Arbor trolley

[redmoosefaction]

The tyre size is written on the wall. I ordered just the tyre's (x2!) and got my local tyre garage to press them onto the existing wheels.

 

I phoned them up and ordered them that way. Nice Geordie Lasses will sort you out.

 

Or should that be....a canny geordie lass will sort yee oot

[normandylumberjack]

Sounds like a good idea.

What kind of expanding foam and how would you get it in there?

 

Not sure on the type, but there is a white foam available here with fibers in it that keep it rigid, and as for application, I would drill a hole or two in the side walls and squirt it in through there.

 

There is probably a good reason why this would fail, but I never think that far ahead!

[Paul Smith]

You insert the slime through the valve removing the valve first.

[Paul Smith]

After a couple of days with the trolley I am totally converted! It makes life soooo much easier! Wish I bought one years ago🙈🙉

 

However it needs a couple of mods. The wheels need a spacer to fill the axle and the retaining clip should be replaced with a split pin. Mine came of twice today. Also the black protectors on the extension are very poor and come of when you invert the barrow. I'm going to replace mine with a golf ball. Very hard wearing and safe if you fall onto the poles.

 

Great bit of kit!👍

[s.varty]

Sounds like a good idea.

What kind of expanding foam and how would you get it in there?

 

I had all my mowers filled with a kind of gel that sets hard just like a solid fork lift tyre, apparently loading shovels etc on land fills use it, one draw back is that the wheels weight about 3 times heavier, when the tyres are worn out they just cut the tyre off and chuck the solid gel back into the boiler ,melt it and use it again, no idea what its called though.

[oldwoodcutter]

One of the first mods i did to mine was fill the tubes with green slime,a trolley with a puncture is unusable just when you want to be getting on.

[Goaty]

One of the first mods i did to mine was fill the tubes with green slime,a trolley with a puncture is unusable just when you want to be getting on.

 

Yellow type was oko I think. I never got on with it.

[NI Tree]

I had all my mowers filled with a kind of gel that sets hard just like a solid fork lift tyre, apparently loading shovels etc on land fills use it, one draw back is that the wheels weight about 3 times heavier, when the tyres are worn out they just cut the tyre off and chuck the solid gel back into the boiler ,melt it and use it again, no idea what its called though.

 

it not the smoothest rides though

[s.varty]

it not the smoothest rides though

 

All pedestrian and worked great, agree with a ride on though

[White Noise]

Well getting solids is not as easy as you would think! The green tyres from B&Q are only 14" with a plastic rim and no bearings. I think they will fit the 25mm axle? Picked some 15" wheels up from Machine Mart but they only have a 20mm hub!

 

Now, do I fit the green tyres or do I do a repair with the tyre filler stuff and try source wheels that will fit?

 

Hey Paul don't worry I have had the Green Tyres with plastic rims on my Arb Trolley for 18 months and they have taken some abuse ; ) and they are still going strong