Handcart
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A handcart is a non-motorized vehicle that pedestrians can use to transport loads by pulling or pushing. There are different versions, which are differentiated according to the number of wheels and axles. Four-wheeled vehicles are called handcarts. For example, shopping trolleys , prams , dolls ' prams and market chaise are pushed . A handcart with a guided structure is a small cart . Handcarts, on the other hand, have one to three wheels.
Handcarts are allowed to take part in public road traffic , whereby the legislature in Germany stipulates in Section 65 Paragraph 1 Sentence 2 StVZO that they do not need a brake.
A handcart must be illuminated in the dark. This is stipulated in Section 17 of the StVO (5): " Anyone who walks and [..] has hand vehicles with them has to attach or wear at least one non-dazzling light with white light that is clearly visible to the front and back on the left side. " also § 66a StVZO Paragraph 1 Clause 3. No further requirements are placed on this lamp. A lantern or a torch would do. Flashlights, on the other hand, are unsuitable as they only shine in one direction and are often dazzling.
Various handcarts are also used in the army, for example in the Bundeswehr as a transport cart for medical equipment for the pediatric medical team , as a 4-wheeled handcart with a 0.5 t platform, as a telecommunications device cart , a front bow handcart for elo devices , an Elo test device cart or a front wall cart with a load capacity of 500 kg .
Handcart
Especially in northern Germany, the term handcart describes a small, four-wheeled handcart with a drawbar for transporting loads. It is used as a means of transport or by children for playing. Handcarts are available in different designs, from simple trolleys with tubular frames, plastic wheels and other plastic parts to high-quality trolleys made entirely of wood with stainless steel axles and screws as well as large, ball-bearing metal wheels. There is even a lightweight, foldable handcart that folds up like a stroller.
The joking designation probably comes from the “thundering”, rumbling noise that the wooden wheels, which used to be made of iron tires, made on the cobblestones . In some areas of Holland the handcart is also known as Bolderkar , which probably means something like "rumbling cart".
use
Especially in northern Germany, the handcart is still used as a means of transport, especially by holidaymakers. It is an everyday means of transport on the five car-free East Frisian islands . He is also mentioned in literature, for example the handcart of Mother Courage in the drama Mother Courage and Her Children plays an important role.
In the northern German coal rides alcoholic beverages (eg. As traditionally in a handcart beer and grain ) taken on the occasion of the Games (. Eg Boßeln (curves z. B. crossroads,) are served or other interruptions) the hike. Similar to the cabbage rides , the wagon is also used on Father's Day and May tours .
In the meantime, a tuning scene has developed in Germany , the aim of which is to pimp your handcart. Under the motto “Pimp My Bollerwagen”, lighting systems, sound systems or cup holders are installed for on-the-go supplies. Forums on the Internet deal with this topic.
In the Alps, a handcart with a harnessed mountain dog was traditionally used to transport milk. There are similar teams in dog sports.
Escape and the post-war period
The handcart can be seen in many photos from the time of flight and displacement, loaded with everything the people still owned. Often children or the elderly sat on it. In the following time of the black market and the vital hamster rides, the handcart was an important means of transport.
Handcarts
A single-axle vehicle with one to three wheels for pulling or pushing is usually referred to as a handcart. Two-wheeled handcarts for pulling can often also be used as bicycle trailers.
The handcart is used by the German Armed Forces for the transport of pioneer equipment and other bulky pieces of equipment, also known colloquially as the pi-cart.
The horse-drawn cart was also used as an infantry cart until World War II , when the infantry was not yet motorized to transport heavy equipment and ammunition.
In wars, handcarts were pulled with the help of dogs.
If the front and rear walls of a cart can be removed, long items can also be transported deeply (under the remaining, overhead cross struts).
Today, on longer expeditions, pull carts are used in open and partially covered terrain as well as pulkas in snow to transport water in dry and hot regions and larger quantities of food and equipment. The two-wheeled tow cart for trekking is also known as a hiking trailer or trekking cart .
Three-wheeled handcarts are used for the distribution of advertising material and mail delivery, but also for leisure and are used in warehouse logistics. Special constructions serve as sales stands. Further versions are the luggage cart at train stations and airports, the single-axle wheelbarrow for pushing and the hand truck that is also pushed .
See also
- Carrello , a handcart in Venice with additional support wheels for stairs
- Schottsche Karre
- wheelbarrow
- Bicycle trailer
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ supply Number 3920-0009
- ↑ supply Number 3920-0013
- ↑ stock number 3920-0016
- ↑ stock number 3920-0028
- ↑ stock number 3920-0023
- ↑ Handcart as a means of transport ( Memento of the original dated February 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Description of various handcarts
- ↑ Mountain dogs as draft dogs , Eva Eichenwald
- ↑ Ina Hoffmann trains the Bernese Mountain Dog as a handcart draft animal , Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine (HNA), April 5, 2014
- ↑ Silke Habrock , Investigation of the reasonable exposure of the Bernese and Large Swiss Mountain Dogs when pulling loads, Hanover, University of Veterinary Medicine, dissertation, 2007
- ↑ Olaf Ihlau : The wagon: Our escape from the east . Siedler, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-8275-0050-2 .
- ↑ Handcart / bicycle trailer ( memento of the original from October 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ stock number 3920-0029
- ↑ Hiking trailer ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
