Hey Adkinsca,

I prefer my single wheel units I have at home vs. the double wheel one at work. The double wheel ones can haul more, but the handles are the limiting factor for weight. We break a handle a year. Also, it seems to take an acre to turn the thing. You pretty much dump straight forward and are not able to "shake" out the material you are hauling. Another thing I don't like is twice as many wheels equal twice as much maintenance. Pushing it empty to a loading site only to find one tire was flat is aggravating. I can only see the advantage of stability for someone with limited strength or on really rough, steep areas.

adkinsca,

Much of our property is sloping and a double wheel design would be very limiting for me. When I am traveling laterally on a slope I can tilt my single wheel wheelbarrow to keep it upright even though the ground is sloping. A double wheel design wouldn't let me do that because the two wheels would align the wheelbarrow with the slope, which would force it to tilt and very likely turn over, dumping my load at a place where I wouldn't want it dumped.

MM

mulch contractor uses a 10 cu ft double wheelbarrow. probably need 2 wheels to manipulate a bucket of that size. otherwise, i've never seen a professional contractor use a double wheel wheelbarrow. i presume for practical reasons.