I think somewhere I have a picture of my grandfather A.L. Parker (1865-1941) using this when he was building the house. I assume one of my uncles, a blacksmith, made it for him. When I started moving dirt this morning there was a lot of squealing, so I took the wheel off and greased it. It's probably the first time anybody's done that in seventy years. I put the wheel back on with modern high tech, replacing the traditional bent nail with an actual cotter pin.
We had several of those in the railroad shop I used to work in. They had been made by the company smithy decades prior to my arrival.
It really is the squeaky wheel that gets the grease. Maybe someone will have catalog info or even a patent drawing of it.
Rich
When I was a boy, My dad had one like that but with wooden handles. One day he broke one side and found an old wooden bedstead in the garage to replace it. Nice turned piece with a finial for a hand grip. He wasn't cheap either just frugal!
My dad always referred to them as an "Irishman's Chariot." Likely due to the Irish being a source of cheap labor in early days of US expansion.
My late Dad called that an Irish baby buggy. Dunno why.
My uncle wanted me to come over and drive his one wheeled truck, I caught onto that one real fast even as a kid.
An Irish job promotion...a larger wheelbarrow
When I was about 5 or 6, my grandfather had a wooden wheelbarrow that he had made himself. Something prompted him at some point to make a miniature version for me. His was red (all of his tool handles, etc. were red), so mine was also red. I may have a picture somewhere. I'll see if I can find it.
Steve if some one on the site can convert that pic to black and white (or Sepia) you could pass it off as a much older photo! As to being OT: there are similarities to your non-Ford unit that relate: It has struts going to the body, It has a kind of wish bone handle and the "physical planetary" has all the correct speeds. Very slow, not quite as slow, neutral & reverse.
Art, you could probably sell that on ebay.
Maybe but . . .
Truth in advertising would require “Circa 2012”
And then there’s the copy write problems <@^@>
I have that exact same frame in the "pile" behind the shop.Just arranged to get a wheel that has been in the woods on the nieghbors land since ww2.so I will be putting them together at some point.
Art,can you change his gloves,I dont think they are period correct.
No one will notice the gloves Mack, with the great ‘main’ subject matter.
You just don’t see many old wheel barrows any more –
Just kidding Steve, you were all right too.
And great idea for a photo!
Regards
Art
Git away from that wheelbarrow Steve, you don't know nothin 'bout machinery!
I'll download the manual.