Low profile trailer to move Mobility Scooter

[prosa69]

I have a Mobility scooter I need to move around Ft. Wilderness campground behind the golf cart. I came up with this. Its a landscape cart and welded on a receiver hitch. The person who had it before me cut the arms to the wheels to move the wheels down some more. I turned it over to push wheels down even more to give me 6 inches of clearance on front and back. My scooter is 23 inches wide so will just fit in the opening. I did not want to mount to top bar. so with my lifted cart I will have to use a 6 inch drop hitch for this to sit flat.

Used landscape cart was 40.00 (new around 200.00)
Steel 30.00
New sealed bearings not the standard wheel barrow bearings 10 pack was around 16.00
Receiver hitch. 12.00
cheap can of spray paint 3.00

So around 100.00 if you can find a used landscape cart.

[TheNewGuy]

Great idea.

[prosa69]

Had to do a few updates on it. Putting in front wheel first did not produce nearly enough tongue weight. The arms holding the front made it too narrow for the rear wheels. Welded them to the outside of the frame. The first run it was bouncing all over the place. Had to deflate tires and center them on the rim. Welded the original handle to it to help move. Put on a piece of wood for rear bars to sit against. Added some safety chains also.

Once I did all this worked like a charm.

The loading and unloading is easy as you just unhook from golf cart and put your foot on end of frame and just roll it off.

Going to be adding a ramp for the wife if i am not around to unload.

[DaveTM]

Brilliant!! Necessity is the mother of invention!!

[Thomasfouraker]

I was searching for a solution to this very same problem. I am wanting to pull my dad’s mobility scooter around Fort Wilderness. The bus system is nice but we’d like to avoid it and travel together down to the settlement if possible.
Where did you load/unload the scooter and how was parking with the trailer?
I am up around Jacksonville and will look to build something similar!

[prosa69]

Moving the scooter around was great as we parked in the front parking by the buses on the side of the road and not into the one right next to the buses. This new golf cart parking area is big now. In the back by the boat we parked in the parking by the playground in the back and lifted the trailer over the barrier and left hooked up so it took up a normal golf cart spot.

Now here is the kicker. I used it the hole time without any issues. I left the trailer by the back on the last day and came back and had a note on the golf cart that security needed to talk to me. I was leaving the next morning and was putting the trailer away anyways right after I brought the scooter back so I never talked to them. I looked over there rules and nothing says anything about use of a trailer but its FW roads. Its not a road legal trailer so not lights so they might so no because of that.