01-02-2019, 12:03 PM
In just 6.5 years we are on our third wheelbarrow, technically it's a cart, which is more wheelbarrows than I had in the previous several decades prior to moving here. My advice is not to get anything with wood or painted steel.
We are using the Rubbermaid 100% poly cart model they have at Home Depot, link below. Two wheels. It's a lot easier to use than a single wheel and takes less strength to lift. Unfortunately it has only a 300 pound capacity, which is far less dirt than the volume of the unit can hold. And if you exceed the weight limit, which is easy to do, the wheels bend and you can't roll it at all. Fortunately, they don't appear to break when that happens and they pop back to their normal shape after an incident. I understand that two replacement wheels will cost more than just buying a whole new unit, so this is something to be aware of. Also the wheels are very narrow and make them prone to digging into soft wet soil when the cart is overloaded. It's not a perfect solution but having no wood or painted steel I hope to get more than a few years of use out of it, assuming I can avoid breaking the wheels by overloading it.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Rubbermaid-C.../100344354
ETA: Specs say it holds 7.5 cubic feet. Interwebs says 7.5 cubic feet of water weighs 486 pounds. That sounds like a problem for a unit with a rating of 300 pounds that most people leave outside.
We are using the Rubbermaid 100% poly cart model they have at Home Depot, link below. Two wheels. It's a lot easier to use than a single wheel and takes less strength to lift. Unfortunately it has only a 300 pound capacity, which is far less dirt than the volume of the unit can hold. And if you exceed the weight limit, which is easy to do, the wheels bend and you can't roll it at all. Fortunately, they don't appear to break when that happens and they pop back to their normal shape after an incident. I understand that two replacement wheels will cost more than just buying a whole new unit, so this is something to be aware of. Also the wheels are very narrow and make them prone to digging into soft wet soil when the cart is overloaded. It's not a perfect solution but having no wood or painted steel I hope to get more than a few years of use out of it, assuming I can avoid breaking the wheels by overloading it.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Rubbermaid-C.../100344354
ETA: Specs say it holds 7.5 cubic feet. Interwebs says 7.5 cubic feet of water weighs 486 pounds. That sounds like a problem for a unit with a rating of 300 pounds that most people leave outside.