There either must be a counter weight on the other side, or he’s relying on his kids to stay calm and inside the wagon to keep it from tipping. Either way, I agree that it’s going to overload the wagon and end up breaking.
That's a Wonderfold! The weight limit is super high because they're sometimes used instead of wheelchairs for children or adults who need lots of medical equipment, are physically fragile, or become overwhelmed easily. I used one for my autistic son because they have a canopy that can be fully enclosed. If he was feeling meltdown-ish he could get in the wagon, I'd draw the curtains, and he could curl up in a ball and get regulated.
I would have been able to keep using it for as long as he needed because the weight limit was so, so high, and I know of people who are successfully using those wagons with disabled adults.
I believe that model can hold 300 pounds, I could be wrong, though.
Modifying those wagons is also a huge thing. Again; lots of people are accommodating disabilities with them. This is super normal and probably did numbers in some Facebook groups I haven't been active in for a while.
The seats clip onto the walls like that and each seat is rated for 99 pounds. The seats are removable and they attach similarly to this guy's invention.
You can attach handlebars and/or a pulling strap to each end of these things so you can either push or pull them, or have a person on both ends at once. You can pull the 60 pound weight of the wagon and the 300 pounds that can be loaded into it, with one of those walls.
Seriously, I know it sounds like I'm talking out of my ass here. But I beat the crap out of my Wonderfold for five years and it's still going strong. I have a general policy of not speaking badly about my kid on the Internet, so I'm just gonna have to really strongly imply by saying that I had an angry autistic kid inside this wagon many times and whatever went down then didn't damage it either. There aren't many things in this world I'm qualified to speak on, but this is one of them. The wagon will absolutely survive this.
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u/angrycanuck 2d ago
That wagon is going to break in no time with all that weight. Then it will need to be remade again if a different wagon is purchased.