摘要 |
A can caddy device for lifting and transporting a refuse container by a motor vehicle. The device includes a horizontally extending hitch bar that is mounted into a standard hitch receiver on a back of the motor vehicle. A vertical track member has a bottom end secured to a distal end of the horizontally extending hitch bar. A vertical slide member has an inner portion which rides within the vertical track member. A winch mechanism on a top end of the vertical track member is for manually raising and lowering the vertical slide member. The winch mechanism includes two coupling gears. A structure on the vertical slide member is for engaging the refuse container. A manual crank handle which removably engages with a T-connector of said winch to manually operated said winch in order to manually raise and lower said vertical slide member which carries the refuse container. Optionally, a motorized winch can be used in replacement of the manual crank handle.
|