David Roybal shared this photo with me in 2020, and I am adding it here in 2025. I suppose of all blogs one about a medieval conveyance contraption isn't time sensitive. 🙂
The photo led to a video, showing how to make the little stove:
"Take advantage of old trolleys - clay and cement - turn them into portable cooking stoves"
Without the wheelbarrow, I saw this stove in action in India. It burned little dried patties of water buffalo dung.
There was another stove-in-wheelbarrow, in Brazil, here:
An arch between parking lot and Open Space, Albuquerque. Photos by Holly Dodd. Art credited below.
Joshua Robert Willis made it for the City of Albuquerque in 2017 or earlier. It's called "Archbarrow."
Here are more images of this and its relatives, and the concept art, on Joshua R. Willis's blog: Archbarrow/Barrowhenge. (Use "next" or "view thumbnails" when you get there.)
A wheelbarrow leaning, partly blocking a door, early in the film "The Magic of Belle Isle," might symbolize a place that used to be kept up and worked on, but that is sitting between residents now. "Your move," maybe is the message.
The Great Chinese Famine was a famine that occurred between 1959 and 1961 in the People's Republic of China. Some scholars have also included the years 1958 or 1962.
This photo has to do with the famine, and unless they were digging irrigation or creating terraces, it doesn't look much like farming, but it is from a YouTube video sharing evidence that China's population might be much lower than they claim.
As to the wheelbarrows, though, they have a large wheel and the tray is flat above that. Not as stable as a European wheelbarrow with the wheel smaller, and out front.
I don't know who sent this to me, or whether it just appeared spontaneously. It was showing on my phone when I woke up.
The last third of the video talks about the practicalities of fitting your own replacement wheel. I don't know what skills or tools it would take, but the results seem good (except it's only a side-dumper; not a big deal under the circumstances they show). The video demos of the old ratty wheelbarrow pre-bigwheel are fun.
