lime spreading

larry@stinescorner

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just a few random pictures
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The boom is interesting. Does that have an auger in it? Looks like an auger would be too heavy, not to mention the weight of the lime. And I wonder how the nurse tank works. The lime spreaders around here use slingers to distribute the material. And they stockpile it in a convenient spot with semi-trailers.

Nice pictures, as always, Larry.
 
That appears to be activated or baked lime. It is as fine as baby powder. IT is fast acting. You get the full effect the first few months. It does not last as long as coarser lime. The activated lime does not spread very well with a spinner machine. Those are augers going out as booms. The picture above is a Stoltzfus boom spreader.
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We used to spread liquid lime. To get 2 ton on, you had to run a floater at 3 mph. I HATED running the floater.
 

I used to get "wet" lime. You could have them bring you a load on a ten wheeler with spreader on the back with just regular tires. But they would never spread in the spring. I used to rent a six ton spreader, and get a full thirty three ton load. Being wet it would not blow away, and the spreader would fling it good and wide.
 
A person probably wouldn't want to hit a fence post or stick a boom in the dirt with that outfit.
 
JD he is from PA and the reason for the boom spreader is to make less dust. The small feilds and lots of housing make many areas impossible to use a spreader truck anymore. The eastern hi-cal lime is better than anything here in the midwest. The lime and the hard blue gravel are about the only things I miss about farming back east. Tom
 
The same company has spread lime on my farm in New Jersey. The pup has a conveyor that swings out to load the truck.
 
We got some free lime a couple years back. The local Campbell Soup Co. uses some type of lime in their washing water to clean fresh vegetables. The waste water goes to a huge lagoon for settling. They will truck it out and spread it as sludge with a huge tractor with a monster disc that tills it into the ground. A steady flow of semi tankers brings the stuff and transfers it into a tank pulled behind the disk. It is amazing that the tanker takes 15 min to empty into the spreader tank.
I thought it funny that all the trucks were driven by young Amish men and most had their wives along in the truck.
The only drawback was they want to do this in July-Aug. We had to grow wheat the previous year.
 

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