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    Posted: 10 Nov 2016 at 12:23pm
Are there any advantages to a ground drive spreader verses a pto driven spreader. I would like a pto spreader but the guy I am getting the cultivator from has a ground drive spreader and I'm trying to decide if I should get it or not?
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The ONLY advantage of a ground drive spreader is that you don't need a PTO. I would prefer a PTO spreader, but depending on your needs it would work. Might be kinda fun for limited use.
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Pretty much what was said. Advantage of the ground drive is you don't need a pto so you can pull it with anything that will pull it or an old tractor with no pto. Advantage of the pto drive is the spreader is always working at a constant speed regardless of what gear the tractor is in so you can vary speed to vary coverage (you can a little with some adjustments on ground driven but not as much) and with the pto you can make compost piles because you can be in one place and running and the spreader. 
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Ever spread in a wet field? Or get surprised by a wet spot? I've gotten stuck spreading more that once. Awful nice to unload it with the PTO instead of with a fork. Meaning, unload it, and often you can drive out of trouble. I'd never want a ground drive for that reason and probably a few others.
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Originally posted by Tbone95 Tbone95 wrote:

Ever spread in a wet field? Or get surprised by a wet spot? I've gotten stuck spreading more that once. Awful nice to unload it with the PTO instead of with a fork. Meaning, unload it, and often you can drive out of trouble. I'd never want a ground drive for that reason and probably a few others.


Like he said. I have buried plenty of tractors spreading.
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Ground drive gives you more exercise, of you have to hop off and on, to put it in gear...Wink
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Dry soil, infrequent use, good price: go for it.
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Thanks for the advice. If I buy it I'll post some pictures.
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there are lots of things you can use a PTO spreader for other than manure! if you load tree limbs on it with the butts towards the front you can back up and unload them in about 2 seconds. also take back beaters off, load it with firewood, back into where you stack it, run PTO at slow idle, and the load will keep coming to you as you hand stack it til it's empty. can also unload hay bales the same way. usually only 4 bolts and a chain hold the back beater on. easy to change on and off on most spreaders. ground drive, you can pull with a pickup if your spreading along ways away from home.
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Also kind of hard to "pile" with a ground drive. Many used to pile in upstate NY growing up as they could not get through the snow in the field, or could not keep a entry cut in the road snow bank each day after the snow plow went through. Took load far enough from barn where they could unload by inching forward so the pile stayed reasonably high and next day same thing. Had a neighbor that piled in the same spot every year, about 1000' from the barns. Also loved to play with dynamite so one 5 gallon bucket of water and some "sticks" and he could "spread" that pile in one hell of a hurry each spring. Used to call us with advance warning, plus us kids loved to watch him do it from our place down.
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sounds like a fun neighbor to live by!
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YA, IF YOUR TRACTORS DON'T HAVE A CAB WITH HEAT YOU CAN HOOK IT TO YOUR 4X4 PICK-UP AND STAY WARMLOL
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Tim that's better than a cherry bomb in a cowpie.
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my old lady.....oooops.....I mean my loving wife...knows all about firecrackers in cow pies! she had 3 older brothers that kept her busy with stuff like that, just cuz she wanted to be a big girl and be with her bro's! apparently she didn't learn on the 1st or even the 2nd cow pie! LMAO 
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You really want a spreader get a hydraulic drive. The work great for bedding with big round bales of straw or corn stalks.
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Yup, this guy was a hoot. A little over 4' tall, farmed with old JD's and sharp fella that everyone called when they were clearing stumps after felling trees for new meadows, or blowing large rocks that they were tired of tilling around.
For a little guy, you would be surprised how he could start those old two lungers by spinning the flywheel by hand.
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