On 6/23/2011 10:18 PM, Stormin Mormon wrote:
Today at someone else house, I got a splinter in my thumb
from a wooden handle wheelbarrow. The woman there had got a
splinter, also.

I may be back in a few months, or I can contact them by
mail. I'm curious some ideas to make the handles safer.

The wheelbarrows are for moving fire wood, in front of a
store. They are outdoors all summer. This is in NY state,
USA.

I'm thinking coat of polyurethane, wrap in electrical tape,
sports tape, the wide stuff with the zigzag edges, spray
clear spray paint. Who has this knowledge? Tried and true,
please.


Large, thick walled heat shrink tubing of the type used for insulating
big underground cables or big power cables for electrically driven
underground mining equipment. The big electrical supply houses stock
the stuff for industrial customers. It usually has a hot melt adhesive
coating the inside of the tubing which will tenaciously stick to the
wooden handles. The outside of the tubing can be roughed up with sand
cloth after being installed with a heat gun and is extremely tough stuff
that will last the life of the wheelbarrow.

TDD