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Pete.:
My demo labourers can wreck a barrow in a few days. Why they want to work so much harder pushing a piled-high barrow when they could wheel a level-load one so easily is beyond me but the barrows cost a fortune if you have to replace four of them every week at 50 quid a pop.
So we bought four heavy duty barrows for a hundred quid each (with discount, retail is £165) with a beefy frame and yellow plastic bin. That was last September and since then they have probably moved a thousand tonnes of rubble between them and they are still going strong. Haven't even had to put air in any of the tyres yet.

Might seem a lot of cash for a wheelbarrow but the value for money is terrific. This is the type we got:

http://www.big-wheelbarrows.co.uk/1-wheelbarrow_concrete_SB750.htm

awemawson:
Years ago, probably 1974-5, I bought two Dyson 'Ball Barrows' as we were doing up houses, loads of rubble and concrete to move, and much of it over soft ground. They lasted amazingly well - still had them probably 10 years later. Eventually the plastic tubs split, and repeated 'hot melt glue gun' repairs failed after a few weeks. Never ever had a flat tyre ball in all those years.

Mine were green unlike these yellow ones:

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