Tree branch wheelbarrow revisited. Some more tips on construction.
Select branches 50-60mm diameter. that are around 1 metre long.
Steps
Step 1
Looking at a previous tree branch wheel barrow, the front was too shallow to take potted colour.
Here tomato stakes are used as a template for the branches. Lay the branches in an interleaved pattern. A spade bit was used to drill holes through the branches at the end.
Bottom slats on.
Trimming.
A wheel, without a hub that was made last time lasted seven years.
A wheel, with a housing joint in the middle. Diagonals on the remaining four. Long fasteners are used, to hold the wheel together. To get the wheel to spin true, I used a drill press, and drilled relative to the outside of the wheel, not the axle.
Step 2
Step 3
Wheel finished. The axle and rods are either 300 or 400mm bolts. Done
Another picture of it finished.
With the barrow part lower to the ground.
Old fashioned ones had the barrow closer. I could have had the handles as extensions of the top slats, however having Hanford ti the wheel axle looks fine as well.
