[Robert_S]

Afternoon 

I need a wheelbarrow fairly quick, and I also need to go to Wilkinsons tomorrow to pick up a new water butt. Are their wheelbarrows any good? Or should I go to Wickes instead? Or any other suggestions?

[smud6ie]

A Fort Rancher is a superb bit of kit,we have had one for around 15 years and would never use anything else as they are so light and easy to push.
One may think that £65 delivered is expensive but the advantages far outway the cost in my opinion.
BTW we have just ordered another as our grown up Kids keep borrowing ours and we always miss it when its not here.
smud6ie

[Robert_S]

thanks for that smud6ie...need it for tomorrow so narrows down the choice a bit.

Something else that narrows down the choice is my local Wilkies not having one anyway, as I just found out, so Wickes it is by the look of it.

[GrannieAnnie]

Shame you need it for tomorrow, as I bought ours a couple of months ago at Travis Perkins.  Okay, again it was a lot of money, £63, BUT its a PROPER wheelbarrow, not the toot that these other people sell for £30 odd quid and they only last you a year or 2

[arugula]

Wilko's online store shows some fairly bog standard looking painted wheelbarrows for about the going rate, around £30.00. Wickes will have much the same sort of thing for the same sort of price, unless you want to go galvanised and/or plastic and step up a few sizes - these are more applicable for muck though. Thacker Barrows manufacture and supply a lot of the wheelbarrows in this country anyway, so you're quite likely to go to two different outlets and see exactly the same product.

[Robert_S]

Well I ended up getting one from Wickes, the silver one they do for about £48. I had to cart about a ton(ne) of gravel from the allotment entrance to my plot, some of it over bumpy ground, and it seemed to cope OK, so fingers crossed it won't fall apart too soon.

[GrannieAnnie]

Fingers and toes crossed Robert!   

[arugula]

Well I ended up getting one from Wickes, the silver one they do for about £48. ...... fingers crossed it won't fall apart too soon.

You can always keep the painted bits in good condition a bit longer with a bit of TLC and some Hammerite. Its what I do.

[smud6ie]

thanks for that smud6ie...need it for tomorrow so narrows down the choice a bit.

Something else that narrows down the choice is my local Wilkies not having one anyway, as I just found out, so Wickes it is by the look of it.

Well our Fort never arrived and a week had elapsed so we called the company who said they were out of stock
This is a bit naughty especially as there was no mention of this when ordering nor they made no attempt to notify us to this effect.!
We then found another site where they were "in stock" so I rang to confirm and they were out.

When I asked why this fact was not visible online they said it was too much effort to change it
as the new barrows could be back in stock in a weekor two
smud6ie