manure spreader--IA Gary??

To expand on the story a bit, my neighbor has sheep, my wife gardens. So i get to haul sheep poo from the neighbors down to our house to stockpile for use in the gardens. Loading goes great, i take the 4000, and fill my barge box wagon up. Unloading, not so good. I hate to raise the hoist up too far w/ all of that stuff in there for fear of just shoving the hoist through the bottom of the wagon, or tipping the whole unit over, so i lift a little then start in w/ the pitch fork. I got 2 loads last night and was done by 10. I was always told s__t runs down hill, after that project, i'm not so sure.

Gary, you know of anyone in the area w/ something that might work sitting in the fencerows that I could beg borrow, buy or steal?

Any pto spreader will unload sitting still but you would need to remove the beaters or let the beaters spread it out a bit by leaving them on.

Gary

If you have a loader on your 4000 and a flat bed trailer, just load the trailer and use the loader to pull/slide the manure off at your place. If the neighbor is close enough and you have a loader, why not just haul it a bucket full at the time and forego the spreader?

I'll keep an eye out on the auction market, and see what i can come up with, but likely i'll just end up shoveling it off of the barge box for this year.

the first, last and only spreader i've ever had a part of is the old M-D that dad has...I think it's a model 10, but can't be sure. Makes a nice mate to the 8N Ford, but at a loader bucket per load, it takes a long time to acomplish much.

Is there any models that had perpetual problems i should shy away from? someone mentioned some of the New Idea units had a weaker apron drive system.