What's that thing with wheels that you use to move heavy stuff?

Oh! SE Michigan and NE Ohio both use dolly most frequently, although hand truck and hand cart are both recognized.

I assumed the OP meant one of these …

Picture of a “sack barrow”

AKA Sack Truck (UK)

Useful terminology. I note that much of Upstate New York joins with Northwest Arkansas in using “it.”

In the Andean countries, the hand truck is often attached to a harness to be pulled by the local camelid beasts of burden – but the use of these beasts as harness animals is denounced by the Catholic hierarchy as an incursion of Tibetan Buddhism – they are then, after all, dolly llamas. :wink:

My earlier post was kinda unclear. The dictionary.com definition of dolly lists “hand truck” as a possible definition (unlike m-w.com which restricts “dolly” to the four wheeled platforms). So you can call it a dolly with no worries.

The only defintion for “sack bearer” refers to an East Indian tree. And there’s nothing for “sack barrow” so I guess they’re regionalisms…

Yep, that’s what I call it; a dolly or a hand truck.

When my dad used to run a potato chip route, we always called it a “two-wheeler”.

Hand-truck is the proper term, I think.

I call it a dolly or two wheel dolly.

There are also ones we use at the bookstore for moving books called a V-cart (because they are v shaped and the books sit diagonally on the cart). My old boss would freak out and start throwing things if you called a V cart a dolly. He was crazy, though.

I call it a flux capacitor, to mess with the rental guys. :wink:

I would call it a Hand Barrow,

whereas everone else I know who has used one calls it a Sack Barrow;

it seems to be used for moving large items of luggage or refigerators ratherthan sacks these day…

Once upon a time, when UK railway stations had porters to help you with the luggage, it was called a porter’s trolley.

When taking my mother-in-law to the Doctor’s office I call it my car.

We call it a “wheely cart.” We actually have one, and my husband uses it a lot. He’s that kind of guy.

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It’s called a Lazy Susan.

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That’s what I’ve called them. And the mover’s dolly mentioned above is called a “four-wheeler”.

Hey now! Don’t you be talkin’ 'bout my little cousin like that! Sue ain’t lazy, she “motivationally challenged.”

Dadgone insultin’ kinda folks…grumble, grumble :wink:

Ya’ll are jes’ killin’ me.

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Feast yer eyes…

In the film business, we use these. And we call them either Hand Trucks or Magliners.

A dolly is what the camera rides on, on top of steel rails. :slight_smile:

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Well I went and got me a brand new Hand Truck at the hardware store. It’s bright red. Reminds me of the little red wagon I had when I was a kid.

Camera dollies don’t have to be on tracks, Cartooniverse. Haven’t you ever experienced the joy of jumping on a $14,000 camera and riding it accross the studio like a shopping cart?

[sub]I got in trouble for that[/sub].

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I assumed the OP meant one of these …
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This is more of a sack borrow/truck. It doesn’t look like 1/2 the sack truck used in the feed stores here. I will take a pic tomorrow.
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Also there are new stair runner hand trucks, using a unique 3 wheeled system. The good old ones had belt stair runners, and they were also a braking device.

-cackle-. No, not as I can say I have. I will admit here that I DID trash the engines of brand spankin’ new BMW’s once, in Silvercup Studios. I was a PA, supervising the wrap. Oye, I was so green and stupid. I offered to “help” the grips wrap, and they told me, " See all those Chapman Crane weights we used to put in the foot well of the passenger seat, so the car would lay low in front? Pile them up next to the crane, ok? "

What they neglected to tell me is that they also had piled the crane weights ( lead bars weighing roughly 25 lbs each ) all over the engine compartment, to further assist with that low-nose look for the commercial. They asked if I was done, I eagerly said YEP!, and they checked it off the list.

I got a call the next morning from Production. " Did you do anything besides supervise the wrap?" Uhhhh, yeah, I helped out the grips.

The BMW’s ( 2 cars , different colors ) had been loaded up onto a flatbed trailer for trucking back to New Jersey, to the dealership. Nice bouncy New Jersey highways. Nice bouncy BQE. I didn’t trash one engine. No. I had to exceed all expectations. BOTH engines were damaged beyond repair, and had to be replaced- along with both hoods, which had deforming bumps from the inside. :eek: I mean, shit man.

I’ve moved a camera lots of ways, but not by skating ON it. You’ve got one on me…heh. I did a shot once in Discovery Zone, with the camera on my belly, face up, sliding down the tube slide fast and dumping into the huge pit of colored plastic balls. That was fun.

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