Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Chatting => Equipment Shed => Topic started by: GrowinGrowinGone on January 23, 2013, 15:06
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Does anyone know of anywhere online, or well known stores, that sell puncture proof wheelbarrow tyres at a reasonable price? I have just been to B&Q to get one, the hole in the centre of the wheel is too big for my barrow. Surely I cannot be the only one finding it hard to find the right size? The ones at B&Q on the tyre is says it's 350.8. Mine says 350.6. I think the screw that goes through the middle on mine is 14mm, but I can tell the one in B&Q is much bigger than the hole in mine. Some of the prices of them I could find, is almost the same price to buy a new wheelbarrow :ohmy:
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How about putting some Oko (http://okosales.co.uk/) tyre sealant in a standard tyre,in my opinion they are much easier to push than the type your after?
Grimazon have it for £10.50 delivered if you can't find cheaper. one bottle should do about 4 tyres so maybe you could split with someone?
smud6ie
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there's these ones but I have no idea how much they cost http://www.greentyre.co.uk/index.html but they look good.
I would try the sealant in my wheelbarrow but I can't find the puncture
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Thanks for the reply Smud6ie, this looks a much cheaper alternative than what I am looking for, don't know why I didn't consider doing it instead lol. Thanks for that, I will give it a go. :)
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Thanks for the reply also, Annen. I think I will give the sealant a try.
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I have shocking yellow "Greentyre" tyres on my old treader. I also have two green ones on my water bodger - wheelbarrow size. Marvelous jobs. The company are in Middlesbourough.
Cheers, Tony.
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I have shocking yellow "Greentyre" tyres on my old treader. I also have two green ones on my water bodger - wheelbarrow size. Marvelous jobs. The company are in Middlesbourough.
Cheers, Tony.
I don't see any prices on their site, how much did they cost?
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Thanks for the reply also, Annen. I think I will give the sealant a try.
you don't need to find the puncture,you just squirt the sealant through the valve stem with the valve removed,replace the valve pump up the tyre and it seals,you may have to spin the wheel a few times to spread sealant around the circumference.and if the tyre is tubeless,find a way to hold beads against rim
smud6ie
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Oh thanks smudgie I didn't know that!
I've just been out and brought the barrow home to use the off season to find the puncture.
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Thanks for the reply also, Annen. I think I will give the sealant a try.
you don't need to find the puncture,you just squirt the sealant through the valve stem with the valve removed,replace the valve pump up the tyre and it seals,you may have to spin the wheel a few times to spread sealant around the circumference.and if the tyre is tubeless,find a way to hold beads against rim
smud6ie
Perfect sounds just the job :)
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Oh thanks smudgie I didn't know that!
I've just been out and brought the barrow home to use the off season to find the puncture.
Having said a repair is not required,its as well to inspect the tyre for nails that could be poking through on tube tyres or any splits if the airloss is fast.
I may have said this before on another thread ,we use this stuff on all our off road machinery and when its time to replace the tyres some look like hedgehogs on the inside.
The only downside,it can be messy when replacing tubeless tyres when worn out.
smud6ie
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I was in ALDI earlier and noticed they had tyre sealant, can't remember the price , but think
it was less than 10.50
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This is good news! ;)
I've had my B&Q galvanised wheelbarrow for about 10 years and even though it probably only gets used three or four times a year I've still had 2 punctures, both caused by a single hawthorn thorn going straight through the tyre and inner tube - each cost about £10 for a new inner tube - you could ask why I didn't ask for it to be patched but that would have cost even more (and if you're wondering why I didn't patch it myself I couldn't get the floppin' tyre off the wheel with the tools I'd got available!) :wacko:
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I was in ALDI earlier and noticed they had tyre sealant, can't remember the price , but think
it was less than 10.50
I saw that here (http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/special_buys2_28498.htm)
but may onlly do one tyre. 100mls
smud6ie
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This is good news! ;)
I've had my B&Q galvanised wheelbarrow for about 10 years and even though it probably only gets used three or four times a year I've still had 2 punctures, both caused by a single hawthorn thorn going straight through the tyre and inner tube - each cost about £10 for a new inner tube - you could ask why I didn't ask for it to be patched but that would have cost even more (and if you're wondering why I didn't patch it myself I couldn't get the floppin' tyre off the wheel with the tools I'd got available!) :wacko:
What no table spoons or did you bend them ;) :)
smud6is
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This is good news! ;)
I've had my B&Q galvanised wheelbarrow for about 10 years and even though it probably only gets used three or four times a year I've still had 2 punctures, both caused by a single hawthorn thorn going straight through the tyre and inner tube - each cost about £10 for a new inner tube - you could ask why I didn't ask for it to be patched but that would have cost even more (and if you're wondering why I didn't patch it myself I couldn't get the floppin' tyre off the wheel with the tools I'd got available!) :wacko:
What no table spoons or did you bend them ;) :)
smud6is
Probably a combination of super-strength B&Q rubber and weak orangutan fingers! :tongue2: :(
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I have a heavy duty tyre iron, mostly from my motorbike days, but I did manage a car tyre once too.
Grendel
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Locally the only place I could find any sealant was Halfords, so today I went to get some. I got some called "Slime" http://washford.scene7.com/is/image/Washford/400-400788?$prod$ (http://washford.scene7.com/is/image/Washford/400-400788?$prod$) however, i cannot get the stuff in the inner tube! It shows an image on the bottle and says it's not for the valve type on the left in this picture http://www.buckinghambikes.com/images/buckingham/bcvalves.jpg. So my wheelbarrow has the valve type on the right, which is says is correct. But unless the incredible hulk happens to pass by and squeeze it in, it's not gonna happen, i've tried and it just don't go in.
After getting absolutely nowhere with it, i lost the will to live and left the plot and went home lol
Oh yeah, mentioning about getting the tryes off and back on, What a nightmare! all i had handy was 2 spanners! Not exactly ideal, but with them and brute force, I just about managed it.
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question,did you remove the valve core?
I have not used slime because I stick with the product i know and trust so can't comment on it.
If slime works the same way as oko then when squeezing it into the tube it has to be done very slowly or the fluid assumes its trying to plug a leak and blocks the valve stem hole.
When removing a tyre from a rim the most difficult part should be breaking the beads,
Once the bead is broken one has to make sure the bead,180 degrees from the part being levered over the rim is located in the deepest dip of the wheel or it will be difficult or impossible to remove without damage to man or tyre ;) :)
smud6ie
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If you google "Greentyre" you should track it down.
I stuffed a thick layer high density foam between the innertube and tyre of the 'chariot' to 'insulate' the innertube against thorns.
Cheers, Tony.
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question,did you remove the valve core?
I have not used slime because I stick with the product i know and trust so can't comment on it.
If slime works the same way as oko then when squeezing it into the tube it has to be done very slowly or the fluid assumes its trying to plug a leak and blocks the valve stem hole.
When removing a tyre from a rim the most difficult part should be breaking the beads,
Once the bead is broken one has to make sure the bead,180 degrees from the part being levered over the rim is located in the deepest dip of the wheel or it will be difficult or impossible to remove without damage to man or tyre ;) :)
smud6ie
I had never noticed before that there was a tiny valve thing inside that you have to remove, that's where my problem lay :lol: After removing the valve and getting the slime in today, the puncture(s) appears to be repaired finally! I feel such a plonker, I didn't know it had a valve inside that you had to remove, and without looking really closely I didn't spot it. But my eye sight is a bit dodgey i spose. So the slime works....*touch wood* Thanks for all the suggestions and help from everyone who replied.