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10 ft wide old fashioned drop spreader

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draftx

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Does anyone still use this type. I just got one and got it freed up and am thinking about using it to apply some 46 percent urea to a 5 acre hay field. It would be 10 bags.
 

Used a 10 foot for 12-24-24 Ammonium Nitrate, pulled a 10 foot harrow behind it.

Used it some for top dressing hay land. Just slow compared to broadcaster that will do 30 feet plus in a pass, 10 foot you really cover EVERY bit of the field with the tractor wheels.
 

I would test it with some regular mix before putting the urea in it. You want to be sure that you don't get the urea on too heavy.
 
I have a new idea 12 ft spreader
and a small three point broadcast spreader

you can not load the big one too heavy as it is so wide
also hard to take it down the road.
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Farmallb,
the old spreader still has the word New Idea painted on the front and rear of the machine.
it is a 120 or a 12 ft model tag is still readable,

maybe back in the day one company built all of them and just rebadged and painted them to match the purchase order.
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(quoted from post at 10:25:20 04/01/17)
Farmallb,
the old spreader still has the word New Idea painted on the front and rear of the machine.
it is a 120 or a 12 ft model tag is still readable,

maybe back in the day one company built all of them and just rebadged and painted them to match the purchase order.

The Massey Ferguson one in the shed has Massey-Harris-Ferguson on serial plate and "built by Ezee Flow"
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I am wanting to put down the 46% urea. This spreader had handle that moves a slotted cover over the holes in the bottom of the hoppers. Would anyone have any idea about how small to make those holes so as not to put too much down. Figuring about 100 lbs of dry mix to an acre. Thanks
 

Ezee Flow the number on the ecentric was close to the rate i.e. "4" was 400 lb an acre.

You'll have to do the scale test to be accurate, set it so the slots partly open, and park on a tarp. measure the circumference of the drive tire.

Cover the agitator etc with fertilizer and jack the unit up and turn drive wheels 10 turns. Weigh the fertilizer that came out.

You have lb of fertilizer: machine width X (wheel circumference x 10)

Basically how much fertilizer it put down in so many sq feet do a ratio to sq ft in acre and you'll have lb/acre
 

Mine still has the chart under the lid but it's standing up in the back of the shed with other equipment in front of it, maybe someone else's still has the chart.
I use mine for spreading lime on hillside pastures that are to steep for a truck or big buggy, I have a three point hitch broadcast spreader for fertilizer.
 

Was out to the shed and managed to get the lid open on my eeze flow spreader, mine is a 8 footer and there's no listing for Urea but the chart shows settings for ammonium nitrate.

letter A is for 25 lbs per acre
letter B is for 50 lbs per acre
number 1 is for 60 lbs per acre
there are 2 notches between letter A and letter B.
letter C is for 100 lbs per acre
the next mark is for 300 lbs per acre, don't remember if it is number 2 or letter D

The chart shows AM nitrate (ANL) with a spread rate of around 15 lbs per acre less than above

As I said mine is a 8 footer, add or subtract 12.5 % per foot if yours is wider or narrower.
 
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