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If the manure sits on a pile for a while and heats, the only seeds you have to worry about are the ones from the plants that grew on top of the pile. The heat will kill the rest inside the pile. We've always had H&S spreaders on our farm since I've been around, and the second one is just as old as the 1st one was. I'd say they do a fair job, but they can leave rather large unwanted piles on a hayfield. We don't haul on hay unless we drag it, so it's no big deal for us. A neighbor I worked for on & off had an old Heubner (local brand) and they spread like non-other. Hardly had any that went under the beater, so hardly any random piles. The down side of those, were the wheel hubs were just a cast hub w/ a brass bushing on a shaft, so now wheel bearings. If a farmer was lax on his maintnance (ussually is on the sh!t spreader anyway) they would wear right through the cast iron hub. New Idea was sure a popular model and I'm sure they worked well, but we've never used one. Rented a few others like Badger and Knight, but they were way too big for any small guy. We just needed to haul it out faster than our spreader would allow. Then we had 2 tractors spreading and 1 loading. A good spreader can handle it all, including, but not limited too, black dirt and very hard packed pens. Donovan from Wisconsin
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