Lime spreader ID

mikewood869 · Aug 9, 2020

Does anyone know what brand this spreader would be? It doesn't seem to be a John Deere.

MF#1 · Aug 9, 2020

My Dad has one like it, a Dearborn I think. We used to spread a whole lot of fertilizer with it, keep it well oiled and greased.

Leroy · Aug 10, 2020

Dearborn did sell one, so did Oliver and Ez-Flo was one and might have built them for other companys.

wolfman · Aug 10, 2020

Looks a lot like my old Dearborn. Three hole wheels?

showcrop · Aug 10, 2020

I hope that you are not planning to spread that 34 tons with it!

mikewood869 · Aug 10, 2020

(quoted from post at 14:23:22 08/10/20)
I hope that you are not planning to spread that 34 tons with it!

That thing sucked, the left side kept clogging, so now 500 pounds at a time... You have someone on the back with a shovel. It takes 20 minutes to empty.

Traditional Farmer · Aug 11, 2020

The lime from quarries these days has been wetted down so its clumpy,hard for the older spreaders to spread it.On food plots I've gone to putting old hay or wood chips in the bottom of a manure spreader and then lime on top to spread the lime not real accurate but doesn't have to be on plots.

showcrop · Aug 11, 2020

(quoted from post at 03:23:27 08/11/20) The lime from quarries these days has been wetted down so its clumpy,hard for the older spreaders to spread it.On food plots I've gone to putting old hay or wood chips in the bottom of a manure spreader and then lime on top to spread the lime not real accurate but doesn't have to be on plots.

TF, the lime that I have been spreading for the last thirty years has come from Lee MA. It has been very consistent. Only one time were there chunks of any consequence. Somehow they wet it so that it stays wet enough so that when you spread it it goes right on the ground. If you are going to be delayed in spreading you tarp it to keep it from drying.

Traditional Farmer · Aug 11, 2020

Most people around here use a Stoltzfus spreader it works best with wetted lime,plus the quarries wet the lime while grinding to keep the dust down and also they can sell some water at the price of lime too.With the lime being wet no loss from it blowing away while spreading either.With the lime I get once the pile gets wet it never really dries out.

showcrop · Aug 11, 2020

(quoted from post at 06:05:59 08/11/20) Most people around here use a Stoltzfus spreader it works best with wetted lime,plus the quarries wet the lime while grinding to keep the dust down and also they can sell some water at the price of lime too.With the lime being wet no loss from it blowing away while spreading either.With the lime I get once the pile gets wet it never really dries out.

Yes, TF exactly as I was saying.

DanielW · Aug 11, 2020

The Oliver spread-all and most Ez-Flow/New Idea ones I've seen have been somewhat more curvy than that. MF#1 is right - looks like a
Dearborn. Cockshutt had a few popular models too, but none of their discs looked like that to my knowledge. Only seen deere ones online, but
all the ones I've seen pictures of have had a different style of lid.

I've had no problem putting lime screenings from the quarry through ours, but it gets shoveled in by hand - that might help break it up a but
rather than dumping a whole bucket in.

mikewood869 · Aug 12, 2020

It does seem like its a dearborn 20-5 lime spreader. It's a pain to use, its missing parts. It keeps clogged on the right side.

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