The Great Glasto Best Trolley Thread...

[sloth]

I'll be taking my bike trailer - big 20" wheels and a lot of carrying room.

Or you could make yourself one of these, adapted for pulling by hand:

Trailer

sloth

[marjorie dawes]

My sled with two cargo nets, ready for piling full of slabs of beer and anything else that will fit. Time will tell how successful it is but I've heard they slide pretty well on most surfaces hard and soft.

[tip]

Does anyone know if you can still buy wheels on their own that you strap up to your luggage? I've got a wheely thing at the moment but I'm worried that the wheels will fall off, so I'd like them as a back up plan.

[wiz]

My sled with two cargo nets, ready for piling full of slabs of beer and anything else that will fit. Time will tell how successful it is but I've heard they slide pretty well on most surfaces hard and soft.

[blacknwhite]

And my personal favourite...from experience of lugging 37 litres of pre-mixed Pimms & Lemonade for flogging at the opera..got through the mud NO problem!!!

Edited June 1, 2007 by blacknwhite

[pele]

I have just purchased one of these, free P&P too!

SackTrolley

[lmsbrick]

Tried the trollys/sack barrow's and worst of all a wheel barrow. Getting through the long grass in the car parks i bad enough but if it's wet the wheels just get clogged up. Take some friendly advice and just take what you can carry.

[hulk mike]

here is mine, all loaded with everything i can possibly think of needing!

[mrfunk]

Just need to get mine through the MOT, then will post pics

[mrfunk]

Charriot finished, awaiting paint job.

Standard barrow, with unique balance modification, increasing capcity greatly, and putting the weight over the front wheel, and not your back Can lift this fully loaded with my finger tips

Loaded, (rucksack not loaded with clothes)

Edited June 11, 2007 by mrfunk

[MikeyB37]

Charriot finished, awaiting paint job.

Standard barrow, with unique balance modification, increasing capcity greatly, and putting the weight over the front wheel, and not your back Can lift this fully loaded with my finger tips

[mrfunk]

Is that some ingenious use of a B&D workmate's legs i spy there?

[oafc0000]

As pointed out on TOS, B&Q have a sack truck for £12.98, bought one today. Note it's only in large warehouse stores, had to visit three before I found one that stocks them.

link

[Sundew]

I had a wonderful folding fishing trolley with large detatchable wheels for 3 years. Sadly, it ended up forgotten in the shed when we moved last year. so tomorrow, I am off to get a new fishing trolley from Decathlon, Kleek here. Not as nice as my last one, but as fishing trolleys are designed for going over rougher ground than sack trucks, I'm confident it'll last me quite a few festivals.

[Tenner Huey]

That only has a capacity of 30kg's Sundew and doesn't look vastly different in design from the sack trucks (the fishing one appears to have smaller wheels, though). And £30

[Sundew]

Says 30kg for the guarantee, but I've put a lot more on them than that in the past and done well. (packing light this year, so will only be about 40 to 45kgs max on it, possibly less as the tent only weighs 10kgs.) Broader wheel base and bigger wheels make it better over rough ground. Had a look at sack barrows near me, but they were all too small, too expensive for what they were (no cheap ones left) and generally weren't folding. Similar trolley to this was £40 in Argos.

[a robot]

Charriot finished, awaiting paint job.

Standard barrow, with unique balance modification, increasing capcity greatly, and putting the weight over the front wheel, and not your back Can lift this fully loaded with my finger tips

[LusciousLucy]

May I just say......

STUFF USING TROLLEYS...SLEDGES ARE THE WAY FORWARD!!!!

Just got back from Rockness and loadsa people were using plastic sledges for transporting tent, rucksacks and booze...I even flew one home on the plane! Used it to get the rucksack back from the station!

And to save ripping your hands apart...attach the string to your camping chair bag to use as the pullling mechanism so your handsys dont hurt.

[blacknwhite]

here is mine, all loaded with everything i can possibly think of needing!

[Fredd]

I've resurected Mr T/2 for this year. With add-ons.

Franken T is born. See him on site...

Fredd

[Player]

Edited June 14, 2007 by Player

[scmusic]

Would this fall under the "expensive and useless" category?

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/7000670.htm

Just thinking in terms of getting it into a 3-door Ford Focus.

[ark]

Just bought one for £12,98 from the trade B&Q watford - big pneumatic wheels, but a pin to keep wheels on, so need to find something to use in case that breaks, although it looks sturdy enough

[karlpowell]

[a robot]

yeah the above one looks rad!

though youd have to hold the smaller wheels above most of the ground when using it fully flat, i wonder how much this will beign to ache! but for sheer size of what you can carry its awesome!