anyone have any info on powered beach carts

[Shifty]

Pearless Transaxle; the type used in most light duty riding lawnmowers. They weigh about 30 lbs +/- and have around 6 forward gears, and reverse, brake as well. All you would need to do would be to bolt it to the frame and mount your motor and batteries. The input shaft has a large pulley on it that can be changed to adjust gearing/ratio. To get it as low profile as possible you could even use a long belt and rotate the motor perpendicular to the axis of the transaxle. Go buy a clapped out riding mower on Craigslist or a scrap yard and get to work. I would keep the front of the tractor as well for the steering linkage, axles, etc.

Note: They have a differential you may want to weld up for increased traction if you find problems in the sand.

 

[masterblaster]

just got an old bigfoot cart to start working from,hopefully will have something soon,whats the chance just adding one drive wheel in the center will have enough traction to pull througt the sand?

 

[blaster800]

Im sure one wheel will do it ... It will have twice the pressure on it so im sure it will grab ..BTW I picked up a set of used sand paddle tires 10x20 ' with allum rims from fleabay !

 

[Crab]

Working on a concept now, using a weed wacker.

 

[Liquid Graffix]

Great thread!

At first I wanted to build a motorized cart.... but after seeing the video, I want one of those Power Wheels cars! SIIIIIIIIIIICK!

 

[Crab]

23 to 1 gear reduction, fwd and reverse with neutral, and brake lol plus whatever pully reduction you need.

 

[Tyler Zane]

View attachment 13580223 to 1 gear reduction, fwd and reverse with neutral, and brake lol plus whatever pully reduction you need.

... this is a weed wacker? nice work crab!

 

[wydopen]

ive seen one that had a jetski battery hooked up to an electric winch motor..they had a motorcycle sprocket welded to the axel and a chain drive off the winch..seems like more trouble than it was worth but i guess if u have a super steep hill to go up it would be ok..id rather just have the winch hooked up to the trailer and just winch a regular tote up the hill..

 

[masterblaster]

thats very close to what i was thinking about building, its not the steepness of the hill its the total length of the hill,its just a slight grade up the beach,but fighting a few skis back in sand 100yrds is none fun. you guys have it made at pismo driving your trucks onto the beach,its just a huge pita here

 

[Crab]

thats very close to what i was thinking about building, its not the steepness of the hill its the total length of the hill,its just a slight grade up the beach,but fighting a few skis back in sand 100yrds is none fun. you guys have it made at pismo driving your trucks onto the beach,its just a huge pita here

Problem here is the distance mainly, they won't let us get near the clam beds when the tide goes out, it can be well over 500 feet im guessing, and sometimes with tide pools in between to navigate through.

 

[madscientist]

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos...34011988_100000369972050_396041_2536994_n.jpg

 

[blaster800]

glad to see somebody else workin on one ! I like seeing different ideas..keep going ! I may be wrong but I think the W.E. eng will be weak IMO . but I do hope it works . Might need a B-Pipe !

 

[madscientist]

if a 25cc motor will pull a 200lb man quikly to 30mph on a go-ped why not a ski @ 5mph to the water?

 

[Crab]

1hp wacker at 8000 rpm times 100/1 gear reduction= 100hp less parasitic drag and loss of effeciency......im guessing it will be just fine...(my wacker has built in reduction of .75/1 btw)

8000*.75=6000 6000/100=60rpm 20" tires=5.25 feet per revolution 60rpm*5.25=314 feet per minute

I MIGHT HAVE TO JOG TO KEEP UP AT FULL THROTTLE!!

 

[blaster800]

sweet ... It'll be a screamer !

 

[McDog]

LOL. I want to see some video of that.

 

[blaster800]

dont forget that lil clutch will be SMOKING at low rpms I dont think they were designed to pull 300 lbs .....Im just thinking here , I'm not trying to dis your plans .so it might just work fine ... cant wait to see more progress .

 

[Crab]

sweet ... It'll be a screamer !

LOL kinda like the 2 stroke blender...

 

[madscientist]

go on the go-ped sites and look for a clutch upgrade kit.

 

[masterblaster]

crab,im interested to see what you come up with also,in our area sound is a big issue ,traveling between big $ beach houses on the beach access,a elec setup would be much better or even a 4 stroke quad conversion might be doable.

Madscientist ....whats up with the cart pis you put up,little china quad conversion?