bjr
Veteran Member
Like the old saying goes: "If there wasn't two kinds of luck I just wouldn't have any".
I had to buy the big industrial dual tired wheel barrow to be able to haul some rock down into a basement excavation for the drain system. Immediatly after bringing it home I added Berryman's tire slime sealant to the tires as I have bad puncture vine problem here. Two days later both tires flat. Repaired, looked as though the rim where they joined together were cutting tubes so put small tube rubber bands around the middle for protection. Two days later one flat again. On a Sunday can't get a new tube to save me and repair with a patch three times as the apparently the Barryman's fluid leaked out and won't let the rubber cement do it's thing and oh yeah had to drive into town for a new can of cement as mine had dried up. Finally went to the local Harbor Freight and bought two new NoFlat tires for $90. Went to put them on and the axle shafts on the barrow has 3/4" and the new NoFlats had 5/8" . Well turns out the hubs ID are the same between the two, so, I swap out the 3/4" bushing style to the NoFlat 5/8" bearing style, Whoopls the hubs are tooo wide and won't let the cotter pin hole on the axle show. Okay take 4-1/2" angle grinder and cut approxiamatly 1" off each side of hub and redrill new grease fitting holes (grease zerks didn't thread in as expected and promptly fell out, new problem to be delt with later). New NoFlats are finally on, I just packed hub full of grease for the time being until I can get grease zerks to thread onto hub. I will give the old tires and rims (that are actually new)to a buddy that don't have the puncture vine problem that I got and I told him he'd probably have to buy at least one new tube. Anyways that was all day Sunday and never had time left to actually use the wheel barrow. I figure I must have about $300 into that hard to push monster now. That's my life. bjr
I had to buy the big industrial dual tired wheel barrow to be able to haul some rock down into a basement excavation for the drain system. Immediatly after bringing it home I added Berryman's tire slime sealant to the tires as I have bad puncture vine problem here. Two days later both tires flat. Repaired, looked as though the rim where they joined together were cutting tubes so put small tube rubber bands around the middle for protection. Two days later one flat again. On a Sunday can't get a new tube to save me and repair with a patch three times as the apparently the Barryman's fluid leaked out and won't let the rubber cement do it's thing and oh yeah had to drive into town for a new can of cement as mine had dried up. Finally went to the local Harbor Freight and bought two new NoFlat tires for $90. Went to put them on and the axle shafts on the barrow has 3/4" and the new NoFlats had 5/8" . Well turns out the hubs ID are the same between the two, so, I swap out the 3/4" bushing style to the NoFlat 5/8" bearing style, Whoopls the hubs are tooo wide and won't let the cotter pin hole on the axle show. Okay take 4-1/2" angle grinder and cut approxiamatly 1" off each side of hub and redrill new grease fitting holes (grease zerks didn't thread in as expected and promptly fell out, new problem to be delt with later). New NoFlats are finally on, I just packed hub full of grease for the time being until I can get grease zerks to thread onto hub. I will give the old tires and rims (that are actually new)to a buddy that don't have the puncture vine problem that I got and I told him he'd probably have to buy at least one new tube. Anyways that was all day Sunday and never had time left to actually use the wheel barrow. I figure I must have about $300 into that hard to push monster now. That's my life. bjr
