Before you specify
Frequently Asked Questions
How much can it actually carry?
HSM rates the cart at 175 US gallons of volume and up to 600 lb (about 272 kg) of documents. In practice the weight rating is reached before the volume rating if the paper is stacked flat and the cart is filled to the brim, so treat 600 lb as the real limit. That is roughly the confidential paper output of a mid-sized office over a month, or a single purge of one records room.
Can one person move it when it is loaded?
On level hard flooring, yes — that is the point of the four braked six-inch rubber wheels rather than the two-wheel tip-and-pull design used on HSM's 32, 65 and 95 gallon carts. On carpet or a ramp, a fully loaded cart at 600 lb needs two people and a plan. Always set the wheel brakes before loading or unloading, particularly on any floor that is not dead level.
Will it fit down a normal corridor and into a lift?
It is 47.75 inches wide and 30.5 inches deep, and it is pushed with the 30.5 inch face leading, which is how HSM can describe it as a narrow body for small hallways. That clears most corridors and standard double doors. What needs checking is the lift: at 48 inches tall and 47.75 inches long, plus a loaded weight approaching 700 lb including the cart itself, some older passenger lifts are marginal on both footprint and load.
Why does it have two hasps instead of one?
Two hasps let you fit two padlocks under separate control. Where a chain-of-custody procedure requires that no single person can open a container alone — common in legal, medical records and government work — you issue one key to facilities and one to the records officer, and the cart cannot be opened without both. If you do not need that, one padlock through either hasp is perfectly adequate.
Is it worth it over the 95-gallon cart?
It depends entirely on who moves it. The 95-gallon cart (1070070190) holds a little over half as much and runs on two wheels, so it has to be tipped and pulled. This cart runs on four braked wheels and is pushed. For a facilities team doing a scheduled round of a large building, or for a shredding contractor swapping containers, the four-wheel cart is far less physical work per pound of paper. For a single department that empties its own bin, it is much more container than the job needs.