With lawn and garden season fast approaching, many people will be looking for a lawn trailer or wagon to pull behind their lawn tractor. Most people do not understand the differences between a wagon and a trailer and use these terms to describe the same piece of equipment even though they are very different.
Both items, a lawn cart and a lawn trailer, are used for the same purpose, transporting material behind your lawn tractor. But what makes these units different and which one is best for your jobs is really a matter of personal taste.
A lawn trailer has a fixed position tongue that attaches to the rear of your lawn tractor. These units may have one or two axles, depending on the size of the load you purchased it for. With the fixed tongue, this makes backing up the trailer very easy, but the downside to this type of unit for the home gardener is that the tongue must be left hooked to your tractor or propped up with something if you want to leave a load in the trailer.
A ride-on mower has a steerable front end, which allows the cart to go directly behind your ride-on mower. The wheels on a lawn trailer are normally spaced at the front and rear of the unit, while a lawn trailer, if it is a tandem axle unit, will have the wheels narrowly spaced in the middle or toward the rear of the unit. trailer. The wide clearance between the wheels of a mower cart allows the home gardener to unhook the cart from the tractor and use it as a platform for potting plants and other tasks. The main disadvantage of the grass wagon is that the steerable front end makes it very difficult to back up on the wagon.
Which is the best? It depends on what you are going to use the unit for. If you are going to have to back up an area multiple times, I suggest the lawn trailer is your best option. If you like the idea of being able to use the unit as a mobile work platform and backup is not an issue, then the garden cart is a better fit for your needs.