Looking for a good wheelbarrow

[JB4310]

This was the exact comment i was going to leave concerning flat free tires. I find a tube in a tire to be a great fix after the stock tubeless starts leaking. Plus a tube is easy to fix with a simple bicycle patch.

Ive used both the poly and the steel.

I prefer the steel due to increased stiffness making the load easier to control in a single wheel barrow. I cant say i like the dual wheel ones (i have one) and find it more awkward to use, but my wife finds it easier but she lacks the upper body strength to control a single wheel.

I might consider the dual wheel someday as most of my work is on fairly level ground, plus I use the WB more for mixing cement based materials than pushing dirt around, so we look for a level spot. Nothing worse than dumping a whole load of what ever you're carrying off the side cause you lose control of it :ashamed:
I'm not ready for poly yet, I doubt it would hold up to what I would throw at it.

JB.

 

[dmccarty]

This is what I bought, pretty close to what I bought, years ago. Mine has white tire ribs. Amazon.com: RCP5642BLA - Big Wheel Utility Cart: Office Products

Not sure how you can break this wheel barrow short of running over with a tractor and even then I suspect you might roll the tractor.

The only issue I have with mine is I have to air up the tires a couple of times a winter when I use it to haul fire wood up to the house. Given that wood is stored in the barrow 24x7 all winter long I cannot really complain.

I have never had to replace a part either.

Not sure about the hill issue people keep mentioning. I have used mine on our hills and it sure is easier than those one wheel barrows.

Having two wheels means you are using energy to push the barrow instead of wasting energy balancing the barrow. Not sure how concrete would work with the rubber/plastic but hauling tons and tons of rip rap, gravel, sand, mulch, and firewood works very well. There is simply no way I could haul what I do in one trip with this wheel barrow in a one wheel version. I have yet to have to fix a thing on it either. It generally sits out in the garden when not in use hauling firewood.

Short of hauling concrete, no way would I ever own a single wheel barrow again.

Later,
Dan

 

[JB4310]

This is what I bought, pretty close to what I bought, years ago. Mine has white tire ribs. Amazon.com: RCP5642BLA - Big Wheel Utility Cart: Office Products
Later,
Dan

That one reminds me of what we called a Chinese wheel barrow. A company I worked for had them, all steel, alot bigger and HD than what you show, but the same design. We use to load them up with concrete rubble and take them down flights of stairs in a factory we were working on. you could not destroy those things.

JB.

 

[Scooby074]

I'm not ready for poly yet, I doubt it would hold up to what I would throw at it.

JB.

The fort poly in my post are VERY tough... I dont know what you have planed... But ive been hard on mine, from concrete to firewood and its held up very well.

Matter of fact, these very wheelbarrows are used by several paving cotractors in town.. And if THEY cant destroy them...

+1 on the Rubbermaid commercial. Theyre a very good product as well. The structural "foam" in them is very tough. Used the larger ones as commercial garbage carts and they take a beating. I would have considered buying one over my Fort, but theyre just too expensive up here. The price on Amazon in the states is decent though

 

[AchingBack]

I bought one of these all steel wheelbarrows in 1979. I used it in my landscaping business. It is the most maneuverable design on the market. The round design of the handle nose will keep you from digging into the ground, as happens with the nose brace on the wooden handle barrows. http://www.jescraft.com/swa.html

 

[tsteahr]

I have a 10 year old Jackson single wheel poly and found it to be very rugged. Needed a tube in the tire. The poly tub takes a lot of abuse from rocks and has not cracked.

I would recommend installing a piece of 3/4 inch CDX plywood under the tub, between the tub and the handles. (Get four longer carriage bolts to bolt the tub to the handles for the extra thickness of the ply.) This ply will GREATLY increase the stiffness of the unit and the handles won't wobble when loaded to max. It also add reinforcement to the bottom of the tub so dropping a really big rock into the middle of the tub won't stress the poly.

I think a poly tub jackson reinforced with plywood is the most durable wheelbarrow I have come across. Only thing better is the loader on the tractor.

 

[2manyrocks]

The Mrs. bought a dual wheel WB from Homier. My first impression was cheap. The handlebars didn't last long before I replaced them with some oak I had planed down. I ended up using that thing quite a bit even though it is a cheapy in my opinion.

As far as the noise of throwing rocks in a steel tub, wonder if coating the tub with bedliner paint would help that? Adding plywood as a base ought to dampen it, too. That's a great tip.

 

[JB4310]

The Mrs. bought a dual wheel WB from Homier. My first impression was cheap. The handlebars didn't last long before I replaced them with some oak I had planed down. I ended up using that thing quite a bit even though it is a cheapy in my opinion.

As far as the noise of throwing rocks in a steel tub, wonder if coating the tub with bedliner paint would help that? Adding plywood as a base ought to dampen it, too. That's a great tip.

Wouldn't work for me mixing cement. That sound of scraping metal hoe on metal tub drives some people crazy, Like finger nails on a chalkboard.

JB

 

[Pete Judd]

I have used the Green Slime in the tires to keep them from going flat from the black berrys that we have around here, and I like the 2 wheeled ones as well.