Retiree Sets Sights on World Record for Fastest Wheelbarrow: 'He's Been Very Determined,' Says Wife

Mar. 15, 2025

An Iowa man is hoping his speedy wheelbarrow drive will result in an official Guinness World Record.

Loghry, a retiree, told WHO he was looking to fill up his time and get out of his house when he heard about the record for the fastest motorized wheelbarrow.

“I was out there just tinkering with stuff, and I made a motorized wheelbarrow. I wondered how fast it could go and I wondered if there was a record,” Loghry said. “Sure enough there’s a world record. I couldn’t believe it; I thought I was the only one who could think of something like that.”

“He’s been very determined on doing it, and there’s a lot of steps that he didn’t anticipate,” Loghry’s wife, Jeanne, told WOIA about her husband. “To see him go through all of those steps and still be able to do it, that’s great.”

But, as Loghry told PEOPLE days later, while “this was an exciting moment for me, one I will never forget…I am not sure I would go through all of this again.”

“For me, I started this adventure out of boredom and was determined to see it to the end, whether I won the record or not,” he added.

“The easiest part of this was to make the wheelbarrow, as it was a labor of love,” he shared. As for everything else? Well, that was where the work really began.

According to aGoFundMehe established, Loghry said he put a lawnmower engine on a wheelbarrow that he had designed, later adding: “I knew I could beat that record with this thing.”

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“After reaching out to my county sheriff’s, the state patrol, and city police, along with all the local racetracks, baseball clubs, and car clubs, I came up empty-handed,” said Loghry, who hoped to use any funds raised to purchase the necessary radar gun.

However, per WOI, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office assisted Loghry in his attempt to break the world record on Sept. 22.

“As soon as I got beside the sheriff I knew I had beat the record that way too. But, then I saw the crowd coming up way too fast, I am not sure why, but the brakes weren’t stopping me, I swerved in between the crowd and between a car and a farm pond. That was the scariest thing ever, but I made it,” Loghry told PEOPLE. “Everyone was cheering, my daughter was jumping up and down, my wife was grinning ear to ear, and me? Well, I just couldn’t believe it, after more than a year, my dream has come true finally.”

“After soaking in my win for another day, now, I start submitting all the evidence to Guinness. They require a lot of evidence,” he added. And as of Sunday, Sept. 29, he said he was only about halfway through the process.

He added, “Once all is submitted, all we can do is wait on Guinness to approve everything and verify that I have indeed won. I am now sitting on pins and needles as what if in the meantime someone else beats my record before I am confirmed? Oh well..”

source: people.com