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| − | Bought from a small engineering firm in Tewskbury. This is an electric wheelbarrow with two front wheels and one central trailing wheel. | + | Bought from a small engineering firm in Tewskbury. This is an electric wheelbarrow with two front wheels and one central trailing wheel. Their web picture:- https://media.cylex-uk.co.uk/companies/1654/9549/images/pic_Electric-Powered-Wheelbarrow-AB1-Autobarrow_934824_large.jpg |
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| + | I have been using an AB1 for several years. Very useful. | ||
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| + | Initially you need to learn that balancing is the OPPOSITE of an ordinary wheel-barrow. You have to push DOWN on the handles rather than lift UP. | ||
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| + | I have shifted a lot of earch and rock with mine. Two niggles: the balance is very sensitive, so if you go downhill you are in danger of nose-diving unless you lean heavily on the handles. And if you go uphill in wet conditions then the tractor-style V-tread tyres become an effective rotovator tool and dig you in. I'd have preferred annular tread tyres myself. For the same reason I wish the rear wheel was a little wider. I get stuck in the previous groove it cut. | ||
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| + | But all taken, I use it a lot and am happy with it. | ||
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Latest revision as of 22:08, 4 November 2021
Bought from a small engineering firm in Tewskbury. This is an electric wheelbarrow with two front wheels and one central trailing wheel. Their web picture:- https://media.cylex-uk.co.uk/companies/1654/9549/images/pic_Electric-Powered-Wheelbarrow-AB1-Autobarrow_934824_large.jpg
I have been using an AB1 for several years. Very useful.
Initially you need to learn that balancing is the OPPOSITE of an ordinary wheel-barrow. You have to push DOWN on the handles rather than lift UP.
I have shifted a lot of earch and rock with mine. Two niggles: the balance is very sensitive, so if you go downhill you are in danger of nose-diving unless you lean heavily on the handles. And if you go uphill in wet conditions then the tractor-style V-tread tyres become an effective rotovator tool and dig you in. I'd have preferred annular tread tyres myself. For the same reason I wish the rear wheel was a little wider. I get stuck in the previous groove it cut.
But all taken, I use it a lot and am happy with it.