Patent ID: 7210590

Claim:
A transportation cart for lifting a dead animal or other object comprising: a cart frame; at least three ground wheels for stably carrying the frame for movement over a ground surface; at least one of the wheels being steerable for steering the cart to a required location; the frame and said at least one of the round wheels being arranged for the movement and the steering to be operated by an a operator walking with the frame; a lifting mechanism on the frame for lifting the animal or other object from the ground to a raised position; the lifting mechanism comprising a lift support base mounted on the cart frame for rotational movement about a vertical axis through at least 180 degrees from one side of the cart frame to the other side of the cart frame so as to allow lifting from a position at said one side of the cart frame from a central position on the cart frame and from a position at said other side of the cart frame; the lifting mechanism comprising a generally upstanding mast mounted on the support base so as to stand upwardly therefrom and a boom having an inner end mounted on the mast for pivotal movement about a transverse axis such that an outer end of the boom can be raised and lowered; the lifting mechanism including a winch having a cable extending to the outer end of the boom so as to depend therefrom for lifting the animal or object from the outer end of the boom; the boom being movable from a lowered position extending outward from the frame to a raised position standing substantially vertically upwardly from the mast such that the animal or object when suspended from the outer end of the boom lies along one side of the boom and along one side of the mast so as to be stably carried over the cart frame.