Heavy Duty 3-Shelf Narrow Book Truck Metal Utility Cart School Supply - Black

I just received this item and I am going to provide a breakdown and a few helpful tips. For a TLDR: Good price, especially for the quality. It has a lifetime warranty and appears to be well made. The other options over 200.00 seem overpriced for a non-industrial settings. This is for my private library and allows me to easily remove books for dusting and to clean the shelves. I encourage any with a moderate sized collection to consider this product.1.) Packaging 5/5. The cart was well protected with an outer box, inner box, padding, and plastic wrap. The hardware had bright redtape attached to it, clearly labeled hardware for ease of finding.2.) Shipping 5/5. All of the items arrived undamaged. It is very important when ordering items like this to check that no pieces have been bent or are missing. This order arrived within 2 days and delivered via fedex.3.) Assembly 5/5. Be sure to have a Phillips Head Screwdriver with you, as one is not included. All other tools are included. Going at a very leisurely pace, the assembly time took me approximately 30 minutes. It was fairly easy and I think most could easily so this.4.) Instructions 4/5. This is my only real complaint. There are no written instructions, only visual numbering. The visuals are pretty straight forward but a few questions did arise. They do include a number if needed but with a little common sense, it can be easily figured out. I will include a brief written guide at the end.5.) Quality 5/5. This product has a life time warranty, which shows a company that will stand behind their products. The wheels are very smooth and a good quality rubber. They also screw in the base which is very important. * If you ever receive a product where the wheels are solely in place by the weight of the item, be very cautious. * It appears well made and I will include an image of all the shelves filled.Instructions: After you have determined all of the pieces are present, begin by grabbing the two side panels (labeled A) and your first bar labeled B. Throughout this process, do not fully tighten the bolts attached to B. Take the machined screws (long black ones), feed them through A and lightly screw them into B. The shelves will attach to these bars and to save time, make sure the top bar's screw opening is faced away from you. After that, make sure the lower bar's screw opening is faced towards the ground. This needs to be repeated for each pair.Turn the item over carefully, as it is not fully secured. Screw the wheels into the base and fully tighten with the wrench provided. Ensure that the wheels with brakes are on the same side. Turn the cart upside.With the shelves in hand, insert each with the shortest side facing up. ***Important: you will notice the shelves have a bend for the bars we installed earlier. Attach the bottom part first and carefully allow the top to slide down on the other bar. Be careful of your fingers here as they could get slightly pinched.*** Take the smaller screws and secure the shelves (2 for each shelf). Finally, secure all of bolts by tightening but not too aggressively. This is why I stated to not overtighten at the start, as it would make it hard for the shelves to go into place and make it hard to rotate the bars. I hope that helps!

I purchased this cart for my mother, who has amassed quite a collection of children's books in her bedroom to read to visiting grandkids. I wanted something deep enough for BIG picture books that could hold a significant number of books, be easy for the kids to remove and replace books, be relatively easy for the kids to see all the books, and look reasonably attractive in an otherwise adult and decorated room. This cart fit the bill.STORAGE CAPACITYThere are currently over 220 books on the cart, with room for more. Obviously, picture books come in a variety of widths, from super slim paperbacks to thick board books and hardcover collections. So the exact amount you fit will depend on what you have. I found the easiest way to determine if this cart will work is to measure the width of all your books stacked together. Then compare that to combined length of the shelves (81") to see if there will be enough room.DURABILITYSo far, so good. I see no signs that this fully packed cart is straining under the weight. Should that not prove true, I will update the review. We don't move the cart about much beyond a few inches, so I cannot speak to the sturdiness of the wheels under frequent use. But for infrequent use, they seem very capable.ASSEMBLYFor the most part, very easy and quick. One thing to note - the instructions do not indicate there is any difference in the cross bars, or any particular direction to how they should be put on. That is not true. Look ahead to the final step, where you are screwing the angled shelves onto the cross bars, and you will realize that the direction you put the cross bars is very important for the holes to line up with the holes on the shelves. Honestly, I suspect the shelves will hold together just fine without the screws into the cross bars, as they snap on them perfectly. But if you want everything right and tight - and don't want to have to disassemble and fix the bars - pay careful attention to the screw holes.APPEARANCEBlack metal gives it a very industrial look that is relatively inoffensive in an adult room. I would have preferred a colored metal. But black was the only option and is fine. It definitely does not scream cheap or tacky.EASE OF USEIdeally, kids' book storage would all be with the covers facing out, so kids can easily see all their options. But that would clearly take up too much space with a large collection of books. So this is the next best option. As long as you don't pack the books too tightly or place too tall books on the lower shelves (more on that below), the little kids can easily flip through the books, and remove and return books as they desire.MEASUREMENTS - SHELF DEPTH 11.25"This was the main reason I chose this cart over other carts. Picture books are MUCH deeper than regular hardcover adult books. Most book carts, especially double-sided carts, had shallower shelves, that would have left the books hanging off the sides by over 6 inches. While you can see in my pics that several of the very long, landscape orientated books still hang off the sides, most of the books fit on the shelves quite nicely. At 11.25" deep, it will only be your biggest books that hang over the edge. And even then, not by much.MEASUREMENTS - SHELF LENGTH 27"There is one major caveat to the shelf length. On both sides of all 3 shelves, there is a gap of about 3/4" between the shelf and the side walls. This is not an issue at all for adult hardcover books, but for thin kids books, it is more than enough room for a book to slide through the crack. The simple solution is to make certain that you put a thick book at the ends, so it does not slide through. The round cart rails also block the shelf a little bit at this point too, though, so the book can't be one that surpasses the 11.25" depth of the shelf. All in all, a minor inconvenience at worst.MEASUREMENTS - SHELF HEIGHT 11 3/8" to 12"The lower two shelves are both the same height. The lip of the shelf above each makes the height between the shelves 11 3/8". But once passed the lip, the shelf height becomes roughly 12". You can therefore place taller 12" books on the shelf by tilting them to get them past the top lip. Even taller books by leaving them tilted on the shelf. I find this to be difficult for the kids to master, and unattractive to have leaning books. So I prefer to keep all books over 11 3/8" on the top shelf, which obviously has no height limit.All in all, this is the best storage option I found (and believe me, I looked at EVERYTHING) for trying to store a large number of picture books in a small footprint. I paid $120 plus free shipping on Amazon, which was on the middle end of prices I saw, and definitely on the low end when considering it fit 200 plus books. Many other options could not fit more than 100, or were not deep enough for picture books at all. In a perfect world, I would like this cart to be offered in other colors, to see the gaps closed at the sides, and to have the shelves be just an inch taller and deeper. But this is as close to perfect as exists.

Great price, easy as A-B-C to assemble and perfect for classroom use. Can you imagine having to push or dolley the standard wooden school bookcase? You will need a small screw driver for the back to anchor the three shelves, which can accommodate about 20 books each. It would work well as a Reading Station: Put stuffed Cat in the Hat dolls on the top shelf and books on the others. Attractive, sturdy, and a sensible purchase. Pleased, pleased, pleased.

The shelf was easy to assemble, and does exactly what I need it to do: hold my "teacher" books! It is strong, and I love that the convenient wheels will lock it in place.

Angled shelves reduces things falling off shelves if there is a sharp turn! Sturdy, well constructed! Well constructed and locks on wheels are a plus!

This was just what I needed to put my often-used reference works close to my desk.

If you fill this with books, it will fold like an accordion. It needs cross-bracing welded onto the back side to ensure it doesn't turn into a parallelogram (and fold over) when you pull on either handle to move it. Pretty poor design.

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