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How to install a manure spreader apron

jon f mn

jon f mn

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Last week I posted about my manure spreader project and someone said I had it installed backwards. I didn't think I had and I didn't remember seeing any done differently from mine, but I've been wrong before. So this weekend while I was at a local consignment auction I looked at several there and all but one was done the way I did mine. The other had the chain in the same, but the slats were in the other way. So I decided to pull out my Case manure spreader manual and see what it said. Here is what is in it.


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Other pics in the book show it in the same too.


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So I guess my broken apron problem is not from installing it wrong at least. That's a relief.
 
If it is a pintel chain, it doesnt matter which way you put the apron in. Flat chain is designed to take the load only in one direction. And as for the slats ,who cares. The manure will all go out the back either way the slats are facing.
 
I think there is very little difference either way as it still pulls on the tab or hook regardless. But the book always shows the highest pressure on the tab side as apposed to the inside of the link. Where the chain is used to power a shaft from another, the larger drive gear pushes on the inside the link and the driven is pushed by the tab or hook, which ever description you like. This is because the driven is usually tuning faster and has a heavier load carried on fewer links.

I can say for sure this is more thought than I've put into flat chain in my entire life. Lol.
 
New Holland always installed the angle with the flat on the floor and the vertical part toward the front of the spreader. Everyone else the opposite way. I think the drive sprocket should contact the rolled part of the link. Pintel chain only goes in with sprocket pushing on the link not the pin.......Ron
 
This is because in this case the drive gear is larger and the stress is over more teeth than the driven putting more stress on the driven teeth which push on the tab or hook end. So the high stress pressure even on a planter is against the hook end.
 
From the Case spreader manual extensive research has shown that the vertical side of the slats should point towards the front of the spreader as the weight of the material on the horizontal side holds the slat flat on the floor. That is what I told you back when....
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This is quite important to me as I have my Fathers New Idea spreader in the shed with a load of manure on it to be, guess what? Pitched off, it will be interesting to look at the chain. I've set things up, counted the chain links and within three four revolutions of the chain it will bind the chain and break a link. Time for chain, after how many years? Iv'e welded this chain at the cross bars a few times. Time for a new chain I think. I've counted the links between cross bars and watched it run empty for 4-6 revolutions load it up it's fine without too heavy of a load. But load it up as is our want to do and within a few loads, broken chain. Chains what 50 nor like really 60 years old, lots of years of oxidization?
 
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