Free wheeling...

Late May is the time when traditionally the garden goes in. This year it seemed like it'd be June before any gardening, since there was still a foot of snow in places in early May. But then we had a week of near seventy degree weather and the snow was gone before the end of the month. After finishing the roto-tilling, we were getting stuff moved to the garden when the wheel barrow broke down. Hard to believe that something that's been used for forty years, stored outside, and never had any maintenance would break, but there you go, they just don't make'm like they used to.
So instead of buying a new one, that'd be too easy, figured it could be fixed. Thought that just the broken part could be replaced, it was a short piece of wood that had dry rotted, but between the rusted nuts and stripped out carriage bolts, wound up having to use the saws-all to cut out most of the bolts to get it apart.

Didn't get a photo of the broken part, but here's the disassembled pieces ready to be worked on.

So after replacing the broken parts with some scrap pieces of all weather wood, sand blasted and painted the metal body. Used the left over paint from the walking tractor rebuild (All carted up...7/24/17) and some old deck stain on the wood pieces.

So here's the pieces fitted back to the body of the barrow. Will head into town tomorrow, pick up some new bolts and get'er all back together.