Customer Reviews:
 The best I've found December 31, 2007
Peter Muller
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I do a lot of residential and commercial insurance inspections. I needed a wheel that could hold up. Having gone through a half dozen of the small wheel, telescoping handle models I settled on the Stanley. It is rugged, well built, and as is the case with other Stanley products, should last me a long time. It has a very easy to read scale, operates very smoothly, resets quickly, and, the built in "kick stand" makes survey work hassle free.
 Excellent Buy December 30, 2007
Karl E. Berghauer (Ohio)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Very good product for the price. As an engineer perforing road surveys, I needed an accurate but easy to use measuring wheel. This one, with it's folding handle beats the rest. I have come to dislike the telescoping handle on some models, which fail over time. Also, the Aluminum wheel last long, and the forward and backward measuring helps zero in on distances, and can "subtract" when you have gone too far.
Good product. Well built. February 1, 2010
David Fiddes
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I haven't used this a lot, but it seems to be well built. I like the folding handle feature as well as the kickstand. Works as good as I had hoped.
 Breaking the Waves May 20, 2008
Bartok Kinski (Prague)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
This rotary-wheel 'beach wave distance finder' is a real delight for those living on the unspoiled beaches near the coast of Oregon. Product is fairly easy to use, simply position oneself atop of the wheel, placing one's feet upon it, wait for a wave and then crawl up to the water mark and the distance is stored inside a handy mechanism inside the wheel.
You can measure the distance of the waves throughout the day after a hard day at work, what more fun can you ask for besides finding a nest of snapping turtles?
 Build quality is sub-par for continued use February 10, 2008
Buck R. Cash
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
If you're going to wheel something every once in a while, this will work fine. But if you're going to wheel all day every day, find a better wheel than this. I'm on my second one in three week's work and I'm using it only because it's all I could readily get locally in this little burg I'm presently in.
Immediately, the little plastic nubs that hold the kickstand up broke off, so I had to remove the kickstand completely so it wouldn't hang down and be in the way while working the wheel. Now I can't leave it standing on it's own while writing down measurements. This happened on both wheels, and I'm not abusing them - At $60 each, I don't want to keep buying them!
I also noticed that the plastic body that holds the handle and the counter, and that the wheel goes into, is very thin, flexible and the seam parts under very little pressure. I wondered about this right away and, sure enough, it finally broke at the handle after about two weeks use, which is why I'm on my second of these wheels.
The counter reset is not friendly when it comes to the number 5. If I wheel out a number that has a 5 in it, or worse, two 5s or, worse still, 55' 5", I have to spin the wheel off that number in order for the reset switch to work. I guess it can't figure out if it should reset the spinners backwards or forwards because they're dead smack in the middle, so it just fights against your thumb pushing on it and does nothing.
It also too frequently doesn't measure at all, sometimes making a grating noise that at least tips me off that it's not functioning (but not always, so I get to the other end of the span I'm measuring only to find that I'm still on zero or a number that just can't be right), or when I stop, the numbers are all in half-way positions, so I don't know if I've measure 64' or 73', and have to walk it all over again, meaning I end up walking that span 3 times before I can move on.
I'm here writing this review because I'm on Amazon looking for a better wheel, and happened across this one that I'm too familiar and frustrated with already.
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