German collection of wheelbarrow re-purposing ideas

18 coole Schubkarre Repurposing Ideen für wunderschöne Haus und Garten-Dekor
I found this in German, but it might originally have been in English, or at least some of it. Or the ideas might be from all around. The house number shows part of an American flag, coinciedentally, in the background.

Click the link above to get to those images, but two purposes there have been reported here, too—the firepit, and the sand box. And the planter ideas are everywhere; the world and this blog are full of them. It's a beautiful re-use.

These two images are from this blog (and they're links), but the other images are at the article I've linked.

Dad tool—Wheelbarrow!

Wheelbarrows, Greek philosophy, ergonomics

Answer to what simple machines make up a wheelbarrow: the lever and the wheel and axle (according to ehow, anyway).

Wheelbarrows carry more goods from place to place using less force than a person could carry them. In fact, a person would have to make several trips to carry the items by hand. With the help of the wheelbarrow's two simple machines---the lever and the wheel and axle---people can save time during the process of hauling.

I think there might be more to mention in the way of ergonomics, and in traditional details that create more functionality than is at first apparent.

All over the internet is "wheelbarrows were invented by the Chinese," but I don't think it's valid. Their "wheelbarrow" (what English speakers called a wheelbarrow) is a whole different thing, and though it can do some things European wheelbarrows can't, theirs can't do some of what is quite normal for our little short-distance, imperfect wheelbarrows.

Thinking of what ours are used for might give some ideas for what I'm thinking of in way of features gathered and improved over hundreds of years.

Take-home, open-book no-time-limit test on Wheelbarrows.

Q: What Simple Machines Make a Wheelbarrow?

"Simple machine" is a concept at the intersection of physics, history, philosophy and art. So are wheelbarrows!

I'm not telling the answer until tomorrow, so maybe think about it, do all the looking-up you want to, and consider other conveyances and tools and contraptions for gardening and construction—cousins of wheelbarrows, maybe.