In detail: DIY repair of a construction wheelbarrow from a real master for the site my.housecope.com.
For two years of operation, the wheel bearings almost crumbled, in addition, the tire cracked and torn and the camera punctured.
Until the new wheels were brought in, I decided to modernize and strengthen my garden cart a little.
I connected the handles with an arc almost immediately after the purchase, so it is much more convenient to control the wheelbarrow, moreover, you can do it with one hand.
I also wanted to move the wheels closer to the middle of the body for a long time. I don't understand at all those who designed such carts. Most likely, they took as a basis the design of the wheelbarrow, which was used in the construction of the Belomorkanal. The wheels of these wheelbarrows (one or two) are located at the front, so a significant part of the weight is on the hands. Despite this, nowadays 99 percent of such products have wheels displaced forward. This applies to both garden and construction wheelbarrows, which, in my opinion, are not much different from each other.
In short, I decided to move the wheels closer to the center of gravity. This will slightly increase the distance between the wheels, but the width dimension will remain the same. In addition, increasing the distance between the wheels will increase the overall stability of the wheelbarrow.
All parts were made from scrap metal lying around in different corners, fitted with a grinder and emery.
First of all, I took two steel plates of suitable sizes with a thickness of 3-4 mm, drilled in them two holes dia. 10mm and installed between the body of the body and the plastic pad in the rear wall of the wheelbarrow. The length of the plates should be such that they protrude slightly above the bottom of the trough.
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I threw out a thin can in the front, which apparently served to increase the rigidity of the body.
In its place, I installed a steel strip of suitable dimensions. For this purpose, I came across a spring, someone and once straightened.
I adjusted two more plates in size and welded them on.
Two vertical posts - pipe sections with a diameter of about 32mm. Their length is about half the diameter of the wheel, it is selected empirically.
The axis should be 20 mm in diameter, I didn't find one, set it to 18 mm, then I'll think of something.
It is necessary to check that the wheels spin freely, the tires do not touch the body. If necessary, several washers or a piece of pipe can be put on the axle. The bottom of the body should have a backward slope, then, when moving, the arcs will not touch the slightest obstacles or irregularities in the soil, as it was in the factory version.
Then I forgot to take a photo, but everything is clear anyway. In place of the former axis, I attached a piece of pipe, adjusted and welded on pieces of reinforcement dia. 16 mm. Shown below by arrows.
I did all the actions without removing the body, so it is quite simple to make all the strapping.
Now you can remove the trough and boil in inaccessible places.
At the same time, paint.
Installed new, more powerful wheels, size 4.80 / 4.00-8. Relatives were 3.25 / 3.00-8.
The bearings were completely without lubrication. In order to somehow prolong their life, he lubricated them with a syringe with MS-1000 grease. On the occasion, I took four more bearings in stock.
In conclusion, he carried out sea trials. 
It turns out everything is simple. The fact is that there are not so many repair services for this type of tool. Therefore, you will have to solve the problem with the repair of the wheelbarrow yourself.For this, accordingly, you need to know what problems you can face, as well as how to solve these problems, relying only on yourself. Actually, this is what we will talk about in this article.
The wheel burst. According to statistics wheelbarrow for construction and wheelbarrow for garden in the course of their operation, they most often encounter a wheel problem. Here, as a rule, one common problem is highlighted - the chamber bursts or punctures during operation. Of course, in this case, you can try to side the wheel, and then glue the camera with a patch. Yes - the old-fashioned way, but it also has a place to be. However, thanks to the large assortment of selection of this tool, today it is easier to buy a new part than to repair an old one. Accordingly, with regard to the wheel, we note that it is best to buy a new wheel without a camera. The fact is that a tubeless wheel will once and for all save you from the problem of collision with glass and piercing objects.
Another wheel problem occurs most often at the time of overload. The fact is that any wheel on a wheelbarrow has a disc, which is made of metal or plastic. The disc itself is very light and consists of two parts. So, if the wheelbarrow is overloaded, the load on the disk will increase repeatedly, as a result of which the bolts can slip into their own technological hole. If this happened to your car, then you should immediately stop all work, bleed the air from the wheel, disassemble it and put washers with a larger diameter under the bolts. Of course, this is a temporary solution that will save you time to buy a new wheel.
The frame burst. Very often, mainly due to overload, wheelbarrow for construction and wheelbarrow for garden faced with a broken metal frame. In this case, it is best for you, as a home craftsman, to send to the online store in your city and buy a welding inverter. Of course, this approach will not allow your equipment to remain collapsible as it was with bolted connections. However, the use of a welded joint will make the wheelbarrow structure more rigid and, as a result, more durable.
The wheel of the construction wheelbarrow is rubbing against the supporting frame. We have already said that a construction wheelbarrow and a garden wheelbarrow should not be overloaded during operation. However, its users are very often neglected. Actually, it is precisely because of overload that the wheel on the wheelbarrow begins to rub. The reason for this can be the distortion of the axial part, as well as complete or partial destruction of the bearing system. So, in the first breakdown, it is very often necessary to change the bearing axial parts. In the second, the wheel changes as a whole.
The body has become highly mobile. As a rule, a construction wheelbarrow and a garden wheelbarrow under the influence of a load can lose their strength and become unbalanced. However, this problem is even simpler and can be solved with a simple diagnosis and inspection of your instrument. So, in the process of diagnostics, it is very important for you to determine which of the bots on the car body is weakened. So, as soon as you find it, just tighten the necessary nuts and that's it, your car will be back in service at the proper level of quality.
As you can see wheelbarrow for construction and wheelbarrow for garden have not so many problems, but even those that do exist are easily solved by replacing something or repairing with improvised means.
Whatever one may say, the wheel is the most vulnerable spot on a wheelbarrow. At the same time, it is often destroyed not due to overload, but becomes an object of impact on it with piercing objects. This is the case, therefore, in order to avoid this problem, we have to change the wheel to a new one, since repairing the old one is not always possible. So, when replacing a wheel with a new one, you need to choose a certain type of wheel from the following selection range:
Pneumatic wheel.This type of wheel is considered the simplest and most common, since it is included in almost all wheelbarrows, both low and high price ranges. The basis of such a wheel is the air that enters a special chamber under the action of a pump. It is believed that the pressure in the chamber should be no less than 2 atmospheres. Note that such a wheel is relatively inexpensive, but it can also cost half the total cost of a wheelbarrow construction and garden modification.
Cast wheel. This type of wheel also has such a name - tubeless. They tend to be significantly more expensive and are only available with a metal disc on the market. The advantages of such a wheel include durability and ease of use. Indeed, the wheel does not need to be pumped, which means that there is no need to waste time on maintaining it. Note that many garden wheelbarrows of St. Petersburg are equipped with such a wheel, which are presented on the domestic market with a large assortment of choices. Note that garden wheelbarrows SPb on a tubeless wheel have a long service life because there is no chamber with air inside. Therefore, such garden wheelbarrows cannot be punctured or cut with a sharp object. Note that the tubeless tire itself is very durable, which significantly reduces the wear of the wheelbarrow during operation.
Summing up this article, we note that everything that wheelbarrows, construction and gardening, in general, are very strong and durable. All these nuances and problems are just isolated flaws that, with a very high probability, will not affect you. However, you must be prepared for anything so that, if necessary, provide first aid to your construction or garden wheelbarrow.
In my articles, I already wrote that we are constantly pursued by various troubles with wheels from a wheelbarrow. This time, at the end of September, his bearings crumbled, unable to withstand the load.
To buy, once again, a new cart because of only one wheel, I strongly did not want to. Therefore, having removed it for the winter, I began to look for suitable bearings.
There was nothing like that in the shops of the city. Since the car is Chinese, then following the logic and my conclusions, I began to look for something similar in China. And I found it!
On the very first weekend, after receiving them in the mail, I got down to business.
Wheelbarrow wheel with crumbled bearings.
Broken bearing housing.
Semi-dead, but still surviving second bearing.
New bearings previously ordered from China.
New and old bearings (for comparison).
The whole problem with the new bearings was that they were not much thicker than the old ones, and the bushing for the fastening bolt was not bored out enough to make it possible to install them in the disk seats. The power tool was not at hand, and the bushing had to be bored with a rasp and file.
Bush for fastening bolt with bearing remnants.
Fitted new bearing on one side of the wheel.
Bushing installed in one bearing.
It was necessary to bore the bushing,
since it did not allow the second bearing to sit in the seat.
While I was fiddling with the bushing, trying to knock it out of the incomplete bearings in order to squander it, I accidentally punched through the linoleum. For which I “heard” from my wife many “good” words about myself in her silent gaze.
Moral: during construction and repair work, observe safety precautions, and carry out the work in specialized premises!
Bore bushing.
A hole punched in the linoleum is visible from above.
Mounted bearings assembled with bushing.
Complete wheel with fixing bolt.
The stud and bolt are not protruding much.
Their excess will be cut off when installed on a wheelbarrow.
Conclusion: Chinese cars, under heavy load, last 2-3 seasons. Their weak points are the frame, bowl and wheels. If the frame and bowl can still be selected at the time of purchase, then the wheels are a real "pig in a poke" - the tires are bad, then the bearings.If you plan to work with this tool for a long time, then you must always have a repair on hand. set. In my case, spare rubber is already available from previous wheelbarrows, and since these bearings fit, I will buy a couple more in reserve.
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If you use on the farm construction or garden trolley (wheelbarrow), sooner or later you will have to face the problem of wheel repair. Heavy loads, unsuccessful soil and the wheel becomes unusable. I must say right away that sticking a punctured camera, unless, of course, you carry anything heavier than brushwood, is a thankless task. Here you need to either go to the tire service, or have a spare camera and tire, which would be correct to purchase right away, when buying a trolley, or, on occasion, in the market or in a store. On the outside of the wheel tire there is a mandatory marking, according to which a spare set of the same size will be selected for you.
It is necessary to take out a leaky camera with a tire very carefully so as not to lose the opportunity to patch it later in a tire fitting.
Before sliding the tube onto the disc, you need to shove it into the tire. Then we insert the nipple into a special hole in the disc and with force we pull the camera and straighten the tire. At the end, we pump the chamber with a car pump. That's it, the wheel is ready to go!
I must say that the most durable construction trolley wheel - This is a wheel with a non-collapsible metal disc. When buying a wheelbarrow or wheel for a wheelbarrow, be sure to pay attention to the bolts in the disc. They shouldn't be in a good wheel!
To avoid problems with repairs, you can buy a wheelbarrow with a cast (polyurethane foam) wheelwhich cannot be damaged by a puncture.
It turns out everything is simple. The fact is that there are not so many repair services for this type of tool. Therefore, you will have to solve the problem with the repair of the wheelbarrow yourself. For this, accordingly, you need to know what problems you can face, as well as how to solve these problems, relying only on yourself. Actually, this is what we will talk about in this article.
The wheel burst. According to statistics wheelbarrow for construction and wheelbarrow for garden in the course of their operation, they most often encounter a wheel problem. Here, as a rule, one common problem is highlighted - the chamber bursts or punctures during operation. Of course, in this case, you can try to side the wheel, and then glue the camera with a patch. Yes - the old-fashioned way, but it also has a place to be. However, thanks to the large assortment of selection of this tool, today it is easier to buy a new part than to repair an old one. Accordingly, with regard to the wheel, we note that it is best to buy a new wheel without a camera. The fact is that a tubeless wheel will once and for all save you from the problem of collision with glass and piercing objects.
Another wheel problem occurs most often at the time of overload. The fact is that any wheel on a wheelbarrow has a disc, which is made of metal or plastic. The disc itself is very light and consists of two parts. So, if the wheelbarrow is overloaded, the load on the disk will increase repeatedly, as a result of which the bolts can slip into their own technological hole. If this happened to your car, then you should immediately stop all work, bleed the air from the wheel, disassemble it and put washers with a larger diameter under the bolts. Of course, this is a temporary solution that will save you time to buy a new wheel.
The frame burst. Very often, mainly due to overload, wheelbarrow for construction and wheelbarrow for garden faced with a broken metal frame. In this case, it is best for you, as a home craftsman, to send to the online store in your city and buy a welding inverter. Of course, this approach will not allow your equipment to remain collapsible as it was with bolted connections. However, the use of a welded joint will make the wheelbarrow structure more rigid and, as a result, more durable.
The wheel of the construction wheelbarrow is rubbing against the supporting frame. We have already said that a construction wheelbarrow and a garden wheelbarrow should not be overloaded during operation. However, its users are very often neglected. Actually, it is precisely because of overload that the wheel on the wheelbarrow begins to rub. The reason for this can be the distortion of the axial part, as well as complete or partial destruction of the bearing system. So, in the first breakdown, it is very often necessary to change the bearing axial parts. In the second, the wheel changes as a whole.
The body has become highly mobile. As a rule, a construction wheelbarrow and a garden wheelbarrow under the influence of a load can lose their strength and become unbalanced. However, this problem is even simpler and can be solved with a simple diagnosis and inspection of your instrument. So, in the process of diagnostics, it is very important for you to determine which of the bots on the car body is weakened. So, as soon as you find it, just tighten the necessary nuts and that's it, your car will be back in service at the proper level of quality.
As you can see wheelbarrow for construction and wheelbarrow for garden have not so many problems, but even those that do exist are easily solved by replacing something or repairing with improvised means.
Whatever one may say, the wheel is the most vulnerable spot on a wheelbarrow. At the same time, it is often destroyed not due to overload, but becomes an object of impact on it with piercing objects. This is the case, therefore, in order to avoid this problem, we have to change the wheel to a new one, since repairing the old one is not always possible. So, when replacing a wheel with a new one, you need to choose a certain type of wheel from the following selection range:
Pneumatic wheel. This type of wheel is considered the simplest and most common, since it is included in almost all wheelbarrows, both low and high price ranges. The basis of such a wheel is the air that enters a special chamber under the action of a pump. It is believed that the pressure in the chamber should be no less than 2 atmospheres. Note that such a wheel is relatively inexpensive, but it can also cost half the total cost of a wheelbarrow construction and garden modification.
Cast wheel. This type of wheel also has such a name - tubeless. They tend to be significantly more expensive and are only available with a metal disc on the market. The advantages of such a wheel include durability and ease of use. Indeed, the wheel does not need to be pumped, which means that there is no need to waste time on maintaining it. Note that many garden wheelbarrows of St. Petersburg are equipped with such a wheel, which are presented on the domestic market with a large assortment of choices. Note that garden wheelbarrows SPb on a tubeless wheel have a long service life because there is no chamber with air inside. Therefore, such garden wheelbarrows cannot be punctured or cut with a sharp object. Note that the tubeless tire itself is very durable, which significantly reduces the wear of the wheelbarrow during operation.
Summing up this article, we note that everything that wheelbarrows, construction and gardening, in general, are very strong and durable. All these nuances and problems are just isolated flaws that, with a very high probability, will not affect you. However, you must be prepared for anything so that, if necessary, provide first aid to your construction or garden wheelbarrow.
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I suggest that you familiarize yourself with the story of a summer resident and a real home-builder Valery Gubchenko, how he chose and modified - he strengthened an ordinary garden wheelbarrow, turning it into a universal construction one.
Valery says that it became relevant for him to purchase a double-purpose wheelbarrow for a summer cottage. It is supposed to be used both for gardening and construction.
When monitoring the offered assortment in the Internet and building supermarkets, he saw that gardening differs from building in form and quality. And naturally at a price. Garden ones are much cheaper, but correspondingly flimsy.
In shape - with a lower box body, it is assumed for heavy, but not bulky goods. I drew attention to the fact that quality in most cases is the reliability of the frame.
Wheels and bodies plus minus are the same everywhere.
Production - China, more expensive - Turkey.
There is a galvanized body, there is a painted one.
Well, of course, with one and two wheels.
Price range from cheap to medium.
To the question of how to be with a home-builder, there was one answer to make a universal wheelbarrow from an ordinary one with your own hands. Valery decided to buy one of the most inexpensive and modify the frame himself.
He chose a one-wheel car. Painted. The paint looked better there. When working, there will inevitably be scratches that want to rust. They will be easy to touch up. But the paint falls on zinc poorly. By the way, the quality of painting (powder) is of a very good level.
All welding work, or rather fitting and tacking, was carried out directly on the body itself for an accurate fit. The paint did not peel off from the welding. The wheelbarrow was assembled on six bolts with a diameter of 6 mm. I changed all the bolts to more powerful 10 mm, added another one in the area where I reinforced the frame in the wheel area. It turns out that there was no frame as such - the author made it from scratch. Two arcs, which were originally attached directly to the body, were also reinforced with three struts.
Now they are already solid, but they are still suitable for transportation. The whole wheelbarrow fit in disassembled form in the back seat of a small car.
From the materials it was purchased:
- Bolts, washers, grovers;
- 10 meters of reinforcement;
- Electrodes;
- Paint cans;
Trial - the first day went off with a bang. The result is a powerful car.
Loaded to the limit with earth - no longer fit - fell out. It was so heavy that I could not push in front of me - only pull. Withstood with dignity - not a single squeak.
As a result, from the cheapest wheelbarrow it turned out in terms of power that it is inferior to it even in the most expensive segment. 
The photographs below show the whole process of the work performed:
In this article, the site "How it is done" will tell you how to do garden wheelbarrow repair on one's own.
If you have a different model of a wheelbarrow, it's okay, because their wheels differ only in size.
If there is a puncture of the wheel of a garden wheelbarrow, it is not necessary to change it entirely. You can simply replace the camera.
First, determine the size of the wheel using the markings on the tire and buy a new tube of the appropriate size.
Then remove the wheel from the wheelbarrow frame.
Remove all wheel bolts and slide the old tube out of the tire.
Check again that the markings on the new tube line up with the markings on the wheel of the wheelbarrow.
Then place the new tube in the tire and reassemble the wheel.
The wheel with the new camera is assembled and can be installed back onto the frame.
After that, with the help of a pump, we pump it up to the desired pressure.
Replacement of the wheel tube of the garden wheelbarrow is completed.
To see clearly how to replace the camera in a garden wheelbarrow, we recommend watching the video:
I bought a one-wheeled wheelbarrow purely for the economy, so I had to carry it around the screenings, of course, the frame was skewed to help, a profit came from the soviet panzer bed, I bungled a new frame from it
immediately strengthened the frame in the place where it is welded to this axis that you cooked, it bent for me and the trough all crawled along the sides, then this axis bent, I tied the trough with fittings.
Yes, that's for sure, the main thing is to sell to a business, and then you suffer.
Yes, with these new cars, of course, it's a disaster, like a toy, a little more load, so you know something will fly, it's a great idea to strengthen it with steel reinforcement, now it's reliable.
most so. but there are also quality budget items.
In pursuit of a low price, quality falls disproportionately.
Take your time to throw away the broken construction and garden wheelbarrows, they can be repaired by yourself. Is the pipe frame bent? Straighten and insert the pin.
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I bought a one-wheeled wheelbarrow purely for the economy, so I had to carry it around the screenings, of course, the frame was skewed to help, a profit came from the soviet panzer bed, I bungled a new frame from it
immediately strengthened the frame in the place where it is welded to this axis that you cooked, it bent for me and the trough all crawled along the sides, then this axis bent, I tied the trough with fittings.
Yes, that's for sure, the main thing is to sell to a business, and then you suffer.
Yes, with these new cars, of course, it's a disaster, like a toy, a little more load, so you know something will fly, it's a great idea to strengthen it with steel reinforcement, now it's reliable.
most so. but there are also quality budget items.
In pursuit of a low price, quality falls disproportionately.
When buying a garden wheelbarrow, we do not always have the opportunity to compare more lifting construction wheelbarrows with lighter garden ones. Many do not even know this, and only when construction work appears, we understand that we have bought a not quite durable wheelbarrow, but not buying - a second wheelbarrow?
Therefore, we propose to strengthen, modernize the garden wheelbarrow so that it can carry heavy construction materials.
Basically, we will have to reinforce the car body as it is made of thin galvanized metal or soft aluminum. So that the body does not bend and withstand a heavy load, it is necessary to remove it and put a sheet of durable metal under the bottom, preferably about 2mm.
Thus, we will strengthen the structure of the body from below so that it does not bend. To fit the reinforcing sheet metal, the bolts must be unscrewed and the body removed. Then, according to the size of the holes in the body, aligning the lining with the body, drill holes in the metal lining. We adjust the lining, put the body on top, and screw everything back.
It is also necessary to strengthen the edge of the body. To do this, you can use a strip from a stronger metal, and you can fasten the strip along the edges of the body with both screws and rivets.
After carrying out such a modernization, your car will serve for a long time on your personal plot and will be ready for any even heavy transportation.
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