Patent ID: 8714570

Claim:
A combination wheelbarrow and quick-disconnect front handle of the wheelbarrow comprising: providing a second quick-disconnect wide handle removably attached to the front of the wheelbarrow having a bin to enable two users to quickly lift and dump the contents of a full wheelbarrow into a raised collection receptacle selected from the group consisting of a dumpster or a raised compost container; said quick-disconnect handle comprising a pair of quick disconnect clamps having a ratcheting mechanism which reduces hand force to achieve high clamping pressure and a quick-release lever, an elongated handle rod connected to a pair of said quick disconnect clamps at respective opposite ends thereof; each said quick disconnect clamps engageable with a flat surface panel, whereby said elongated handle rod provides an elongated gripping surface for lifting said flat surface panel said quick-disconnect handle being extended over and cantilevered outward from and being mountable on an outside front end panel of the wheelbarrow bin at an opposite end of the wheelbarrow bin from a rear handle assembly; said quick-disconnect handle providing a second lifting handle at a front end of said wheelbarrow opposite to the conventional pushing handle at a rear of said wheelbarrow; said front mounted quick-disconnect handle having an equal height to that height of said rear conventional pushing handle assembly when said front quick-disconnect handle is at a deployed lifting height; said equal height of said front quick-disconnect handle and said rear conventional pushing handle assembly being both at a level close to the top of said wheelbarrow bin that is most useful for lifting and dumping; said height of said front and said rear handles enabling two respective lifting users to have said respective front and rear handles at equal chest height when tipping the contents of said wheelbarrow cart into a raised collection receptacle.