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Looking to buy a wheel barrow, any recommendations out there? One that won't break straight away, cheap ish etc 🙂


 
Posted : 12/02/2016 1:03 pm
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Can you still get those ones with the ball instead of a wheel that James dyson designed?


 
Posted : 12/02/2016 1:05 pm
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Builders one from builders merchant.


 
Posted : 12/02/2016 1:07 pm
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wickes or Buildbase seem pretty reasonable and about £30 ish. Mine is dying and will get another with a proper tyre like this one.


 
Posted : 12/02/2016 1:10 pm
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wickes.

unless your trudging across a building site and using it every day the solid tire one wins . My sack barrow pisses me off as when ever i go to use it the pneumatic tires are flat....


 
Posted : 12/02/2016 1:14 pm
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Think I have only pumped my tyre up 3 or 4 times in the 12 years I have had it. Don't think its going to do another logging season though, as almost rotten through on the hoop round the wheel. Next one will be waxoiled !!


 
Posted : 12/02/2016 10:21 pm
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nothing worse than a rotten hoop

Get one from builders merchant


 
Posted : 12/02/2016 10:23 pm
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Chillington are pretty good, Walsall are shite.


 
Posted : 12/02/2016 10:25 pm
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I just got a cheap wheelbarrow from probably homebase or something.
I'm by no means a professional user but its still going after 20 years.


 
Posted : 13/02/2016 12:01 am
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Ernest Doe farming supplies do some decent ones, also some snazzy colours if you want a plastic one (it would get scruffy if you use it fit throwing brick in but I reckon it's stronger than a builders metal one)


 
Posted : 13/02/2016 7:56 am
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*voice of lots of experience on*

The cheap barrows even as little as 10 years ago were still good quality. The cheap barrows now, even from builders merchants are utter shite! They are made from metal of a similar thickness to a rizla and an ill placed shovel will go through the bottom. Don't be tempted by them if it's for moving good barrow loads of anything heavy as they flex like **** and will genuinely give up after not long at all with the usual starter being the sloping face of the barrow catching on the wheel as you push it...


 
Posted : 13/02/2016 8:36 am
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Posted : 13/02/2016 9:58 am
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Mine always come from builders skips as they don't bother to clean them out and leave them half full of concrete. A few minutes with a hammer and they are sorted. Free. Who cares how long its lasts then, I still collect them faster than I destroy them.


 
Posted : 13/02/2016 10:48 am