smaller man spreader
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Topic: smaller man spreader
Posted By: jaybmiller
Subject: smaller man spreader
Date Posted: 01 Jun 2019 at 5:55am
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Anyone build a 'veggie garden' sized compost/manure spreader ?? something like 4by8 to 5by10 size. I have LOTS of compost to spread and a bucket at a time will take forever. I don't think 'bodging' the 100 yr old spud digger will work..... ideas, opnions, options....low on funds so no $4K units, lotsa steel and materials though ! Jay ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
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Posted By: truckerfarmer
Date Posted: 01 Jun 2019 at 6:43am
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Northern Tool has a small ground driven one. ------------- Looking at the past to see the future. '53 WD, '53 WD45, WD snap coupler field cultivator, #53 plow,'53 HD5B dozer Duct tape.... Can't fix stupidity. But will muffle the sound of it! |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 01 Jun 2019 at 7:57am
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Thanks, but at 2000 Canucks it's too much... I get all my steel for free so I could make one just need ideas...economical ones.... Jay ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: JaredC(WI)
Date Posted: 01 Jun 2019 at 9:35am
| Around here old still working and in decent shape ground drive spreaders go for around $400. Might be worth checking your local craigslist or simular website. |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 01 Jun 2019 at 10:21am
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Outside the box idea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvbItOYBJg4" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvbItOYBJg4 ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: frnkeore
Date Posted: 01 Jun 2019 at 12:52pm
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I looked at that video and the first thing I though of, was you could make a "Muck Spreader" out of a almost any, 3 point scoop and you could make it a end dump, with a screw, instead of a flail. ------------- Frank 1959 D17 Series I #24001+, '59 D14 '55 & '59 Ford 850 & 861 Ferguson TO 35 Deluxe, Oliver 70 and 5 more. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 01 Jun 2019 at 5:41pm
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Now I'm thinking something like a fertilizer spreader or seed spreader,like a 'gravity cart'. Somethin 4' long so 4-6 buckets of compost could be hauled ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: truckerfarmer
Date Posted: 01 Jun 2019 at 10:39pm
 How about this. Looks like an oversized drop spreader. ------------- Looking at the past to see the future. '53 WD, '53 WD45, WD snap coupler field cultivator, #53 plow,'53 HD5B dozer Duct tape.... Can't fix stupidity. But will muffle the sound of it! |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 02 Jun 2019 at 4:22am
| someone driving a pickup as someone else shovels it out over the side/back. |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 02 Jun 2019 at 4:40am
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Mill Creek makes a little ground drive unit...
[TUBE]zj_VqbsfEYw[/TUBE] I went the used old antique route, I bought a old international unit, I think its a No 100 holds about 4-5 scoops of stuff, ground drive, stored in a shed for years, think I paid $375 for it, works like a champ... This aint mine, mine is still in its work clothes... [TUBE]8CNxZJMBDv8[/TUBE] ------------- Source: Babylon Bee. Sponsored by BRAWNDO, its got what you need! |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 02 Jun 2019 at 5:26am
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drop spreader is the style I'm thinking of, but I would build bigger.. the millcreek unit is same as NT unit, too $$$ NO old affordable real spreaders locally and... re: someone driving a pickup as someone else shovels it out over the side/back. That'd have to be ME driving and tossing AND DRIVE on the wife's nice,fluffly garden soil ??? Yeesh, I do that once and SHE will figure out how to get lil TOOT to dig a hole 2' wide,' long and 6' foot deep then 'whoops' hit me with the BH bucket... Today's 'simple' task is to move a dumptruck load of mulch and 'place' on the north ridge next to the shop.Maybe 4' access,cross front of bldg,then turn,then 72' run ,and dump onto the embankment. Load of chips is 120' from bldg too.....I'm already tired... All this just to make her veggies grow....IF it ever stops raining long enough to plant AND it warms up for them to grow. Jay
someone driving a pickup as someone else shovels it out over the side/back.
someone driving a pickup as someone else shovels it out over the side/back.
------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |