In reply to Post #7
Well I ordered my van on Friday and it’s only a wait of two weeks for delivery so my ‘battery relocation project’ has become more urgent. I reckon next weekend is when I’ll be fully focussed on this. In the meantime I’m going to order some rubber hole grommet things off Amazon. They seem cheap as chips and whatever I end up doing there’ll be a hole into the pannier somewhere or other. Will keep you updated.

In reply to Post #4
Thanks for this. Coincidentally this morning I was in the garage with the barrow to see if a ‘revelation’ that occurred to me would work—it was the same one you’ve suggested, using one of the side panniers and I’m 99% certain it can be done. Right now a thick cable comes out of the frame on the front wheel which is threaded through a rubber grommet/hole into the battery box. It is then push connected into other half of the cable. I’ve checked and the other half of the cable is long enough to be pushed out of that hole (along with the battery connector cables) and it could all be connected outside of the box.

So all I think I need to do is create a hole in the side pannier and then I can house the battery there and access it for charging through the pannier’s existing zipped sides. I’ll see if I can find a waterproof EVA box that will fit the batteries and that will still fit in the pannier, and a waterproof rubber grommet for the new hole would also help I suspect. But definitely a viable solution which I’m pleased about because I didn’t want the hassle (and cost) of a new barrow when there’s nothing wrong with this one.

BTW I’m with you on LifeP04 batteries. Made that change a few years ago and it was a game changer.

In reply to Post #10
Lovely and modern new UI. The only thing I'm missing (or haven't spotted if the feature is still there) is the ability to select a load of threads and mark them all as 'read'. Used this quite a lot previously.

Has this gone (a) temporarily, (b) for good or (c) am I a dolt and it's still there but I can't find it!

Not sure if this should be in this forum or 'Tackle', but thought I'd try here first.

I'm an old git and so have had a Nash Power Barrow for about five years now. I have (still do) use a car for my trips and this means taking the barrow apart and doing a 'Tetris-type' packing job each time I go fishing. Also, because my car is our family car I have to load/unload/vacuum between each trip so we can use it for normal stuff in-between.

This is all getting a bit too much for my old bones now so I am about to invest in a van. My dream is that I just wheel my barrow in and out at the lake, and when I'm not fishing my barrow just lives in the van. It would make a massive difference to me. But I've just hit a potential snag. The battery on the barrow can only be accessed when the top of the barrow is empty. Silly design. But it means that I wouldn't be able to avoid unloading the barrow to re-charge it, which sort of defeats one of my main objectives.

The battery housing itself is sort of an EVA material which hangs below the frame, and I'm tempted to have a go and try to fashion some sort of additional entry into it. However before I start slashing around with knives and make a complete hash of it I thought I'd reach out and see if anyone on here has already figured out a way of doing this or, for any other Nash owners, whether you can come up with a practical way of achieving this?

Thanks in advance for any help.

David

In reply to Post #22
Well I'm not sure. I have a mate who reckons it's done well, and that the £200 to make it 'brand new' again is a bargain. I'm less convinced about that, and I still think there's a design fault with the water run-off. But until it started leaking it was absolutely the dog's danglies—apart from being heavy. If you reckon an extra spend of £200 per three years is okay (just over £1 per week/session) then I'd say go for it. But if you want to spend your cash and be sure it will last for maybe five years plus, based on my experience I don't think it will.

In reply to Post #20
So I bought a Camo T1 Pro back in summer of '23 when they were first released. I bought it for two reasons: (1) the inner capsule—I have a bad allergic reaction to most bites and wanted the inner capsule to keep bug life to a minimum, and (2) I wanted something taller than most bivvies so that I could get dressed/stand up without having to perform the 'crab dance' on my bed chair. And it has achieved both of those splendidly.

However..... some negatives

1. It weighs a ton when wrapped up with the inner dome. And it's a bit of a fight to fold and pack into the carry-bag.

2. Although I love the extended peak/porch, the design is really poor. Instead of channeling water down to the side gutters it almost always pools in the centre of the porch--see point 3 below. It may well be that if it was erected on a totally flat piece of ground that wouldn't be the case, but the lakes I fish don't have that benefit and the pooling has been a constant issue.

3. It leaks. It leaks somewhere along the porch/main bivvy seam. I've sealed every seam with tent repair sealant, taped every seam and fabsilled all around it and I just can't stop the leak. I am sure that the constant pooling hasn't helped this. Now to be fair the leak drips into the doorway area and nowhere near my bed, but a constant 'drip, drip...' all night is pretty disconcerting.

4. There are loads (loads) of pin ***** holes all over the main canvas that are only visible when the bivvy is erected. I don't think they are leaking, but I have a suspicion that they will soon. But they let in light which is a shame because otherwise this is a lovely dark bivvy.

Now to be fair I have used the bivvy a lot. A couple of nights a week on average for three years. But I treat it well, have always dried it out when I get home and I don't think it should have deteriorated like this. Nash support have sold me a new main canvas for £200 which essentially gives me a brand new bivvy again. But in the meantime I've also bought a Solar Spider Worldwide FS 1.5, which has a zip in groundsheet, is quite tall and a lot lighter than the Titan. I've used that a few times now and will use it as my summer bivvy. It will be interesting to see if I feel the need to revert back to the heavier Nash one once the cooler/wetter days return in the autumn.

All in all it's good, but not without its faults and I do object to having to fork out £200 after just three years of use.

Hope that helps.

Thanks to everyone who replied. I’m going to try O-rings first, then leather if they don’t work. But I’m back to single sticks unless absolutely necessary to use these buzz bars again. Stupid design!

Okay, so I’ve always been a single stick man. But I’m away at the moment fishing a lake with really hard banks. A pal of mine persuaded me that for this trip I should get a pair of buzz bars to reduce the number of sticks I’d have to get into the ground.

I use ESP single sticks so went out and bought two of their buzz bars plus two stabilisers.

I’m bankside, managed to get them into okay and with the stabilisers there is absolutely no rotation of the front or back banksticks. But… there is massive rotation on a bite (or even just tensioning the line in my line clip) between the buzz bar and the bankstick itself. Basically it starts to unscrew (clearly this is just on one side—a take from the rod on the other side is essentially screwing the bar on more). I almost need a screw and thread that fit less well (or are rusty!) to prevent this happening.

Do any of you buzz bar enthusiasts have a way of preventing this?

In reply to Post #1
I’ve just bought a Solar Worldwide FS 1.5 and am dead impressed. Lots of room, including height, and comes with everything, including skull cap, for just a fraction over £500. I also love that it has a zip-in groundsheet because I’m allergic to most bug bites. Highly recommended.

Hi and thanks to everyone for your replies. I’ve ordered the Solar Worldwide 1.5FS which seems to tick most of the boxes—and I’m hoping for a tick-free summer!

Thanks again.