When it comes to moving materials for projects, I’ll take all the DIY tips I can get. Reason is, I like building stuff. Not carrying stuff. To make loading in—and out—of a project easier and more efficient wheels work wonders.
One of the wheels I get a lot of home improvement mileage out of is on my wheelbarrow. Even though I use it more in warm weather to do everything from lugging bark mulch to mixing concrete, I can load it up just as easily with boxes of flooring. Instead of a few boxes at a time, I can move a whole bunch of them from driveway to doorway with minimum energy output.
My wheelbarrow is great for moving other things too. Heavy items like a miter saw, small table saw, or 5-gallon joint compound buckets tend to fit inside the barrow’s bucket easily. And little light things like paint cans and supplies nestle in nicely too saving me trips back and forth.
But, a wheelbarrow is still a landscaping tool so there are a few places where I take extra care: Going up or down a step like a sidewalk, I want to be sure the wheelbarrow’s nose clears those obstructions. And whether loading it with rocks or floorboards you don’t want the wheelbarrow to tip over so I keep the load balanced as I fill it up and empty it out. And mine has a never-flat type tire, which is great for a quick grab in cold weather.
After all, DIY tips that actually tip over aren’t really DIY tips.
mark you know first hand that today’s contractors bring as many tools as can fit in their vans and trucks . With the advent of portable table saws and large capacity miter saws they can do just about any job right there on the job and not back at the shop. So with all those tools how do they pickup material EASY side mounted cargo racks . Now all they have to do is hang a set of side mounted brackets over their existing ladder rack post (about 20 seconds to install ) load up to 8 sheets of 1/2″ drywall , plywood or 32 2x4s ( about 3-5 minutes ) and back to work . Not the 20 minutes + from before with the unloading and loading of tools and equipment and jamming the material in and messing up the corners and faces . But wait there’s more you can also work off the side racks to like laying out stud lines electrical boxes and window and door cutouts and you can leave your material right there on the side until you need it and have full access to all the tools inside your van or pickup. Picking up material just got a whole lot easier with a set or two side mounted cargo racks from sidejobracks.com