I bought one of these:Bucketbarrow for a fencing project at home.
Very robust and doesn’t twist when you put a proper load in it.
Highly recommend.
Very robust and doesn’t twist when you put a proper load in it.
Highly recommend.
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Kram
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How much 
(Not to any specific suggestion, all too expensive)
The last ones I used were rubbish, handles collapsed and made it somewhat painfull to shift a ton of logs into the tipper. If I were in the position to buy, I think I'd get welder out and fabricate one of a better quality.
(Not to any specific suggestion, all too expensive)
The last ones I used were rubbish, handles collapsed and made it somewhat painfull to shift a ton of logs into the tipper. If I were in the position to buy, I think I'd get welder out and fabricate one of a better quality.
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Did somebody mention wheelbarrows?
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Inherited this then wheeless barrow off the FiL. He only ever used it for grass cuttings:
Welded an RHS brace across the back. Somehow my blobs of MIG have stayed there. Some rust streaks from inside the box now so need to drill a hole and squirt in ACF-50 sometime.
Without the brace it's like a clown's barrow at the circus and twists all over the place. Added a puncture less wheel but tbh something likes eating the foam on it. Given good service with heavier loads since. Currently conveying flints.
Welded an RHS brace across the back. Somehow my blobs of MIG have stayed there. Some rust streaks from inside the box now so need to drill a hole and squirt in ACF-50 sometime.
Without the brace it's like a clown's barrow at the circus and twists all over the place. Added a puncture less wheel but tbh something likes eating the foam on it. Given good service with heavier loads since. Currently conveying flints.
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Tipping trailers are far less physical…..Poo plus urine soaked shavings, mrs Robo is really finicky about keeping the horses bed immaculate, which means more for me to barrow to the muck heap
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If you need to do physical work, you need to be fit enough and strong enough to do so.
' Never send a boy to do a mans job'.....
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If I could afford to pay the boys wages I would. But as I cant I shovel the Sh1t and other bedding etc into a tipping trailer, then once a week make the trip to the current muck heap. Saves pushing a barrow over undulating ground a couple of hundred yards!
Also barrows dont last long loading them with a digger!
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A decrepit old dumper is another option....
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I have no idea why but the thread has me searching for electric wheelbarrows 
I found this.
I found this.
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I went to a house to cut a couple of trees last year and the woman had a massive two wheeled barrow but she wouldn't let me use it in case I got it dirty. I asked what it was used for and she explained it was a dog bath for her two Newfies.
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I borrowed a powered barrow when breaking the old concrete floors out of the house. What a handy thing, far easier than a pushy one. Mrs moved about 50 ton with it.I have no idea why but the thread has me searching for electric wheelbarrows
I found this.
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I usually end up going up,down and across a lot of scaffold boards, so I can't see a two wheel one working very well in that situation.
Cheapy £20 metal chillingtons work well for me - run them until the tyre inevitably cracks or picks up too many punctures and then swap them to a solid wheel - less manovarable but not always flat when you go to use it.
Treated well they should last donkeys years, the galvanised ones last even better.
Store them upwards so they don't sit full of water, oil the axles regularly and don't overload them, always clean them out if using concrete.
I suspect most barrows probably die of abuse long before old age.
Cheapy £20 metal chillingtons work well for me - run them until the tyre inevitably cracks or picks up too many punctures and then swap them to a solid wheel - less manovarable but not always flat when you go to use it.
Treated well they should last donkeys years, the galvanised ones last even better.
Store them upwards so they don't sit full of water, oil the axles regularly and don't overload them, always clean them out if using concrete.
I suspect most barrows probably die of abuse long before old age.
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If thats a link? it doesnt work..
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Cheaper and holds more, admittedly a quad would probably struggle with that. My little 19hp tractor can move it but is pulling wheelies doing so.
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I have one of those too, maybe a bit bigger but in winter when we move most waste bedding and poop. The ground gets chewed up too easily by the tractor. Quad and trailer does far less damage. When we were doing up the barns etc, I was given free use of an old 4wd dumper, guy who owns it, just leaves it where last used till he needs it again. Did a lot of ground damage doing multiple runs loosing the big rubble pile of concrete and stone floors. But was far easier loosing rubble and doing my shed base than the tractor and trailer, plus myMrs was happy driving it. Allowing me to load it!
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My JCB barrow was found down the back of my mum's shed when she moved in 12 years ago and was already a fair age . It's continued to live outside for the last 12 years.
Welds gave up on the bucket last week. Few self tappers into the tube and it will go for a few more years.
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Find me Chillingtons at £20 and I'll buy three, they are £60 last I saw for sale.
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Chillington galvanised?So,after some 30yrs mines dues for the dump,you've serve me well but its bye bye
Right then,does one stick to the old metal bucket as i've grown to use or whats these new tuff as **** polyplastic whatever,ones like?
Remember,its to carry everything known to mankind(even the shopping from car to back door),have concrete etc knocked up in it,oh and to be thrown around and live outside for 1000's of yrs to come
Pneumatic wheel is a must
Your views please
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