Nope it’s way way better - balanced front to back with the axle placement, side to side with 2 wheels, the back gate lifts out for long loads, it’ll hold 500 lbs ( or more ) at a go and a 10 year old can pull it with little difficulty. Best thing that ever came out of the 1970s Harrowsmith magazine advertising section

This right here is a shared childhood memory. Not much chance though of my late 70s father giving his late 40s son a ride around on that wagon full of leaves now though!!

Yup - in this photo the tires are both flat - cheap bmx 20” replacements are likely before winter

My folks even use it in the wintertime to haul wood to the house - dad snow blows a trail to the woodpile then loads it up! Boards we’re replaced in early 90s with thicker plywood but that’s going on 30 years now and it doesn’t show significant signs of rot or decay

Yup it’s only as durable as the wood for sure - when my dad replaced the bottom and the sides in the 90s he used a wider gauge plywood, and it’s put in 30 years. But for an original 200 dollar (cdn) investment…

Yup - dead simple design and astonishing load limit but so we’ll balanced you really don’t strain and struggle to move 100s of lbs of stuff at a time - my dad made it a competition to see who could pull the most manure!

Oh hell yes! My brother would haul my sister and I in this too - at age 10 it was pretty much as close to a Roman chariot as you were gonna get!

And they come in multiple sizes for small or large gardens

The all aluminum and carbon fibre model was 200k

(Wood rots. 30 bucks of plywood and a couple hours in in the late 90s and it was back in order

Yup! I remember my father drove us to the Maine / New Brunswick border at Houlton to meet the guy who was delivering it up from Vermont! Different times for sure.