Flashback: Tandem Dog Cart
My 60-pound Samoyed mix Sugar is my best friend, but she can be a handful sometimes. A couple of weeks ago, I agreed to dogsit for one of her best friends, Blaze, who is also a Nordic breed and is about 80 pounds. Walking the two of them together certainly helped tone up my arms, but I kept thinking I should try and put all this power to use somehow. Then I remembered the tandem dog cart DIY by Adam Thornton and Amy Horton from the pages of MAKE Volume 04. Adam and Amy have two Greater Swiss Mountain dogs and had two carts, each designed to be pulled by a single dog. In this DIY, they show how they designed and made a cart for two, as shown above. They also offer advice for training and resources. With winter season just around the corner, I’m going to have to figure out how to ditch the wheels, strap a couple of old snowboards to the base, and get free rides to the backcountry.
Here’s the full project in our Digital Edition. You can also still pick up a back issue of Volume 04 in the Maker Shed.
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