For you guys who sold the cows and were wondering
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Topic: For you guys who sold the cows and were wondering
Posted By: dr p
Subject: For you guys who sold the cows and were wondering
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2025 at 6:40pm
| The table chain on the manure spreader still breaks in the middle of a snow storm |
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Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2025 at 6:48pm
| Well you’d get too hot forking it out if it broke in nice weather. |
Posted By: nella(Pa)
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2025 at 8:16am
| Thanks for that great refreshing thought Dr. P. |
Posted By: NEVER green
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2025 at 9:06am
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How many bushels??? We bought the biggest manure spreader they made, was great till it broke. ------------- 2-8050 1-7080 6080 D-19 modelE & A 7040 R50 |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2025 at 9:59am
And they ONLY EVER break when Full.
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NEVER green wrote:Posted By: Mikez
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2025 at 3:09pm
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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 By: klinemar
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2025 at 4:03pm
| 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! |
Posted By: dr p
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2025 at 4:22pm
| 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. |
Posted By: DanWi
Date 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. |
Posted By: Mikez
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2025 at 5:46pm
| Do you know what model. We have good amount of new idea parts. |
Posted By: Lars(wi)
Date 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. ------------- I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science. |
Posted By: Les Kerf
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2025 at 6:48pm
Yikes!
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Posted By: dr p
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2025 at 8:25pm
| I can't imagine running one with a tracto that small. My dad had a 3020 and that spreaders made it grunt. |
Posted By: dr p
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2025 at 8:28pm
| All good points Dan, and sometimes, tbose t bar chains will break. Chinese crap t bar chain |
Posted By: dr p
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2025 at 8:31pm
| 213 Mike. Except for a tedder, a kubota skid loader and a couple of wagons, its my only non ac machine |
Posted By: Lars(wi)
Date 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. ------------- I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science. |
Posted By: Lars(wi)
Date 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. ------------- I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science. |
Posted By: Mikez
Date Posted: 20 Jan 2025 at 7:11am
| Ok gramp sold them back then. We should have parts |
Posted By: AC7060IL
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2025 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. |
Posted By: NEVER green
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2025 at 10:08am
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. ------------- 2-8050 1-7080 6080 D-19 modelE & A 7040 R50 |
Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2025 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 . ------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails 1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |