Beware Tractor Supply Product Reviews

Lowe's allows critical reviews. I know this because I went off on a couple of their products!

Their big blue wheelbarrow has the junky tires. I replaced one; the other I have to reinflate every time I use it, and sometimes periodically throughout the job. For this reason, I mostly use the smaller one I bought for $10 at an estate sale. It's old but it's good.

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I knew a guy who foamed his tires because he did repos and it was cheaper than buying roll flats if someone took a shot at his snag truck tires.

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Ace Hardware, if you are lucky to live in an area with a "Platinum or Vision 21" Store.

The Ace I work for is both and we don't even have a return policy, it is common knowledge that our customers can return an item for any reason or no reason at all.

I did a Google search for"Wheelbarrow made in USA" and landed on this: http://www.bontool.com/product1.asp?...roductlistings

In the advertising and company info(Bon Tool Company) I didn't find any Made in USA labels or American flags, so...... anyway, this wheelbarrow seems to have what you may be looking for. FWIW

geo

Drat, for the second time in all the years I want something that got autodumped when I signed off my yahoo mail. Oh well, about the only reason I can figure is that it's dependent on who is doing the approvals. Actually their response was about 4 lines long stating it didn't meet the criteria they require for an evaluation ect. Perhaps I should have dumbed it down a bit and given them a Bevis / Butt Head answer, " It Suxxxxxx". Whatever it all was it's now lost to the ages in the black hole of the internet.

As to dealing with cheap wheelbarrow tires, go buy "C" load rated boat trailer tires and new tube and they will work on your rims. You can find them under $20 delivered if you search long enough. You dont want to spend extra for pre-mounted ones (around $60 each) sold lot places cause they wont fit wheelbarrow and you just have to dismount them and remount them on wheelbarrow rim anyhow. The sellers use the "inner tube with tread" crappo tires simply cause it cuts costs and increases profit. Foaming and gluing and other stop gap measures with these pieces of manure are never going to give much satisfaction, go buy a real tire meant for real world use.

As to anybody buying anything where majority of it is plastic..... Well lets just say plastic is the perfect planned obsolescence material. No matter how nicely you treat it, its not going to last a significant length time and is very frustrating to try and repair. Metal or wood, if treated nicely and stored dry, will last a lifetime and can be repaired. If you are going to let your tools sit out in weather in weeds most of their life, it will be short one no matter what they are made of.

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"What would you do with a brain if you had one?" -Dorothy

"Well, then ignore what I have to say and go with what works for you." -Eliot Coleman

I was surprised to find so MANY bad reviews of the TSC County Line Bushhogs on thier web site that I decided to try and find what I want used. Haven't had alot of luck yet, people are keeping thier 6' s, selling 4' s and 5' s and 15'+ s. But I'll keep looking. Luckily my neighbor doesn't have a problem if I borrow his. (His is a 6' TSC model! Its a few years old and has problems now.)

Brush hogs are easy, first attend enough auctions you get sense what an actual heavy duty brush hog looks like. You will see heavier metal and BIG huge gearbox compared what the TSC and other modern brush hogs have. You want one of those with the BIG gearbox, yes there were even 5 footers with them. Then you want to carry a wrench around with you to take plug out of the gear box and a little flashlight. Should be half full gear oil. If its EMPTY or if somebody put grease in it cause they were too lazy to replace the bottom shaft seal, then RUN.

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"What would you do with a brain if you had one?" -Dorothy

"Well, then ignore what I have to say and go with what works for you." -Eliot Coleman

Id think a reveiw such as the OPs would be good for business.
Id be all over TSC for a wheel barrow that fell apart if I EXPECTED it to hall bricks but If I was told beforhenad that it was good for low density loads I would be as up set after I KNOWINGLY abused it.
So some one that just need to move light things might get it and be perfectly happy,