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Determined
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tomstractorsandtoys
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My 4020 and one of my three John Deere 44 manure spreaders. Was a nice afternoon at the end of Dec. I decided to use the 4020 instead of the usual winter cab tractor (4230). Need to try and clean lots this week. Tom
Fawteen
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Bruce from Can.
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Case 930 spreader this past fall. Covered over 40 acres with enough manure to grow corn crop on next year.
tomstractorsandtoys
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Can't wait until I have some toy time again (I mean modeling time)LOL. The loader tractor in the pic is the loader something you printed? Tom
Fawteen
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Yup. I'll print one out and toss it in the box when I return it.
Robert (ID)
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Now thats a Load of $&%T. Got to love them old bulldog macks.. that spreader hauls more in one pass then some guys get spread in a day...
formerly ny bill
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from 5 or 6 years ago
1986, before the 966 got its cab
1986, before the 966 got its cab
MARK ROBKE
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I always liked it, too. When I was 9yrs old, Dad had me 'haulin' manure. I already helped in hay, like running the hay conditioner, or raking, and baling, but not all my own. Hauling manure, I was on my own while he milked and hauled milk to the dairy processor. It was, 'come on, get up, the ground is frozen-I want you to spread manure, while I milk'. All he did after that was tell me where to spread. Mark.
Determined
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When my wife and I go hard at it using the Mack and the dump truck at the same time we can move a small mountain in a day.
The fun begins when the truck is full and you snap the apron drive shaft, were too old to be shoveling out a load like that by hand.
I made up a wand for the pressure washer that shoots a skinny stream of 2800 PSI about 20 feet.
Park the truck on a hill with the back facing downhill and the wand will empty the box out in about 3 hours.
john in la
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Life is way too complicated in the north.
Here is how we spread manure in the south.
Here is how we spread manure in the south.
I haul for the neighbor. He has a nice little tandem KW with a similar set up.
I like it because it has a hot shift on the PTO. In the field I get it in 2nd gear, slow
the engine down, pop in the PTO and go. If I pay attention, I only use the clutch
to park and start out at the pens.
I like it because it has a hot shift on the PTO. In the field I get it in 2nd gear, slow
the engine down, pop in the PTO and go. If I pay attention, I only use the clutch
to park and start out at the pens.
When I was about 6-8 years old, I became old enough to help clean the hog house in the winter. (I think it was mainly to get me out of my mother's hair.) We used the team (Duke & Dock) on an old Galloway ground drive spreader. After riding along on the first couple of loads, Dad determined that I could drive the team & manage the spreader by myself. I am sure Duke & Dock knew more about what had to be done than I did. For the next several years, that became my job, drive the team on the spreader. The main issue was to open & close the wooden gate next to the barn. Fortunately, Dad had installed an old steel wheel from a binder's truck so I could simply unlatch the gate & roll it open or closed. After the first trip through the gate, the horses knew just where to stop so I could get off the spreader so I could open the gate by swinging it towards them. They would then plod through the gate with out any direction from me. They would inveriably stop so that about a foot of the spreader was short of getting clear through the gate. I know that they did this on purpose and we're giving me a horse laugh when I had to tell them to step up a couple of steps. They would go at least twice the length of the spreader just to make me walk further to get back to the seat of the spreader. I know they knew more about spreading manure than I did. They would walk just far enough away from & parallel to the last area spread so there was no overlap with out directions from me.
Does anyone else have a memory of working with a team as a kid? Dad had raised these guys since they were colts. They were smart, gentle and loved to work & please you. When I was little I used to walk beneath their bellies bringing the belly bands from one side to the other when harnessing them. They didn't care. The only thing you has to worry about was that they didn't step on your toes when working around them. Dad planted checked corn with them for many years after most folks went to 4-row drilled corn.
Does anyone else have a memory of working with a team as a kid? Dad had raised these guys since they were colts. They were smart, gentle and loved to work & please you. When I was little I used to walk beneath their bellies bringing the belly bands from one side to the other when harnessing them. They didn't care. The only thing you has to worry about was that they didn't step on your toes when working around them. Dad planted checked corn with them for many years after most folks went to 4-row drilled corn.
BTO I worked part time for had two #44 spreaders, one with the normal twin beaters and the wide spread, the other had the big drum beater which I liked better. He loaded when I first started working for him, he had a little CASE 420 Construction King loader tractor, BIG 1500# block of concrete on the back, and chains year-round. I liked the #44 spreaders, but didn't like the worn-out A or 60 I had to pull the spreaders with.
Dad loaded with the M with live hyd & power steering and Stan-Hoist loader, pulled the old Deere #R spreader with the '39 Farmall H till it was traded for a '54 Stage 2 Super H. I started loading the spreader after 2-3 years. Even with the trip bucket I heaped that old spreader WAY beyond rated capacity. We normally spread in fields real close to the buildings, but the last couple weeks on that farm I worked cleaning out the loafing areas of the back barn that hadn't been cleaned since before I drove the spreader. I had to haul to the farm we were moving to over a half mile away. Comparing the loaded spreader to our loaded Heider auger wagon with 5500# of ground hog feed, the spreader was every bit as heavy as the feed wagon.
Dad told me one winter he was spreading with his other M, snow had drifted down in the bottom of a slough, He tried to spread through the snow and the tractor & spreader broke through the frost, Tractor was sitting on the horseshoe drawbar and spreader resting on it's floor. He borrowed a straight truck from a guy he drove for hauling livestock, loaded 8-10 feeder cattle in it, drove out to the tractor & spreader and was actually able to pull it out. Goal was to get it out before it got froze in, mission accomplished!
I never had a problem spreading, never got stuck, broke the spreader.
Dad loaded with the M with live hyd & power steering and Stan-Hoist loader, pulled the old Deere #R spreader with the '39 Farmall H till it was traded for a '54 Stage 2 Super H. I started loading the spreader after 2-3 years. Even with the trip bucket I heaped that old spreader WAY beyond rated capacity. We normally spread in fields real close to the buildings, but the last couple weeks on that farm I worked cleaning out the loafing areas of the back barn that hadn't been cleaned since before I drove the spreader. I had to haul to the farm we were moving to over a half mile away. Comparing the loaded spreader to our loaded Heider auger wagon with 5500# of ground hog feed, the spreader was every bit as heavy as the feed wagon.
Dad told me one winter he was spreading with his other M, snow had drifted down in the bottom of a slough, He tried to spread through the snow and the tractor & spreader broke through the frost, Tractor was sitting on the horseshoe drawbar and spreader resting on it's floor. He borrowed a straight truck from a guy he drove for hauling livestock, loaded 8-10 feeder cattle in it, drove out to the tractor & spreader and was actually able to pull it out. Goal was to get it out before it got froze in, mission accomplished!
I never had a problem spreading, never got stuck, broke the spreader.
Northvale PA
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Cleaned out the lambing pens couple weeks ago. The PTO shaft guide bearing is shot so spent a couple hours today pulling it apart. I replaced the wood bed about 2 years ago. The rotten boards were causing the web chains to skew and break what a pain shoveling a spreader out is.
billonthefarm
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- Farmington IL
From when I had cows!
rlp in Co.
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Thanks for that story. It reminds me of a story my Dad had about shucking corn. He said the team would learn jus how far to go each time! Most horses do want to please the owner.
Ken Macfarlane
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I like the barn in the background. Different style roof than our old buildings. Is it layered/glue lam beams inside?
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