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[Steve M Smith]

You have carts with motors?

EDIT: Of course you do... you're American!


Steve.

[Mike Sokol]

You have carts with motors?

EDIT: Of course you do... you're American!


Steve.

Damn straight, Skippy. We've even got motorized beer coolers...

[Justice C. Bigler]

WTF man? You need to have some kids. Pushing shopping carts is what they are for.

[Kemper Watson]

The best part of driving a shopping cart is when you get out into the parking lot and there's a down slope. You stand on the back of the cart with your toes while using the balls of your feet scrubbing the wheels for steering by differential braking. This practice got my shopping cart driving privileges removed, too. -F

I did this inside a Home Depot.. They were less than pleased...

[Mike Sokol]

WTF man? You need to have some kids. Pushing shopping carts is what they are for.

They were the first to have their shopping cart driving privileges revoked by the "mom", who has even more discretionary power than the "wife". That's when the duty fell to me. I was supposed to set a mature example for the younglings.

[Kemper Watson]

Damn straight, Skippy. We've even got motorized beer coolers...

I know someone with one of those. It's pretty slick .. No torque but on a flat straight away it will hold it's own against , well, another motorized cooler

[Jonathan Johnson]

Ever notice how shopping carts have the swivel wheels opposite the handle but flat carts have the swivel wheels at the handle end?

Shopping carts are designed to be pushed; flat carts are designed to be pulled. In other words, lead with the swivel wheels. It just works better that way.

We had some foodservice carts at the church (the kind with three flat shelves). The swivel wheels were under the handle -- optimized for pulling. The people who used them, wives and kids, always tried to push them like shopping carts (because that's what they were used to) and were always running into things.

I swapped the wheels so they acted like shopping carts, and the crashing problems went away.

[Chris Hindle]

Ever notice how shopping carts have the swivel wheels opposite the handle but flat carts have the swivel wheels at the handle end?

Shopping carts are designed to be pushed; flat carts are designed to be pulled. In other words, lead with the swivel wheels. It just works better that way.

We had some foodservice carts at the church (the kind with three flat shelves). The swivel wheels were under the handle -- optimized for pulling. The people who used them, wives and kids, always tried to push them like shopping carts (because that's what they were used to) and were always running into things.

I swapped the wheels so they acted like shopping carts, and the crashing problems went away.

Soooooo. That makes you the Driving Instructor?
Can you re-certify Mike ?
 
Chris.

[John Fruits]

There is also the warehouse cart that has single swivel wheels on the handle and opposite ends and single fixed wheels on the sides.  Great turning radius.
Oh yeah, those multi shelf food service carts are sometimes called Queen Mary Carts.

[Mike Sokol]

Oh yeah, those multi shelf food service carts are sometimes called Queen Mary Carts.

He ain't lying....

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