\n\ni\u2019m trying not to post every single article off this website but this one is too good\u2026 these seem super cool and easy to build (and, if we\u2019re being honest, #aesthetic)
\ni feel like people in rural armenia would immediately find uses for them given how badly the road system has gone to shit (there\u2019s roads you can\u2019t even tell were paved 20 years ago) and the prevalence of cars for short-distance transport
\nfor instance, a common problem here is that disabled and elderly people can\u2019t get around their villages easily. if you can\u2019t walk, you have to ride in a car, because even if you had a wheelchair (which most don\u2019t) it might be difficult or impossible to use on the rocky, pothole-filled village roads. a chinese wheelbarrow could get people to school, church, etc. with no problem
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Yo if you are scouring history for low-tech adaptations to shitty road conditions might I suggest the King (\u201csplit-log\u201d) Road Drag - it\u2019s an absurdly simple and effective regrading tool for loose-surfaced roads (i.e. dirt and gravel, maybe not potholed pavement), it can be built by hand tools from scrap wood and towed by consumer car (so no issues like \u201cwhere will you source or manufacture an appropriately-dimensioned tire\u201d).
\nInvented in America at the turn of the 20th century but mostly overlooked as it came after authorities started to pave roads."}