22 Set on Handcart

[Ron Pier]

Originally Posted by Grant Bowker

I have no proof of the following but....rather than plumbing, think bicycle frame assembly - thin wall steel tube brazed using stamped or cast fitting lugs. It would look similar to the suggested plumbing assembly but be stonger per unit weight and stiffer, more abuse resistant, probably cheaper too.

I was thinking the same thing for those days. A copper hand card would be an easier way to reproduce one now. But it would have had to be a tough cart for hauling through the sand or rough terrain. Ron