[pawsnclaws]

please any ideas please have put a post on freecycle

[Celery]

Look in a builders skip whenthere are fishishing the jobs.
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[ben]

Our local council tip (sorry, recycling centre), often has all manner of garden tools and implements ... perhaps there is something like that near you ?

[Yorkie]

Look in a builders skip whenthere are fishishing the jobs.
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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.

[TheModfather]

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!!!

[pawsnclaws]

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

[HLS]

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.

[madcat]

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. 

[oldbean]

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.

[Christine]

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.

[David.]

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.

[Howard]

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.