Homemade Trash Can Carrier

[walker450]

I built this out of scrap I had sitting around. I didn't have any 2" square tubing to make a receiver hitch but I will get a piece the next time I am in the city. I have it bolted to another receiver just for a test.

To use, tilt the trash can back and sit the front on the upper lip at the bottom. Then push the top of the can forward. The middle of the can will hit the upright and if you push it a little more the bottom falls off onto the lowest piece and the top bar hooks into the C channel. The rear wheels are only about 6" off the ground, but I don't have big hills to worry about so it works fine for me.

To remove the can from the holder, you have to lift it up about 3/4" and tilt it back.

Also, I can lower the tailgate with the holder on the receiver.

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[walker450]

I have another idea to share in case someone wants to build this...

Instead of the C channel at the top of this carrier, install some sort of hook that that can swivel. Push the trash can against it could swivel up and gravity would drop it back down and the can would be hooked. To release, push can forward to take weight off of hook, and lift the hook up enough for bar to clear and tilt can off. This would prevent having to lift the can up and off of the C channel to unload it.

 

[dragoneggs]

I'm in Japan on the Shinkansen so my precious data plan will take a hit if I play the video. Will look tonight back at hotel on wifi. I could use one of those!

 

[shadetree]

It is short (0.13) shows smooth hookup and removal. I always thought I was in flat country but there are plenty of driveways off crowned roads that would eat the wheels around here. Something that low that far behind the rear vehicle wheels doesn't require much of a dip and rise combo.

 

[woody]

that's cool, we had to start taking ours to the house after it was stolen twice.

 

[EddieWalker]

I have to take my garbage can 800 feet to the road. I tied a piece of rope to the handle that loops over the tow ball when you tilt the garbage can backwards. Then I drive slow, pulling the garbage can to the road. My dad is 81, with failing health, and he can also do this when he's up to it.

 

[MutzFarm]

Well I think it is brilliant and THOUGHT you just became a millionaire, BUT thanks to grandpa google I found this Trash Can Carrier - Garbage Can Transporter

 

[CobyRupert]

Great idea, ....but most Americans really could use the exercise of walking to the end of their driveway once a week (bah-humbug :muttering !!

 

[PJSprog]

Great idea, ....but most Americans really could use the exercise of walking to the end of their driveway once a week (bah-humbug :muttering !!

This describes me perfectly.

 

[PILOON]

Like Eddie Walker I tie a short length of wire rope between the 2 handles and tow slowly with the trailer hitch.
Since we always have a bungee closure to keep coons out of the trash the lid stays closed when pulling.

Even half full a hill on our drive makes hand towing close to impossible and more so in winter.

 

[nightdevil]

I built this out of scrap I had sitting around. I didn't have any 2" square tubing to make a receiver hitch but I will get a piece the next time I am in the city. I have it bolted to another receiver just for a test.

To use, tilt the trash can back and sit the front on the upper lip at the bottom. Then push the top of the can forward. The middle of the can will hit the upright and if you push it a little more the bottom falls off onto the lowest piece and the top bar hooks into the C channel. The rear wheels are only about 6" off the ground, but I don't have big hills to worry about so it works fine for me.

To remove the can from the holder, you have to lift it up about 3/4" and tilt it back.

Also, I can lower the tailgate with the holder on the receiver.

Video:

Ha, what's more interesting is your dogs perfect position for the photo bomb! Something mine would do!!

 

[triptester]

I guess I am real lazy I just drop the cart handle onto the hitch between the ball and hitch body and drive away.

 

[Jim Shooz]

I guess I am real lazy I just drop the cart handle onto the hitch between the ball and hitch body and drive away.

One of our local TV presenters did that. When he remembered he was 5 miles down the highway, the wheels had worn off, there was a hole worn in the bottom of the bin and all his garbage was scattered down the highway. :thumbsup:

 

[Wormwood]

If your interested I can give you dimensions off of my dual cansporter... It's a shame they went to cheap manufacturing, the first time I loaded the trashcans on they overloaded the side mounting bar. After which I took it to the shop & began modifying. What is so odd is the latching, pivot action, locking pins, & even the lifting arms themselves have been able to handle twice the weight it took to make the lateral side bar to fail! Why they failed at this point is beyond me, the only thing it could be is greed or well... stupidity. I've owned the cansporter for ???? 7 years maybe longer can't remember. I've never taken it inside, stored it out of the elements or anything. Every Sunday I attach it take the cans down to the street & leave it attached until monday evening when bring them trashcans back up to the house. I disconnect the pin & throw the thing on the ground by the trash cans, there's no love for it, although there should be & it have worked flawlessly after modifying it.

I can say getting the perfect height is essential to success but you can make the lifting action eccentric which makes the scoop arm fall down below 90° while maintaining a high lift clearance when it's in the locked upright position. This gives you a shorter lifting distance while being able to scoop up the bar on the
Trash can no matter what position the vehicle is in or the height.