Last week we had a visit from our very service oriented KBS director Karen who commented and even took a photo of my clothes trolley. It was made some years ago by our much loved handyman Barry who can make or fix anything. My mother in law was still the matriarch of 'Westfield' then, and the heavy loads of wet washing were becoming too cumbersome to negotiate down the stairs and out to the back clothes line, hence the magnificent example of country ingenuity I am referring to. It was made from an old motorbike that was resurected from our second hand version of Mitre 10, our dump. Property dumps are very interesting places. They are like a walk through time as far as equipment on farms is concerned. There is every manner of redundant equipment , broken down vehicles, superceded electrical equipment, and the paraphanelia of daily life that is no longer useful at the time of rest. Here lies the beauty of the property dump. After a period of sitting and sunbaking there is a call for a piece of metal or a certain sized wheel or frame of yesteryear that is all of a sudden just the perfect ingredient for a new and exciting use.
The 'Westfield' clothes trolley is a marvel of ingenuity that serves the purpose for which it was built admirably, but also is used for many other things that it was not intended for at its re-birth. It has been known to be used for the removing of younger brothers, and a makeshift wheelbarrow. I think after publishing the patent below, supermarkets may rethink the design of those useless shopping trolleys that get snagged on the smallest of footpath cracks. This monster truck clothes trolley can negotiate the rockiest of paths and the largest of tree roots to come to rest comfortably under the clothes line in the shade of the ever abundant lemon tree.
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