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pitt_md
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2008-01-08          150054


Does anyone have a small spreader (25 bu.) they use? I just have two horses and don't want to spend a fortune to toss crap around. I see there is a wood one that sells for around $850 and everything else in that size is $1500 and up. Any advice or experience would be more than welcome.



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Art White
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2008-01-08          150060



I understand your problem and you are not alone. It often is cheaper to buy a bigger spreader and park it for a month or more to load it. I do recommend if you are going to spread in the winter to buy a PTO drive not a ground as on slippery surfaces they often slide.
With horse manure it doesn't eat the preaders up like the cow maunure does so they last longer then any horses will. ....


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2008-01-08          150064


Art, I have read many of your post over the years and respect your opinion highly but must disagree somewhat on this one with you. I have a small 25bu ground drive spreader made by Mill creek, my wife empties it every other day using an atv to pull it. We have never had any problems with it sliding. I'm in PA so we don't always have mild winters. Several times when the snow was over 8" she would have to wait to spread until the snow froze and believe it or not she could drive on top of the snow and empty the spreader. Pitt as far as expence I think I paid around $1200. This summer after 5 years the body rotted through and I had to repair with sheet metal. Mill creek offerd a plastic body for about $300-$400 more. I know it sounds like alot but if I could do it over I would spend the extra. I think it had a very long or lifetime warranty. Check out my pic#13.Good luck



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2008-01-09          150082



Depending on where you live, eight inches of snow might just be a half days snow fall. Even for farmers with big tractors and equipment they will stack manure around here until they can get out in the fields easier in the spring. That would be good cause for the pto drive for our area.
I'm suprised that the box on a millcreek would go bad in just five years! You must not be putting to much hay into it and leaving it in the weather for it to go bad so quickly.
A year or two ago we hadd a fellow in that was looking for a part to his spreader, a sprocket off the wheel that drove it. The spreader had always been in the family on a three generation horse farm and was older then I am. That's old for a working spreader! ....


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pitt_md
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2008-01-09          150099


Thanks for the replies. I looked into a little spreader called the Newer Spreader for around 1K but decided against that one. I won't work with any hay/straw in the mix and wn't work if the manure is wet.
I see that the new Mill Creek spreaders have a poly floor now and sell for around $1700 for the model 27. ....


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Murf
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2008-01-09          150101


If it helps any, I can tell you from a manufacturing point of view, $1700 is not a lot of money.

First strike against this sort of thing is it's a pretty limited market, so there isn't much economy of scale.

Next is the structure and cost of same, price out a similar box trailer, then add the beaters, etc., to that cost.

Finally, there is the cost of shipping a bulky product, and the markup of a dealer if there is one.

Most of the places around here, this is horse country, use (as Art mentioned) a larger, albeit used, spreader and depending on the size of tractor, just don't fill it all the way up.

Best of luck. ....


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2008-01-09          150105


Art I was also suprised it rotted in only 5 years. The spreader does not sit out in the weather and is emptied every two days that is why I recommened the poly floor. I realize snow fall varies depending on where you are located. I have already stacked the manure until able to spread too and the small ground drive spreader worked just fine. I think for someone with just a couple of head and maybe limited space it is easier to store, pull and work on one of the small spreaders. Thanks to whoever is adding my pictures I am trying but have not got it right yet. ....


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2008-01-09          150106


Doc, I edited your post, the problem was a simple one, you copied the web address from the PAGE you were on, not the PICTURE itself.

The simplest way to do it is to get to the picture you want, then put the mouse over the picture itself and RIGHT click your mouse, then select "copy image location" then paste that into the "image URL" box.

If it's still unclear just whistle, myself or someone will help you out. No problem.


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DRankin
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2008-01-10          150117


I am so relieved to find out this thread is about tractor implements.

When I first saw the topic I was worried someone had run into a couple of my younger brothers. ....


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2008-01-10          150119


DR, that gave me the best laugh I have had in a while. By chance are they running for president? kt ....


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Murf
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2008-01-10          150128


I was kinda wondering about that myself.

In these parts any manure spreader is generically called a 'politician'.

It really only works every now & then at best, and even then all it does is well, spread a lot of ......... 'stuff' around.

Best of luck. ....


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hardwood
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2008-01-10          150138


Doc; I've gotta go along with Art on the PTO drive spreaders. Any manure that is loaded directly from the stall with a fork or shovel will be loose in the spreader and not take a lot of power for the beaters to unload it. Compare that to old compacted cattle shed manure with hay and straw mixed in it takes lots of power to the beaters to tear it apart and spread it, so if you clean and haul every day or so the little ground drive will likely work fine.
Maybe the litle ground drive spreader will save your back too. The reason I say this is if you will notice the ad's on the RFD channel for the little spreaders it always shows a cheerful young lady hauling the manure. PS, Thanks for all your comments on dieting, the hardest job I've ever had in my life is pushing the dinner plate away before I'm full. Frank. ....


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2008-01-10          150140


Mark,

I bet you were always the kid sitting in the back of the class making a comment about something the teacher said causing the entire class to roll on the floor laughing and the teacher never could get mad at you either because it was so darned funny he/she were laughing so hard to they couldn't cuff you upside the head. :)

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2008-01-11          150143


Kind of the same thing but different. I was raised in very strict Catholic schools where (or maybe more to the point, when...as in back when) anybody who stepped out of line got whupped.

They didn't call your parents to ask permission either. They whupped first and told later. That always meant another whupping anyway (at home) so it would have been fine with me if they would have just done their business shut up.

Even in High School the priests and brothers were not above breaking the binding of a world history text over the head of anybody considered a smart-ass.

As a result my true nature remained somewhat hidden, not emerging until the same tactics were employed to keep the police briefing room quiet and orderly.

By that time I was way too big to beat and had a lot of time to make up for........


Anyway.... There is always a grain of truth in any good humor. When Charlie, my no-nonsense, WWII vet, shot-to-hell-and-somehow-survived, North Carolina bred father-in-law, first met one of my siblings he told his daughter:

Ahm real glad ya'll are marryin' Mark and not that mahnewer spreada he calls a brotha.

Ten minutes, he had him pegged. Gotta love it.

Charlie left us and all the pain behind twenty years ago this week. Gotta get out to the cemetery as soon as the weather improves and get the plot leveled and the trees trimmed. Just the tractor and me. No mahnewer spreada's.

Rest easy Charlie.

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2008-01-11          150149


I have to hand it to you Murf...I think you hit the nail on the head! ....


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2008-01-11          150151


Frank, I agree with you about the pto spreader, but pitts original application was for two horses not a heard of cows So, I was just letting him know how well one has worked for me. As far as dieting goes, with the program I use or something like Dennis uses you don,t get hungry and you don't have to stop eating before your full. I have never eaten so much in my life but still lost 80lbs and it has been off for 3 years. I am now watching what I eat not, how much of it I eat. When I switched to a plant based diet I lost 80lbs in about 3 months. It is difficult in the begining but once get used to it, it's like anything else. Murf thanks again for the help with the pic ....


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2008-01-11          150160


drankin, the best place for our friend is out heart if they can not join us at the table. kt ....


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2008-01-11          150168


Doc; Sorry if I misled. I only used the horse manure/cow manure thing to make an example of where a PTO spreader is really needed, or not needed. ....


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2008-03-07          152001


I thought I would let you all know that I decided on a RODA MINI spreader. They come with a poly floor and box and are built about 4 hours from here in IA. the 25 bushel is $1400 and the 50 bushel is $1950. Going down to look at them tomorrow. If they are as advertized I will bring one home. ....


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