One-Wheel Cart Hauls Big Loads

One-Wheel Cart Hauls Big Loads FARM HOME Miscellaneous 32-5-33 With one salvaged motorcycle wheel and a welded steel frame, the GameTote retrieves large game, including trophy elk. Builder Dick Salisbury has tested it with loads up to 1,050 lbs. Salisbury's son, John, first built a game cart in 1993. It had the GameTote design but was a one-piece unit. They collaborated to make it break down, to make it shippable and commercially viable. Since then they've sold more than 500 carts. The GameTote's motorcycle wheel provides the necessary strength for supporting the weight of a large animal and makes it easy to add brakes. It also gives the rig lots of clearance. Most customers are hunters who use it for hauling out their game. But GameTote has been purchased for other uses such as search and rescue, hauling fish to stock remote lakes, and hauling bales, decoys, and rafts. GameTote usually requires two to operate, but can be used by a single hunter for deer or antelope and other loads up to about 200 lbs. With a large elk and a steep hill, as many as five people can be needed to guide the GameTote. Salisbury offers two options: a completed GameTote with powder-coated frame, which weighs about 52 lbs. and sells for $495 plus $68 shipping. The other option is a kit with all the parts to be drilled and assembled, and the customer buys a salvaged motorcycle tire (at least 18 in. and suitable for 200 cc motorcycle or larger). Cost is $250 plus $50 shipping. GameTote comes with a lifetime warranty. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Dick Salisbury, 425 Richards Lake Rd., Fort Collins, Colo. 80524 (ph 970 498-0578; dick@gametote.com; www.gametote.com).

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