Cheap and easy equipment for steers

I have wanted to build a cart for my steers recently, to get them used to driving with a pole. I was tossing around plans in my head when I had a revelation. We already had a basic garden cart. These are pretty common on most farms and homesteads. In fact I do not know what we would do without it. So I simply attached a pole to it. The ease and simplicity amazed me!

Here is a picture of the attachment on the bottom of the cart.

The pole is held in place by two bolts with wing nuts for the ease of taking it off and on.

And here are the boys with a bale of hay!

The pole lifts under the handle that normally takes the weight in the cart so there is very little strain on the cart itself. It is not a heavy hauling type of cart but it certainly will take the couple hundred pounds that the cart is designed to handle. It is great training for the steers and I made it out of stuff I had already. Cheap and easy.