Wheelbarrow wheels!

[Gav73]

Buy some gloop that pumps into the tyre. I use air seal products stuff, it seals all punctures and never gives trouble.

I will never use any of the puncture preventative stuff after seeing what it did to my Dad’s Harley Davidson wheels. It basically rotted them from the inside - luckily he found out when getting a new tyre and not when he was out riding!

[Saw-sick Steve]

50 minutes ago, Stere said:

OP might be using barrows across where hedge has being flailed to be so repeatedly unlucky?

 

Is the  barrow wheel going  over blackthorn / brambles etc?

 

Go many  yrs without any puncture.... then its always seems to be  thorns or nail etc that doest if I do get one....

 

Basically stuff that avoidable normally.

 

Yeah, not buying that, sorry. Yes there's some Blackthorn around (but not flailed), but bramble - really? I can remember doing jobs on the old estate I started out on - over 40 years ago -  that regularly involved barrowing aggregate over scrub and rough ground and never having a puncture. It definitely seems to be a relatively recent phenomenon, as I stated in the op it's either down to cheap Chinese rubber or lower ply tyres IMO. 

  I'm going for a 'puncture proof' barrow and see how I get on. I'd like to try a 6 ply tyre, but having googled them they only seem to be sold in units of 10.🙄

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah, not buying that, sorry. Yes there's some Blackthorn around (but not flailed), but bramble - really? I can remember doing jobs on the old estate I started out on - over 40 years ago -  that regularly involved barrowing aggregate over scrub and rough ground and never having a puncture. It definitely seems to be a relatively recent phenomenon, as I stated in the op it's either down to cheap Chinese rubber or lower ply tyres IMO. 

  I'm going for a 'puncture proof' barrow and see how I get on. I'd like to try a 6 ply tyre, but having googled them they only seem to be sold in units of 10.🙄

 

Edited March 9, 2021 by Saw-sick Steve

[dig-dug-dan]

2 hours ago, Gav73 said:

 

I will never use any of the puncture preventative stuff after seeing what it did to my Dad’s Harley Davidson wheels. It basically rotted them from the inside - luckily he found out when getting a new tyre and not when he was out riding!

 

Never heard of that before, but I am using the agricultural grade stuff, it's not designed for high speed

[scbk]

3 hours ago, Saw-sick Steve said:

Yeah, not buying that, sorry. Yes there's some Blackthorn around (but not flailed), but bramble - really? I can remember doing jobs on the old estate I started out on - over 40 years ago -  that regularly involved barrowing aggregate over scrub and rough ground and never having a puncture. It definitely seems to be a relatively recent phenomenon, as I stated in the op it's either down to cheap Chinese rubber or lower ply tyres IMO. 

  I'm going for a 'puncture proof' barrow and see how I get on. I'd like to try a 6 ply tyre, but having googled them they only seem to be sold in units of 10.🙄

 

Yep all the times on modern wheel barrows/sack trucks etc I've had a flat tyre..........It's rarely actually a puncture, mainly the wheels/tyres/innertubes falling apart

[Macpherson]

4 hours ago, Saw-sick Steve said:

as I stated in the op it's either down to cheap Chinese rubber or lower ply tyres IMO. 

Yeah, last year I bought 2 galvi barrows of different makers, real good price but both got early flats and when taking off the wheels / tyres the rubber was total shite and paper thin as were the tubes and the wheels rims and axles were just total crap.... it's back to Haemmerlin for me.

[Stere]

Hammerlin is good.

 

Best one I have is norwegian trallfa . The orginal frame rusted  but the pan is  still like new  after 20yrs stuck on a a new frame. Expensive though

 

 

History | Trallfa

TRALLFA.NO

 

 

 

 

 

[spandit]

I bought a couple of these:

15" Wheelbarrow wheel set 1 2 4pc puncture proof black full rubber 4.80/4 4.00-8

WWW.EBAY.CO.UK

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Wheelbarrow wheel with block profile Full rubber black. 1x / 2x / 4x wheelbarrow wheel as desired. Then order Flat-less...

They don't fit my Hammerlin barrows without some modification - had to turn some spacers on the lathe (although a stack of washers might have sufficed) but it's nice not having constant flats

[Dan Maynard]

I bought a couple of these:

15" Wheelbarrow wheel set 1 2 4pc puncture proof black full rubber 4.80/4 4.00-8

WWW.EBAY.CO.UK

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Wheelbarrow wheel with block profile Full rubber black. 1x / 2x / 4x wheelbarrow wheel as desired. Then order Flat-less... They don't fit my Hammerlin barrows without some modification - had to turn some spacers on the lathe (although a stack of washers might have sufficed) but it's nice not having constant flats

Postage cost has gone up to £600!

[spandit]

1 minute ago, Dan Maynard said:

14 minutes ago, spandit said:

I bought a couple of these:

15" Wheelbarrow wheel set 1 2 4pc puncture proof black full rubber 4.80/4 4.00-8

WWW.EBAY.CO.UK

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Wheelbarrow wheel with block profile Full rubber black. 1x / 2x / 4x wheelbarrow wheel as desired. Then order Flat-less... They don't fit my Hammerlin barrows without some modification - had to turn some spacers on the lathe (although a stack of washers might have sufficed) but it's nice not having constant flats

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Postage cost has gone up to £600!

Well that's Brexit for you!

[Woodworks]

On 08/03/2021 at 17:56, Steven P said:

Old mountain bike days - had Kevlar between the tyre and tube for protection. If that's any use for you?

 

 

 

Tuffy tyre liner is what we used to use and they still sell it apparently

 

http://mrtuffy.com/

 

Edited March 10, 2021 by Woodworks