On a waste disposal tour with the ladder trolley and children
13.11.2017
Translation: machine translated
In addition to my work as a designer at Digitec Galaxus, I am also a father and, I suppose, a relatively good host. Having children means that you get to spend time with them after employees. At the same time, many parties produce a lot of waste glass. And that's where the Pinolino Til handcart comes into play, which I was asked to test.
Every beautiful thing also has by-products: Children shit in nappies and guests unfortunately don't take the empty bottles of wine home with them. Unless you have some kind of deal with them. But that's probably the case for very few people. Disposing of nappies is relatively easy. The only risk is carrying the heavy Züri bag out without the blue ribbon tearing and the contents spilling all over the stairwell. Wine bottles and other emptied glass containers should be disposed of at the used glass collection point if you are ecologically minded.
And when do you do this? Exactly, at the weekend. And what do you have at the weekend? Exactly, children who get up at 6 a.m. sharp, want to have breakfast straight away and then do something immediately. In order to bring at least a little efficiency into the whole thing, I yawningly combine children's wishes and household chores. The test handcart should help with that.
So I get to put the Pinolino Til (with brakes) through its paces. I load up the pram with all kinds of glassy waste. I notice that the capacity of the beautiful pram is rather small. The kids will have to walk. I can just about squeeze my two-year-old daughter between two paper bags filled with glass bottles and think of the KESB. It would have been a good picture, but unfortunately I couldn't take it because of my daughter's tantrum.
So I set off to the Hagenholz waste disposal centre with bag and baggage (and the little ones, they're not a pack). As I carry two grumbling children with me, I realise that the trolley is made for very small people or children. Not for adults on waste disposal walks. I have to keep my arms really long and loose so that I don't pull the trolley up with every step. Nevertheless, the front axle hits my heels every three metres and I wonder why I didn't load up my flatmate's car.
We arrive at the containers with a bang. I unload all the bags and put the children in the car so that they don't get the idea of playing with the broken glass around the containers. (KESB and all that. As if my mum would have ever cared back then...)
My loaded kids are happy in the handcart and even patient enough to wait until I've thrown everything in. In this respect, the thing is practical.
With renewed courage, I seize the opportunity and go shopping straight away. The kids in the pram. There's not much room, the four-year-old sits facing the direction of travel and his little sister sits behind him. Of course, this is only after a five-minute repositioning of the demanding passengers.
I curse quietly to myself and get annoyed at my aesthetic demands. After all, I could have tested a folding, much lighter handcart. But it was unacceptable in terms of appearance.
Whining is no use now and I'm off to the nearest major food source.
The bottom line is that I'm three times as fast as usual because my lazy son is enjoying the ride and the little one likes everything the big one likes anyway. The "I'll sit on the floor and do whatever I want" situation is a thing of the past thanks to the handcart. I scurry through the shop, throw new wine into the vehicle and am home quicker than I ever thought I would be.
Conclusion
I think the trolley could have been built a little bigger. At least the bar used to pull the trolley. The weight is also quite heavy. The wood is high quality, the edges are rounded and the whole thing is quite sturdy. The wheels turn cleanly and smoothly and the brakes also work well. So good, in fact, that I threw my daughter out of the pram during an emergency stop. Her comment: "Again! Again! Again! "
For children: everything done right. For parents: buy the ugly, different thing from Pinolino, you can even fold it up.
One more thing: the whole thing was put together by my favourite, I have two left hands. I can draw for that. <p
Julian Stauffer
Team Leader Creation
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