Golf Cart Tugs

Tom S. wrote:
"Ashton" wrote in message
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Does anyone have any experience towing their airplane with a golf cart?

I'm

thinking about mounting a ball on the front of a golf cart to move my
Bonanza in and out of the hangar.


I doubt a golf cart has enough power (400 lbs of people and 70 lbs of golf
clubs and 6 gallons of beer is their limit),

That's the limit as to what it can carry. An electric golf cart will
have no problem moving a fully loaded Bonanza.

I am using a Jacobson lawn tractor with a 17 horse engine to move my J35
Bonanza with a two inch rise in the hanger floor.

"Vaughn Wilson" wrote in message
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I am using a Jacobson lawn tractor with a 17 horse engine to move my J35
Bonanza with a two inch rise in the hanger floor.

And when you're done, you can mow the taxi way infield.:~)

"Ashton" wrote in message
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Does anyone have any experience towing their airplane with a golf cart? I'm
thinking about mounting a ball on the front of a golf cart to move my
Bonanza in and out of the hangar.

Never tried it with a Bonanza, but I have towed gliders over miles of rough
grass runways with both gas and electric golf carts, often at the same time the
cart is packed with pax. No problem.

Vaughn

I live at Pecan Plantation, in Texas. We use both planes & carts for
transportation.

No one here, among eight households, uses a cart to tow.

I did try it once with my aging gas-driven cart, scared the bejesus
out of myself: it had the power, but not the finesse, needed to slowly
inch backward, up my ramp and into the hangar.

Ever cheap-minded, I've been pulling it in with a retired
hydrostatic-drive lawn tractor, sans mowing deck. But, it is a
space-hog.

Everyone else suffers the eleventy-hundred dollar price of one of
those lil' two-wheel tugs that leaves marks all over the ramp and
painted floor.





On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 07:05:11 -0700, "Ashton"
wrote:

Does anyone have any experience towing their airplane with a golf cart? I'm
thinking about mounting a ball on the front of a golf cart to move my
Bonanza in and out of the hangar.

Many thanks.

Ashton

I live at Pecan Plantation, in Texas. We use both planes & carts for
transportation.

No one here, among eight households, uses a cart to tow.

I did try it once with my aging gas-driven cart, scared the bejesus
out of myself: it had the power, but not the finesse, needed to slowly
inch backward, up my ramp and into the hangar.

Ever cheap-minded, I've been pulling it in with a retired
hydrostatic-drive lawn tractor, sans mowing deck. But, it is a
space-hog.

Everyone else suffers the eleventy-hundred dollar price of one of
those lil' two-wheel tugs that leaves marks all over the ramp and
painted floor.





On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 07:05:11 -0700, "Ashton"
wrote:

Does anyone have any experience towing their airplane with a golf cart? I'm
thinking about mounting a ball on the front of a golf cart to move my
Bonanza in and out of the hangar.

Many thanks.

Ashton