I need to move some stuff. I can't find my hand truck (moving dolly). Damn. I must have loaned it out.
Am I going to go buy another one? No. I'm going to make one from a shopping cart and frankly Scarlett, Tara the land, as God is my witness, I'll never run out of hand trucks ever again!
It turned out great. Not only is it a good hand truck, it also works great as a four-wheeler floor dolly.
Time: It took an hour and fifteen minutes to build this while taking pictures, figuring out how to do it, and not rushing. The next one would take less than an hour.
Tools Used:
safety glasses
dust mask
angle grinder with thin cutoff wheel
with grinding wheel
I used my solar welder with spool gun and flux core welding wire. I wore my good respirator mask under the welding helmet. I don't want to get manganese poisoning.
You don't have a welder yet? Make your own stick welder or weld from car batteries.
Am I going to go buy another one? No. I'm going to make one from a shopping cart and frankly Scarlett, Tara the land, as God is my witness, I'll never run out of hand trucks ever again!
It turned out great. Not only is it a good hand truck, it also works great as a four-wheeler floor dolly.
Time: It took an hour and fifteen minutes to build this while taking pictures, figuring out how to do it, and not rushing. The next one would take less than an hour.
Tools Used:
safety glasses
dust mask
angle grinder with thin cutoff wheel
with grinding wheel
I used my solar welder with spool gun and flux core welding wire. I wore my good respirator mask under the welding helmet. I don't want to get manganese poisoning.
You don't have a welder yet? Make your own stick welder or weld from car batteries.
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I got this bent shopping cart off the train tracks in Emeryville. A train removed the basket, which was a big improvement. I've been using it as a lowboy dolly ever since. Turned on its side it almost looks like a hand truck already!
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You know someone else stole that shopping cart.
2: taking of the property of another
You know that it doesn't belong to you.
3: with the intent of permanently depriving them of it.
You know you're never giving it back, no matter how much you "honestly" intend to.
Let's apply some Kantian principles: if it is ethical for you to do this, then it is
ethical for everyone to do this. Imagine that world. Is that too much philosophy for you?
And your justification that the store "owes" you this shopping cart: do you think that profit is theft?
You are not excused for your petty crime just because Georgey and Dickey
were enormous criminals that happened to lead this country, of for the behavior
of this country via its foreign policy.
The fact that you have made an entirely separate step to defend the theft of a shopping cart indicates that you are in a gray enough area, ethically, that you feel exposed to criticism.
I will grant you that the cart was damaged beyond repair before you took it from a railroad right-of-way, and that no store was going to want it back after that. You could have left it at that, and allowed other people the option of their own ethical choices. I don't know why you went on to condone theft.
You call your detractors "young philosophers". What have you got against young people? Do you think that you are excused for your petty crime just because you are old? What is it?
You could, of course, *test* this theory by taking the cart back to the store whence it came, ask them if they want it back, and if they say "no" it's all yours. You clearly just got permission from its rightful owner to keep it.
But you don't seem overly concerned with that.
You do seem concerned that the rightful owner isn't interested in rewarding your honest behaviour. Which is strange, because if you think about it, would *you* reward people for bringing things back, when you have no idea who stole it in the first place, and it happens on a weekly basis? You may as well pay people to steal things from you.
An audio recording of a bar review course is where I learned it.
This particular cart belongs to me under "abandoned property" law. Which I learned about the same way. The store does not want it back.
Re: foreign policy, theft of Indian land, and the kitchen sink, we live in a moral environment full of hypocrisy (doing one thing and saying another) so huge we can barely see it. But little stuff like a shopping cart seems to jump right out at people.
Thanks for caring! and I really mean that. There are a lot of sleepwalkers among us.
Your philosophy on playing fair is plainly evident, and I find it offensive that some of these guys attempt to slam you without admitting that you very plainly told the reader not to steal a cart, but to ask for a damaged one from a place of business.
And I couldn't agree with you more on the disgusting behavior of the government during the disastrous (in EVERY way possible) tenure of the Bush/Cheney administration. Thank God for our children's sake and the future of the planet that they are gone.
And thank God you're still here as a testament to real American ingenuity. A long life and much happiness to you.
Dear old Dad did one thing a bit different with the dolly he built, that I find extremely handy, so I figured I'd share it with you. He made the handle adjustable so you can use it in the upright position as seen here, or remove the handle and replace it at a 90 degree angle and use it as a cart (while it is resting on all four wheels.) This way, you can stand upright to pull it along. It's very useful for hauling multiple bags of gravel, dog food, etc.
Sometimes I feel like an ant in an anthill, and the whole colony gets the message "hard work is something to be proud of" and we all work hard and mind our business and some other anthill gets the message "A gentleman must have soft hands and a clean suit" and our ants outwork their ants and before long our anthill is much bigger and has consumed theirs. And part of it is big decisions and shrewd or crazy leaders on both sides and major events, but most of it is the aggregate work of the ants going this way or that way, and making it possible for the historic events to happen. I want to be an ant learning to live the right way and pushing the right way, and sometimes I just have to get all American. 1st amendment: you can complain! 2nd amendment: and play with guns! 1.5 amendment: complain with guns! well maybe not :)
I tell my mom I'm going to put a horse trailer in my back yard. She starts telling me about ordinances and regulations and neighborhood standards and probably I can't do that or half the other things everyone ought to be doing damn it. So I say "It sure is a shame what the Americans have done to this country". Have you seen a Homeowner's association or a standard Condo agreement? You can't hang your laundry out to dry or park a car with the name of your business on the door! What country is this? And a lot of other rules and busybodies who really think they know how everyone else should live and look like wear you down. So then I can't do my hobbies in peace, and a simple thing like just wanting to reuse something that might get thrown away turns into a big ordeal and I start ranting in ways that sound political.
This indeed is true; I say the same as ripstikfan. :)
-m
But ive been trying to change my username for a month now. :P
My name is monica, thats the reason for the 'm'.
Are you allowed to use a shopping cart you find on the side of the road if it is several miles from a grocery store?
The legal doctrines are pretty interesting.