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Best place for a very large, preferably plastic wheelbarrow please?! Don't want to spend alot on it though
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Most people on our yard use the orange B&Q plasic ones, they hold a good amount and seem to last for years, but are now round about £40. I need to relace mine but have been holding off and pinching OH's
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Thanks guys, ideally I wanted an over 100litre one, as mare is filthy and it makes my life easier if I only have to do one route to the muck heap!!
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But the cheaper ones do look very appealing!!!
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Ideally I wanted a large barrow but baulked at the cost of them and agree they are not the easiest to steer! Due to costs settled for a bog standard plastic barrow in a very fetching pink colour at £40.

In hindsight I am pleased I didnt get the large barrow as the ramp onto our muck trailer is steep and slippy, there is no way I would have managed to push anything heavier up to tip it.
 
I paid £59 for mine from scats, you can quite a lot in it and its a kind of purple colour. The replacement wheels are only about £10 from scats too. I used to have the orange one from B&Q however I found the tire perished (never had that happen on a barrow before!) and I could never find a replacement tire!
 
I have the 2 wheeled blue one from Robinsons (the bright blue one rather than the big navy blue one). I like it a lot. It's mahoosive which is great as it means I can muck out two stables and only do one trip to the muck heap. It also gets used for different purposes - moving hay to and from field, soaking my wood pellet bedding, moving feed around, YO has used it for moving logs, etc etc. I don't find it difficult to move although obviously it doesn't turn in as small a space is a small barrow.

My only complaint would be that it didn't come with instructions. Fortunately my dad helped and managed to work out what went where. Think it cost £95 when I bought it (maybe a year and half ago).

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I bought a 200L plastic one from ebay - think the seller is Stratford Atlantic? I am sure he had 120L ones as well - much cheaper than the tack shop. You do have to put them together though which can be a bit of a faff.
 
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I use one like this http://www.greenfingers.com/superstore/product.asp?dept_id=200348&pf_id=LS4081D Have had it for years and have replaced the wheel once but otherwise it's been fab
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These are excellent I have the blue one and have had it for about 9 years and is still going very strong only had to change wheel cos someone used it and puntured it and never brought my old wheel back so it now has a orange wheel LOL...just to be different.
Cant recommend these enough
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the 2-wheeled ones are actually LESS stable to push up a ramp, they wobble from wheel to wheel, they're evil. i've got 1 and it has been demoted to gardening duties only. also, if you have a huge barrow and fill it up then it can end up weighing nearly as much as you, which is not good when the ramp is wet or icy... what about a normal barrow + a tubtrug which you can fill and balance on top, and empty separately, works for me!
 
http://www.robinsons-uk.com/products/search.asp?keyword=wheelbarrow#sku.43119

The one I have is the Lightweight twin wheeled one although mine didnt come from Robinsons. It is easy to steer & is now in its 6th year of daily use. It did take both of my brain cells to put it together but I would highly recommend. So so much better than the little B&Q orange ones. I can muck out 2 or 3 horses in 1 go & carry 3-4 bales of hay/straw in it.

Go buy!!!!!
 
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Don't buy one of the two wheeled ones, evil to steer.

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Poking fun of my numpty barrow are you?
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Well i like my two wheeled barrow, alot more sturdy that the single wheel, your load is alot more secure when you do those corners rally style! lol
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