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October 8, 2019 BUYING AND ASSEMBLING A GORILLA YARD CART
About every 5 years I need to replace the garden cart used to haul brush, dirt, stone and other things including cats as is shown in the picture below. Because my carts are metal and stored outside they simply break down over time. My son and I went to Lowes and bought a new Gorilla Cart, the only one in stock two days ago. The next day my 14 year old son did most of the assembly. My compliments to the Gorilla as assembly was easier and quicker than past carts I have put together.

  • Assembly was quick and easy.
  • Cart succeeded in first task of hauling a cat.
  • This is the detailed information about the model number
  • Our assistant whose big job is to hold down the tarp that covers the mower
  • coupling at back of mower
  • cart handle and coupling at mower
  • Cart and mower
  • handle of cart
  • couplings used at back of cart in past

Once assembled, there was an interesting problem: how to connect the cart to the tractor. So this morning Oct 8, 2019 before 9am, I sent an email to the customer service people at Gorilla asking:
Just bought a 6cu metal cart at Lowes.I missed a rather important issue: how to connect to as riding mower.
Often the cart will be connected behind a Husqvarna riding mower because I am restoring several acres of a historic site. Pulling the cart by hand is not a practical solution. The holes in the back of the tractor allow for a vertical connecting of a 1/2″ bar. Your handle on the cart does not allow me to use any of my standard connectors and the vertical metal pin does not seem to have the strength. I am also concerned that the plastic handle, although nice for hand pulling the cart, is not suitable or strong enough to withstand the point loads of being pulled for a 1/4 mile behind the tractors when full of brush or buckets of stone and soil, etc. Do you have any suggestions as how I can connect cart to tractor?
This will be my first Gorilla cart, but the two previous carts died because the bodies of the carts wore out, not because there were issues with the connecting to tractor. So this is an issue I did not anticipate.

To Gorilla’s credit, within an hour, I received the following answer back from Gorilla. very quickly. That lead me to posting the web page:

Please tell me the model number of the cart you purchased and send me a picture of your hitch on the mower.
I will see if there is something that can be used.

Originally the only solution I could find on the Gorilla web site was for something that would add about $30 to the cost of the cart. What I have used in the past with carts are the couplings shown above which are each under $6.

In the afternoon I received an email from Gorilla:

Pull the pin on the handle and slide it down
It will then fit over your hitch on the mower.
There were two images that showed exactly what to do making this easy but they could not be posted here because of format issues.

My complements to customer service at Gorilla in responding and making this easy. The issue had apparently be well thought out by designers, but for many of us, what might seem simple and basic is not obvious to customers.

I had spent over 20 minutes searching online for a solution and could find none. Having descriptions and images on sites for basic issues on or linked to pages where the carts are offered for sale would have been helpful. Since connecting a cart to a garden tractor seems like such a common issue, showing what to do sure would have been helpful.

The conclusion here is that what is obvious, is not always obvious.

posted Oct 8, 2019
revised Oct 9, 2019