Talk:Wheelbarrow

message: It was in America that the design was reversed with the wheel moving from the centre to the front of the box and the motive power to the rear.  Modern wheelbarrows are often misspelled wheel barrels. (RJP 14:14, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Should this article be on an disambig page or a redirect to this for Wheel Barrel since that is what is, although incorrect, most commonly called. FuzionZero 18:02, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Is there a source for this?

message: where does this information come from? (taxation leeds to design of wheelbarrows) 
to the best of my knowledge there is no documetary or archelogical evidence for the existance of roman wheel barrows 
85.126.196.34 11:42, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  source for roman empire wheebarrows? 

message: I just greatly expanded the section on ancient China.--PericlesofAthens 02:05, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: China

message: Seems like they invented everyhting. Must have invented fire and light, too. CJ DUB 01:49, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Funny joke except you cant invent fire or light. Those are naturally occuring things and are discovered, not invented. FuzionZero 18:04, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Everything? Not a chance. The flurry of Chinese inventiveness can be seen in the Warring States, Han, Tang, and Song eras, but this does not measure up to the modern industrialized West since the 18th century.--Pericles of AthensTalk 01:16, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: In any case, a talk page is to be used for discussion on improving the article, so that is my final 2 cents on the matter.--Pericles of AthensTalk 01:17, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  China invented everything 

message: Many would  spell  it as  wheel_barrow,  wheeled_barrow,  wheel-barrow,  wheeled-barrow, as well as the misspelling[s] like   wheel_barrel, & its variations [including  barrel|barrel_%28disambiguation%29.].
*  Please note  wheel-barrowing, to  topple  an  airplane.
This should link  wheel,  barrow,  wiktionary : barrow  [gravemound].
Thank You,
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thread_title:  Please note [[ wheel-barrowing]], to [[ topple ]] an [[ airplane]]. 

message: There isn't a picture nor info of good, large modern wheelbarrows, such as the Vabor l400/lg230, ... See this site. Please include.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.245.176.27 (talk) 11:15, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  2 wheeled, large wheelbarrows 

message: Anna Frodesiak (talk) 13:34, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The page is verging on cluttered with images already. You could make a gallery on Commons in addition to the raw category, with a link from the page?--Charles (talk) 14:43, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Not a bad idea. It would be great to bump an image for this one. After all, the man in this picture is only 9 inches tall!  Anna Frodesiak (talk) 16:38, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please help place this 

message: A text from the 5th century noted that the mechanical advantage of the wooden ox was so that a wheelbarrow driver could bring a load over a distance of 6m equally fast as a person without a wheel barrow over 1,8m. Reference: The Seventy Great Inventions of the Ancient World by Brian M. Fagan. Thus the mechanical advantage would be 3,33x.
Add in article.
91.182.54.133 (talk) 14:24, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Mechanical advantage

message: One of the small differences I noticed when moving from the UK to the US is that the wheelbarrows in the US are almost always in the form depicted in this article: basically two sticks, with handles on one end, a wheel on the other, a bucket on top and feet below. I had *never encountered* this design before. I find it delightfully elegant and simple, with the major advantage that every single part can be easily replaced, so DIY stores sell all parts for wheelbarrows, and even kits to make your own.
In the UK, by comparison, wheelbarrows almost always the tubular steel design: a single bent metal tube forms handles, bucket support, legs, and wheel holder, bending around the front of the wheel to form both sides. This distinctively-shaped bent metal pole is what I (and I suspect, most British people) think of as a wheelbarrow. It's a really clever design that could only be made in a pipe-bending shop. It has the significant advantages that the bucket can ride much lower, the barrow can be shorter, the handles can be higher, and it's made from only one tube of metal so can be mass-produced much more cheaply (though sometimes support and strengthening bars are added); but once it breaks, you prettymuch have to buy a new one, because there are no easily-repairable parts other than the wheel, which is typically the only part you can find for sale.
A UK store selling wheelbarrows:
http://www.screwfix.com/c/building-joinery/wheelbarrows/cat3850012
A US store selling wheelbarrows:
http://www.homedepot.com/b/O/N-5yc1vZc5qk
It's a marked difference. Far as I can tell in Googling, the US is the only country I can find that still typically includes wooden poles in mass-produced wheelbarrows, and doesn't use tubular frames. I imagine this is market-driven: when an American buys a wheelbarrow, he's looking for one like the one his father had, one that's like he's used to using previously, rather than some different style (I felt the same when I went shopping for a wheelbarrow, after all, but there were none available: all are US-style).
This is all OR, so I can't include any of it, but I feel that tubular frame wheelbarrows deserve at least a mention in the page, since they're so markedly different from the barrows already described, appear to be in wide use throughout most of the world, and are, I feel, considerably more notable an invention than the ball-wheeled wheelbarrow. DewiMorgan (talk) 01:06, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tubular-framed wheelbarrow. 

message: I removed the file "Kids in wheelbarrow. Leh.jpg" (shown here) because, the file name notwitstanding, this looks more like a cart to me -- it merely needs to be pushed to be locomoted, rather having the handles lifted. Herostratus (talk) 16:01, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cart image removed 

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