welcome back to Steve Robb reviews right down there is a whale barrel how many times have you
ever seen a YouTube video or you're going to be shown some modification to a wheel barrel and
what is the best wheel barrel to buy I'm going to show you this one let's go over it a little bit
and I'll show you some of the modifications I've already done and I've got one new one today where
I'm gonna replace the front tire on it so let's take a look at this wheel barrel and why this is
the best wheel barrel for you to purchase well there it is right there that is the best wheel
barrel design that you can buy it's got three wheels and I am going to replace the wheels with
this particular wheel here which is a run flat I'm going to show you that in a minute but of course
over the years when you buy a a wheel barrel well the wheel barrel tires themselves they can change
over time and as you can see on this one here I've had to put some spacers in well you can
see that wheel barrel tires on the end of its life they're a so this one here has a tube in
it and I'm going to replace it and put a tubeless one in that is a run flat so there's no air going
in it okay so as you can see I've put these wheels on here and I had to fabricate how to actually do
it and I like solid rubber tires on the back here they've worked out terrific for me now if you're
wondering what this mechanism right here is that I have all wired up this design of wheel barrel
if you like the particular design of having the standoffs actually touched the ground so
the wheelbarrow is not movable because if you're in a particular situation where you have a load
in your wheel barrel you don't want it rolling down a hill or something like that right well
I really don't have very many occurrences like that so I just wired it up so if you want with
this particular design all you do is you lift the handles up and this bar will go up here and drop
these down so they fall below the wheels now this won't happen now because I put much bigger wheels
but that's the design right there now I'm going to take you over to the bench and I'm going to show
you these run flat tires I picked up I picked up two of these and it's got all the plastic in
here and everything and you know when I read this no bearings required threaded axle insert for use
with now I'm not too sure what that actually means if you take a look at that 2 / 5 inch bolt not too
sure but I'm going with it I got 2 of these babies I don't know why I got 2 but yeah I like to buy
stuff in twos and we're gonna mount this on I'm going to take this plastic off and show you this
new style of run flat tire like there's no air in this and I'm going to show you this type of
bearing they have in there let's take a look at that next well let's start off right here
here is the axle for it and if we take a look on the inside here this is the first time I've ever
seen this before of you take a look good roller bearings in there now usually what you get is you
get a bearing on this outside one on the here and one in the underside but if you check this out no
I thought that was pretty cool or what and I mean I really don't see there's no like grease fitting
or lubrication or anything like that but yeah I'm not even too sure if you're supposed to lubricate
this but I'm gonna throw that in there and we're gonna see if we can get it to fit on here and you
can see how this here is attached and we're going to see if we can make this fit on here so let's
do that next let's take a look and see what we got so far I've got this stub axle put in here
and it's got a nut I'm sorry a bolt on this end and a bolt on this end and as you can see it's
like this plastic hub part and you know I don't like this plastic cheesy kind of stuff to tell
you the truth myself and as you could see up here this was the axle and it went through there with
the bearing on either side and I had some washers on both sides so if we take a look at this wheel
yeah it's got to fit in here and if you take a look there I'm not too sure how I'm gonna rig
this up but I tell you right off the bat I'm not into this cheesy thing here but I think this is
also used to keep the dirt and everything else out of the roller bearings in there so I may
have to see if I can somehow use that but I took a look in my might bin there and I found a couple
of old axles I had and these here are actually just a little too small and flop around inside
of this this bearing here you know you don't want it to be flopping around too much right
and that's enough flop there so let me see what I can come up with that'll actually make this fit
in here so you can see how this went on here and what am I gonna rig up for that well stay tuned
well as you can see I cut up some pieces and I cut these two pieces up just rough cuts I mean
come on nobody's going to see this right and the best thing I could figure out was this
orientation right here so what I'm going to do is you could see how this will fit in between here
and of course we'll have this one here bolt it up to here and this will fit in between and I'm
going to have to drill a hole here and drill a hole on this one here and just bolt it in from
the far side now the only thing I have to do is I have to get the orientation of these holes just
right and have everything square so I'll bring you back when I got that done and let's see how
she looks well let's take a look and see how far I got I've been out here puttering around for a
couple hours and you could see this is what I've got and there's the axle in there you could see
I've got to trim this off here I've got to trim this off here I've got all the bolts in here and
these three nuts are down here and that's pretty well lit so you know I'm going to do I'm going to
bring you back when I got this all installed and I got a little bit of grinding to do but I'm not
going to paint this right now I'll be able to take this apart in the springtime and give it
a good paint outside but let's put this together let's see how she looks well take a look at that
right there it's all done doesn't look pretty guys but she's functional this thing just turns
so slick and it's all bolted in I mean it's very simple spend a couple hours out in the shop and
there you go right and there's some of the tools and I thought about using these pieces of tubing
and flat stock and you know that was real handy cutting all the pieces up and that's it right
there completely maintenance-free now there's no more air and any tires and that's the way I like
it and I'm going to show you why this wheel Barrow is the best design that if you see one of these I
suggest pick one of these up because it's the best design out there let's take a look okay so here's
the benefits of the three-wheeled will barrel you know it's so easy to operate you're not you
know you can still travel along back and forth like this but you know what it's very easy to
operate still and you know when you have to travel a little bit of a distance with some concrete in
here or something you're not trying to balance it it's got this nice bar here you know we're going
over top of obstacles or that kind of stuff and I really like this particular style of wheel barrow
just for the benefits of that and there's the wheel here and being being non air-filled this is
going to come in real handy now I think the other one that I did pick up i've never retrofitted on
that as well I have one of my camp it's only a one-wheeled wheel barrel but you know what I like
this tire I like the way the bearings set up into this and I'm gonna repaint it in the springtime so
what do you think well I think it's a terrific addition to the wheel barrel and I'll be using
this a lot and you know what when it comes to kind of modifying something it's not as hard as you
think if you just take your time and of course you have to have some hand tools and this particular
wheel barrel here you know what this is already 20 years old but I look after I take care of it
and you know wash it out all the time and oil it so you know what your tools only as good as you
take care of them right so thanks for joining me here today I hope you like this little bit
of a retrofit on the wheel barrel I think it's the best design out there if you haven't seen
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