A few videos ago, I introduced my giant bushel gourd hanging off my gourd arch. My Yankee engineering is getting a little bit sketchy, but my followers gave me some great ideas on how to fix it. I bought a hydraulic table cart from Lowe’s, which has a 330 lb weight capacity and can lift over 4 feet high. This will hold the bushel gourd all season, and it will allow me to slowly lower it as it grows so the vine doesn’t kink. To lift the gourd, I bought a pulley hoist from Harbor Fright for $14.99, rated for $440. We used the pulley to lift the gourd, pull out the milk crates and hard foam insulation, and slide the hydraulic cart underneath. Now the cart carries the weight full time. I reattached the old pulleys back onto the stall guard as a backup system in case the cart fails. Plus, there’s an added bonus. When way off day comes, I can just roll it to the truck and lift it straight onto the bed.
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You can see how much joy he got out of playing on that table cart.
Harbor freight… the way you said that made me laugh
What is the name of that pumpkin with orange color on top?
Surprised it doesn't rust. The body looks protected but I see a lot of bare metal in there.
OMG sucha big gourd seen for the first time in my life
Nice gourd!
why wouldnt you grow it on the ground instead? just wondering lol
Just some things to think about, wheels on the ground will sink+ corrosion,I'm presuming you water your garden or it rains, because the table is hydraulic it will slowly go down as seals leak unless you can lock it in position,
I wonder if people can just suspend it submersing it under a fluid
What in the gourd
Oh my gourd!!!!
Freight…fright 😂😂😂😂 amazing 😂
Idk, you could just plant it in the ground next season
Do you have a video to install this walk-through trellis? I want to do this with my passionfruit vines growing on my fence.
watch it grow? how big are we talking about???
Please please please be careful with that lift. They are so dangerous and I’ve almost lost my fingers several times, working in freezers
You have no deers❤
Weird way to waste money. People can't buy groceries but you can spend a few hundred growing a gourd. I think this is why I don't care for humans.
I hope you weren’t too scared in Harbor Freight😂
Spray some wd40 on the hinging sections of that scissor lift, with it being out in the elements those exposed areas can rust quite quickly.
My dying house plants just looked at me and sighed 😅
You probably should put something under the cart. The wheels are quite smal, it will definitely sink in when it rains and the soil gets soft. Then, you will have a hard time getting the cart out of your garden