A PORTER'S HANDBARROW
Reading edition
Materials Required:—
A wooden sweet box, a fret saw and sharp penknife, a reel, small tacks, upholsterer's nails.
Fig. 82.
This can be made of nice pieces of soft wood such as are used for grocers' sweet-boxes or fruit boxes. Cut the two long sides with a saw and bevel them off in a curve to form the handles—they should be six to eight inches long. The crosspiece at the end should be about three inches, and also the two crossbars. Fasten the sides to the end about the middle of the latter, so that a piece projects below the sides wide enough to support the wheels—these should be made of a reel cut in half and fastened on with a large-headed nail. Smooth all down with coarse sandpaper.