Earlswood Rope Handle Tub Feed Bucket, Red – 40L

Earlswood Rope Handle Tub – Red, 40L

This is the plain, heavy tub that ends up doing everything on a yard: feed, water, soaked hay, muck, tools, and whatever else needs carrying from one end of the place to the other. The rope handles are the reason to choose it over a moulded-grip bucket — rope sits into the hand rather than cutting across it, and stays bearable when the tub is full.

Earlswood make it in 40 and 75 litres and in black, blue, green and red. Beyond the capacity, the colour and a listed weight of 1.60kg, Earlswood publish no dimensions and no material specification for the tub, so none is stated here.

Performance & Benefits

• 40 litre capacity — a barrow-load of muck or a full haynet's worth of soaked hay.
• Rope handles, comfortable to carry two-handed when the tub is loaded.
• Heavy construction, built for daily yard use rather than occasional lifting.
• Wide open top, easy to fill, scoop from and tip out.
• Red is easy to pick out across a yard, which helps where tubs are allocated per horse.

Suitable For

• Feed, water and general carrying around the yard.
• Soaking hay and haylage.
• Mucking out and carrying tools.
• Colour-coding tubs between horses on a shared yard.
• Not a hanging stable bucket — a fixed-handle bucket with a hook is the one to tie in a stable.

How to Use

• Carry it two-handed by both ropes when full; 40 litres of water weighs 40kg.
• Rinse out after feeding and stand it upside down to drain.
• Stack empty tubs inside one another to save space.
• Keep the ropes out of standing water and off the muck heap so the knots do not rot.

Specification

• Capacity 40 litres. Colour red.
• Twin rope handles. Listed weight 1.60kg.
• Also made in 75 litres, and in black, blue and green.
• Earlswood publish no dimensions and no material specification for the tub, so none is stated here.