DIY - Trolley for Rucksacks

#DIY #rucksack #backpack #travel
Did you ever struggle on an expedition having more than one piece of luggage, being large and heavy? Carrying everything made you feel like a camel? I came up with a cheap solution: a modified shopping trolley for my heaviest luggage, the rucksack with tree climbing equipment while carrying the lighter rucksacks as usual. I hope, this video helps you a little bit or even inspires you to find a better solution. Read more about the construction on Napoama napoama.com/2020/07/06/diy-trolley-for-rucksacks/
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- Tatonka Yukon rucksack 70 + 10 L amzn.to/3QSU5LT
- Shopping trolley, wheels can be removed and attached amzn.to/3OznaKU
- Lashing strap amzn.to/3I1ARzM
Best wishes,
Dr. Witold Lapinski

[@OP-fd4lh]

Great idea🎆. Thank you for sharing. Your webpage is also great!

[@aracnoloco]

Many thanks 🙂

[@tartanrambo]

Hi Witold, greetings from a retired soldier in Scotland. Your solution is excellent. I am definitely going to make my own trolley after watching you and looking at your tutorial on your website. I recently travelled from the UK to Africa and back to the UK and my 10kg cabin bag had no wheels. Also, there were no trolleys once you are air-side. I ended up with very sore arms and sweating profusely after having to walk miles to find my boarding gate. Not a pleasant sight! I think people may have thought I had malaria. I would like to offer you a solution unless you have already invented your own one, as I see your video is dated 2020. My solution costs pennies/cents and works. Where the wheels come off and leave the axle exposed when it can (and will) pierce your nackpack, buy yourself two of the small hard rubber balls that bounce really high when thrown on the ground. They are usually between 25mm and 30mm in diameter. Measure your axle diameter then take a drill bit that is one or two sizes smaller and drill a hole into (or through) the ball. After you remove the wheels push one of these balls onto the axle on each side and BOOM! job done! I discovered this solution after having collapsible tent poles doing the same thing to my bags. These balls are also good with tent poles when you are using a tarp that doesn't have eyelets. Just push in a ball that has only been drilled half-way through and you can push it up into the tarp and tighten your tie-down straps without any fear of piercing your tarp once it is under tension. If your tarp does have eyelets, then you can still use these balls to stop your tarp from jumping off the pole in high winds. Just put your tent pole through the eyelet and push a ball (that has been drilled right through) onto the exposed end of the tent pole and BOOM! job done! Best of luck and thank you for sharing your experience with us. Stay safe on your journeys.

[@aracnoloco]

Hello Tartan Rambo :-) Thanks for you comment and solution suggestion. It sounds very useful. Indeed the pole pierced my rucksack during a flight to Mexico. The ball will help. Best wishes, Wito.

[@aracnoloco]

I just made a follow-up video including the rubber balls suggested by you :-) thanks kzbin.info/www/bejne/fH7cm4ScbbyEedE

[@AMC-eq3jr]

Expert repurposing of a shopping cart. Thanks for sharing.

[@aracnoloco]

You are welcome :-)

[@ImTheDaveman]

Good idea but it's awkward pulling it with one hand like that - being forever bouncing against your leg. You perhaps need to rig a couple of straps with Carabeaners on either end - and clip them to either side of the top of your bag and the other two ends on either side of your belt beside the pants belt loops. It may need rethinking on my idea too - but the weight should ideally be on your shoulder, and the trolly system must have a quick release in case of an unforeseen problem

[@aracnoloco]

Good ideas. Thanx. It has surely the potential to be improved. Cheers.

[@cyrusarian8256]

What brands is it ? And how much is the weight

[@aracnoloco]

Brands: See links in video description. Weight of what: the rucksack with all the climbing gear weighs approx. 17 - 20 kg, the trolley weighs when new and not modified approx. 1.2 kg. I did not weigh my modified version, but should be about 0.7 to 0.8 kg. Cheers.

[@manp1039]

i like your design. I am also working on a design for a collapsable cart that will fit in my back pack. Also, I want to create an extention for it that oult allow me to hold it or strap it to my wastt or to my back, and allow me to remain facing completely foraward while walking. I am slso exploring a design that woill use larger wheels and wheels that can extend out further in cart width to allow for going over rougher terrains and also keeping stable from fliping over. Did you do any modification on the wheels to make them detachable? I would like to see the wheels up close while you detach and attach them.

[@aracnoloco]

Hi M A#np. Many Thanks for your comment and ideas. No, I did not modify the wheel connection. I will post a short video that shows the axis when wheel is off in the next days. Cheers, Wito.

[@aracnoloco]

Hi, today I published a follow-up video that shows also the detaching of the wheels in close-up kzbin.info/www/bejne/fH7cm4ScbbyEedE

[@aracnoloco]

Hey guys, due to the inspiring suggestions of Tartan Rambo and M A#np I just published a follow-up video here kzbin.info/www/bejne/fH7cm4ScbbyEedE Many thanks.