Trolley to move large pots

Hi team .... any one suggest a trolley to move large pots in the garden ....immm getting too old to pick them up

Spruce

 

Me too, I use a sack barrow with pneumatic tyres

 

Mine's a simple (thick) piece of ply on castors, with two hooks and a rope.. You tip up the pot (and saucer if there is one), slide the trolley under and tip back, keeping one foot on the other side of the trolley, and pull the pot fully on. After a few goes, you stop falling over and Bob's your oncle! I've never found a sack barrow with a big enough platform to take big pots.....
The only drawback to my trolley is the tendency of the nuts holding the wheels on to unscrew themselves as we're trundling along, so a merry game of 'hunt the nuts' is in order each autumn

 

If you've got a plant in an oak ex-whiskey half barrel, prising them up with a sack barrow foot/toe plate can cause them to fall apart, so I've twisted them onto a sheet of plywood and used that as a sled to pull them on.

 

Amarndii, what are you worried about. With your wealth, you can afford to get someone else o do the moving......'Fly me to to the moon my friends. Where did i park my F-35? Smile.

 

I'm with @ARMANDII on this. A porters trolley is perfect for moving heavy items round the garden.

 

@noisette47 I think some nyloc nuts would solve the problem.

 

Just Googled those, @mazambo. Thankyou Looks like rather advanced technology for France, but I'm sure the postage will be bearable from China Even 4 dabs of superglue might do the trick. It's not as though I haven't got time...

 

A skateboard works well for me. It's fairly easy to slide under a pot and moves well even on a rough ground. It's also quite fun to play with, especially if there is a slight decline in the drive.

When I grow up I'll buy a porters trolley- looks just the thing a bad backed girl like me will need. I like container gardening and have several 50cm ones.

 

I've got a few obstacles in my garden so the board with some castors on it wouldn't work.
Going up steps for instance or over door cills.
It's pretty easy to slide a thin metal foot plate under a big pot, if the pot is larger than the foot plate you just wrap some rope around plant or pot ,depending on what it is , and tie it to the back frame.
You then just tip it back wards and away you go.

 

Have you never cracked the overhanging rim of a plastic pot, pete? Or do you only use posh terracotta? A lot of my bigger pots are 'funnel shaped' so the base of a sack barrow wouldn't get near to the bottom of the pot Must admit, though, that nearly all my pot movement is on the flat, and the half-barrels on wheels get pushed under the roof overhang, then the 'conservatory' constructed around them.

 

I do know what you mean about cracking the rim, yes it can happen, but usually on old pots that have gone brittle.
I find at that stage the pots tend to crack even when you try to move them around anyway.

Often thought of getting someone to weld a longer foot plate on my barrow as its not really big enough, then you could put a spacer at the back of the pot to stop the rim taking the weight when tipping it up.