New garage time!

fatjay · Sep 23, 2025

Red Pepper said:
Hello new here
Did you build the cart cab enclosure or is it a factory produced product

Mine is a 1998 48v. They do make and sell rear bed kits for carts, or i wouldn't imagine it would be very expensive.

My kit i think was factory, or maybe after market. It's injection molded plastic, I did not make it. It's a perfect fit though.

There's about a 6" lift as well. I bought the cart about 6mo ago for around $2000 with messed up electrics. I completely rewired it from scratch, and put a new LFP battery in, which cost me about $1000. Upgraded LED headlights, light bar, tail lights, 4way flashers, rear view camera.

You can see the logo on the side, it was a carry-all from the factory. Since carryalls are beefed up, if you want a work cart, you might be better off selling your factory cart and buying a carryall, rather than trying to convert it.

fatjay · Sep 23, 2025

Racoons trying to get my chickens...

EddieWalker · Sep 23, 2025

When I butcher roosters, I just remove the breast meat. It usually takes a minute or two. Just peal back the skin, cut out the meat and toss the rest of it. We don't eat their meat; we put it in the crock pot with other ingredients for dog food.

To kill them, I shoot them with my .22 Usually we hatch dozens at a time and the bad roosters turn into the devil all around the same time. My wife says it's time to shoot roosters, so we go out there and she tells me who has to go, and I put a bullet in it. One day we got 17. Usually, it's about a dozen.

All our chickens are free range, so the .22 works the best for me when doing this.

Red Pepper · Sep 23, 2025

I appreciate the reply and good idea to keep an eye on the market for the correct application vs re-inventing the wheels

fatjay · Monday at 12:00 AM

If you want to really carry stuff, you might look for a carryall II or III. The difference is the length of the wheel base. The carryall I is basically the same as a club car front to back, which gives it a limited bed size and weight, or your front wheels are going to be coming up. For me, I needed mobility and a very tight turning radius.

Mucking the coops has been much easier. I use a snow shovel, toss it into the back, and then drive to the compost and dump. Before I would use the kubota and bucket, but it wasn't very big and the kubota isn't very agile. Being electric i can just hop in and go. And I can carry a decent load.