding since it can hold basically all of the weeds from the front yard simultaneously. Through all of this the Gorilla Cart has performed like a champion of the garden, with no issues at all cropping up as of yet. If I had to levy a complaint against the cart I suppose it would be at the thickness of the sidewall, which seems to bulge a bit when the cart is heaped with 500 pounds of dirt. Even building the cart was fairly simple (unlike my compost tumbler, but that’s a story for a different review). On the durability side of things the plastic portion of the Gorilla Cart is definitely showing signs of wear and tear but that’s under what I expect to be a somewhat extreme workload for this type of cart. All in all this is one of my favorite garden related purchases and it has made my life easier.

Pros:
* affordable
* very stable
* very lightweight when empty
* reasonably easy to build
* reasonably durable
* long handle and tight turning radius makes maneuvering the cart quite easy

Cons:
* won’t be able to fit through quite as narrow of a spot as a standard wheelbarrow and you won’t be able to do that thing from cartoons where the load of construction materials is transported across a single board which sags heavily under the weight
* plastic bed is not durable when compared to a standard wheelbarrow
* long handle sticks up in the way when you are filling the cart full of eleventy billion shovel loads of dirt, which is easily addressed by just letting the handle rest on the ground, but then I would have to pick the handle back up and that just sounded like too much effort

Rating:
5/5