{"id":482,"date":"2015-07-09T20:50:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T03:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/?p=482"},"modified":"2015-07-09T20:50:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T03:50:21","slug":"portage-cart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/?p=482","title":{"rendered":"Portage Cart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_8854.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-477\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_8854-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"IMG_8854\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_8854.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_8854-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is an abused and sad jogging stroller, waiting to be recycled. I live a five minute walk from the ocean, so I would like a way to easily schlep the canoe down there without strapping it on my car. I can portage it on my shoulders, but that means setting up the paddles as a yoke and probably making a second trip for all my other gear.<\/p>\n<p>Or I can make a portage cart.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_8857.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-479\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_8857-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"IMG_8857\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_8857.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_8857-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It turns out every jogging stroller has a portage cart inside just waiting to come out. All you need is to strip it bare and give it some angle grinder surgery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2015-07-08-19.14.59.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-480 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2015-07-08-19.14.59-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2015-07-08-19.14.59.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2015-07-08-19.14.59-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And now you just have to put a canoe on it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_8859.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-481\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_8859-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"IMG_8859\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_8859.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_8859-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a little bit high still. That makes it nice to push down the road because I&#8217;m not stooping down to keep it level. It does make it a bit unstable, but since it&#8217;s for road use I think that&#8217;ll be OK. I might cut it down later if it proves to be a problem.<\/p>\n<p>As it currently stands, I&#8217;ve retained the collapsing mechanism of the jogging stroller so it folds down flat. It&#8217;s still too big to fit nicely in the boat. It is also a steel frame, not aluminum so it&#8217;ll never be a bush portage cart that I&#8217;d take on a trip. More of a town-and-country cart to get me from the parking lot to the lake in areas where that is an arduous portage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an abused and sad jogging stroller, waiting to be recycled. I live a five minute walk from the ocean, so I would like a way to easily schlep the canoe down there without strapping it on my car. 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