Tonight's Feature Manure Spreaders

John B. · Feb 26, 2013

I know this isn't what everyone expects but we have to take the good with the bad. But then years ago bankers would estimate a farmer's wealth on the size of the pile of manure they had.

John B. · Feb 26, 2013

Here's a few pictures.. Just a few...
I know I over did myself this time but just had to share all these at one time.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 26, 2013

These themes are perfect John. None of us lives a movie star life. ....And wouldn't want to either.

Glenn

fordfarming · Feb 26, 2013

Them theres some fancy turdhursts !

Welding man · Feb 26, 2013

Did you know that a manure spreader is the only piece of farm machinery that the manufacturer will not stand behind?

ShadetreeRet · Feb 26, 2013

Thanks for the pictures. I have always been fascinated by early farm machinery, (well, just about ALL farm machinery) Looks like in this case everyone tried to get on the bandw, er,the manure wagon.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 26, 2013

Neat Pictures! What year you think that IH spreader is? We had one very similar to that. In the early fall we would use it to hauls the firewood that was cut in the winter before to store in the wood shed.

ShadetreeRet · Feb 26, 2013

RGMartin · Feb 26, 2013

I thought we weren't supposed to talk about politicians on this forum?

Bruce from Can. · Feb 26, 2013

If a banker judged your wealth by the size of your manure pile.. I'd be loaded.That pile is only a months worth. Reckon they must have updated thier methods some.

larrystinescorner · Feb 26, 2013

Heres a few pictures I found in my files, helping the neighbor in PA spread some.,my tractor,his New Idea spreader

Eldon (WA) · Feb 26, 2013

(quoted from post at 14:57:28 02/26/13) I know this isn't what everyone expects but we have to take the good with the bad. But then years ago bankers would estimate a farmer's wealth on the size of the pile of manure they had.

My Allis Chalmers front unload spreader....

Found something my wife's JD was good for...

After I found out how much it was worth, I bought this New Holland....

Chris(WA) · Feb 26, 2013

A Turd Hearse! I haven't heard that name in a coons age!

Dick2 · Feb 26, 2013

And when the snow got too deep to use the spreader, we went back to hauling the manure out with the stone boat and pitching it off just like they did before spreaders were invented.

Dick L · Feb 26, 2013

Not much show of wealth here.

^D

Fordfarmer · Feb 26, 2013

Only picture I could find of mine. Gehl 1287, just a rebadged New Holland. Liked my old New Idea 3632 better.

larrystinescorner · Feb 26, 2013

I have seen those small spreaders bring way more than the big ones at auctions

Bruce from Can. · Feb 26, 2013

185 New Holland and a 510 New Holland, you can almost smell it. Bruce

Kirk Grau · Feb 26, 2013

Here are a couple of my New Idea #19.

Kirk

BT in NE · Feb 26, 2013

We still used this one some when I was little. I can't say that I enjoyed the job, but at least we used a loader tractor instead of a pitchfork. If I remember correctly, it is a JD model K. BT

Wheat Farmer · Feb 26, 2013

Some day I need a bigger one. Being a IH man I even have some JD stuff.

Straw Boss · Feb 26, 2013

Dick, that looks like the spreader we had!
Funny thing is...I could have sworn it was three times bigger than that when I was a kid with a fork full of heavy wet manure on the tines.
We were sure glad when Dad bought a loader for the D-17 Allis and all we had to do was fork it to the middle of the alley after that.

Kirk Grau · Feb 26, 2013

And my neighbors that I borrowed last spring when mine was down with a bad sprocket.

Kirk Grau · Feb 26, 2013

That was my experience around here as well. Haunted auctions looking for a spreader for better than a year. Seems like everything I liked went for north of $1000. Seems like the hobby horse people (like me) drive the price up on the smaller units. Finally my wife noticed ours in the local classified rag for $475. Called and went to drag it home before somebody else picked it up. Seller had it hooked up to an IH 'H' to demonstrate and I could have had the package for $1500. Been 4-5 years and I still kind of regret not bringing the tractor home with the spreader.

Kirk

larrystinescorner · Feb 26, 2013

What model Ford is that?

Fordfarmer · Feb 26, 2013

'67 or early '68 4200, aka 4000 row crop.

samn40 · Feb 26, 2013

Just some of the spreaders we use.....
Sam

T W Sherman · Feb 26, 2013

Never learned to post pics. here, however, In August 2012 my son and his new bride rode the barnyard limo pulled by our 320 Deere to their wedding reception. I have a Model L spreader,all fixed up with seats, and the works that we use for parades and shows.

Kirk Grau · Feb 26, 2013

My tractors are a '41 9N and a '78 3600.

The one in the neighbor photo belongs to said neighbor and is a 5000 Row Crop. It was easier to borrow the whole rig than hook up to my machine. Not sure my little machine could have handled the larger spreader anyway.

Kirk

RalphWD45 · Feb 26, 2013

Dick l! If you put a little red paint on that spreader, it would look like my outfit! I use my B, on my little IH spreader. I wish my unit was longer! my loader bucket just verily fits in there, and I have to come in pretty straight.

Cole Younger · Feb 26, 2013

Spreading with Mitch and Max .Max is always full of fire in the winter and wanted to pull the spreader by himself so this year he got his wish I sold him to the Amish in Iowa they love him in a hard pull he won"t quit.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 26, 2013

Here's the biggest coupla manure spreaders i have ever seen...
turdle doves

larrystinescorner · Feb 26, 2013

I like that,never seen to many Ford rowcrops around ,were they rare? I would like to have one,dont need one,but you know what I mean!

Ralph Bauer · Feb 26, 2013

A green Case T6 70 bu. Pics are from time I hauled it home from Taos, NM ....I think I posted them before...?!
Ralph in OK.

Kirk Grau · Feb 26, 2013

Rare is kind of dependant on what part of the country you are from. I don't think they are all that unusual, but you don't necessarily see as many narrow fronts. Others more knowledgable than I will probably chime in and provide more info.

Kirk

Case Nutty 1660 · Feb 26, 2013

not a very good pic but here is my 130A in the shed

donjr · Feb 26, 2013

I don't have any pics of mine until maybe next week. It's still in the shed- we can't spread until next week.

But, on another note, I do have a yarn that sounds feasible. Where did the manure spreader actually come from?

The story I heard was that a teacher in Ohio noticed his male students were often late in the mornings in getting to school. Questioning them, he found that they weren't goofing of and hooking, but had to help their fathers and load and spread manure before they were allowed to leave for school. Of course, the loading had to be done by hand, but unloading was accomplished the same way, and took as much or more time. He toyed with the idea of a self unloading wagon of sorts, and set about building one. As success came aafter working on it, he found that he had developed one of the first workable honey wagons.

His product became the 'NEW IDEA' machinery company in Coldwater, Ohio..... They became the meanest machines on the farm. Constantly kicking the chit out of themselves.....

samn40 · Feb 26, 2013

Most of our cattle are on slatted floors with underground storage tanks...So we mainly use slurry tankers. These are LGP machines and are mostly made in Northern Ireland( Redrock, NC, Herron, Star)The trend now is injection or dribble bars or complete umbilical spreading.
Sam

Mark-Mi · Feb 26, 2013

A Yesterday's Tractor member on here operates this poop spreader for a livin.

Cole Younger · Feb 26, 2013

Mitch and Polly spreading manure

LeonardWD45 · Feb 26, 2013

Sorry no pic's but I have an old David Bradley ground drive. Uses the same wheels as the David Bradley side delivery rake I have.

Leonard

fixerupper · Feb 26, 2013

Should I post a pic of my dog? He spreads it around the perimeter of the house very well.
The Deere ground driven spreader sure does bring back memories of my pitchfork wielding days. The only time that thing was filled using a loader was when dad cleaned out the cattle yard in July. The rest of the time the pitchfork loaded it. The hog house door trim was buggered up from the manure spreader wheel hitting it when I was trying to back it in real close to save one more step while pitching. Jim

Eldon (WA) · Feb 26, 2013

(quoted from post at 16:32:10 02/26/13) We still used this one some when I was little. I can't say that I enjoyed the job, but at least we used a loader tractor instead of a pitchfork. If I remember correctly, it is a JD model K. BT

We had one like this when I was a kid in SD....I think it was the only thing that my dad ever painted. We also had the 2 wheel model H, (I think) and pulling it was one of my first tractor jobs at age 6.

Case e · Feb 26, 2013

My dad had one that he and I filled by hand....I dont know how many times out of the hog house. I think his was longer though...maybe 12'?? Could that be right?

larrystinescorner · Feb 26, 2013

I like it,where they good tractors?

Case e · Feb 26, 2013

Not my rig but it looks just like it. I think allis chalmbers had one that discharged from the side, they advertised it as the only ones that would "stand" behind there spreaders!

Dalet · Feb 26, 2013

(quoted from post at 18:56:33 02/26/13) Dick l! If you put a little red paint on that spreader, it would look like my outfit! I use my B, on my little IH spreader. I wish my unit was longer! my loader bucket just verily fits in there, and I have to come in pretty straight.

Simple fix. Get a smaller loader! :lol:

Paul from MI · Feb 26, 2013

Looks like a McCormick #100 spreader behind your B. We bought one new in 1954 after our old steel wheeled converted horse spreader broke an axle for the last time. It was a great little spreader to load by hand, didn't take long to load, then you could take a break and spread for a while. We also pulled it with our John Deere H. My brother still has the spreader, I have the B.

Weldon K · Feb 26, 2013

Our new " SUV " * a few years ago before it was used for the first time.

* ---- Unloading Vehicle

sideconsole4020guy · Feb 26, 2013

here is mine 790 NH

And here is what loads it

farmerjohn · Feb 26, 2013

The first two pics show the IHC that I have that I want to restore, I am thinking it is a no. 1 or 2, if someone knows I would like to hear it. The new idea is one tucked away in a friend's barn, it will probably just sit there until she dies.

Don-Wi · Feb 26, 2013

I rebuilt our H&S a little bit at a time over the last couple years. Finished it last spring before spring fieldwork. I replaced the hitch first, welding it up out of new 4" channel iron. The next year I replaced the steel in the front, and fabbed up a new tailgate. The steel for the tailgate was all scrap that was brought home, and the paint was given to me at work, as there wasn't any room in the new flammables cabinet.

Thankfully I don't have to do anymore work on it this spring. The last 2 years we were held back a little bit while I worked on it.

Last fall we rented this monster to help get the job done. Our loader could barely reach over the side, so I tried to park it in a low spot and then it took some finess with the loader to pile it up like that....

[img:bd692f6e4f]http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb41/djn125/IMG_20121125_122457.jpg

Basically hauled 2 1/2x as much per trip over our spreader, which was great going up the road.
Donovan from Wisconsin

Fordfarmer · Feb 26, 2013

Same drivetrain as the all-purpose models, yes good machines. Since I misscounted the cylinders on this one, it's actually a 5000 RC or 5200. "Rare" and "Ford" don't really belong in the same sentence, but the 5200 and more so the 4200 could be called uncommon. Had a 5200 for a while, liked it, but sold it to pay bills. Would like to find a 4200 to keep.

Tim(nj) · Feb 26, 2013

They're around. Smith in Washington sold a few 4000 and 5000 row crops. My neighbor has one of those 4000s that he's slowly restoring. It was sold with a 602 picker. He got hold of the tractor right before the original owner's son sold the farm site to Hunterdon County for a road realingment project, but the picker was underneath a collapsed corn crib shed right next to the road, and he couldn't get to it before the county bulldozed everything into a pile and hauled it off.

ShadetreeRet · Feb 26, 2013

Now that's funny! Few would have thought of that.

ShadetreeRet · Feb 26, 2013

Yeah, there is a surplus of them right now, even so they are quite expensive.

71ford100 · Feb 26, 2013

Here are two out of three. I don't know what either one is brand wise. Some say the one with the rotting wood is a JD but it sure isn't stamped anywhere. The nicer one came out of the museum in Julesburg, CO. Also have a MM LS300 and the nicest Balzer 1500 liquid spreader probably still around. Dad bought it new in the 80's and washed and waxed it every time he used it and it has always been shedded.

SDMike · Feb 27, 2013

Here is the before and after of the one I restored in 2009. I had 1 month to get it done for my hometown's 125th.

W_B · Feb 27, 2013

No pics, but mine is an H&S 125 pulled with a Ford 9N. Yes, they are expensive. Mine is over $6,000 now, paid a little over $4,000 about 10 yrs ago. After I found that out I'm going to treat it a little better than I did!

Leroy · Feb 27, 2013

That came from New Idea themselves

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