Cheap Wheel barrows?

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Where is the cheapest place to pick up a good wheel barrow?...metal or plastic as long as its big enough to be used for mucking out.

I need to purchase one, which I will keep firmly under a lock and chain!! along with all my other things from now on, I refuse to spend £40-£70 on one for everyone else to use and abuse.

Yes my livery yard has so far claimed my wheelbarrow, 2 pitch folks, 2 yard brushes and various other little things from my grooming box which have grown little legs and disappeared into some strange land.

I'm fed up buying myself and my horse nice things, only from them be borrowed, or taken without permission and never returned, I wouldn't mind but I seem to be the only person that spends a lot of time down there doing my own chores and also putting a lot of time into my horse and his care, most of the others are on full livery and you'd be lucky to see most of them twice a week. So why does my stuff go missing? for goodness sake most of its PINK...its not exactly a desirable colour is it and its not like it would go unnoticed if it was in someone else's tack box, I cant understand it.

I spent 10 minutes scratching my head, ram sacking my tack room, checking I wasn't going in sane and peering over every stable door last night
looking for one of my feed buckets, only to discover it locked in someone else's tack room with sugar beat soaking in it! (we have access to both tack rooms) I know it only a bucket but I sick of buying them for other people to use! for goodness sake its how much is a bucket these days?

Sorry a simple question turned into a mild rant, must be coming up to that time of the month of something, sorry guys it just p*sses me off.:(
 
Oh tell me about it and when I got to the yard a while ago and mine had a flat tyre I was livid! Wasn't flat when I used it the previous day and it wasn't where I had left it..... You could always chain yours up!! Only decent ones I have seen are about £50 cheaper ones don't seem to be very big or robust, not much help I am afraid but can sympathise with you!
 
http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav/nav.js...p;isSearch=true

I have this one from BandQ its bright orange so doesn't tend to go walkies too often
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I got this one from B&Q - decent size & I can get one stable's muck into it - bearing in mind i muck out 8 rather pooey stables a day I'd be struggling if it was too small. Sensibly priced for what it is - i think they do a plastic one for a couple of quid more.
 
Thanks guys, funny you should mention B&Q actually because my dad said he's take a look there today, because you get so much % off if your a pensioner on Wednesday
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old parents do have there uses lol (only kidding) so he said he'd take peep.

I did spot this at my local tackshop which I've also found on the web...
http://www.vyair.com/scripts/prodView.asp?idProduct=49

but I had to resist...however I dont think our big manly YO would be using it to skip out the full liveries...not unless he's not telling us something
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I looked at the B&Q ones, but they were too small (90L) so I wanted to get bigger ones (120L) for my disgusting horses and then made dad stock them!

We've got a 200L version, but I haven't tried it as don't think that would work with pushing it up planks onto our muck cart!!!

(We have them in pink too!!! )
 
QR and slight change of subject

You might already do this, but write your name/horse's name all over your stuff! It made a difference to my stuff that goes wandering and even if it does you can claim it back much easier if you've marked it all. How about putting a notice up by your stable/tackroom that says "If borrowed, please return". That way you're not saying not to borrow, but that you want it back!
 
The orange barows are quite good as they are light & easy to use. Some of the larger barrows are so heavy when full.

Only problem with the orange barrows are that there are 2 small welds that break & then your barrow 'tap, tap, taps' along being really annoying. This happens in a relatively short time. You end up having to drill the tubular frame & orange plastic & put a couple of bolts through to repair it. They then last forever....providing no one pinches it
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Thanks for this post Kenzo! I need to buy one as I think my poor friend will get sick of me borrowing hers. I am loving the pink one but at £50 I'd better refrain!
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Thanks guys, funny you should mention B&Q actually because my dad said he's take a look there today, because you get so much % off if your a pensioner on Wednesday
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old parents do have there uses lol (only kidding) so he said he'd take peep.

I did spot this at my local tackshop which I've also found on the web...
http://www.vyair.com/scripts/prodView.asp?idProduct=49

but I had to resist...however I dont think our big manly YO would be using it to skip out the full liveries...not unless he's not telling us something
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OMG I want it! Not sure I could even consider Mucking out with it (Far to nice for that), would be a great garden ornament though!
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I've been looking for a wheelbarrow - and as far as I'm concerned 'cheap' and 'wheelbarow' are mutually exclusive terms.

Btw - I moved yards yesterday. One of the reasons was because I was fed up of being used as a central resource area. I've have lost more feed scoops, brushes, feed buckets, feed, bales of shavings .................. Despite having my name all over everything!
 
The owners daughter's at our place have the orange B&Q barrow, they got me to try it a few times and OMG it was so much easier than our old green metal one!

I have a totally Kn****ed back and tendonitis and couldn't believe how much easier the orange one is to push even though it holds almost double the muck my old green one does.

At Brigg tack shop (Thomas Bells) this weekend they had almost an identical barrow to the orange B&Q one but in pink for £42, my daughter batted her eyelashes so I am now looking faintly embarrassed pushing a pink barrow around our field...

Our field is just under 4 acres and we have a 16hh TB and a 13.2hh welsh c, (the TB is a poo machine!) and I can get an entire days worth of poo in one barrowload now
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When we were on a big livery yard stuff was always being "borrowed" and never returned, used to drive me nuts, we are very lucky now to be the only liveries on the farm. My daughter would love to go back to somewhere with a school but no chance in hell I'm moving!
 
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