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I don't drive and my allotment is a mile away so i came up with thing contraption , I know it don't look much but it was free and can carry two 75ltr bags of compost with no problems.

and one else got wierd transport ?

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I bet you get some funny looks wheeling that around! Good idea though.

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My daughter's pushchair has seen some heavy loads on it. Normally she's been in the chair too!

Nice one Carl.

I don't drive either and my littlest is still in a pushchair. I pile up the p/c basket and hood with as much as possible, wear the biggest rucksack I can carry and then hook an old shopping trolley onto one of the pushchair handles, so I can drag a load of stuff along behind us too.

I'm quite sure I look like a loon (old ladies smile at me in a 'poor girl' kind of way ) but hey, it gets the job done

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Carries a bit more..........but it can get quite thirsty!

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when i first built this just before christmas my kids refused to walk anywhere near me ,so i said i was going to paint it red and put bells on it.
the funny thing is a year on nobody takes any notice and the running costs have only been 2 punctures .

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ILFRACOMBE
NORTH DEVON

a seed planted today makes a meal tomorrow!

www.freewebs.com/carlseawolf

now in blog form ! UPDATED 01 / 04 / 08

bet it keeps all the wierdos you'd rather not talk to away! I'm lucky the allotment is round the back of the house so I use a wheel barrow

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I have an image of seahorse looking like an old tramp wandering along with all her worldly goods in a shopping trolley! sorry if that's not too pc of me... smack my wrist.

Great ideas for contraptions though! I do a similar thing with pushchair and it's only 100 foot down the garden!

janeyo

I only live about ten minutes walk from my lottie, but it's not safe to leave good tools etc there, so I've always walked round carrying spade, fork, bag containing flask, sandwiches, hand tools, seed packets, seedlings for transplanting etc. I have trouble manoeuvring traditional wheelbarrows, so that option was out. However I was treated to a visit to a Wyevale garden centre a few months ago and found what looked like a huge plantpot on wheels with a high back and handle. WHOOPEE!! My new toy. Will try to get a picture to post. Can get lots in it, it's easy to pull - my only complaint is that the wheels are hard plastic so make a lot of noise, why can't they use rubber?

I have a lovely handwoven willow wheely basket which groans under the weight it has to carry up to the allotment. This usually comprises stuff for the hens, a bag from the kitchen composter, water for drinking, cardboard, bits of gardening equipment or things from the house I think might be useful on the allotment and plants. It usually weighs a ton.
I also have a rucksack filled with anything else to carry.
All this has to go on a long walk both ends and a bus ride in between.
And I do look like one of those bag ladies what with wearing my allotment gear at the same time.

Sue

I usually just carry a fork or spade to our newest plot (shed not finished yet). Late last year I emerged from the bushes by the allotments, spade in hand, to find two policemen walking along the path towards me. I immediately blurted out the first thing to enter my head; "I wasn't burying anyone". Luckily they just laughed. A bit nervously, now I think about it....

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My twins have got a 3 wheeler off road job that they won't be using much longer i've had my eye on it for a few months to be converted .

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When I was a Kid I didn't have a say in anything...Dad came home in a new car and that was the first we knew of it.

Last year I as looking at cars and the Citroen Berlingo Multispace looked just the job loads of space to put sheds in the back. But in the showroom Young Sam stated to everyone in there that it was "Spaz Waggon" (his phrase not mine) and asked the salesman if it came with a free wheelchair. Then he infomred me that I was not allowed to buy one......as it would embarras him.

Nine....hes bleeden 9 and telling me what I can buy...

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Lottie transport? Legs, lottie only 5 mins walk.

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My grandfather had a wooden barrow made out of pallet type timber with two large pram wheels...these were the days when most people didn't have a car... he had a two mile walk to the allotment and two miles back

The times I have walked there and hitched a ride back in his barrow amongst all the vegetables he had collected for the week... in those days it was common to see allotmenteers with similar barrows

Wonderful memories

Shanks's pony here - though my OH prefers to drive

The only special transport equipment I have is a big gardening bag with integral tubtrug - it wasn't cheap but I reckon it's fab

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