What Wheelbarrow?

[face cord]

I think they should make a modern light weight version of the chinese wheel barrow.

 

Unlike the western version you don't lift as much weight as the wheel is located centrally so you are just kind of balancing the load.

 

 

 

 

Low-tech Magazine: How to downsize a transport network: the Chinese wheelbarrow

[face cord]

Stylish looking barrow

 

 

Builders And Contractors | Tufx Brand Wheelbarrows

[tommytopsoil]

Haemerlin Barrows!!!

 

+1

 

Get a galved one. The old man has one that must be about 26 yrs old. Wants a fresh tyre like but still has (some) paint on the frame and wheel! Concrete, tarmac, silage, bricks, logs etc...

 

Good investment.

[Gareth Dalzell]

I was fed up buying wheel barrow and came across these. We bought six of these 3 years ago. We've had 1 puncture and absolutely no other problems and they,ve been used for concrete, stone, soil, loaded by careless mini digger drivers, carried logs, tree butts, whacker plate, rootballed trees - all no problem. And they are still as good as they day we bought them - but at around £130 each plus Vat they'd need to be!

FRONTGATE UK - SiteBlazer - Heavy Duty Wheelbarrow

[growforest]

 

This place never ceases to amaze me. It's like a giant Hive Mind, ready to go to work on any given subject. Ask a question and sit back. Go off and chop some firewood, eat your dinner, have a kip. Come back and the job's done. Brilliant. I could even come on here in a right state, chewing my last stale crust and get psychoanalysed enough that I would be running a major multinational by Wednesday week.

 

Hey, that Stein job is good but it's not a wheelbarrow. It's a trolley.

 

Trust the French to corner the barrow hearts and minds of this great nation. Where are our great stampers-out of wheelbarrows?

 

I didn't know I wanted to sit for an hour and read the history of the Chinese wheelbarrow until today. That three-foot wheel just isn't going to catch on. But maybe a barrow with a sail...?

 

Keep your thoughts coming: you know you have things you want to add. Don't feel it's not important. You've read this far!

 

Let's have pictures of your barrows at work. Let's see them grafting, earning their price tag.

[difflock]

Hi Sur,

but it taks a Norn Iron man to know a praper guid wheelbarrow there Gareth.

Mr Dyson please stand down.

PS

Anyone got tips to keep the Mrs. from "acquiring" my wheelbarrows for her gardening duties, mostly for long term storage solutions.

[Gareth Dalzell]

Hi Sur,

but it taks a Norn Iron man to know a praper guid wheelbarrow there Gareth.

Mr Dyson please stand down.

PS

Anyone got tips to keep the Mrs. from "acquiring" my wheelbarrows for her gardening duties, mostly for long term storage solutions.

 

Spot on difflock.

 

These barrow are built along the same lines as a mortar tub, very robust. I cut this picture from a larger one. I was so worried that someone would pinch them I got a stencil made and black spray painted our logo onto them.

 

[difflock]

Paint em bright PINK.

Per the South Eastern Education board's policy (in the 1980's, I think?) of crudely brush painting all School owned VCR's and TV's JCB yellow, to discourage/prevent theft.

They looked hideous, but still worked and one presumes were hardly saleable if stolen.

Wherever did you get your new TV Mrs?

I liked that solution.