Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: pawsnclaws on May 13, 2009, 18:55
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please any ideas please have put a post on freecycle
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Look in a builders skip whenthere are fishishing the jobs.
celery :)
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Our local council tip (sorry, recycling centre), often has all manner of garden tools and implements ... perhaps there is something like that near you ?
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Look in a builders skip whenthere are fishishing the jobs.
celery :)
This has been extensively covered on the skip diving thread elsewhere on this forum, but please do not a) assume that stuff on a skip is designed to be thrown away (someone posted that sometimes builders may store barrows etc there), or b) take anything from a skip without the permission of either the householder or skip company - otherwise it is theft.
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The best value ones I have seen recently are in Wilkinsons for £30 - just like the ones in B&Q and Focus only about £10 cheaper. I will need to get my hands on one for next year, my current 'rust bucket' one had 'had it' about 3 years ago.
Well worth the money though!!!
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i sold my horse a few months ago any typically had no intentions of having an allotment so gave it away and loads of tugtrubs, plastic bins ect grrrr
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Oh, good - I was going to ask about this! I've been rather unimpressed by the ones in B&Q (I'm not paying sixty quid for something that's already falling apart!) and Homebase didn't seem to have any useful sorts in stock.
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Builders merchant - Travis Perkins or whatever your local one is called. Trade outlets where the builders buy their barrows; they are tough (have to be) and have good tyres on the front. The ones in the d-i-y sheds don't take the work and the tyres die of old age in a couple of years.
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Haemmerlin is the Travis make. I've had one for 20 years, at current prices thats £3 a year. I have put a much heavier tyre on it than the original, as hawthorn spikes go through the original too easily. I can understand you want a cheap one, but buying low price, low quality ones is the expensive way to do it.
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I bought a cheap one and it's dying of reasonable use after a season. It will be replaced by a proper job when it finishes falling to bits.
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Look in a builders skip whenthere are fishishing the jobs.
celery :)
This has been extensively covered on the skip diving thread elsewhere on this forum, but please do not a) assume that stuff on a skip is designed to be thrown away (someone posted that sometimes builders may store barrows etc there), or b) take anything from a skip without the permission of either the householder or skip company - otherwise it is theft.
Think that may have been me - especially at the end of a job builders will tuck all sorts of things out of the way, including on their skip.
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Builders merchant - Travis Perkins or whatever your local one is called. Trade outlets where the builders buy their barrows; they are tough (have to be) and have good tyres on the front. The ones in the d-i-y sheds don't take the work and the tyres die of old age in a couple of years.
Haemmerlin is the Travis make. I've had one for 20 years, at current prices thats £3 a year. I have put a much heavier tyre on it than the original, as hawthorn spikes go through the original too easily. I can understand you want a cheap one, but buying low price, low quality ones is the expensive way to do it.
Excellent advice.
Chillington is another make I would recommend.