Step2 5A0000 Garden Hopper Mobile Garden Stool and Storage
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Step2 5A0000 Garden Hopper Mobile Garden Stool and Storage
Customer Review: Makes Serious Gardening Possible
Summary: 5 Stars
I have had a Step 2 Garden Hopper for years. I needed a second one for our summer home. (I garden in AZ in the winter.) For those of us who cannot stoop or bend over very long, this hopper is invaluable. Without it, because of my bad back, serious gardening would not be possible. The open storage unit under the seat is a great improvement over the original model, where you had to get out all the tools and carry them around yourself or stand up every time you needed to lift the seat to get out a tool. Almost all low and medium height tasks can be accomplished with this stool. You can also use it indoors. It is also an optimal height, itself, for you to return to a standing position. Sometimes you have to reposition by standing up and moving it using the convenient grooved slot. Often you can just glide along your way on the wheels. It can get away from you, but not with you on it, on hilly ground. This can be accommodated for with care. Actually I highly, highly recommend the stool, even for people who only have infrequent mild discomfort when gardening.Customer Review: Some good features BUT
Summary: 3 Stars
This thing is amazingly lightweight, yet incredibly strong. For us old geezers, it's built a bit low to the ground and doesn't move well over grass or dirt when you're sitting on it (if your garden is cement ... never mind).My two major comments are that my five year old loves the thing to ride around on. He also loves it because, despite the lid being closed, if you leave it out in the rain or snow, it fills with water. thus imitating those little naked cherubs in the fountains when he rides the front wheels over the edge of the sidewalk. Tinkle like a race horse, indeed! But, very funny in a juvenile sense of humor.
So, if you place things inside the Garden Hopper, they will get wet and rusted if metal and ruined if leather (like garden gloves, say). Several items made by Step 2 for kids have better waterproof lids. Just watch at bath time. Wrong engineering for the wrong products, maybe?
I'd look around for better designed products or "always store your stuff out of the rain" as my dad would say.
John Row
Customer Review: Does the job--keeps my knees out of the dirt....
Summary: 3 Stars
I have a hard time kneeling in the dirt for extended time periods. Hard to get old, I guess. My mom had one of the little garden stools years ago. Don't know what happened to it, so I got this one. It does keep my knees off out of the dirt, but I was disappointed in a couple of things.
It works great when weeding in grassy areas, but the tires just don't get traction on cement. I have a couple of flower beds in my front yard, where we have sidewalks. Can't use this thing there, as the cart just takes off from under me when it's on concrete. This happens when I lean forward. So this has become my backyard stool.
It's easy for your handtools to fall out of the storage compartment. It's shallow, so my trimmers won't stay in it when I pick up the stool. Also, the seat doesn't lift up to place utensils in the compartment, so you have to put them in from the side, and that's just a tad awkward.
On the positive side, the stool is lightweight--easy to move. It's like a lttle Tikes toy, cute.
Customer Review: Handy Garden Stool on Wheels - Lightweight and Easy To Carry
Summary: 5 Stars
I have one of these to use in the front yard where there are concrete paths. I roll it along as I pull weeds or do other chores in the garden. The fact that there is a rather clumsy storage area doesn't bother me too much, because the advantage is, you can pick up this stool and toss it around easily. You wouldn't be able to do that if the top opened. There's room for snacks, drinks, sunglasses, gardening gloves, a trowel, etc.
I also have one that does open and acts as a pull-cart. That one does get more use as I pile bags of mulch on it and drag it around the yard.
Both have their purpose. The Hopper Mobile Garden Stool is solid. I'm glad I have it.
EDITED to say that I've thought of two more uses for it.
1. You could toss it in the trunk of your car and easily take it with you to use as a chair.
2. Convince the children that it's a self-propelled 'car' and let them get some exercise. :)
Customer Review: If you garden from a cart, this is the best one.
Summary: 4 Stars
I have poor knees but almost an acre of gardens to tend and I do it all from a "sitting cart" as I can not kneel comfortably. I have owned them all - the big metal tractor seat one (too heavy/unruly to manover), the green and brown "box on wheels" one with the beige top (seat eventually collapses, no support under it). I have found this one best - sturdy, small enough to get through tight paths, yet big (and sturdy) enough to seat my "large framed (smile)" self on. My one complaint is the design does not provide an edge or hand hold to grab onto when you want to propell yourself forward to the next spot, so the scooting is not so easy. It lost a star there, but as I said I am happiest with this cart, having tried them all. A drainage hole in the storage area would have been a good idea too.