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Janet writes

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Trugs? what are they?

No substitute for a plastic bucket.


Surely that rather depends on what you want to do with it?
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Chris French

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Janet writes

"Baz" wrote in message


Trugs? what are they?

No substitute for a plastic bucket.


Surely that rather depends on what you want to do with it?

Not reeeely, because anything you can use a trug for works as well or
better in a bucket. Carrying tools, veg, flowers.
But try carrying tadpoles in a trug...

Janet

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Janet writes
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In message ,
Janet writes

"Baz" wrote in message


Trugs? what are they?

No substitute for a plastic bucket.


Surely that rather depends on what you want to do with it?

Not reeeely, because anything you can use a trug for works as well or
better in a bucket. Carrying tools, veg, flowers.
But try carrying tadpoles in a trug...


Buckets are generally 10, maybe 15L capacity. You can get much bigger
trugs which are useful for carrying bulkier things, for weeding when it
won't fill up so quickly. For mixing stuff up etc.

We've got buckets and trugs, wheelbarrow and a couple of old builders
dumpy bags. All ahve their uses.
--
Chris French

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Racquel Darrian;955351 Wrote:
Hi All,
My handles of all my trugs eventually snap no matter how expensive they
are.
Can you recommend some that you have used that are really strong?

TIA

What do you mean by "trug"? Do you mean a flattish basket about 40cm
long and about 20cm deep with a handle over the top, which is the
original meaning of "trug". Or do you mean a deep softish plastic tub,
usually in a bright colour, with a little handle at each side, which are
now being called "trugs"?

If the latter, yes, it happens to me too. I just buy the cheapest I can
find, and regard them as expendable.

It helps if you always pick them up by both handles simultaneously
rather than yank them up by one.


Are we talking muck buckets here?
If so, calling them trugs seems an upwardly mobile marketing strategy
which may sadly work.

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No plan survives contact with the enemy.
[Not even bunny]

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

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(='.'=)
(")_(")

For what it's worth, those little mechanically propelled trolleys used by
hospital porters are also called trugs!

Some more research indicates that Wyvale sell "trugs" - plastic bucket type
things with two handles now being called "Flexitubs" - much more
appropriate.

Bill

In article ,
Janet writes
Not reeeely, because anything you can use a trug for works as well or
better in a bucket. Carrying tools, veg, flowers.
But try carrying tadpoles in a trug...

Janet


But to be fair Janet if you are picking flowers or some veg, it's best
to be able to lay them across the proper trug than to stick it all in a
deep but not so wide bucket.
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

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Racquel Darrian;955351 Wrote:
Hi All,
My handles of all my trugs eventually snap no matter how expensive they
are.
Can you recommend some that you have used that are really strong?

TIA

What do you mean by "trug"? Do you mean a flattish basket about 40cm
long and about 20cm deep with a handle over the top, which is the
original meaning of "trug". Or do you mean a deep softish plastic tub,
usually in a bright colour, with a little handle at each side, which are
now being called "trugs"?

If the latter, yes, it happens to me too. I just buy the cheapest I can
find, and regard them as expendable.

It helps if you always pick them up by both handles simultaneously
rather than yank them up by one.


Are we talking muck buckets here?
If so, calling them trugs seems an upwardly mobile marketing strategy
which may sadly work.

--
No plan survives contact with the enemy.
[Not even bunny]

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

(\__/)
(='.'=)
(")_(")

For what it's worth, those little mechanically propelled trolleys used by
hospital porters are also called trugs!

Some more research indicates that Wyvale sell "trugs" - plastic bucket type
things with two handles now being called "Flexitubs" - much more
appropriate.

Flexitubs is just another brandname.

I always assumed that this usage of the word trug, came from the
original (??) brand Tub-trugs?

FWIW, you can get 'professionsl' Tub-trugs which should be stronger
(don't know how easy to source though.

There are also Gorrila Tubs, which are the builders version of
Tub-trugs.

http://www.gorillatubs.com/
--
Chris French