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Randy-IA

08-12-2007 19:13:12




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Hi All , Sorry for all the questions . Sometime in the coming months up to a year I'm going to need a manure spreader . What are the pro's and con's of each type ? ( ground drive or pto ) I won't need a big spreader just have 5 horses and about 10 acres to spread it on , six of those are hay and the other four are pasture . Tractor size isn't an issue . Thanks ! ...Randy




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Spritzer

08-18-2007 15:44:06




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 Re: 'Nother question in reply to Randy-IA, 08-12-2007 19:13:12  
The advantage of a ground-driven is you just hitch up and go. Should work okay so long as everything is well lubed and adjusted. And loaded properly. See Pic #992 in Implement Photos. For sale.



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Edd in KY

08-13-2007 06:10:25




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 Re: 'Nother question in reply to Randy-IA, 08-12-2007 19:13:12  
I suggest you go the PTO route. In the winter or spring when the mud is knee deep and the barn is knee deep in muck, you can't drive in the fields to unload, so you will need to clean the barn and pile the muck off to the side some place out of the way. A PTO unit will let you do that. A ground driven unit is good for cleaning a barn in only certain weather conditions...



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Leroy

08-13-2007 06:08:55




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 Re: 'Nother question in reply to Randy-IA, 08-12-2007 19:13:12  
Randy, the PTO spreaders are all way over the size you need. The size Donovan has you would have 1 load every 1 1/2 years. The smallest spreaders were ground drive starting at about a 40 bu. size with the McCormic model 100 spreader that was built for people like you in mind up to about all makes with spreaders of 50 bushels, 60 bushel, 70-75 bushel, and 95 bushel sizes. Pto spreaders start out with a very few at 95 bushel size with most at 125 bu size and up all the way to over a 600 bushel size. Unless you absoutlay have to stack it in the field I would forget any PTO spreaders. Depending how much straw you load out with the manure a 50 bu size would need to haul maby 5 loads a year, now if you are cleaning out all straw every day instead of just picking out the mess then it would still take more loads but the little McCormic was designed for a dairy head of up to 10 cows and they will make more manure than a horse will. I have spreaders to get rid of that would work for you at a 60 bu. JD and a 95 bu. JD and to be rebuilt before I an ready to get rid of it a 60 bu. NI. These type spreaders were designed for hand loading while like Donovan's as being way too large for the amount you will need to haul they are way to high to pitch the load on by hand and for 5 horses I dought you have a loader that would even fit in their stable. Like I said earlier when you asked about a sprayer what I would have sold you a good one for you could have paid for it plus the fuel and still had enough left over to buy yourself a small 2 wheel trailer. And on the rotary mower, with the tires set out like that the one would beoutside the cut and when you come back just turning around you would run the wheel over the already cut strip and you would always be cutting toward the run down strip instead of against it. Cuttind following tire tracks the mowers never pick things up right to not leave tire tracks. The only downsize with a 5 foot for you is you could not cut against the fence but be at least a 2 - 2 1/2' strip along any fence that you could not get where one that is a bit wider than the tires could get to a couple of inches to the fence. For just clipping the weeds in the pasture forget about a rotary mower, save your money, and use your Oliver mower, it will do as good or better as a rotary on pasture weeds and you can stick the cutter bar under any electric fence between posts to get those weeds. Write Later. Lester

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paul

08-12-2007 21:47:01




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 Re: 'Nother question in reply to Randy-IA, 08-12-2007 19:13:12  
pto.

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Don-Wi

08-12-2007 20:58:45




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 Re: 'Nother question in reply to Randy-IA, 08-12-2007 19:13:12  
I think I'd look for a smaller PTO driven type. I've never used a ground driven spreader and can't say I would want to. We pile our manure up all summer out in the field with the spreader, then spread it after the corn is off.

We've had H&S spreaders my whole life on the farm. Older model (on our 2nd one of the same size, maybe 235 BU.), but they work fine and parts are easy. MOst we can fab up ourselves if we have to. We just had the steel replaced on the sides and beefed up the toungue a little bit as it was rotting through, but it's still a good spreader.

Donovan from Wisconsin

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Curious George

08-12-2007 20:35:37




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 Re: 'Nother question in reply to Randy-IA, 08-12-2007 19:13:12  
Just one point, with pto you can stockpile poo, and I do remember the ground drive sliding on ice.



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