Wheelbarrows

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

I have managed without one for many years. I now need one for a number of tasks (relocating scalpings, sand etc, rubble, compost).

I see there are a lot of plastic body types available (on galvanised frames) or the traditional galvanised body. I have no interest in the flimsy looking things with material body.

Surely the plastic body ones are not going to be up to rough treatment and won't UV rays deteriorate the plastic (if stored in sunlight)?

Also; Solid tyre or not?

Any recommendations for a good all rounder that will last?

TIA

[veggiechicken]

Here's one I prepared earlier http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ion_66565.html

[Kristen]

I use a builder's barrow. When loaded with something heavy the weight is over the wheel and makes it easy to push. Lots of the smaller ones I have come across have the wheel too far forwards so you can't get the weight over it.

I have a pneumatic tyre, Much easier to push over rougher ground than a solid tyre. I have spare inner tubes in the shed so I can change it when it punctures (and it does), but I should really try putting some puncture gunge in it. Worst culprit for me is when I cut the hawthorn hedge - all the "bits" have spikes on them, and not all get caught in the raking up.

Mine is a Haemmerlin

CHILLINGTON
they are available with pneumatic or solid wheels, or one of those foam wheels - puncture-free but feels?? like a pneumatic wheel.

I also have a trolley which I use to cart plants about - module trays, pots, that type of thing, where I need a flat surface. It also has more capacity for prunings and the like


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and a trailer I can tow behind the mower. Mine is plastic, but something like this:


I also have a sack barrow for moving large plants in pots and paving slabs etc.


EDIT: Only now looked more carefully at that sack barrow - its seriously posh! and can climb stairs, mine isn't anything like as fancy as that, but it does have some good features - a large sole plate, curved back (so you can get a round thing, like a large pot, on it), and both a pair of handles and a P-handle (so you can pull it with one hand whilst using the other hand to steady the load)

[Kristen]

This is a P-handle sack barrow - sole plate is too small though

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

Thank you VC, how kind of you to have foreseen my need with your time machine That was a really useful read - I never knew about puncture slime/gunge.

Aha thank you Kristen for the link to the wheelbarrow site. I have a sack barrow (though I often struggle on without it forgetting I own one). My neighbour has one of those trolleys - I don't think I will get away with one of those or a trailer at the moment.

I will be going for a Haemmerlin/Chillington I expect.

I am also in the market for a pick axe and a sledge hammer. I thought I had a sledge hammer but it seems to have walked (probably to my brother's house never to be seen again).

Lots of jobs this year (Mainly non GYO jobs sadly)