AMES 2463875 Easy Roller Poly Lawn and Garden Cart with Integrated Tool Tray, 4-Cubic Foot Capacity

Last along time & very durable. My first one lasted over 10 years. You can carry garden needs on it.

This is the second one I've gotten. I keep my tools in them and always have them at the ready if needed. Keeps me from having to sit on the ground or bending over to pull weeds or dig in the garden. I highly recommend this product.

The cart is lightweight, but sturdy. I use it to transport mulch and compost around the yard. The wheels are plastic, but strong. There is a handy tray with holes in the bottom to hold tools when not in use. The center of gravity over the front wheels makes it easy to dump out loads.Although there was nothing to assemble and the cart arrived ready to use, it did not arrive packaged soundly inside the manufacturer's box, but was packaged by Amazon. Amazon's packaging consisted of two extremely flimsy cardboard boxes taped together loosely in a sort of freeform fashion. There was a bit of unwadded, brown wrapping paper tossed inside the cart, apparently for appearances sake, or perhaps as a sort of stylized commentary on shipment padding. The paper might have been intended as padding, but it seemed more likely that someone in the warehouse had used the cart as a rubbish bin at one point and the person who "boxed" it so creatively thought the rubbish equated padding and so left it in place. In any case, the "box" arrived entirely in tatters (to the extreme embarrassment of the UPS driver, who apologized profusely), and the sides of the cart, once straight, were concave on arrival. The plastic was not cracked, however, and I opted to keep the cart and expect the sides would pop out eventually under a heavy load, rather than return the cart for exchange and risk the same artistic person packaging the replacement. (The paper padding/rubbish, on the other hand, arrived in pristine condition, as it had had quite a bit of room in the cart to escape crushing by whatever force had caved in the cart's sides.)Bottom line: The cart is a good, sturdy yard tool and I am glad I bought it. I would not have passed on the cart had I known in advance the extreme angst it would cause the packaging department working out shipping logistics, and the resulting condition in which it would arrive at my door, but I would have contacted Amazon prior to ordering to ask if it would be possible to specify the packaging when placing the order. If the answer to that query had been "no," then I would have given it a pass and purchased the cart elsewhere.

If you research an item by reading reviews, you may have just hit pay dirt. I do the same thing with almost anything I buy off of Amazon and it has saved me from making some huge mistakes. In this case I got a double surprise to the good. And I normally would not have even considered this item as I am not generally a big fan of plastic things.Generally when I start a search, I am looking for superior quality and a little style. In the case of the search for something to haul things, my eye was quickly attracted to the 4 wheel wagons. It was just a matter of whether I chose steel or wood or some combination. So I looked at 4+ stars and started reading. Although many were highly rated it soon became obvious that they arrived in multiple pieces and that every single one of them had some type of problem during assembly. It was either poor instructions or someone ended up fixing a bent axle or shaving a piece of wood so it would fit in a hole. Some people love that challenge but I am not one of them.That is when I considered looking at the plastic formed items. No fashion at all, but certainly easy to assemble. Look at the picture of this item... attach 3 wheels and go.As it turned out, it was even easier. When I opened the box, I pulled it out and started hauling.I was willing to spend a couple of hundred more for one of those sexy looking wagons, but I smirked when I was walking away with a completed carrier right out of the box.Yeah, I've been known to smirk.

December 2012 update -- I did a follow-up call with Ames and they DID honor the warranty on the original (green version) cart. However, they sent me the same grey cart as Amazon is now selling as the Easy Roller, with only a two-year warranty. After using the new cart for a season, it does seem a bit weaker than the Plus version, and the wheels tend to stick. So, this new cart will certainly NOT last me 10 years, and I have to treat it very gingerly in the meantime. I'm still happy enough with the cart, but a bit disappointed that Ames cheapened up the product.June 2012 -- I ordered this product to replace a 10 year old Easy roller plus, and am a bit underwhelmed at the changes to the product. My last one was made of sturdier plastic, was green/yellow, and was my second favorite garden tool (after my electric Black and Decker mower). I really used the last product a lot, and the design/engineering was great for 'shoveling' the mulch into the basket, without having to manually shovel it in. I also used it for moving plants, bags of peat moss, and shovels as well -- it's a great general-purpose cart as well as a stable wheelbarrow.This product is a couple inches shorter than the Easy Roller Plus (which might be a problem, for back strain), is an UGLY grey -- not green, like the picture -- and the basket plastic is noticeably thinner than my last one. It also only comes with a 'limited two year warranty.' I hope this one will last me more than two years, but it doesn't look at sturdy as the one I'm replacing. I also don't have much hope that Ames will stand by the reduced warranty anyway, unlike the numerous Amazon reviews of success with their customer service. I called them repeatedly, to get them to honor the warranty on my original Plus and all I got was "we never had a lifetime warranty" on the product.