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Kenster

07-13-2007 07:21:26

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I borrowed my friends big funnel seeder/spreader to spread lime, fertilzer, and bermuda seed. He's never used it and does not have instructions.

There is a lever on the back, reachable from the tractor seat, that moves up and down and is numbered "1-8." I know this controls the amount of flow out of the bottom of the hopper.
What I would like to know is how to determine the proper setting for my application. For example 650 pounds of lime for 63,000 square feet.

I have no application charts.

And the 10 bags of 13-13-13 fertilizer give application rates for various home lawn push spreaders like Scotts. How do I interpolate that into the big funnel spreader?

And the 20 pounds of bermuda seed? I'll mix it thoroughly with dry sand for spreading but I'd like the ratio/spreader setting to equally cover the 63,000 square feet. (Just under an acre and a half.)

Thanks again.

Ken

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Dell (WA)

07-13-2007 21:13:20

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Re: 3pt Spreader questions in reply to Kenster, 07-13-2007 07:21:26

Kenster..... .how good is yer "friendship"? They make "replacement" spreader PTO shafts with 1-3/8 joints. Go shopping.

You want to know how to "calibrate" your spreader. Fill yer spreader with whatever. Choose a notch. Drive over a BLUE-TARP (about 12x15 size) and start yer spreader before you get there and finnish AFTER you've gone quite a bitt.

Now fold up yer BLUE-TARP and empty the granuals into a feed-tub; now empty the feed-tub into a feed buckett; now empty yer feed-buckett into mason-jar; now empty yer mason-jar into plastic baggy. Weigh the plastic baggy. You now have oz/sq-fts. Now divide acre square/foots with blue-tarp square/foots. Now MULTIPLY yer ounces in plastic baggy by factor of square-foots. Convert ounces to pounds. (or whatever yer measurement of choice; furlongs/per fortnite?) This is all so simple with digital calculators.

Don't like the answer? Try a different notch. Repeat. Understand the concept???..... ...Dell, the square-footer

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Kenster

07-13-2007 11:05:02

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Re: 3pt Spreader questions in reply to Phil (NJ,Az,Sask), 07-13-2007 07:21:26

Hndymann, I tried that first thing. No luck. I've got bigger problems now.

When I first tried to hook up the spreader, the shaft was too short to fit over my ORC, so I had to take the ORC off, no easy task. Only then did I discover that the drive shaft for the Spreader is an inch and an eighth and my PTO is 1 3/8 inches. If I buy an adapter, I'm back to the spreader shaft being to long to fit the PTO shaft.

But, since this is going to be an ongoing job of fertilizing, I guess I'll just go buy my own spreader, though I was really hoping once this lawn is established I could keep my 8n tractor off of it and just mow it with the lawn tractor.
It's aways something.

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hndymann22

07-13-2007 10:35:54

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Re: 3pt Spreader questions in reply to Kenster, 07-13-2007 07:21:26

Did you try to goggle it on the net with the model, and make to see if you can download a manul for it? I have done that a lot on things i buy used with no instructions....

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Kenster

07-13-2007 09:31:31

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Re: 3pt Spreader questions in reply to JDrew, 07-13-2007 07:21:26

It's an "Armstrong Ag" brand spreader but looks just like all the other funnel type spreaders I've seen at TSC or the New Holland store. It is PTO driven, not electric, so I assume the "throw" will be determined by how fast I am going.

As far at the bermuda seed. I don't have four wheeler or an electric spreader. I've been told that I can mix the seed with dry sand and use the 3pt spreader to distribute it. That's what I am planning to do unless I hear of a better idea.

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CT8N

07-13-2007 09:22:24

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Re: 3pt Spreader questions in reply to Kenster, 07-13-2007 07:21:26

If that is a pto driven spreader the bermuda seed is too small to use with it. A small electric motor driven mounted on a 4wheeler works best for small seed.

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Jack-Illinois

07-13-2007 07:41:12

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Re: 3pt Spreader questions in reply to Kenster, 07-13-2007 07:21:26

I assume this is electric motor driven?? If so I would start with something cheap, like the lime. Put in 10 pounds and drive 2 mph and see how far it goes and a given setting like 4. Now measure how wide it spread in feet and multiply that times how far you went. Now you have how many square feet 10 pounds covered. If close to what you need just change your ground speed slightly to compensate. If way off, change the setting and try it again. Giving a brand and model number may come up with a board member that has one and does have a instruction book with his and can give you the information you need without all the trial and error.

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