Wooden wheelbarrows, like the one shown at right, are everywhere. The axle is made from rerod and the wooden wheels have treads from car tires nailed onto them. I thought they looked a bit crude, but the users seem to love them. The traditional farm wagon of the country is a larger version of these wheelbarrows.
If you need an instant wagon or bike trailer, try this: Wagons like this are the “contractor’s pickup” in a wagon made with bicycle forks and wheels. Two Granada, a colonial town on Lake Nicaragua. There’s bolts through the side of the fork hold it to the side a lot of restoration work there, fueled by an influx of of the box. American retirees.
Nicaraguan Coffee Maker (at left). Every home and restaurant has one of these. You put the grounds in the flannel sock thing and pour the hot water through it into the coffeepot or cup underneath. There’s a piece of wire in the rim of the “sock” to keep it from falling through the wire loop it rests on.
Here’s a tool that’s used like a blender (below). You put the big end in the drink and spin the handle between your hands. I met Marlene Monje, who mixes beverages with a wooden blender. The Nicaraguans seem to have more types of cold, non-alcoholic drinks than anyone else.
A cepillo de raspado is like a plane for making snow cones from a block of ice.
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