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Wheelbarrow facts for kids

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Wheelbarrow
A wheelbarrow with one wheel
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A wheelbarrow with two wheels

A wheelbarrow is a kind of vehicle that is built to be pushed around with a load inside it. It is usually used in gardens.

Most wheelbarrows have one wheel, but some have two. Wheelbarrows are used to carry heavy stuff which some people cannot carry.

Images for kids

  • Wine shop, China, collected at Yihe, Pehgzhou City, Eastern Han dynasty, 25-220 AD, tomb tile - Sichuan Provincial Museum - Chengdu, China - DSC04779

    Han dynasty tomb brick showing a wheelbarrow

  • Sheep wine vessel and wine shop, China, collected at Shenping, Pengzhou City, Eastern Han dynasty, 25-220 AD, tomb tile - Sichuan Provincial Museum - Chengdu, China - DSC04782

    Eastern Han tomb brick showing a wheelbarrow

  • Modeles brouettes

    Types of medieval wheelbarrows

  • 2008-07-15 Construction wheelbarrow at Duke

    A common wheelbarrow.

  • Qingming Festival Detail 7

    The one-wheeled Chinese wheelbarrow, from Zhang Zeduan's (1085–1145) painting Along the River During Qingming Festival, Song Dynasty.

  • Sail assisted wheelbarrows (2)

    Wheelbarrows near Xi'an, c.1905 by Baptist missionary John Shields

See also

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