Gehl Scavenger 2 manure speader

johndeeregreen · Apr 10, 2012

I know the Gehl Scavenger 2 works good in sloppy manure, but how does it work in manure with a quite of bit of straw mixed in? Its not pen packed stuff, just quite a bit of straw in it. Would it get wrapped about the auger? Its been on a pile for 5-6 months so its rotted some

rrlund · Apr 10, 2012

No personal experience,but when I was looking at one at a Gehl dealer and asked him about spreading that kind of manure,he said I'd only load it with that stuff once. And I'd see why I'd only do it once.
I told another Gehl dealer what that one said and he said he didn't know why not. Said they worked fine.
I had a Meyer with the 2 big augers in it,rear discharge with the vertical beaters. From my own experience with that one,I wouldn't recommend one for pen packed type manure.

Cliff Nelson · Apr 10, 2012

We've had one for years. It will spread anything you put in it. Our heifer shed is bedded with shredded corn stalks in the winter. Load it as high as it will stay on. Never any problem, just try to break it up when loading and don't raise the auger unless it bridges up. We only open the door about 1/2 to get a better spread pattern. In my opinion one of the best spreaders out there.

4020guy · Apr 10, 2012

We have a 322 Gehl and it works well. Our dairy manure had chopped straw[5 to 7 lbs/ cow per day] and no problem. The heifer straw pack was slower to unload but never had any problems. 6 month old straw piled manure should be fine. A little common sense goes a long way. I've seem 2/3 of a silage round bale or a block of frozen manure the size of a small freezer dumped into a spreader and the person wonders why it doesn't come out as it should or the spreader breaks....Ron

johndeeregreen · Apr 11, 2012

The hoses are off for the rear cylinder that raises and lowers the auger, it looks like it could only come down about an inch. You think I could just leave it there or should I get hoses made up? It hasn"t been moved in so many years, it probably wouldn"t move anyways.

4020guy · Apr 11, 2012

Good idea to get the auger to move up and down. If there is any bridging problems it is nice to have....Ron

INCase · Apr 11, 2012

I used to work for Gehl in the test group in engineering. Didn't work on the spreaders much but helped a bit. Guys up in MN let one freeze solid and the hired help went and fired it up. Busted the drive chains. Same dairy also kept putting whole round bales in the TMR and wondered why they kept wiping out gear boxes. Got pretty good at swaping out the gear box assemblies.

The New Holland V-tank spreaders were Gehl Scavengers. Surprised NH didn't pick that line up.

Anonymous-0 · Apr 11, 2012

I had one for a while when I was raising veggies full time. Used it to mulch straw over my vine crops and feed round bales to the cattle. I never used it in pen pack but it worked great tearing up the round bales. The gentleman who rented it from the dealer before I bought it used it to grind up frozen silage in his pit.

faillafarms · Apr 11, 2012

we have a NH 306 spreader, dad bought it at an auction biggest waste of money and time to fix, tried to spread pen pack with the thing on a 4440 JD we had to put 500 gallons of water in the spreader for it to even attempt to spread it. trying to sell it if anyone's interested, didn't work for pen pack bought a New Idea 3236
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