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"Ride-On" Poly Cart
Jim Berry and his wife Debbie of Andover, Minn., ride in comfort at antique tractor shows. Jim drives a Deere garden tractor, and his wife rides behind in a 2-wheeled Deere poly cart with a seat and umbrella added to it. The rider has access to stainless steel cup holders and a beer bottle opener with cap catcher.
  The seat is off an old Deere 212 riding mower and mounts on spring-loaded brackets that are lag bolted to a frame that Jim made from 2 by 3-in. wood and painted Deere green. The frame screws onto the cart's sides.
  "By removing 4 screws I can lift the seat and the frame out in one piece," says Jim.
  A Deere golf umbrella fits into the back side of the frame. The umbrella's handle slides into a length of pvc conduit and screws into a threaded flange plate mounted on the bottom of the wooden support frame.
  Jim put O-rings on the handle of the umbrella to help make a tight fit inside the conduit, and a screw and wing nut are passed alongside the umbrella handle, once it's inside the conduit, to keep it from being pulled out by a sudden gust of wind.
  A wooden "dashboard" û knotty pine finished with clear urethane û added to front of the cart is used to hold the cup holders and bottle opener.
  Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Jim Berry, 43 Old Constance Blvd., Andover, Minn. 55304 (ph 763 434-6314; jbdb43@msn.com).


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2010 - Volume #34, Issue #6