wheelbarrows

[Bosworth]

Ok confess - who is a wheelbarrow guru........ I have spent many years trying to find the perfect yard barrow and failed. I have bought seriously expensive ones - only to find they are too big and unwieldly. I have bought equestrian barrows and found them too quick to break so I have ended up with builders barrows at about £30 each. Does anyone have a reasonably priced reasonably sized wheelbarrow they are genuinely impressed with and if so what make and roughly how much did it cost. Thanks

 

[Toby_Zaphod]

Builders barrows every time. I find the Equestrian ones are too expensive & too big. Once you've filled them with much they're too heavy to lift.

 

[ru-fi-do]

I have like a large gardeners barrow i think, my mum and dad bougt it me 10 years ago and it's great, very lightweight but a decent size, it's made out of tough thick plastic so no rotting. Just had a few punctures but they are easily fixed.

 

[Fahrenheit]

Can't help i'm afraid - my dad dad tea-leafed ours out of the Met Police Stable Yard!! They were broken (and they were throwing them out so it was grand theft!!) but he fixed them up and they've been going strong for 15 years now!!!!!!

 

[catembi]

I've just bought a fab new barrow. Its frame is aluminium & it's got double wheels at the front so it doesn't get bogged down so easily. The body is thick plastic. It steers really well even when full, & I can get loads in it. It's a bit high for mucking out, but then I'm really small, & it's too big to fit in the car so we had to get it in the lorry. Cost £110. I've had my eye on it for a while, so I'm really pleased to have finally got it.

 

[barkinghorse]

Out of all the barrows i have had, B&Q orange ones are the best! very light so you can get to the top of the muck heap, doesn't knock your shins when rushing, and was cheap at £34.00!!!
Jo

 

[josie_s]

I am personally a bit of a fan of the Fort ones. We have some with plastic bodies and one with an aluminium body. You can get loads more in them than the b & q ones but the are still really light. To be critical though the metal bodies sometimes need a little weld after a few years

 

[alsxx]

I'll second the B&Q orange barrows - I have one and its fab! cheap and cheerful!

 

[Super_Kat]

I have a £25 B&Q metal one and it's painted to look like an aeroplane.......That makes all the difference

 

[JM07]

B&Q orange one's for me too!!

 

[RachelB]

We have one of those big blue plastic ones (see Robinsons catalogue) at work, and a couple of mahoosive ones. Fantastic as long as they don't get a puncture as you can get multiple muck-outs in one barrow. Easy to move about I think as they have two wheels. We use garden barrows at home and I have to do about three trips to do my box! But then we do have a winch at the muckheap at work, I think the big barrows would be impossible if you had a ramp and no winch.

 

[Bosworth]

Thank you so much - I knew I could rely on you lot........ Ok the B&Q orange barrows it must be.......

I tried the huge equestrian ones with two weels - it hit a large stone and threw me in the muck heap so wont be going there again

 

[pottamus]

I have had a B&Q orange one but they kept getting punctures and flat tyres, so I have the B&Q metal one now...slightly smaller but has been great.

 

[brightmount]

I got my B&Q wheelbarrow for nothing from Freecycle. It's worth posting a "wanted" ad on there before shelling out

 

[darkangel1243]

I bought the same one as this one 4 months ago and its only £69 plus postage.It's the best wheelbarrow that I have ever owned so easy to use and the cheapest 2 wheel one that I have found and I spent ages looking
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/200LTR-TROJAN-YARD...1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[Bosworth]

Darkangel - I would be interested to see how you get on with that barrow -I had two of them about 5 years ago and they lasted no more than a few months each - the frame broke on both of them, may just have been a faulty batch but I was seriously disappointed with them for the money

 

[chriscrogul]

I'm curious to know how you solved the puncture problem by opting for the metal barrow!
I bought a wheel with a solid unpuncturable tyre to fit onto my bogstandard green builder's barrow- sorted!

 

[darkangel1243]

Well so far so good.

I use it every day and get it at least 3/4 full each time (shavings)plus I was use it transporting feed and shavings from the car to the barn.
I also rigged up a chain link thing so a could tow it behind my quad so I could poo pick the field too.
The only thing that has happened so far is one of the bolts came out but I'm guessing I didn't tighten it enough when I put it together.
Like I said before so far so good I really like it much better and lighter than the big equestrian metal barrows we used to use.

Fingers crossed it doesn't break

frame seems fairly strong, may be yours were part of a bad batch who knows.
My horses poo for England so the little barrows aren't really big enough but then it could be that I'm to lazy to trapse backwards and forwards to the muck heap

 

[Moggy in Manolos]

I have the orange B&Q wheelbarrow and its been ok so far