Hi Dan, You might want to look at Gleason Industries or Milwaukee hand trucks. I believe that Gleason is the manufacture of my appliance hand truck. It has about 8 inch solid rubber wheels and on the lower part of the back there are two what look like v belts around an 8 inch high fixture that has rollers to help the belts. The plate at the bottom is smaller than regular hand trucks since you only catch the bottom edge of the appliance. It also has a strap that is used to secure the appliance to the cart. Some carts have two straps. It is about 60 inches tall and also has handles on the sides. Before I bought my own, I used to rent one from a local privately owned true value hardware store in Bridgeville.
Art ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Rossi To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 12:44 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Stair climbing handtrucks. Does anyone know of a really good stair climbing dolly / handtruck? I don't want one with crappy plastic skids on the back. I saw one that had two half inch wide rubber belts on the back that looped over a non-rotating pulley thing. That looked pretty useless as well. I mean, a stair climber with treads on the back. Possibly treads that maybe fold out a bit so that you don't have to lay the whole thing flat down on the stairs and then double yourself in half to try and grab the handle which is now on the steps. I am looking at www.handtrucks.com but the descriptions don't seem to be helping me. Just wondering if anyone knows something. Thanks. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (412) 268-9081 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.6.1/1608 - Release Date: 8/12/2008 4:59 PM [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
