I think when you find a great product that fills a need for a good price you should tell other people about it. It’s the great American, capitalist way.
Guitar players, and I am sure musicians in general, tend to have a lot of “stuff” we accumulate that needs to be carried around and hauled to gigs and band practices. For years I could never seem to find a solution that I was completely happy with. I have tried carrying all of my stuff….but my body tends to rebel after a while. I am sure everything I own is becoming heavier every year. Maybe it has something to do with the pending Earth magnetic reversal? I have tried employing slave labor, but that bothers my conscience. I have tried luggage carts, and while that has worked okay most luggage carts are just not the grade of industrial strength that guitarists want and need. This became readily apparent when I upgraded to a larger bass amp – the very fine Gallien-Krueger “Neo” series, while light by bass amp standards was still too big for my little luggage cart. Dang it – back to the brawny method. Uh-oh, then the back says, “OK bud, you do that to me, let me show you what I can do to you.” Next option: Enter the Home Depot super duper refrigerator mover complete with pneumatic tires, shocks and overdrive. Tim Taylor would be so proud….ooo, ooo. I was sure this was a great, manly solution, but then I realized the Home Depot cart felt like it weighed almost as much as my amplifier. Besides, it barely fit inside my trunk and once I did fit it in, half the time I could not remember how to get it back out….it was that tight. So, after centuries of toiling under the most unbelievable burdens, the people were finally set free. One night while strolling through the King’s storehouse (Costco), little Christopher spied the most ingenious of devices:
The MAGNA CART! Christopher knew salvation had arrived. 
I bought myself one of these and used it last night to haul my gear to band practice. The cart weighs under 10 pounds and it collapses down to around an inch or two thick – small enough to lay flat in an aircraft overhead compartment. You can open it up with one hand an a foot….the tounge and wheels fold out and the telescoping handle slides up to about 3 feet high. Here is the real beauty of it: It held my GK Neo 112 bass amp (which weighs around 70 lbs), plus my gear bag (which weighs around 20 lbs) and music stand and it had capacity to spare. It is rated at 150 lbs. My guitar gig bag went on my back and I was off pulling all of that with only one hand. If you have been looking for a similar low-cost, light-weight gear hauling solution, I recommend you buy a Magna Cart.
Check this out:
Available at Costco or online at Amazon.com
The Little Known Ways to Prevent Musician Back Strain by Chris Hartzog, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States License.
