Innovative Ideas and Inventions from the PAST

Wheelbarrow Converted to "Sled" for Winter Use - 1940

The difficulty of pushing a wheelbarrow over frozen ground or ground covered with snow can be a avoided by fitting it with a runner of the type shown. This is nothing more than a barrel stave fitted with a box made of blocks to take the wheel. The runner is attached instantly by merely lifting the wheel into the box.

Originally published in Popular Mechanics Magazine - December 1940 - Copyright 1940, by Popular Mechanics Co. in the United States, Australia and France. All commercial use and rights to use as prescribed by U.S. Copyright law.