hello everyone Colin canet here for woodwork web today I'm gonna build this great little wheelbarrow now it's not really for hauling things this is actually going to be more of some garden art if you will or a plant stand in the natural setting so stick around and see how we build this great little wheelbarrow well before we get started let me introduce you to my first attempt at this wheelbarrow I started this ten or twelve years ago and I found out just after I got started that the frame that I was making it out of which is Gary oak a lovely hardwood but it's very susceptible to rot so it's not a good idea to be using this outside I don't know why I for some reason I thought it was good a good outdoor wood but it's not so and I also ran into some problems that I didn't quite know what to do with at the time but I know what I'm going to do with it now and the first thing we're going to do is we're gonna start off with a good outdoor wood this time I'm gonna be using some red oak a red cedar rather and I'm not going to finish it because I love the look of weathered red cedar it gets sort of a silvery gray look after two or three years and I love that look so we're not going to finish it but the first thing I need to do is to start taking this apart because we need this wheel to get going [Applause] I'm going to trim down the handles and make it a little bit lighter the next thing I need to do is cut off this little grade area here so I've set my fence at 2 inches and a depth of about half an inch and we'll just start cutting that out we'll need two cuts to get those out of there here should just peel out of there this so this is where the wheels going to go eventually so I've measured this down and you can see where I need to cut this off otherwise it's going to interfere with the wheel so I'm just going to do this by hand because it's probably gonna be as quick so there's those cuts and I'll just finish those off by hand so let's take a quick snapshot of where I am at the moment what I need to do is put these crossmember pieces in so what I've done is measured from one end so that I know they're going to be parallel and I've marked and you can probably see the little line here where I need to cut them because what I'm going to use is pocket holes in this because this wood is so wet and it's going to because it's outside it's going to be shrinking and expanding shrinking and expanding and I think pocket holes are going to be our pocket joinery is going in this case is going to be the best solution okay I'm just going to get the right angle on there then I can set the sliding miter to that now this is the underside of the carriage so I'm just going to put our pocket holes in now by marking a center point it'll be easier for me when it comes to the final assembly so I just marked every one of the boards and put a rough mark where I need to put a pocket hole in each one of the boards and I'm just gonna go ahead and drill each one of those now [Applause] okay let's have a look and see what that looks like perfect that's just great well we've got the handles done that they turned out well I like them a little bit rough this whole thing wants to look a little bit rough what's the look handmade at least and now what we need to do is flip this whole thing over like that because now we can start installing the little clasps that we made here the little wooden clasps you okay okay let's try one of these here that looks perfect okay that's ideal we need to do now is to put some screws into those and that will lock the deck you now I'm ready to secure the wheel and I've got it marked and what I'm going to use for this because it has its own axle I'm just gonna use some heavy-duty copper plumbing copper and some stainless steel screws and that should hold that very nicely the reason I wanted to put the wheel on is so that I could figure out where the legs want to sit and I want to have look just a little bit of a slope and this is maybe even a little bit too much there that's better okay now the last thing I want to do is put a couple of boards on the end like this but now that I know that how wide these boards are I can cut those to match and I'll put them together with pocket holes and we'll be ready to install them so to make the brace for this upright I'm just going to do a freehand I've got that clamped on there so I can mark the bottom and I know what that is and I'm just going to do a freehand oh gee on here okay now we'll take that to the bandsaw and we'll make two of those there we go good well that concludes my little garden ornament slash light duty wheelbarrow and I'm sure the resident gardeners are going to be delighted to and hey just to put this in the garden and start filling it up with plants although it's still a little bit early in the season for a lot of them don't forget if you haven't already subscribed we asked you to do that and there will be an article on this in on woodwork web and the 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