At first I thought it might be a wheelbarrow, but the t-bar handle makes it pretty clear that it is a lightweight spreader (for salt or grass seed), and not something that could handle a heavy load.
Yes, clearly Mr. Bickel has never spent a winter in Minnesota.
You mean that not everyone uses old Chinese soup containers to toss salt on the driveway?
Robert had one to do it with – I would fill it, he would toss it, and then return for more. I figured a quicker way to do it so I could get back to work (house or accounting) sooner. I used 3 soup containers – hand him 2 full. Fill the 3rd, walk out and hand it to him when one is finished, refill as needed, but he generally always has a spare this way to save time.
Kudos to “Brian in STL.” Everyone should understand the “salt” comic now.
Meryl, I hadn’t thought of that; but aren’t those containers a bit small?
When I remember, I use an old beach pail.
(And sadly, I’m about to do so)
Bill – I fill a pint container, hand it to Robert and he goes outside. I then fill the other two and walk out, he has finished with one and we exchange the empty for a full, repeat. While he uses up the last full one, I go back into the porch and refill the two I have…
He probably would not be able to lift a pail’s worth and the containers, stacked in each fit into the bag of salt.
Comics I Don't Understand 
it looks like it and the would be the joke offering table salt in a volume and manner used for salting iced walkways
Sort of a play on the fresh pepper offers with the huge pepper grinders, perhaps?
Brian’s got it
The opposite of this New Yorker Cover https://goo.gl/images/9jd2p5
At first I thought it might be a wheelbarrow, but the t-bar handle makes it pretty clear that it is a lightweight spreader (for salt or grass seed), and not something that could handle a heavy load.
Yes, clearly Mr. Bickel has never spent a winter in Minnesota.
You mean that not everyone uses old Chinese soup containers to toss salt on the driveway?
Robert had one to do it with – I would fill it, he would toss it, and then return for more. I figured a quicker way to do it so I could get back to work (house or accounting) sooner. I used 3 soup containers – hand him 2 full. Fill the 3rd, walk out and hand it to him when one is finished, refill as needed, but he generally always has a spare this way to save time.
Kudos to “Brian in STL.” Everyone should understand the “salt” comic now.
Meryl, I hadn’t thought of that; but aren’t those containers a bit small?
When I remember, I use an old beach pail.
(And sadly, I’m about to do so)
Bill – I fill a pint container, hand it to Robert and he goes outside. I then fill the other two and walk out, he has finished with one and we exchange the empty for a full, repeat. While he uses up the last full one, I go back into the porch and refill the two I have…
He probably would not be able to lift a pail’s worth and the containers, stacked in each fit into the bag of salt.