When you fill up a wheelbarrow, do you...

[Allie374]

While i am thinking about it, the battering use of my private barrow always meant the tyre went flat too. On going flat, i was told by said yo where to take it to be pumped up, at a significant cost.

Her hubby farmer, unwittingly it must be said, used his air machine to pump tyre up in seconds........ would love to have been a fly on the wall for THAT one.

To add here, the livery involved, who could do no wrong, who happened to also hunt.... smashed another liveries b and q barrow to shards, and in anger, five brooms. The yo actually hired her a broom out. £5 at boyes......brand new broom like my beloved one. NO ONE TOUCHES MY BROOM, PAIN OF DEATH.

Bloody hell, i am leaking out my book, haha

 

[AmieeT]

My own wheelbarrow, depends how full.

If half full, I'll pop it beside my trailer (very old very big trailer where I store my feed and hay) as no one goes there, and use it the next day.

If too full to use again it gets emptied.

 

[skewbaldmillie]

I am an A, mainly because YO is a crazy ocd kind of person when it comes to yard cleanliness. I swear he just waits for me to bring in to make sure I sweep the concrete all the way from the fields to my stable. He leaves his huge barrow half full and tbh if I only have 1 or 2 poos to remove I just dump them in and he doesn't notice any different. If I had my own yard I might be tempted to become a B

 

[DirectorFury]

A. Always A.


Other liveries usually B until they see me chucking up the muck heap and then come and 'helpfully' dump their poo on top of what I'm chucking up so they don't have to do it <angry face>. Not helped by the fact they use 'off' haylage as bedding and it weighs a bloody ton.

 

[showjump_queen2]

Usually just me and 2 others on the days I work at yard - and muck heap is short walk away so usually we take care of our own barrows

 

[Clare85]

Always, always A! Can't stand a full barrow sitting around. Must be emptied and propped neatly against the wall

 

[Goldenstar]

Well I confess to being a B.
Because I have someone who empties the barrows .

 

[FfionWinnie]

I do c) pack more into it so it falls off on the way to emptying it and I have to clean that up too. I feel like I'm saving time tho.

 

[HufflyPuffly]

I do c) pack more into it so it falls off on the way to emptying it and I have to clean that up too. I feel like I'm saving time tho.

Haha I do this too, I have even mastered the art of layering the muck in the barrow, in the hope that my mathematical like precision will mean the contents get to the muck heap, but no doubt the wind will then whip it off on the way and all over the yard...

x x

 

[Annagain]

Haha I do this too, I have even mastered the art of layering the muck in the barrow, in the hope that my mathematical like precision will mean the contents get to the muck heap, but no doubt the wind will then whip it off on the way and all over the yard...

x x

Ahh, that's why you always put the leftover hay in first. Muck then flattens it so you can get more on top and weighs it down so it won't blow away. Doesn't work with straw beds though!

 

[HufflyPuffly]

Ahh, that's why you always put the leftover hay in first. Muck then flattens it so you can get more on top and weighs it down so it won't blow away. Doesn't work with straw beds though!

Noooo it takes all the room up if it goes in first! Poo's first as they tend to roll about, then wet shavings which are levelled off, then excess haylage which is tucked into the sides to make a lid! This tends to work well for me anyway

 

[Donkey66]

I'll leave the barrow unemptied if its really dark because the path to the muck heap os dark and muddy. I can do it in the morning before I muck out again. Its only me here. so who cares?
Years ago when the barrow pans were steel and rusted, my Dad used to go mad if we didn't tip the empty barrow against the wall so water didn't sit in it. I still find it difficult to not tidy the barrow even though it's plastic.

 

[Lintel]

A - unless someone kindly says "oh here I'll borrow that a sec and empty it if your done!"

 

[Equi]

At the yard, its emptied immediately and put back to the wheelbarrow parking lol at home it lies where it is until it gets knocked over and i have to start again.

 

[LCH611]

I do c) pack more into it so it falls off on the way to emptying it and I have to clean that up too. I feel like I'm saving time tho.

me too, I irritate myself every morning by piling so much in that it slows me down having to carefully empty every forkful and then pick up every bit that has bobbled out the sides! especially as I can normally get my son to empty my wheelbarrow for me and bring me a new barrow as I move to the next stable!

 

[Luci07]

Never even occurred to me. Even if the barrow just has a small amount of sweepings in it, all of us empty the barrows and put them away.

 

[skint1]

I own my own barrow, most of the time I empty it before finishing what seems to be an ever growing list of stuff to do at the yard, but sometimes I don't- on such an occasion I leave it in one of my horses' stables and shut the door or I leave it out of harm's way where we all store our barrows.

I would not be best pleased to find it emptied back into one of my stables! I find that sort of thing really upsetting and I would think a lot less of a person who did such a thing to me.

If it were a shared resource it would only be fair to empty it after every use, but even then I wouldn't condone dumping back in someone's stable, what if you pick the wrong person? They're not going to be happy are they?

 

[HashRouge]

I always empty it, I can't stand full barrows being left around on the yard. It looks messy and if it's windy cr@p gets blown everywhere. I used to be a groom though, so I learnt to be obsessed with a tidy yard! If on a livery yard, I would accept that people can do what they like so long as it's their barrow and it's not in anyone's way. It would probably annoy me a bit, but I'd accept that the problem was mine!

 

[tankgirl1]

I don't always empty it, but it's my barrow and is tucked out of the way so it's no problem - I'll still have to empty it the next day! If it was a shared barrow then I would empty it

 

[482739]

Leave mine till I finish work - it's pitch black & im not walking through ankle high poo swamps In the dark. No one seems to bother& it's against my hay bale

 

[ROMANY 1959]

Before I got rather nasty arthritis , I emptied my barrow all time, even though it's often needed to be pushed up a steep ramp to the muck trailer, now I can't actually do it due to lack of muscle and strength, I fill them and someone else will kindly empty it for me... If no one about I skip out with skip and a little rake.. And do several trips to trailer.. It takes me longer, but I don't like having to ask for help..

 

[Cobbytype]

When we were on a livery yard I used to empty the barrow (a Smart Cart) once I'd finished mucking out the 3 horses, but when I was down to one horse and he was stabled at home, it would be left half full on day one and emptied every other day when it reasonably full. It's a 400m walk from home (where the stable is) to the paddock (where the muck heap is), so not a quick trip with a barrow and not worth the effort just to make the place look tidy.