That's it, I've had enough. I'm buying an electric wheelbarrow

[ToughButterCup]

I'm after recommendations. Please. Loads on the market, they ain't cheap. Anyone got one. Apart from storage (they look eminently nickable to me) what's wrong with them?

 

I'm not the Virile Squirile I used to be...

[Kelvin]

No experience but video the first time use as it drags you face down through the garden. 

[ToughButterCup]

What a vicious nasty post.     I'll set the camera up now. 😁

[Kelvin]

😂 I noted that the cheapest one I saw is a standard wheelbarrow with a motor and a battery. Does 7km/h. 

[Bonner]

Also no experience because I find the common wheelbarrow one of the most versatile pieces of equipment I have ever used. Adding power is going to make it heavier and less manoeuvrable. Also doubt they will do all the work for you, still needs loading etc. Why do you think you need such a thing? Could you not carry smaller loads instead?

[Kelvin]

52 minutes ago, Bonner said:

Also no experience because I find the common wheelbarrow one of the most versatile pieces of equipment I have ever used. Adding power is going to make it heavier and less manoeuvrable. Also doubt they will do all the work for you, still needs loading etc. Why do you think you need such a thing? Could you not carry smaller loads instead?

I have 2500kg of ballast in bulk bags that the groundswork guys put there with their digger. It’s on the top of our cliff that I was going to use to hold down PV panel boxes. However I’ve changed my plans on that so now need to move them from there 300m along the cliff, over a burn and up the hill. 

 

[Pendicle]

Oooo I want one, my garden consists of a 10m winding slope, fortunately at the moment I’m moving hardcore and bricks down to build a gabion wall to terrace said slope but if it was ever the other way round I would not cope. I’m at an age when anything I do that is hard and physical which currently is every day, I have a little voice in my head saying is this the way I’m going to go, face down slumped over my Whinny wheelbarrow head first in hardcore. I’m thinking a slide and zip wire to get down by slope in the future and a ski lift for the way up, maybe a track with remote control electric wheelbarrow is the thing I need, for me not the hardcore.

[Bonner]

4 hours ago, Kelvin said:

I have 2500kg of ballast in bulk bags that the groundswork guys put there with their digger. It’s on the top of our cliff that I was going to use to hold down PV panel boxes. However I’ve changed my plans on that so now need to move them from there 300m along the cliff, over a burn and up the hill. 

 

Rent a dumper for a few days if you have only one job to do?

[Kelvin]

I’d prefer to pay a local tractor driver to come and move the three bulk bags up to the drive. But then what to do with it! I can lose some it here and there but not all of it. I could lose it around the country side The Great Escape way. 😂 

[ToughButterCup]

3 hours ago, Bonner said:

Rent a dumper for a few days if you have only one job to do?

 

If only I (we all)  had but one job to get sorted.

That's precisely the point. 

[saveasteading]

8 hours ago, Kelvin said:

I have 2500kg of ballast in bulk bags

Put it on Facebook, free to collect.

Then perhaps agree a compromise once they see the location. 

 

Any BH working near you?

Our steading is just half way along the road from you if you are passing with it....

100 miles?

[Alan Ambrose]

A lot to be said, for us older people, in getting some mechanical help. One twisted back and you'll wish you had.

[G and J]

Small weights (part barrow loads) 

 

           X

 

Many reps (lots of trips)

 

           =
 

Enhanced strength (or for us in our later years a reduced loss of power over time).  
 

Ear buds and tunes you love can help. Not convinced that a battery wheelbarrow will though.  

[SteamyTea]

8 hours ago, G and J said:

Small weights (part barrow loads) 

 

           X

 

Many reps (lots of trips)

Frederick Winslow Taylor sorted this out about 1900, which I think is 7PM

[ToughButterCup]

On 13/06/2025 at 23:31, G and J said:

...

Enhanced strength (or for us in our later years a reduced loss of power over time).  
...

 

Yes, sarcopenia comes to us all, eventually (well - not @Pocster)

Resistance exercise is important to slow the rate of decline down. But pushing a heavy load which wobbles because I'm travelling too slowly is the problem I'm trying to solve: not just lifting the dead weight

[Pocster]

27 minutes ago, ToughButterCup said:

But pushing a heavy load

🤭