My father-in-law bought a two-wheeled barrow for his wife to use because he thought it would be more stable, but she found it too heavy, so I suggested that he move the (metal) barrow body to a single-wheeled chassis that we had lying about because the plastic barrow body that came with it had broken.
That left me with a two-wheeled chassis and whilst it’s not ideal because much of my property is sloping ground, I decided to turn it into a hive barrow using some more scrap timber.
It wasn’t at all hard: the base is another piece of 18mm ply and the rails (which make it possible to get one’s fingers under whatever is being carried in order to lift it off are just pieces of scrap softwood that I found:
First tests suggest that it’s ok, though not brilliant (because of the balance issues with the two wheels on a slope. Perhaps I could convert it to a single wheel.
It has also been suggested that I might modify the front loop of the chassis to make a tray for my beekeeping toolbox, more of which later.