The Handy THGR Push or Pull Behind Steel Lawn Roller

Did the job perfectly when filled with kiln dried sand

Easy to put together and certainly does the job. I choose to fill with ‘silver’ sand which took me approx two hours! With this exception, excellent roller.

Arrived on time, very easy to assemble and fill with water. Haven’t tried sand yet, it seems heavy enough filled with water. Very happy with this product.

his has been a great help in the laying of the base of my new shed, It has been easy to assemble and the service has was excellent.

This has been easy to use and has kept me quiet and busy. Such fun and everyone stops and admires my new lawn. Thank-you

very good easy to assemble usually not very good at this sort of thing but it was easy would recommend

This is a great garden roller as it is very easy to fill, I would recommend that you fill with water as you can empty it when you finished the job, Putting sand in it would be almost impossible to empty

Works well. Handy but leaky and fitting the handle could be easier, hence four not five stars.
Easy to carry when empty.

Great product which had been well received. First use yesterday heralded great results. Water filled and made a great weight for the rolling effect o be good.

This roller does what is says on the tin – a very sturdy roller and extremely heavy when filled with sand!

Tempted though I was to track down a vintage roller with cast iron roller and wrought iron handle like we had in the garden when I was a kid (wonder where that went!) an urgent desire to bash down the bumps in the lawn while the ground is about as soft as it gets sent me hunting around for something available right now. The Handy Garden Roller is pretty large, with a strong enough steel roller. The handle is thin soft steel but it seems strong enough, although time will tell, and the rubber grip pleasant to hold. The scraper removes grass cuttings as the build up on the roller head – an unexpected bonus, as it’ll make it much easier to get the excess grass cuttings off the lawn than trying to rake them. It took about 10 minutes to assemble – nothing difficult at all.

There is just one irritation – and that cost me about 3 hours before I got to assemble it. The instructions state that the roller will be about 30Kg heavier if it’s filled with sand rather than with water, so I thought that’d be a worthwhile additional investment. Problem is that the bung in the roller is just 20mm in diameter. Getting three bags of sand through that hole took two hours or more. I’d bought sharp sand initially, but after the first one I changed them for the smoother builders’ sand. It might only have been marginally faster, but at least it abraded my hands a lot less. Absolutely dry sand would probably have been a lot easier – I had thought that it would be possible to pour it in through a funnel – but all the sand from the local builders’ merchants was just slightly damp. So “The Handy” – if you’re serious about a sand-filled option, how about a wider bung in the next version?

By the way: while I’ve got three Wickes bags of sand in so far, I suspect that there’s room for another one if you really want to go for maximum weight.

Moles trashed my lawn a couple of years ago, so this year I finally got round to repairing the various dips and mounds created by collapsed tunnels etc. I wouldn’t use a roller to spread sand/soil, but definitely makes a massive difference when you compact the stuff with a roller and then bed-in the grass seed on the worst affected areas. This garden roller is easy to put together, the water doesn’t leak out of the seal and is good VFM IMO!

my handy roller is just fine at last i have finally got my lawn nice and flat,and now my grand children can play without tripping over uneven lawn, i would recomend it to any one who as the same problem. bazzo

Yes, its great what a fantastic idea to fill with water as we can take it with us when we move, and my husband has used it for his beloved lawn.

I was looking for a garden roller that would be easy to handle but heavy enough to deal seriously with the improvment of a very badly maintained lawn. My impression was quickly gained that garden rollers have gone out of fashion and that the average householders with a garden tend nowadays to replace their lawns with decking, concrete slabs or patches of Zen gravel with the odd carefully placed monolith. So I was delighted when I was able to locate a supplier of the “Handy Garden Roller”. It is delivered ready for assembly. The roller part at this stage is light and has to be filled with water or sand to give it the weight needed for effective lawn flattening. I found it easy to assemble and filled it with water. This made it heavy enough for my purpose. To have filled it with sand would have been more difficult and would have required a filler funnel and would have increased the weight about two and a half times making it much more difficult to handle. Partly filling with sand might not be a good idea as it might give a bumpy ride, especially if the sand is not bone dry. Changing the filling from water to sand would wet the sand. Changing from sand to water would be more difficult as getting the sand out could be difficult and time consuming, especially if the sand is damp and when sand filled the roller must be very heavy to handle. So it is best to decide from the outset whether you want a heavy, or less heavy roller. I would have preferred a roller that was split in two as this would have made it more manoeuvrable but this would have complicated the design and increased to cost. Overall I am content with the roller, have found it fit for purpose and, filled with water, can handle its weight without undue stress, Filled with sand I might have to take up weight training!

he garden roller came within the week have had to use it only the once last week when a lorry went on my new laid turf and the roller done the jobit was made to do.

Arrived very [promptly. The item is good value for money. Wish it was a bit more heavier.

A good quality roller delivered within 48 hours. However, when I filled it with water and tightened the stopper, it leaked. I contacted the helpline, who despatched a new stopper and washer – unfortunately, the new nylon washer was broken! I contacted them again and asked for another new washer and to please check that it was not broken. No apologies – and it never arrived. I bought a rubber washer locally for 49p and it’s now fine. A pity that an otherwise good product was let down with very poor after sales service.