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Wheelbarrow.
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The Builder or anyone else who can advise please.
Can you recommend a wheelbarrow that I will be able to use, sometimes for heavy stuff, in a large, very uneven, often wet and boggy field.
It will also need to be wheelable on a long gravel drive.
Thank you...x
Can you recommend a wheelbarrow that I will be able to use, sometimes for heavy stuff, in a large, very uneven, often wet and boggy field.
It will also need to be wheelable on a long gravel drive.
Thank you...x
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Dear Gness...
I find myself caught between two loyalties here.
I could refer you to this...
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Dave will appreciate that, for builders, the "Hammerlein" is generally regarded as the Ferrari of conventional wheelbarrows.
My dilemma is this: I know you to be of doughty Irish stock, but how can I put this? Your physique is at best, slight. I would say "petite".
Even with all the finest cursing available to you, you will inevitably, struggle on heavy-going. You'll find yourself reluctantly calling on your reserve solution and calling for the cavalry.... i.e. Dave.
To avoid conflict, and the possibility of losing two dear friends... I would hire this:
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I'm basing this on the assumption that it occasionally rains in Kerry, and that the ground would hell to navigate.
I find myself caught between two loyalties here.
I could refer you to this...
https:/
Dave will appreciate that, for builders, the "Hammerlein" is generally regarded as the Ferrari of conventional wheelbarrows.
My dilemma is this: I know you to be of doughty Irish stock, but how can I put this? Your physique is at best, slight. I would say "petite".
Even with all the finest cursing available to you, you will inevitably, struggle on heavy-going. You'll find yourself reluctantly calling on your reserve solution and calling for the cavalry.... i.e. Dave.
To avoid conflict, and the possibility of losing two dear friends... I would hire this:
https:/
I'm basing this on the assumption that it occasionally rains in Kerry, and that the ground would hell to navigate.
Thank you, The Builder. Yes, I'm still fairly petite and of course short. I do, however, belong to a Kerry family renowned for strength and luckily that hasn't weakened down the generations. I am weirdly strong. It comes in very handy at times...especially with the cursing added....or maybe it's just the Guinness.
My concern was for the wheelbarrow wheel/s on this unforgiving ground. There are a couple you've given me that I'm very interested in so I shall mull them over tonight.
The Power Barrow looks fantastic and tempting but I have two problems with that.
I need a wheelbarrow here to use little and often on the days it isn't raining and then there's the colour.
With Irish skin and red hair it just doesn't go. The last machine I hired was a digger. I requested green or purple. They sent red. I could just cope with that but I'm afraid yellowy orange is a colour too far. I wouldn't mind a go on one though!
Thanks for your help...x
Thank you too, LJ and OG. Didn't know he'd made one but it ended up a sad story, didn't it....x
My concern was for the wheelbarrow wheel/s on this unforgiving ground. There are a couple you've given me that I'm very interested in so I shall mull them over tonight.
The Power Barrow looks fantastic and tempting but I have two problems with that.
I need a wheelbarrow here to use little and often on the days it isn't raining and then there's the colour.
With Irish skin and red hair it just doesn't go. The last machine I hired was a digger. I requested green or purple. They sent red. I could just cope with that but I'm afraid yellowy orange is a colour too far. I wouldn't mind a go on one though!
Thanks for your help...x
Thank you too, LJ and OG. Didn't know he'd made one but it ended up a sad story, didn't it....x
Something some wheelbarrow manufacturers fail to consider is that the further forward the wheel is, the heavier a lift it will be - on long or otherwise challenging routes this soon becomes exhausting. I like a barrow where the wheel is clearly behind the front edge, but the majority seem not to pass this test.
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