flexi tubs at asda

I might give them a try. Although I have got half a dozen various sizes of tubtrugs that are at least 10 years old, still going strong, whereas recently purchased cheaper ones split quite readily. The plastic seems less pliable, more brittle somehow. I guess you get what you pay for as TT's aren't cheap. But these cheaper ones look pretty sharp once split, which is a worry to me with silly babies about.
 
Oh good, I got one a while ago then they stopped having them at Christmas in favour of Christmas tatt! Will go stock up :-)

Yeah they are more plasticky, but I only use them for food or as alternative water holder in the field.
 
They seem quite thin-mine is inside a wood carrying contraption on wheels for ease. I was shamed in Asda when I couldn't get one out of the pile. :o
 
I've bought a few of the bigger ones to use as water buckets and for storing things in, and they've lasted really well for the price of them.
the smaller ones have lasted as well and they've been used every day for over a year :)

I bought the more expensive rigid ones for my new boy and he's wrecked them all already :o
 
I bought the tesco ones but all the handle bits snapped within a month :(. Maybe asda ones are better, put me off buying cheap ones though.
 
Thankyou for the heads up on these-mine were desperate for new ones but buying 3 buckets each for 4 horses was looking quite expensive so these have saved the day!!.They are even in the 4 colours I have for mine so even better!!:D
 
Catcus said:
I bought the tesco ones but all the handle bits snapped within a month :(. Maybe asda ones are better, put me off buying cheap ones though.
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Yours lasted longer than mine. One handle broke the first time I used it and the others lasted a few weeks.

Some of my Tubtrugs are over 10 years old and still going strong.
 
I got some recycled tyre tubtrugs over christmas for 6.99, love them! Sick of handles snapping on my normal ones (proper tubtrugs too). I got some big garden tubs from Aldi a bit ago, they've faired better! Frost is no good for them...
 
My two that I use for feeds are over two years old and the massive one that I use for her water so she can't pick it up and lob it or kick it to death is also two years old. She's even stopped pooing in it now :D
 
Oooh thanks for this! I was going to get some pound shop washing up bowls.

I'm always on the lookout for cheap feeding stuff cos Sham's cruel to her buckets and bowls - she even managed to trash one of those recycled tyre ones last winter. At the moment she's eating out of a bucket with splits in it and a missing handle (she grabs the handles in her teeth to pull the bucket nearer to her) and I've told her she's not allowed a new one till the end of the month.
 
ribbons said:
I might give them a try. Although I have got half a dozen various sizes of tubtrugs that are at least 10 years old, still going strong, whereas recently purchased cheaper ones split quite readily. The plastic seems less pliable, more brittle somehow. I guess you get what you pay for as TT's aren't cheap. But these cheaper ones look pretty sharp once split, which is a worry to me with silly babies about.
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I bought some last month, they're really thick, the handles are reinforced and they've been trampled in the snow but not so much as a crease in mine (yet)
 
My cheapy one have lasted well, despite Ted picking it up and hitting Alice over the head with his once he has finished his tea.

The middle sized ones are ideal for feeding babies in, they don't seem to tip them up as much as using the shallow rounder trugs.
 
I love the Asda ones. They have lasted me a good few years now. I do find most of these tubs (even the good ones) cant really handle being used outside in the frost and ice. They seem to go brittle and snap :(
 
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