How to replace wheels on rubbermaid cart

My husband bought me this cart over 15 years ago! It has served me well. Any one who has one of these Rubbermaid Utility Carts will tell you that the main complaint with this cart it that the plastic wheel spokes on the tires will break and finding a replacement tire is difficult.

....and that is what happened to me.....

Thanks to Google I found a tire that worked. It costs $32.99

Marathon Industries Tire

The description of this tire on Amazon does not tell you but it comes with 3/4 in bearings and 5/8 in bearings. You will need the 5/8 inch ones.

IMPORTANT: This Marathon Industries tire in flat free and is slightly smaller that the original tire. If you are a slave to perfectionism you will have to replace both tires so they match. I know about these things as I will explain later.

The hardest part of this job turned out to be getting the broken tire off the axle. The nut holding the tire on was very rusted and when I tried to loosen the nut the whole axle would just turn. I actually had to have someone help me. They held the axle from turning and then I was able to loosen the nut.

After that the next challenge was getting the wheel off the axle.

I sprayed the whole thing down very well with rem oil. You could use whatever lubricant you have. Next turn the wheel a few times to work the oil down into the bearing.

As my tire was already broken I did not have to worry about breaking it, so at this point I took a hammer to the underside of it and convinced it to come off.

After that it was very easy to put everything back on in the order it came off, using the 5/8 inch bearing that came with the new tire.

........now about those wheels not matching. I used to be a slave to perfectionism. I could not love anything that I thought was not perfect. By the great love and mercy of God I have been set free. I particularly love my misfit wheel barrow because it reminds me of how 

God Loves Me.

 I have failed. 

I have made mistakes in my life.

I have been broken.

I have been a misfit.

I am not perfect.

I accept Gods love through Christ Jesus, for me, as a failed, broken, ugly, imperfect, misfit. 

And behold.......

all things are new.

I am a new creature.

May you know this God who makes beautiful things out of the mess of our lives.

May you know The Love that frees us from slavery.

 If you have read this post.

I have prayed for you.

Love, Gwen

Replace Wheels on Rubbermaid Cart

   

My husband bought me this cart over 15 years ago! It has served me well. Any one who has one of these Rubbermaid Utility Carts will tell you that the main complaint with this cart it that the plastic wheel spokes on the tires will break and finding a replacement tire is difficult.

....and that is what happened to me.....

Thanks to Google I found a tire that worked. It costs $32.99

Marathon Industries Tire

The description of this tire on Amazon does not tell you but it comes with 3/4 in bearings and 5/8 in bearings. You will need the 5/8 inch ones.

IMPORTANT: This Marathon Industries tire in flat free and is slightly smaller that the original tire. If you are a slave to perfectionism you will have to replace both tires so they match. I know about these things as I will explain later.

The hardest part of this job turned out to be getting the broken tire off the axle. The nut holding the tire on was very rusted and when I tried to loosen the nut the whole axle would just turn. I actually had to have someone help me. They held the axle from turning and then I was able to loosen the nut.

After that the next challenge was getting the wheel off the axle.

I sprayed the whole thing down very well with rem oil. You could use whatever lubricant you have. Next turn the wheel a few times to work the oil down into the bearing.

As my tire was already broken I did not have to worry about breaking it, so at this point I took a hammer to the underside of it and convinced it to come off.

After that it was very easy to put everything back on in the order it came off, using the 5/8 inch bearing that came with the new tire. I did have to use the hammer to get the new tire to pop into the 5/8 in bearing. To do this I laid a board over the new tire to protect it before gingerly tapping new tire down onto the bearing.

........now about those wheels not matching. I used to be a slave to perfectionism. I could not love anything that I thought was not perfect. By the great love and mercy of God I have been set free. I particularly love my misfit wheel barrow because it reminds me of how 

God Loves Me.

 I have failed. 

I have made mistakes in my life.

I have been broken.

I have been a misfit.

I am not perfect.

I accept Gods love through Christ Jesus, for me, as a failed, broken, ugly, imperfect, misfit. 

And behold.......

all things are new.

I am a new creature.

May you know this God who makes beautiful things out of the mess of our lives.

May you know The Love that frees us from slavery.

 If you have read this post.

I have prayed for you.

Love, Gwen

A Slice of Snow

What matters?

Very little.

Only................

the flicker of light

within the darkness,

the feeling of warmth

within the cold,

  the knowledge of love

within the void.

from

A Slice of Snow 

joan walsh anglund

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Ezekial Bread Recipe

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Joyful, Joyful,

 We adore Thee,

 God of Glory, Lord of Love.

Hearts unfold like flowers before Thee,

 Hailing Thee the Son above.

Japanese Tree Peony, unknown variety

May you unfold the flower of your heart to the God Who Loves You.

Christian Garden Blog

Consider...

the lilies,

of the field.

They do not toil or spin.

Even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed as one of these.........

A. E. Housman Poem

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now

Is hung with bloom along the bough,

and stands about the woodland ride

Wearing white at Eastertide

Julie Magers

           Now, of my threescore years and ten, 

Twenty will not come again,

And take from seventy springs a score,

It only leaves me fifty more,

And since to look at things in bloom

Fifty springs are little room,

About the woodlands I will go

To see the cherry hung with snow.

National Geo

May you be blessed by the joy of looking at things in bloom!

From, Gwen

Spring Color Combos

Hello Friend~

            Years ago I bought the lovely book by  Rosemary Verey titled Good Planting.  Of course my plantings will never reach the splendor of that Englishwoman and I still dream of a walk dripping with golden laburnum and full of pale mauve Allium aflatunense. However, I came away from the reading of this book with a clear awareness of paying attention to what I plant together. It is the understanding that a plant is more than just a plant. Plants in a garden are part of a larger picture. They are for the most piece not viewed individually but are a component of a larger whole that encompasses color, texture, height, and shape.

     Rosemary Verey says, "It has always seemed to me that the gardener is most closely related to the painter. In some ways his task is more complex, since his palette is composed not only of living colours but also of changing textures, and his canvas is fluid in time- maturing, fading, finally ceasing to exist." What a magical endeavor gardening is; to paint in living colours!

                        Blue and yellow is one of my favorite color combinations.

      This is Kerris jopanica. I know some people do not like the strident school bus yellow flowers but planted with lots of blue grape hyacinth it shines! I actually enjoy this shrubby plant the most in the winter when it reveals its slender, naked, apple green switches

 

This is an now unknown medium yellow tulip. Comes from not keeping good garden notes!

This is a real favorite of mine. A grass that behaves it self and stays in a nice clump. It takes a bit of shade and does not like to be dry. It is a type of woodland grass. Meet the lovely  Hakonechloa macra Aureola.

I just realized the next combo also includes blue. I tend to go for monochromatic color schemes with a touch of blue. I guess I love blue and white as much as I love yellow and white!

These are a white daffodil, Misty Glen, fern tendrils, brunnera Hadspen Cream, and leaucojum Gravetye Giant.

What are some of your favorite spring plant combos?

Thank you for joining me. Today I wish for you the beauty of spring flowers and I wish for you that you know the God that made such beauty. I hope you know he loves you. Oh how he loves you...... Here; He wants to tell you for himself..........  A Love Letter

From, Gwen