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manure spreaders. good and bad

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spitz

02-22-2008 10:14:15




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Looking at updating my Minnesota. I would like to keep it under 4K and would like 250-300 bushel or so. What are the goods and bads of various brands like New Holland, New Idea, H+S, etc. thanks for the input!!




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hayray

02-23-2008 16:33:10




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 Re: manure spreaders. good and bad in reply to spitz, 02-22-2008 10:14:15  
I would think it may be hard to find a 250 bushel spreader in very good shape for under the 4K. But I have a 185 New Holland that is about 10 years old now and have not done a thing to it yet. The floor is a polymer board that is guarenteed and so is the box for the life. It is tough, I have put some real heavy stuff in it. Around me a lot of guys have said that the New Idea was bad idea.



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M Nut

02-22-2008 17:44:08




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 Re: manure spreaders. good and bad in reply to spitz, 02-22-2008 10:14:15  
I've got a 250 Gehl that has been very good. I run about 150 loads a year through it and in the past 300 loads I have not even had to replace a shear bolt.



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no deeres here

02-22-2008 17:25:49




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 Re: manure spreaders. good and bad in reply to spitz, 02-22-2008 10:14:15  
I had a 363 New idea. It was JUNK!!!. It had two speeds too fast and way too fast. They had a tiny little sprocket to drive a very large sprocket to drive the apron and that little bugger went every year which meant yankin off the gearbox to replace it as well as a new chain. Traded it for a Hagedorn 225 and have been smiling ever since.



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bradk

02-22-2008 16:41:45




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 Re: manure spreaders. good and bad in reply to spitz, 02-22-2008 10:14:15  
New Idea apron type spreaders are pretty hard to beat.The later ones have a poly floor and galvanized body.



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rrlund

02-22-2008 16:26:19




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 Re: manure spreaders. good and bad in reply to spitz, 02-22-2008 10:14:15  
I bought a new JD hydra push back in 89. Good spreader but I wore it out. I've seen where they are making them almost the same again and selling them through Deere dealers again. Don't think they call them Heritage,can't remember. One I'd advise against though is the Meyer V-Max or whatever they were called before they called them a V-Max. I have a model 3254R Series. That thing's something else. Pure slop or pen manure in early spring work OK,but get slop in it,then put long stem hay from around the round bale feeder in with it,it's a nightmare. I was cleaning up out in the field around the roundbale beeder this spring,picked up a stone without knowing. Blew a gear box all to pieces. I just wouldn't recomend them.

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2t2@ia

02-22-2008 15:43:08




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 Re: manure spreaders. good and bad in reply to spitz, 02-22-2008 10:14:15  
The best value in a manure spreader I ever had was a Roda. A short line company in Hull Iowa. I purchased a used machine for about $500 and when we sold our cattle about 10 years later, sold it for about that amount. The welds were not smoothest, etc., but it was strong, simple, and used many off the shelf parts. Just my opinion.



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Lee in Iowa

02-22-2008 19:58:30




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 Re: manure spreaders. good and bad in reply to 2t2@ia, 02-22-2008 15:43:08  
I'll 2nd your opinion on the roda. I bought a 180 bushel for about a dollar a bushel and only had one little repair so far. Years ago a friend bought a used roda and was fixing it up. You can call the factory for parts and at that time an older lady handled the parts. After my friend read off the list of parts he needed she said "hmph better send you a grease gun too" now thats teling like it is. Lee

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kossuth

02-22-2008 13:33:34




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 Re: manure spreaders. good and bad in reply to leo ackey jr, 02-22-2008 10:14:15  
I'm gonna go off of personal experience here. New Idea spreaders are the best in the business as far as your conventional spreaders go but they go at a premium price. The New Holland spreaders aren't bad, but the axles are a known weak spot. If you look at a New Holland spreader look good and hard at the axle because it's a stupid design and if it isn't rotted out it will be a question of when unless some smart farmer closed that channel off with some pipe or something. The John Deere 34 spreader I've dealt with wasn't bad, but I wasn't a fan of the rachet assembly that pulled the bed chain along. I've also had some experience with an old Case 100 that my dad uses currently with the horses. He got it really cheap, good thing too. Not a too horrible unit but you can't get parts for em anymore that we could find. So to get it back and going after it broke this summer took alittle engineering on our part, but otherwise not a horrible unit for a horse farm. Being that that particular Case spreader uses a v belt to drive the bed chain and the beaters I would not recommend using it for cattle or something like that being it would be super hard on the belt. We've had it slip and jump off once because the bed chain speed was too high for the load on it. The belt is like 10 ft long I have no idea how expensive that bad boy is but I'm sure he's expensive if you can even get him so it stays at slow speed.

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Charlie M

02-22-2008 13:41:11




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 Re: manure spreaders. good and bad in reply to kossuth, 02-22-2008 13:33:34  
Got to agree on the New Idea spreaders - I've only run the older ones but they do a great job. I'm currently using one of the old NI horse drawn spreaders. If it doesn't rust away on me it will run forever.



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