value of manure spreader

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My 90 year old father in law has an old manure spreader he wants to sell. I can't find any maker name on it. It looks like 2/3s of a large drain pipe, shaft down the center with chains to throw out the manure, runs off the tractor PTO. It still works well.
Any idea what he has and what it is worth?

thanks for any help.
 
Hawk Bilt rotary spreader, not sure but they probably made all brands of them, not sure about that. I have seen NH, JD Massey, and Hawk Bilt ones. Had an interesting read on the man who started the company.
Hawk Bilt Co
 
Forgot about the price, seen a nice one at an auction north of Guttenburg Iowa, great shape, single axle, brought 950 dollars.
 
I have a JD C or N model. Shows it's age but works. Bumper pull, box chain connected bars across the floor that are linked to wheel rotation and the slingers at the rear.

When I was running cows and feeding round bales, the leftovers would pile up and rain and stomping where the last one/eaten ones were would make a real soggy quagmire. I could pickup the mess and load it with the FEL and scatter the stuff on my hay patches then come back with the disc harrow and disc them in. Really helped this heavy Houston Black Clay percolate. I'd swear it still has the original tires. Cracked like an old china dish but still hold air for long periods....like years.
 
Do the flails throw to the side or to the rear? John Deere, Hawk-built, New Holland, etc, pulled the tank in line with the tractor and threw to the side. Brady made one that the tank was perpendicular to the tractor and threw to the rear. Made it wider than others.
 
Depending on the size it could also be a Starline which is larger than the Hawkbilt, which is more of a hobby farm unit. The Starline should be worth 30% more than the Hawkbilt. They are a really great spreader for barn or feed lot manure/bedding pack.
 
Manure spreaders,especially small ones are hot items at sales.Paint it pretty and haul it to the next consignment sale.
 
Those tank type never became popular around here and haven't seen one for years. Only unless you had complete slop did they work, bedding would not work. And now that type of manure is going into a liquid pit to be pumped out. Around here you would just get what the junk dealers would pay to make their proffit by just hauling it straight to scrap yard. You would make more by doing that yourself. And they were power hogs, took a lot of power to run one. 45 PTO horse tractor could struggle to start the load. No good for somebody with horses or the like, only good for non bedding areas for cows or pigs that you cleaned out every day. If he gets a hundred dollars out of it for scrap he is doing good. Any regular web and beater type spreader will bring money but not that type.
 
(quoted from post at 08:43:30 07/19/16) Those tank type never became popular around here and haven't seen one for years. Only unless you had complete slop did they work, bedding would not work. And now that type of manure is going into a liquid pit to be pumped out. Around here you would just get what the junk dealers would pay to make their proffit by just hauling it straight to scrap yard. You would make more by doing that yourself. And they were power hogs, took a lot of power to run one. 45 PTO horse tractor could struggle to start the load. No good for somebody with horses or the like, only good for non bedding areas for cows or pigs that you cleaned out every day. If he gets a hundred dollars out of it for scrap he is doing good. Any regular web and beater type spreader will bring money but not that type.

They were never popular around here but I found out about them from another guy with sheep. They take a long time to unload liquid, but bedding pack gets ground up really good so that there are no clods left on your pasture, and the Starline unloads it VERY fast. I tried it once for liquid and it was slow and left a foot in the bottom.
 
I got 900 for mine 30 years ago.It was a Hawkbilt unit that was also sold rebadged as a New Holland.I had pigs on straw and it was perfect for the sloppy manure I was dealing with.Sold it to a dairyman for the sloppy manure from around his cowyard bunk feeder. He never said so but I think the loader bucket hit the shaft too many times as it snapped about a year after he got it.I always loaded right from the paddle cleaner twice a week.Those spreaders were popular for caged henhouse manure as well.
 

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