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Battery 'hand' truck ?

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I'm thinking that getting some sort of battery powered barrow, truck, whatever will come in very handy. Ideally it will take a dumpy bag which is around 1000kg. But I'm not sure what to Google for as so far I'm not coming up with much.
 
Roger, I think you might have to reconsider your load requirements. A 1,000 KG payload is the same as my pickup truck, and I can't imagine maneuvering the bed of the truck around my yard. I used electric and petrol powered wheelbarrows like Andy mentioned while I lived in the U.S., but these tend to max out at the 300 KG range and cost several thousand dollars.
 
1000kg is the capacity of a small dumper, not a power barrow.

In my experience, a 300kg power barrow fully laden is very difficult to manuever despite being powered and very prone to sinking in the ground, 1000kg would simply be downright dangerous in the small footprint on uneven terrain.
 
A great excuse fto aquire a small tractor with the relevant attachments and trailer or a micro digger. Useful and great fun or you can just hire a small dumper when required. You could likely sell the idea to your dearly beloved when you explain how much it will help you to achieve her gardening project ambitions. I'm sure she has some plans. ;)

I'm also pretty sure you won't find anything electric with enough power and capacity.
 
An electric pallet truck can easily cope with 1,000 kgs but obviously can only manoeuvre on a hard surface.
 
RogerS said:
Ideally it will take a dumpy bag which is around 1000kg.
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The normal weight is around 800Kg so somewhat lighter.

There is a big difference in moving stuff over rough ground to moving stuff over a nice hard concrete floor, here a pallet truck might be ok providing the dumpy bag has been sat on a pallet but over rough ground then a powered wheel barrow might be better. What are you moving around ?
 
I was working on a building site once, cabling for CAT5. The floors were floating, 600mm sq panels of chipboard encased in aluminium, all supported over the concrete floor by an array of steel feet.
On one floor there was a pallet of said floor tiles, a big pallet. I think it must have been dropped in by a crane, or whatever those hi-loader machines are called. Someone (not me!) decided they were in the wrong place, slid a pallet truck underneath and jacked it up. There were creaks and groans, but that didn't stop him, he just kept on pumping. Then there was an almighty crash as the floor gave way, leaving the pallet intact but several square metres of floor needing to be replaced.
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It all depends on what terrain you want to cross. Pallet couriers are moving to electric pump trucks which easily lift and move over a tonne. They will move on compacted gravel. Then theirs 4 wheel drive mini dumpers used for loading skips with rubble. You walk behind them. They look handy but only lift a few hundred kgs and are noisy.
What about an old rotavator alla the good life stylely. They took the cutters off and put wheels on to tow a trailer.
 
Thanks chaps. Thankfully the max load s no longer required and this one has caught my eye.

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Thanks Jonathan. That is it indeed. We regularly saw up to a dozen workers on board, never mind the heaped produce piles. These are real workhorses.
 
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