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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 10:58 pm
by Forestboy1978
http://www.wheelbarrows.co.uk/walsall-d ... oCFafw_wcB
I must stop buying stuff but both my wheel barrows are a week away from dying.....
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 11:53 pm
by lutonlagerlout
looks an expensive wheelbarrow to me
IME the body goes before the wheels
LLL 
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 12:02 am
by GB_Groundworks
the belles aren't much more than that and our concrete firm swear by them they must have 30 off them and they get some hammer and you get almost double what you would in a haemerlin barrow
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 10:09 am
by Tony McC
Maybe this one is different, but placky barrows always had a problem with cracking/splitting if impacted to heavily. For example, some donkey-brained labourer launching blocks into it....
Ball barrows - I always thought they were a novelty for gardeners and DIYers but awkward to push on site, compared to a standard pneumatic. The concept was invented by a certain Mr Richard Dyson before he made a fortune with fancy vacuums. Surely, if he thought a ball-barrow had potential in the trade market, he'd have been onto it years ago, wouldn't he?
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 9:05 pm
by lutonlagerlout
some of the old fellas at the allotment have 30 year old barrows,big difference then was the metal was a lot thicker,and so they last but are heavy
I have narrow barrows for tight access, and the normal ones for normal use,cant see any time and motion increase in a £100 barrow
LLL
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 11:09 pm
by parishpaver
Got a couple of belle barrows 18 months ago and they are remarkably robust...no splits thus far and clean out better than steel/galv. Frames good and solid and unlike the Haemerlins, the handles don't slip off every time you tip them until you sling them in the skip and do without. Tyres seem better too.
The Haemerlins used to be a good barrow when they were an all welded frame...the bolted ones not so much.
Reckon I paid £125 each and don't think they represent bad value at all, for an every day-all day tool. Steel ones usually failed in some way after 10-12 months at maybe a little under half the cost.
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2016 11:47 am
by Tony McC
lutonlagerlout wrote:some of the old fellas at the allotment have 30 year old barrows,big difference then was the metal was a lot thicker,and so they last but are heavy
It's not all that long ago I chucked away one of the old barrows my dad had hung on to for, oh, at least 30 years.
3mm (old 1/8") steel, folded, not pressed, weighed almost as much as a pack of bricks, but it was sound, apart from a well-perished tyre. Just too heavy for my limited needs nowadays.
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2016 6:36 pm
by exoticpete
Best barrows I've used where Moss brand in Sydney now running in a County SiteBlazer 750 been to the repair shop few times but still a lovely little runner 
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2016 7:45 am
by Dave_L
I've got two 28 year old barrows in the fleet, I'll grab a photo next week! You'll be impressed! :p
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2016 3:35 pm
by Forestboy1978
OK then.....
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm....9700905
Seriously seriously considering it! I can't see a scenario where I could only use a barrow and not use that^^^
I've had it with busting may ass. I want some energy in the evenings to enjoy my life outside work.