Wheelbarrow "SideCar" Saves Steps

Wheelbarrow "SideCar" Saves Steps FARM HOME Miscellaneous 31-3-29 A wheelbarrow mounted sidecar-style on an old motorcycle makes life easier for Alvin Hook on his Butler, Indiana, hog farm. "I do a lot of moving from one barn to another, fixing things," Hook says. "Invariably, I don't have the right wrench." Rather than buy an ATV with a cargo box, he decided to adapt his 1973 250cc Yamaha motorcycle instead. He paid $300 for it in 1978 and drove it a lot when he was a young man. He found an old hay baler axle and a spare donut tire that he attached to the cycle. He welded three braces to the axle and bolted the other ends of the braces to the frame of his motorcycle. The addition didn't work well with the motorcycle's back shock absorbers, so Hook removed them and replaced them with solid pipe. He welded an inexpensive wheelbarrow (minus handles and wheel) to the braces. Hook uses it to haul everything from seed and straw to tools. "I use it many times a day, even in the winter," Hook says. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Alvin Hook, 7857 CR 40, Butler, Indiana 46721 (ph 260 868-2661).

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