Show Us What You Are Hauling in Your Wheelbarrow

Inspired by the awesome Show Us What You Are Hauling On Your Bike thread, I thought I'd start one about showing off what you've hauled in a wheelbarrow.

I don't have a bike cart, or a trailer, or a go-kart, or a truck. I just have a wheelbarrow. But, I've often been surprised by just what I can haul in the thing!

My favorite thing to haul in a wheelbarrow is bramble cuttings. I have a lot of salmonberry canes. And I've found that if I make a kind of bed of small branches in the bottom of my wheelbarrow, I can then stick in an amazing amount of canes vertically, especially if I go at various angles. It's half like weaving and half like putting flowers in an arrangement. In the end, it's rather stable and actually comes out in one big clump. And, it doesn't take much time, because you're already handling the bramble, so you just shove it in there as you prune, and then wheel the whole mass away! I've even loaded up my wheelbarrow like this, and then wheeled it half a mile down the road to give to my neighbors goats. No gasoline required!

Not even my biggest haul of salmonberry canes, but it started to rain

Bramble with the leaves on. The pile is as tall as me, but I could still fit a lot more in there, and taller, too!

Share pictures of the things YOU'VE managed to haul in your wheelbarrow!

I don't have a picture of it but I think the most "different" thing I have transported in a wheelbarrow was a replacement gas tank, The car was dead and the shop was 1km away and the tank weighs 24kg when full and 13kg when empty. I used our 4 wheeled wheelbarrow for that job, it's heavier to pull but you don't need to hold it up and it's easier for long straight lines and navigating railway tracks!

I can see I take very few photos of the wheelbarrow I can only find one in about 5 and it's having a rest in 2 of those.

Nicole Alderman wrote:
My favorite thing to haul in a wheelbarrow is bramble cuttings. I have a lot of salmonberry canes. And I've found that if I make a kind of bed of small branches in the bottom of my wheelbarrow, I can then stick in an amazing amount of canes vertically, especially if I go at various angles. It's half like weaving and half like putting flowers in an arrangement. In the end, it's rather stable and actually comes out in one big clump. And, it doesn't take much time, because you're already handling the bramble, so you just shove it in there as you prune, and then wheel the whole mass away! I've even loaded up my wheelbarrow like this, and then wheeled it half a mile down the road to give to my neighbors goats. No gasoline required!

You just changed how I'm going to transport blackberry canes next time! I've been working on cutting back a large wild patch that doesn't produce well (full sun and dry soil), and it was taking multiple trips because I was trying to lay all of the canes horizontal. It could only go so high before getting top heavy and wanting to topple out.

I use my wheelbarrow all year round to move stuff around the tree field. It's easy to manouver on soft ground. Certainly no trouble to move downhill even well loaded and not too bad uphill as long as I remember to front load the weight over the wheel. I move mulching material in summer, tools to work places, logs ready to stack away having been stored in my little woodshelters for a season in the tree field, stacks of turf when making larger 'lazy beds' (double digging), stones and soil when landscaping and building, cement and blocks during construction work.

winter wheelbarrow

summer wheelbarrow (you can just see the handles sticking out at the right!)

If you rest mine on it's handles it makes an acceptable seat to rest in too.

others having the same idea

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Sometimes, dogs!

My son bought the place next door and needed to borrow a spare bed to sleep in while he commenced renovations. I lent him one, but told him he'd have to get it there himself.

This was his solution...

He also uses it as an outdoor rocking chair...

Chicken waterer. I wanted to use the poultry nipples, but 4 on the bottom of a bucket wasn't enough, and I didn't want to lug around the water whenever I moved them. So I used an old wheelbarrow that was broken, took the top off, built a little frame to hold the bucket, and plumbed in 4 nipples on each side. Then I could just pick up the handles and move it to the new spot.

Much mulch!

a load of scythed hay for mulching

I'm using my wheelbarrow to move biochar, woodchips, and chicken litter!

Biochar in a Wheelbarrow

Woodchips and a Wheelbarrow

Chicken Litter in a Wheelbarrow