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Rolson Tools 68900 Folding Boot Cart
by danny691 I have worked as an oncourse bookmaker for a number of years now and the Rolson Folding Boot Cart comes in very handy on racedays. I use it to transport equipment from the car boot to pitch and there are mixed opinions of this product from both myself and colleague. Costing around £15 from www.Amazon.co.uk I saw it as terrific value for ... money, although it depends on what use you would use it for. The cart is constructed from lightweight plastic and can hold 25kg in weight. Once set up the cart is very robust and has worn well over the last few years. The plastic construction isn't ideal, however, and it you are looking for a very heavy duty cart then you may aswell look away now. I find it ideal and strong enough to carry computer equipment and it is never found to be under strain. Under the cart are two very modestly sized rubber coated aluminium wheels. They are fixed, so they aren't casters and they have just one direction, but I don't have a problem with this as they are sturdy. The issue I have with them is that although thy do have a fair amount of tread on them I find them to be far too small for rough terrain. If the weather is against you and the going is worse than good/soft then it can be tough to drag the cart through the uneven ground. As the weight limit isn't too high I think the wheel size is understandable, but I still think there would be better scope for use if they were a little bit larger. The lightweight aluminium handle is strong and long enough to accomodate even the tallest of us. The size of the cart is a respectable 38cm x 33cm x 36cm. This means it folds neatly into most car boots, and the process of collapsing the unit is fairly simple. Overall I would say that for the price of this product it is value for money. Unfortunately there are some downsides and wheel size and choice of materials have to be brought into question. If you are looking for a heavy duty cart then you would be wise to look elsewhere, but expect to pay a little more than £15. Read the complete review |
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Rolson Tools 68900 Folding Boot Cart
by JohnJoeSmith One of my hobbies outside of work is carpentry, I'm a big fan of taking a few planks of wood and making them into something. Typically this something is nothing more than a towel rack but my interest still stands. With an interest in woodwork comes an array of very shiny, very heavy tools. My mother currently drives a Citroen Xsara ... Picasso, a nice family style car which comes with a highly useful folding boot cart. Unbeknownst to myself there is a burgeoning market out there for these machines and several manufacturers make their own models. My weapon of choice for carrying my routers and drills is the Rolson Tools 68900 Folding Boot Cart. I picked this baby up at my local tool supplier for what I know realise is an outrageous price of £24.99. A quick look online puts the same item at £13.19 + Free Delivery on Amazon.co.uk. Go figure the one time I buy offline I get shafted for twice the price! The cart itself is made of a lightweight plastic and is rated to carry up to 25kg. While the plastic construction means it's nice and simple to wheel about, it is rather flimsy. I've already cracked one of the side panels of mine with a mis-aimed kick at a football. I'd doubt the target audience of housewives carrying their shopping home will have this problem however! Attached to the basket are two rubber coated aluminium wheels which are fixed in one direction, very similar to a suitcase. The long aluminium handle extends up and down easily, allowing you to reduce the size of the basket quickly. Speaking of size; fully extended the cart measures 380 x 330 x 360mm and folded up it stays the same height and width but becomes around 100mm thick. It's quite the disappearing act and makes the cart very easy to fit in your boot or under the stairs. Overall I'm happy with the cart, it's useful for me if I'm taking my tools over to my parents house to fix a chair or hang a door as they can get quite heavy and it allows me to simply wheel the contents up to the front door. I'm concerned about the flimsy plastic though as I can only imagine that there's going to be more footballs in my life and a lot more of me kicking them at things. So yes, it's a good product that does as advertised. Is it strong enough to be rough-housed? No. Is that a fault of the product or a fault of mine? Hard to tell really, it's only £13.19, buy one and figure it out for yourself! Read the complete review |
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Rolson Tools 68900 Folding Boot Cart
by Randal This is one of those general purpose carts that I bought quite a while back for just moving stuff around the home. Originally purchased from Amazon for £12.75, I gradually found that it proved to be a very useful addition to my household 'tool kit'. What is it? Simply put, it is an open topped box on wheels, rather like the ... old shopping baskets on wheels that your parents (or even some of the readers) may have pulled along behind them to carry the weekly shopping home, only this Rolson model has developed and bought the concept into the modern day. Measuring 38 cm by 36 cm by 33 cm, the box itself is a lightweight yet strong plastic construction which also has a twin sided telescopic aluminium handle that extends out from one side. At the back, you also have two small wheels that have a rubber tread to provide grip across most surfaces, and the assembly has a weight capacity of 25kg, The whole ensemble is collapsible to flat so that it can be easily stored away and overall, it feels to be fairly well made and robust. What's it like to use? Generally it is quite good. To set it up from flat is just a case of gripping the sides of the box and letting the folded sides etc unfold with gravity and form. Push the bottom panel down completely and that sort of locks everything in position. Now you can get quite a bit of stuff into the box itself, and whilst I originally started to use it for dragging the shopping etc from the car, I tend to now use it to carry tools etc from the shed to whatever job I'm doing around the house or the garden, and in that respect it is really good and simple to use. In general, it is very manoeuvrable and seems to be strong enough to carry the a full capacity load of 25kg with ease. The only really minor grumble I have is to do with the size of the wheels, which are quite small. Normally they would be fine for use to wheel the cart across a hard flat surface, such as a pavement or floor. But when you start to venture across something a little more adventurous, such as steps, stairs or across a garden, you start coming across a limitation of the cart in that the wheels aren't quite big enough to handle many minor or major obstacles. Hence, you find yourself almost physically dragging it up each step of a stairs, or the cart 'bottoming out' on the ground across a garden when one of the wheels hits a dip. OK, that's an issue with the way I use it and shouldn't be a problem if you are just intending to use it across a level floor or pavement. But it is worth bearing in mind and noting if you wanted to use it around the garden, or perhaps to carry items along on a camping trip etc. In summary, this is an ideal general purpose cart to have around the home, for which you will find a multitude of uses. It is fairly well made and robust, and yet easily collapsible for easy storage. But before you buy, you will need to consider how you intend to use it, because those small wheels may become a major headache for you as you try to drag it, fully laden, along rough ground or up steps. So overall, a 4* recommendation. Read the complete review |
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12 reviews Brand: Rolson / Travel Bag / Type: Shopping Trolley - This Rolson Tools Folding Boot Cart is ideal for shopping, camping, festival and outdoor events and folds down neatly when not in use. Capacity 25Kg. |
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