hand truck

In 1953, a dockworker lifts 50 boxes off of a mini-crane and places them on a handtruck, which he pulls to a warehouse.

(I even had one client bring us his filing cabinet on a handtruck).

The final action, dolly, also eliminates the garbage, but because of the noisy handtruck, it negates quiet.

So the soil must be carried down to the garden with a handtruck. I built a little dam and spillway on the downhill end of the pond site and I cut through the bank during spring melt to let the stream refill what I've excavated of the pond.

Also singed during the course of the evening are Bob Dole, doing a standup comedy act as part of his search for a new career; Pat Buchanan, rallying the right-wing troops; Al D'Amato, as he quizzes Hillary about Whitewater; Hillary again, explaining how she made a killing in cattle futures; and Tipper Gore, wheeling her stiff-as-a-board husband Al around the stage on a handtruck. Other targets include Ross Perot, Yasser Arafat, Benjamin Netanyahu and Fidel Castro, who drums his way across the stage as the "Energizer Commie." In honor of the show's New York debut, both Mayor Giuliani and Governor Pataki get to have their own numbers.

"I don't like all this snow, but at least it makes it easy to slide your handtruck under the pile," he says.

The other handtruck maneuvers a bench (complete with uprights and leg extension leg curl) and stationary bicycle to any location.

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(left) help Sam Vasile of Finger Lakes Bottling in Auburn NY, test one of the company's newer handtruck models.