Different way to load manure!!! Trackhoe

I enjoy watching videos of how different things are done around the world. I have never seen manure being loaded with a track hoe before.
Different way to load manure

Friend of mine has a hoe and does a fair bit of manure loading in the spring. Track hoe doesn't have to move much to load the spreaders , so they don't chew up the ground or compact it either. A good operator can keep 3 spreaders moving .

Well there you go show me how things are done different around the world. There are some summer piles out side around here but most of the winter manure is piled on concrete here.

My manure hauler

Sorry the pic didn't upload

COMMON here in northern ND.

Hate to break an apron chain and have to unload that thing by hand! You would need that track hoe then for sure!

Brave photographer behind that, hope he had a telephoto lens. Last winter the farmer that farms near us used spreaders like that - but mounted on trucks. The frozen "rocks" flew a long way.

I've done it before, you just have to keep the front window closed.
Ron

I have seen that done around here. A farm that I go to regularly uses a mini excavator to take silage out of the bags and load it in the mixer wagon. It doesn't rut things up like a loader.

I have used my mini hoe with thumb to feed round bales. Works pretty good but is all the weight that little hoe wants.

A few years ago in Southern Italy, I saw something like that but the excavator had a clam shell bucket on it.

Looks like they try not to tear things up and keep things neat. Not fast enough for the Dutch around here, and, they aren't destroying roads and ruining rented fields by compaction like our local Dutch/Belgians. Not a fan of them.

Ross

You can load faster with a track hoe for anything and not move much . same way with moving dirt a track hoe with a big bucket and three rock trucks will move dirt faster the three pans with a dozer pushing the pans.

Hi
It's becoming very popular round us in Manitoba. I can see it being like the conventional spreader and vertical deal . everybody had horizontal rotors doing custom 15 years ago then the vertical guys started in. if you don't have vertical you can hardly get custom work any more. You either update or quit now. Guy my buddy runs for uses 4 spreaders on some bigger jobs and load with a hoe all the time. He must be a real good hoe driver. I kinda see it going if you don't load with a trackhoe and spread with vertical beaters, you won't be in business for much longer in the custom world round here.
The other thing they say is when loading like that a good operator see's the bigger rocks and feed troughs before it's in the spreader and jammed the machine solid in the middle of a field!!!. With a loader and grapple you can't always see the junk.

I wish our custom guy used one He would actually be able to clear muck from 4 years ago he can't get out of the stockpile with a big wheeled loader, as it's to wet for it. He or us would never be able to fix the mess he left with the big guy. Catch 22 I need the muck out to fix the problem now as it's getting worse and nobody wants to do it locally, they don't want to wash the machine after being in pig manure. I have bought a cheap spreader and will probably try with my smaller loader tractor to get the muck out, without making a huge mess and before our wonderful government 10th November shut down Rules.
Regards Robert

Sure beats the old JD B and the New Idea-Horn loader. Also beats old NI spreader. But you get to run what you brung.