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What the hell is this handcart?

I found this drawing in the Glasgow Mechanics Magazine of 1824 and challenged Twitterfolk to guess its purpose.

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Guesses included: haggis-catcher, tattie picker, horse dung collector, strawbaler, and I quote “A musical instrument for the separation of confused pine martens in the wild into groups for strip the willow“.

Alas, it is *just* an early snow plow..