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dr p 
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Posted: 18 Jan 2025 at 6:40pm |
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The table chain on the manure spreader still breaks in the middle of a snow storm
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Tbone95
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Posted: 18 Jan 2025 at 6:48pm |
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Well you’d get too hot forking it out if it broke in nice weather.
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Posted: 19 Jan 2025 at 8:16am |
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Thanks for that great refreshing thought Dr. P.
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Posted: 19 Jan 2025 at 9:06am |
How many bushels??? We bought the biggest manure spreader they made, was great till it broke.
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Posted: 19 Jan 2025 at 9:59am |
 NEVER green wrote:
How many bushels??? We bought the biggest manure spreader they made, was great till it broke. |
And they ONLY EVER break when Full.
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Posted: 19 Jan 2025 at 3:09pm |
That sucks. What are you using for spreader. When I was younger and wanted a cow I spread by hand. Put the little ac B-110 garden tractor in first gear and walk behind it and forked it out of the cart.
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Posted: 19 Jan 2025 at 4:03pm |
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When heating or cutting metal on a manure spreader the aroma reminded me of parties I attended when younger where some were smoking Marijuana. I didn't like the smell then and still don't!
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Posted: 19 Jan 2025 at 4:22pm |
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it is an old new idea spreader with a hand crank end gate. when we were growing up, my dad vowed he would never have a spreader with a table chain. For years he had those old barrel new holland spreaders. took forever to unload and you sure wanted to make you knew which way the wind was blowing. then he got a hydro push. He thought it was the greatest thing john deere ever invented. Didn't have the heart to tell him john deere bought the patents.
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Posted: 19 Jan 2025 at 5:01pm |
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Tips for daily hauling in winter. Run the spreader before you fill. Fill the spreader and haul immediately when freezing out. Have a scrapper with you and clean the spreader up good. Depending on your drive home run the spreader empty when driving home so it freeze dries or at least back across the field. Get rid of the old flat chain and get a pintle or T bar chain. Last flat chain we had broke when it was empty, apparently it was wore out. And if you have a chance occasionally spray spreader walls and floor with drain oil thinned with diesel. And watch that slats don't get thick with frozen crap. Then you have to clean them.
Edited by DanWi - 19 Jan 2025 at 5:04pm
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Posted: 19 Jan 2025 at 5:46pm |
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Do you know what model. We have good amount of new idea parts.
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Posted: 19 Jan 2025 at 6:14pm |
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Years ago when I worked for Heathercrest Farms, they had two of those NH barrel manure spreaders. Farmall 400, and Farmall Super M were the designated manure tractors. During the winter time it was 5-6 loads between the two of them everyday. Needless to say, about every 14-15 months, those tractors needed engine overhauls.
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I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science.
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Posted: 19 Jan 2025 at 6:48pm |
Lars(wi) wrote:
... Needless to say, about every 14-15 months, those tractors needed engine overhauls. |
Yikes! 
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dr p
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Posted: 19 Jan 2025 at 8:25pm |
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I can't imagine running one with a tracto that small. My dad had a 3020 and that spreaders made it grunt.
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Posted: 19 Jan 2025 at 8:28pm |
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All good points Dan, and sometimes, tbose t bar chains will break. Chinese crap t bar chain
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Posted: 19 Jan 2025 at 8:31pm |
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213 Mike. Except for a tedder, a kubota skid loader and a couple of wagons, its my only non ac machine
Edited by dr p - 19 Jan 2025 at 8:34pm
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Posted: 19 Jan 2025 at 9:22pm |
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I remember occasionally having to shorten those chains after those spreaders got some age. Once you started hearing the hunk of iron on the end of chains starting hit the lip of the barrel opening, you knew what chore was in your future.
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I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science.
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Posted: 19 Jan 2025 at 9:27pm |
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The secret to using smaller tractors on those, was before refilling with manure was turn the pto real slow, and have the chains wrap around the shaft instead of hanging down in the barrel. This was especially true if loading hard packed manure from a bull pen, or calf pens. Didn’t matter if the load was mostly liquid, as those loads were easy to start.
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I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science.
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Posted: 20 Jan 2025 at 7:11am |
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Ok gramp sold them back then. We should have parts
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Posted: 21 hours 27 minutes ago at 9:40am |
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Dad always had a couple feet of some heavy #9 wire & spade shovel on our NI manure spreader. If chain broke, hopefully you only dug it out/down to its break? Then if you were lucky, wire broken links together as best as you could & eeeaassse into the pto???
“60% of the time, it worked everytime!” ~ Ron Burgundy.
Edited by AC7060IL - 21 hours 17 minutes ago at 9:50am
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Posted: 20 hours 59 minutes ago at 10:08am |
dr p wrote:
All good points Dan, and sometimes, tbose t bar chains will break. Chinese crap t bar chain |
Everything breaks with wear, our tbars would wear then get loose and of course one side would fall off the sprocket then the other would stay on, what a mess, rip up the floor, bend slats, links scattered across field.
A heaped dry load always seamed to do it, constantly tightened chain yet one load to late...
Dont miss cows or their excrement.
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Posted: 13 hours 35 minutes ago at 5:32pm |
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Either the chain breaks on the coldest day or you get stuck in a wet spot on the hottest day. A pitch fork was always the remedy .
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