Attacking a plastic wheelbarrow with a ¾ inch hole saw prevents it from becoming a mosquito breeding station:
We had been storing it tipped to one side, resulting in the wheel filling up with water, which can’t be a Good Thing.
If it must carry a load of sand, I’ll just duct-tape the holes.
One of Mary’s friend looked at, but did not order, this wheelbarrow on Amazon. Shortly thereafter, she received a wheelbarrow in two packages: the handles and a box with everything else strapped into the barrow. After a discussion with Amazon’s support / help staff, she was told to just keep it at no charge.
Over the next few weeks, she received five more wheelbarrows, each prompting a discussion and keeping them at no charge. Eventually, somebody figured out how to stop the stream.
So half a dozen gardeners now have free wheelbarrows, courtesy of a glitch in The Machine.
Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 
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4 responses to “Wheelbarrow Drain Holes”
This story reminds me of the Disney classic The Sorcerer’s Apprentice… Fantasia.
Just like magic, the wheelbarrows kept coming!
It does make one wonder what other things happen behind the curtain …
On the farm we used to tilt the wheelbarrow on end against something, handles up, worked fine, since we also used the wheelbarrow for mixing cement and other things from time to time drain holes would not have been so nice, was also made of metal, don’t know how many decades old it was.
New wheelbarrows have a metal strap joining the handle sticks in front of the wheel, pretty much guaranteeing the thing eventually falls over when balanced frontward. Our old wheelbarrow (which came with and remained with the previous house) was a metal beast with a rust hole in the barrow serving as a perfect drain. :grin: