sorry aboout the typos! I'm DIGGING up the rock!

I have two wheelbarrows. One is a regular Jackson metal one that I paid about $90 for, and the other is a plastic, or fibreglass two wheeled one from Sam's Club @ about $50.

The metal one is good for mixing concrete and hauling on level surfaces but I find myself always heading for the one from Sam's Club when I want to haul any difficult load or for that matter almost anything that needs a wheelbarrow.

I also have a wooden cart that I bought 30 years ago from a company in Vermont. It has 26" bicycle type tires on it and is stored outdoors (in So. CA). I have replaced the wood once and it is due for another rebuild soon.

This is one of those things that I chalk up to one of my best buys ever.

It will haul anything (400 lb. max recommended) easily and I use it all the time for hauling bags of fertiizer, top soil, etc. plus logs, branches etc. In short, I is used all the time.

The only disadvantage is that it is about 4 ft. wide so not good in tight spaces. In those areas, I use a wheelbarrow. I have designed my paths etc. to be over four feet wide though so I have access to most of my yard with this cart.

It is easy to run up and down slopes too. I think it is easier that either of my wheelbarrows so I tend to use it to haul large, heavy loads from the back yard to the front yard (uphill).

Any of your choices would be good depending on what you want to haul.

Those two wheels in the front sure come in handy on occasion. Better balance, I think.

I don't know your exact situation, but I'd think that if you can PUSH the wheelbarrow up the hill, you'd be able to tow a cart behind a garden tractor up the same hill. Plus, taking more, lighter-load trips on a tractor is much easier than pushing a loaded wheel barrow.

I'd opt for a cart AND a two wheeled wheel barrow. I only use my wheel barrow where the cart won't fit.

I dug a light well on the south side of my first house. It was 30' by 6' by 6' deep, and I moved every shovel full of that dirt with one of those plastic bicycle trailers. I'd never have had the endurance to move that much dirt with a wheelbarrow -- too much effort wasted trying to keep it from tipping over and spilling the load.

I eventually wore out the bicycle trailer -- my kids were too big for it by then anyway -- but ever since I've looked longingly at those expensive Rubbermaid carts.

Yep. No one wheel barrow meets all your needs. Got a 10 cubic foot cart to pull behind the lawn tractor, a bicycle tired 2 wheel cart for general use (great because it doesn't require strength to balance) and a regular single front wheel barrow. All get used but the favorite is the bicycle tired.

Bob