Got The Spreader Working

Part Time Pete · Apr 28, 2017

I picked up an old Lely fertilizer spreader that hadn't been used in ten years or so - it looks like the PO painted it up with whatever rattle cans he had laying around - doesn't look like much, but I think it helped preserve it. It took a little work to get things freed up, and I had to split the pto shaft to get it apart, but everything appears to work - hopefully I can try it out this weekend
Pete

maxwell99 · Apr 28, 2017

Good save, a good coat of paint and you will be styling,
Is the tractor a d14? I had one good old tractor,
I bought a post hole digger and had the same problem with the pto shaft,

I poured a mixture of acetone and automatic transmission fluid in it for a while finally got it apart,

John730D · Apr 28, 2017

I've got the twin to that one. Has set outside forever. Needs loosened up like yours did. Great spreaders. Need to find the time to fix it or sell it. I'd let it go cheap if you would like it for parts. Email is open.

Part Time Pete · Apr 28, 2017

John - thanks. I should know after this weekend if I need parts...
Max - yes, it's a D-14. I've had it for 25 years, and put about 200 hours a year on it - it does all the raking, tedding and odd jobs. It's the most reliable piece of equipment I have. I'm getting to the age though, where power steering would be nice...
I was going to soak the shaft, but I was able to get replacement tube stock, so I just cut it off and welded a new one on

rrlund · Apr 28, 2017

A neighbor had one just like that except that his was on small wheels and was ground driven. I've kicked myself all over the place for not buying it on his auction. I used to borrow it a lot. I really miss that thing.

Farmallb · Apr 28, 2017

Yep, I bought a auger also, 2 bits, 2 augers, small, med, for $245 Im gonna get the large auger for it. That's round $175. Had the same problem with the PTO shaft. I thought the solid shaft wars round a foot long, as the auger never gets far from the tractor either up or down. I realized later that they made the solid shaft nearly the length of the tube so that the tube wouldn't twist do to its length 40in. After beating on it for a couple days, I split it down one side. Hammered again with no success. Reached down bout a foot from where I had been cutting to turn it 1/2 round to cut the other side and burnt the heck outa my hand. That ended the torch work. I hurt so bad I forgot to turn the tanks off and ran out my oxy. Got it off tho, and had another tube for it. just gotta get my 220 hooked up so as to be able to use my welder.

BobReeves · Apr 28, 2017

I have been successful pulling a couple PTO shafts apart by chaining the ends to my loader in parallel with the lift cylinder.

showcrop · Apr 28, 2017

I have exactly the same thing. I got it at auction maybe fifteen years ago for $175.00. I didn't use it much, just for urea after first cut. I used a bigger one for spring. Since I downsized I use it a lot more. Mine is very rusty as well. I just recently noticed that it is powder coated, so the plastic is peeling off in sheets. It looks like it puts out about 75 lbs/acre when set at #5. You can also set it to put it out to one side only.

714_run · Apr 28, 2017

if you want another d14 I got one with power steering a loader and backhoe for $2,500

Part Time Pete · Apr 28, 2017

Showcrop - thanks - I'll start there. I'm shooting for the 150lb/acre neighborhood
The guy I worked for as a kid had a ground driven one that he had me pull with a 72 IH pickup. Two ton of fertilizer on the truck, pulling a spreader on plowed ground, was quite a workout for the old truck (actually, that was in the 70's, so I guess it wasn't all that old)

Bill VA · Apr 29, 2017

I've got one like it, but with the hopper extension. Manual's are online.

Here is a link to a video setting/operating a similar spreader from the hopper/metering wheel up.

The pic is from spreading some potash.

We've put down a lot of fertilizer with ours since digging it out of the barn and refurbing. New - very expensive.

Lely Spreader

wellmax99 · Apr 30, 2017

now that you mentioned pulling on the pto shaft,
I believe that was part of my post hole digger pto experience.

after soaking the pto shaft in a mixture of acetone and ATF and not getting anywhere pulling it apart.

I finally hooked one end to a chain wrapped around a tree.
hooked the other end to a chain hoist that was tied to another tree,
put all the pressure I could on the chain hoist pulling the pto shaft apart for days, would add more solution, then give the chain hoist handle an few more pulls.
about the third or forth day it moved a little, then I knew I had it. I just kept this action up and few more days, each day I got a little more movement on the chain hoist lever
then one day, it just popped apart.

I cleaned the shaft of rust and worked it back and forth for a while.

now it works fine, but it was a real pain the aZZ, normally if a mixture of acetone and ATF and time, will not get something apart, you might as well fire up the old torch.

Part Time Pete · Apr 30, 2017

Thanks Bill,
I wondered if manuals were available - I used it today. Put down a couple tons of urea - worked perfectly
Pete

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