Best Wheelbarrow to pack in the lorry for 2 day shows?

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hi all

what do you use when away? do you just take your normal barrow? do you dismantle it? is it easy?

or do you use a folding barrow? if so, which type?

or do you have another clever item to help with mucking out/carting all your stuff to the stable at 2+ day shows?

just pondering as I'm away this weekend and wondering what to take!
 
i use a HiFi bag, a skip, shavings fork and a pair of rubber gloves for mucking out, no wheelbarrow (spent far too long retrieving it repeatedly at a 3-day, never again). nobody bothers nicking a plastic bag!
i leave everything else back at the lorry and carry enough hay and feed up to the stable as and when necessary.
 
I didn't use to but it's so much easier with a barrow so just try to fit it in.. Its bright orange so quite easy to spot if borrowed!! If you leave something in it like a full hay net it deters borrowers. Although long as I am not using it and they bring it back quite happy to lend.
 
I take a normal wheelbarrow. It stays in the lorry at night though as I have had things taken before, also it comes in useful for carting tack, hay and feeds down to the stables which can often be a fair distance.
 
Barrows are so much easier but not a folding one - they fall apart. We now use a big tug trug that would let in water and no one ever wants to borrow that. Not the same capacity as a barrow but easier to fit into the lorry and easy to carry once there.
 
Look up Rhino Runner Wheelbarrow. Folds up easily and you can use the tubtrug for all sorts of things including carting tack, hay, feed, and water bucket. You could even have 2 tubtrugs (1 for poo and 1 for clean stuff). Once you have 1 another doesn't take up much space. I love tubtrugs and now I have the rhino runner there is no stopping me :)
 
I take a little lightweight sack trolley, find that easiest for carting bales to stables, I muck out into a tub trug and bungee it onto the trolley to move around. Tried one of those teeny collapsible barrows but the one little wheel was useless if the ground was remotely hard, or wet, or rutted...
 
I feel I am now an expert in this!!

I have taken a big wheelbarrow, but that took up a lot of space

I now have a folding in installed in the lorry, with an attractive carrot pattern (optional!), was a bargain £14 from eBay

However I was carrying a 20litre water container in it (not full, but heavy) across the fields at Blenheim, and it got stuck, snapped up and I pitch poled over the wheel barrow giving myself a black eye. Now it may have been my stupidity and not looking what I was doing, but I am much more careful now!!

I also recently bought one of these from lidl, which I've yet to try, but fits in nicely in the lorry (my other buckets stand in it), has a 2 year guarantee and can carry 60kg
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VRIN said:
I didn't use to but it's so much easier with a barrow so just try to fit it in.. Its bright orange so quite easy to spot if borrowed!! If you leave something in it like a full hay net it deters borrowers. Although long as I am not using it and they bring it back quite happy to lend.
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Yes of course... for me it was the 'not bringing it back' that got a bit irksome. Hours later I wanted to use it and the person who'd borrowed it (without asking, natch) had just left it by their stable. Gggrrr. I'll stick to big plastic bags that people don't bother borrowing!
Jen, I've got one of those but it's a bit too low and i have to really stoop to pull it, which isn't good for my back. Very annoying because I thought it'd be really useful. The small wheels don't cope very well across fields either.
 
Orange wheelbarrow!!! fab :D :D

like the idea of the sack trolley if it had big enough wheels to cope with uneven ground. might work with a hook on saddle rack to also cart the saddle around!

I like the look of the rhino tub trug trolley - would like to see it in real life first but another good idea!

think I take our mini garden barrow this weekend but plan something for the future!
 
kerilli said:
Jen, I've got one of those but it's a bit too low and i have to really stoop to pull it, which isn't good for my back. Very annoying because I thought it'd be really useful. The small wheels don't cope very well across fields either.
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Ah wonder which brand you have?
This one is twice as big as the robert dyas version and the handle is over 2ft 9" so fine for me to pull, (although I am short!!). The wheels are quite big and rubbery have a steel axel and even coped with going over flint gravel.
 
Jen_Cots said:
I feel I am now an expert in this!!

I have taken a big wheelbarrow, but that took up a lot of space

I now have a folding in installed in the lorry, with an attractive carrot pattern (optional!), was a bargain £14 from eBay

However I was carrying a 20litre water container in it (not full, but heavy) across the fields at Blenheim, and it got stuck, snapped up and I pitch poled over the wheel barrow giving myself a black eye. Now it may have been my stupidity and not looking what I was doing, but I am much more careful now!!

Thought I was the only one to get injured by a barrow- I hit a bump, barrow went over and I twisted my knee really badly! Luckily it was at the end of the show, would have been livid if it had stopped me riding.

The folding barrows don't have much of a lifespan but are great if you are pushed for space. We also have a lot of heavy western tack to move so ideal for that. Last year we were only showing in-hand and with a youngster I was loathe to stash too much in the trailer (used to just bungy everything into the spare partition alongside my mare!)

You can get a collapsible compost bin from B&Q etc which folds flat to go in the tack locker and is ideal for hay and for skipping out. It's a bit heavy if the muck heap is miles away and I must admit I borrow a barrow at the end of the show for cleaning out. But I'm a nice barrow borrower and always put it back :D
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Always take a proper barrow - 8 horses and a tub trug or hifi bag is no mean feat!
We take 2 if we are very lucky to have room, or tie it to the roof!
And so much easier for carting tack, normally 1 - 4 saddles and far too many boots/bridles!! And 8 feeds are heavy!
 
No wheelbarrow - just a pooper scooper and a collapsible compost bag, and if I have to drag wedges of straw around then a tarpaulin muck sheet which folds up flat and has handles on each of the corners to drag large quantities of bedding/muck around without lifting. Brilliant!
 
I take a barrow, it fits neatly into my end partition along with the wheely bin that I use for carrying hay - a bale fits into it perfectly and keeps it dry and alltogether. You don't need to worry about retieing a half bale back together and it's easy to move about.
 
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