The best barrow is....

[slowworm]

sorry for going off-topic, but where's that?!

A quick image search says: Windmill Hill, Avebury, Wiltshire

Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeology

Learn more about Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeology at the places in our care, from prehistoric barrows in Shropshire to caves in the Peak District.

www.nationaltrust.org.uk

 

[forrestdweller]

thanks for the offer, but shipping and import to Costa Rica would probably cost more than opening a wheelbarrow factory... :-(

 

[forrestdweller]

Just in case you were wondering WHAT it was as well as where it was:

Sorry I cannot locate this mount for you but it is a prehistoric burial mound called a Barrow.

maybe not exactly prehistoric, but i've seen plenty of those in Gyeongju (korean peninsula), which was once the capital of the Silla kingdom. (i don't speak korean apart from a few words, but once watched a documentary about similarities between the Silla culture and the Scythians, who also used those burial mounds...)

the area where i grew up (northern Saxony) had also a few of those...

sorry for my off-topic rant...

 

[HillBill]

maybe not exactly prehistoric, but i've seen plenty of those in Gyeongju (korean peninsula), which was once the capital of the Silla kingdom. (i don't speak korean apart from a few words, but once watched a documentary about similarities between the Silla culture and the Scythians, who also used those burial mounds...)

the area where i grew up (northern Saxony) had also a few of those...

sorry for my off-topic rant...

I'd hardly call that a rant. Thought you were in Japan? (last time i looked at your profile anyway). How you end up in Costa Rica?

 

[Keith_Beef]

So many times I've been up at the stables when one of the girls has loaded up the barrow with muck and straw so high that she can't see where she's going, so I walk alongside telling her to go left or right and when to stop...

It would be easier if the barrow was longer and a bit wider, like the hand cart that a fruit and veg merchant used to bring to the corner of Roselle Street, where my grandmother would take me to buy potatoes and onions for the week when I was a small boy.

 

[Keith_Beef]

Duplicated post.

 

[Stew]

I remember my grandad having a metal extension for one of his wheelbarrows that did exactly this...

Yep, I've either had one or my Dad did. It was definitely handy - I should get another!

 

[Stew]

One thing I think is handy and that I want to explore more for a wheelbarrow is where the wheels are located.

I have a large truck at work that we call the tippy truck. It's used every day for carrying a large quantity of bin bags and any time a contractor is in that needs to move things around, they like to use it. It has two wheels but in the centre.
It's pretty similar to this but bigger:

Hinged Two Handle Balance Trolley | SHS Handling Solutions

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It's great because it takes all the weight on the wheels as long as you keep it balanced, whereas with a standard barrow with it's front wheel you can end up with orangutan arms.
There are versions with an extra wheel front and back and I've thought it it would be handy for those times it's unbalanced.

The henchman you have looks like it could work in a similar way as it's got a good size to the front of the tub.

 

[British Red]

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The henchman you have looks like it could work in a similar way as it's got a good size to the front of the tub.

It does. Not completely balanced but close

 

[Pattree]

It’s a damn site harder to push a barrow while bearing down on it than while lifting it. On soft ground I’ll take pushing a second order lever barrow over a first order cart any time.

 

[Nice65]

The original ball Barrow (with ball) did exactly that but unless you were clearing bedding or leaves etc it became very heavy to push or pull. It was also made of plastic and prone to damage.
It went the way of all sunlit plastic.

That was an early Dyson invention. We had one with the extension, but the ball didn’t have bearings, it was just nylon on a steel shaft as I remember. The same sort of thing in steel with decent bearings and you’d have a winner.

 

[forrestdweller]

I'd hardly call that a rant. Thought you were in Japan? (last time i looked at your profile anyway). How you end up in Costa Rica?

well... i was in Japan but sadly had to move on as immigration didn't renew my work visa :-( .... how i ended up in costa rica afterwards is a long story but it was back then the only option available....

 

[Keith_Beef]

One thing I think is handy and that I want to explore more for a wheelbarrow is where the wheels are located.

I have a large truck at work that we call the tippy truck. It's used every day for carrying a large quantity of bin bags and any time a contractor is in that needs to move things around, they like to use it. It has two wheels but in the centre.
It's pretty similar to this but bigger:

Hinged Two Handle Balance Trolley | SHS Handling Solutions

Buy Hinged Two Handle Balance Trolley online from SHS Handling Solutions. Contact us today on 0800 619 0800 for more information.

www.shshandlingsolutions.com

It's great because it takes all the weight on the wheels as long as you keep it balanced, whereas with a standard barrow with it's front wheel you can end up with orangutan arms.
There are versions with an extra wheel front and back and I've thought it it would be handy for those times it's unbalanced.

The henchman you have looks like it could work in a similar way as it's got a good size to the front of the tub.

A garden centre near me has both of those types of trolley, and I agree that they are quite easy to push around on flat, even paths, even when loaded up with 150kg of stuff.

 

[British Red]

Thought the barrow afficianados might enjoy this. Wooden barrow nearest but does anyone recognise the far item?

Pig cratch & barrow by English Countrylife, on Flickr

 

[Seagull]

looks like you've included meta data
Ceeg

 

[Keith_Beef]

Thought the barrow afficianados might enjoy this. Wooden barrow nearest but does anyone recognise the far item?

Pig cratch & barrow by English Countrylife, on Flickr

Since you labelled it as a "pig cratch", I had to go looking... https://www.darlingtonandstocktonti...dure-melted-clip-board-health-safety-officer/

Otherwise, I would have thought it was some kind of hand cart for use in a warehouse, market or railway station, so that one person could push it around or could ask a second person to help for a minute to lift it up or down a few steps.

 

[British Red]

Since you labelled it as a "pig cratch", I had to go looking... https://www.darlingtonandstocktonti...dure-melted-clip-board-health-safety-officer/

Otherwise, I would have thought it was some kind of hand cart for use in a warehouse, market or railway station, so that one person could push it around or could ask a second person to help for a minute to lift it up or down a few steps.

Yeah I realized I'd left the label. Great item & now residing in the grounds of a fellow rural history enthusiast

 

[Falstaff]

Might be a silly question, as its not something i'm familiar with. But cant you get non solid puncture resistant (ish) tyres for them? Rubber and filled with air, but compartmentalised? So if one part gets a hole, it makes little difference in the short term?

B&Q sell a yellow replacement solid plastic wheel that is quite hard, not as soft as a tyred version.

The old wooden Orchard/farm barrows had raised sides to carry a bigger heap, a lower front for ease of tipping out, and either no board, or a removable board, at the back - to make it easier to throw a shovelfull in between the handles.
Surely it cannot be hard for ardent bushcrafters to make extra-height raised sides out of say ply or a plank, with metal bar straps either side to hold/bolt thru the metal wheelbarrow?

 

[Pattree]

If you are barrowing nothing more than fallen leaves you can make an extension out of wire netting.

 

[Broch]

I just use a dumpy bag.