Best, cheapest wheelbarrow

[Clannad48]

As title really - our current wheelbarrow has all but given up the ghost - any suggestions as to the best of the cheap options - preferably in Beds/Herts/Bucks or mail order.

I have seen some as 'cheap' as £280 but OH would have heart failure as would the bank manager. I can't remember what I paid for the last one but it was definitely below £50

Thanks

 

[nagseastsussex]

Try B & Q I have one that is now over 10 years old and only cost £15.00 and its never had a flat tyre in that time either.

 

[Polotash]

I've got a B and Q standard orange one which was £45 and has stood up to yard work well (inc concrete mixing in the poor thing!)

 

[miss_c]

B&Q orange one. Or a little more a bigger silver one.

 

[catwithclaws]

i've got the b&q orange one as well and have had it probably 10 years, still going strong with its original tyre!

 

[Clannad48]

Many thanks for all the recommendations - sending daughter off to B&Q tomorrow - BTW does it have a solid tyre???

 

[wildwoman666]

The B&Q ones are good but tyre is crap. You can get the no more pucher's wheel also from B&Q at around £17.99 or try ebay
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/180966971325?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
nice 120L
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/130633175...eName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
or 85L

 

[Kat]

B&M less than thirty quid for a tasteful dark green wheelbarrow. Not huge but big enough. They have bigger/posher ones for more money too.

 

[kerrieberry2]

I wouldn't bother with a cheap plastic one, I got mine from wicks, proper builders metal on but it does a far better job than all the rubbish plastic ones I've had in the past, esp if you have to push it through a muddy gate way! they are £50 but will last years! and fit more in than the plastic ones

 

[Cahill]

best thing i ever done was replace my flat tyre with a sold one from ebay.

 

[npage123]

I bought one of these recently - the delivery was tracked and very quick (by courier) and the wheelbarrow is of excellent quality:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HAEMMERLI...uipment_HandTools_SM&var=&hash=item2a21fab76b

 

[Toby_Zaphod]

I had my barrow from here, they are good quality & at competitive prices:

http://www.greenfingers.com/superstore/category.asp?dept_id=200647&gclid=CJ_yhr7MlbMCFWbKtAodn24ArA

 

[FfionWinnie]

Haemmerlin. I don't think B&Q are what they used to be. Don't get a plastic one either

 

[SonnysHumanSlave]

im finally getting my own wheel barrow on friday... honestly I've never had one before.... actually excited to be getting my own. Going to get one of these awesome orange ones.

 

[Ladyinred]

I've got a B and Q standard orange one which was £45 and has stood up to yard work well (inc concrete mixing in the poor thing!)

Ours cost less but sounds like same barrow. Ours is now around 7 years old and has had its original tyre replaced with a solid one (not the fault of the barrow) but has done really well. We poo pick with it and its a fair old treck to the muck heap across some rough ground so it has had a fair trial!

 

[thatsmygirl]

I disagree with kerrieberry2, the plastic ones last so much longer. I find the metal ones just rust through at the bolts and the pan drops off

 

[pottamus]

I use one of the metal B&Q ones as they last well but swapped the tyre for a non-air solid tyre from the green tyre company...brilliant...no more punctures!

 

[Oliver12]

I disagree with kerrieberry2, the plastic ones last so much longer. I find the metal ones just rust through at the bolts and the pan drops off

I agree. My plastic wheelbarrow is nearly 15 years old.

 

[Oliver12]

I use one of the metal B&Q ones as they last well but swapped the tyre for a non-air solid tyre from the green tyre company...brilliant...no more punctures!

Try using that green slime stuff you can get for sealing punctures in bikes. It's worked a treat and the tyre has lasted years. I don't like solid tyres, it makes hard work of pushing barrows.