How to Make a Nifty Wheelbarrow.
—This is a cute wheelbarrow and will tickle any little choptie ’most half to death and you can make it in no time.
Get two sticks of wood ³⁄₄ inch square and 24 inches long and round off one end of each one about 3 inches down for the handle. Next bore ¹⁄₂ inch holes half way through in the other ends of the sticks 4 inches back for the axle; bore two more ¹⁄₂ inch holes 6¹⁄₄ inches back of the first two, and finally 5³⁄₄ inches back of the last ones bore two more ¹⁄₂ inch holes, as shown at [A in Fig. 99].
This done cut off four sticks ¹⁄₂ an inch in diameter—or ³⁄₄ inch square ones will do—and make one of them 4¹⁄₂ inches long; the next one 6³⁄₈ inches long, the third 8 inches long, and the last one 10¹⁄₂ inches long.
Out of a board 1 inch thick saw a wheel 5 inches in diameter and bore a hole in its center ¹⁄₂ an inch in diameter. Smear some glue on the middle of the shortest stick and slip the wheel on it so that it is exactly in the middle.
Make the body, that is the box, of the barrow of wood ¹⁄₄ inch thick and have it 4¹⁄₄ inches wide at one end, 6¹⁄₄ inches wide at the other end, 5 inches high and 7 inches long. Through the middle, but a little toward the back and near the upper edge, bore two holes a shade larger than ¹⁄₂ an inch in diameter and slip the third longest stick through the holes in the body; drive a brad through the stick on each side of the body to keep the latter from slipping from side to side, but it must swing easily on the stick.
A—TOP VIEW OF WHEELBARROW
B—SIDE VIEW