ToughButterCup Posted June 13 Posted June 13 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 Posted June 13 Posted June 13 No experience but video the first time use as it drags you face down through the garden. 1
ToughButterCup Posted June 13 Author Posted June 13 What a vicious nasty post. I'll set the camera up now. 😁
Kelvin Posted June 13 Posted June 13 😂 I noted that the cheapest one I saw is a standard wheelbarrow with a motor and a battery. Does 7km/h.
Bonner Posted June 13 Posted June 13 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? 1
Kelvin Posted June 13 Posted June 13 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 Posted June 13 Posted June 13 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. 1
Bonner Posted June 13 Posted June 13 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 Posted June 13 Posted June 13 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. 😂 1
ToughButterCup Posted June 13 Author Posted June 13 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 Posted June 13 Posted June 13 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 Posted June 13 Posted June 13 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 Posted June 13 Posted June 13 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. 1
SteamyTea Posted Saturday at 06:44 Posted Saturday at 06:44 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 Posted Sunday at 16:04 Author Posted Sunday at 16:04 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 Posted Sunday at 16:32 Posted Sunday at 16:32 27 minutes ago, ToughButterCup said: But pushing a heavy load 🤭 1
JamesP Posted Monday at 08:21 Posted Monday at 08:21 On 13/06/2025 at 08:34, ToughButterCup said: I'm not the Virile Squirile I used to be... Join the club, half the load and twice the trips. 1
ToughButterCup Posted Monday at 08:32 Author Posted Monday at 08:32 2 minutes ago, JamesP said: ... half the load and twice the trips. ... and perhaps The Who blasting away (Baba O'Reilly). Its the image of that concrete pier that puts a smile in my mind. 4 tonnes of MoT1 coming up this week and a 50 meter round trip from delivery point to where its needed. Well, .... Its only Old Age wasteland .... innit
SteamyTea Posted Monday at 10:30 Posted Monday at 10:30 1 hour ago, ToughButterCup said: perhaps The Who blasting away (Baba O'Reilly). Its the image of that concrete pier that puts a smile in my mind. What, the one of the local boy (to me) Pete Townsend leaving the court after being put on the kiddy fiddler register.
JamesP Posted Monday at 17:00 Posted Monday at 17:00 8 hours ago, ToughButterCup said: ... and perhaps The Who blasting away (Baba O'Reilly). Its the image of that concrete pier that puts a smile in my mind. 4 tonnes of MoT1 coming up this week and a 50 meter round trip from delivery point to where its needed. Well, .... Its only Old Age wasteland .... innit Eminence Front by The Who, Tenth album "Its Hard". 4 tonnes of MOT, no thank you unless you have a digger.
ToughButterCup Posted Tuesday at 10:38 Author Posted Tuesday at 10:38 17 hours ago, JamesP said: .... 4 tonnes of MOT, no thank you unless you have a digger. Access is the issue , not the mass. Thinking about it it, inexperience is the issue. People like @nod and @Onoff wouldn't have made the mistake of needing 6 tonnes of MoT1 - along with 30 paving slabs for her greenhouse, and a fused SWA spur for the heater in said greenhouse and a water supply next to the door of the greenhouse - when ( get this ! ) I've ducted the rainwater off the roof to our pond - and 110 pipe carrying that runoff water runs past ( albeit underneath ) the front door of her greenhouse. @jack, @TerryE, @ProDave, (I'm sure there are others) all warned me many times - past a certain point : don't change the design Gently nudging SWMABO ( She Who must Always Be Obeyed) - her response is "How do I know what I want until [.... a whole series of excuse have been employed over the years ...) " I hate that word - until- Looking at it positively: I've not renewed my gym membership. I'm sweating by 10:00 every day recently. 😑 1
Redoctober Posted Tuesday at 14:27 Posted Tuesday at 14:27 sorry late to this thread and probably too late to save your back - but maybe look to hire one of these😁 1
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