Sunday, November 2, 2014

Yardstick wheelbarrow

I saw a wheelbarrow made with yardsticks at Whistlestop quilt retreat last year.  I thought it was so cute and had to have one but couldn’t find one.  I decided it wouldn’t be that hard to make.

Me to Geff  “Would you mind helping me with a little project that just needs a few cuts with the saw?”      I’m just saying, he should have known by now not to fall for it...
  
Yardstick Wheelbarrow




I had a set of “plans”  (i.e., a picture of a wheelbarrow), a bunch of yardsticks, cedar planks from my brothers sawmill and my grandmothers butter churn lid. 

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Geff did a really great job with it.  He even thought of using a wooden pin thru a dowel to make the wheel assembly.  It rolls around just like a real wheelbarrow.  The wheel is an old churn lid from my grandmothers.  The pencil mark on the edge of the wheel has probably been on there for 80 years. 

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I like the look of the bark on the top so we left it rough. 

Yardstick Wheelbarrow

He’s smiling because it’s almost done, just adding the yardstick veneer. 

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I’ll put waterproofing on it next weekend.  

Yardstick Wheelbarrow

Funny thing, I saw a picture from Whistlestop and I had forgotten that the original wheelbarrow was so small it sits on a shelf.  In my mind, I had built it up to planter size.   Shhhh - Don’t tell Geff. 

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