An old mountain bike - an old welder - an "old" man

I'm not really that old but stooping over a potato seed bed and manually planting several thousand seed potatoes was making my back feel much older than the rest of me. So I got to thinking, as you do when you're in field with nothing for company but baskets full of seed potatoes yet to go into the ground.

"There has to be a better way than dragging baskets around and going backwards and forwards all the time." I thought to myself.

So when my back told me that it was past time to go do something else I wandered off to my workshop and sat down to think some more. And I spotted an old broken mountain bike in amongst my pile of stuff-that-will-come-in-useful-one-day. For the bike that day had come today.

After rummaging around a bit more for some pipe to make a frame it was out with the angle grinder and the welder. It ended up taking me the rest of the day to make my contraption. Sadly there was nobody around to photograph me while I was bending the handlebar into shape. It would have looked hilarious! There I was with my little cart clamped securely to the front end loader of the tractor with me hanging from it to bend the pipe into the shape I wanted!

Enough of that. Here are the fruits of my labours and, more importantly, using this cart has more than doubled my planting speed. As a bonus the cart will come in handy for a whole lot of other jobs around the farm.