Posted by flying belgian on April 26, 2018 at 19:48:02 from (216.114.229.156):
Do you think I could spread chicken manure pellets that had a lot of dirt mixed in? Let me explain. I do that custom organic farming for my neighbor. He has me spread the pellets before planting with my 6 ton fert. spreader. It works good through the spreader. They deliver it with end dump semi's. put it on a pile. I reload it on spreader with my front end loader. As my brother-in-law is spreading I run bucket fulls out to him and dump in spreader. spreader goes empty in time so then he comes back to pile and I load spreader full and he spreads again with me bringing bucket fulls to him. Repeat, repeat. Now here's where the problem comes. Where do we have the semi's put the pile. Last year I had them pile some on them grass/clover buffer strips and some in middle of field. When I got down to end of buffer strip pile I got a lot of grass/ clover scooped into spreader. What a nite mare as it kept plugging up gate on spreader. Was glad to get done with that pile and start on one in middle of field. But when I got down to bottom of that pile I started to get a lot of dirt in spreader. I sure didn't want to get so much dirt in there that the apron would brake and I would have to shovel it out by hand so when I scraped up as much as I could I just spread the last of it out by back dragging with loader. Back dragged it over about 2 acres. Well that two acres had so much pellets and was so "hot" that the crop didn't grow. Heck the weeds wouldn't even grow there. So I don't want to do that again. My question is--- what if I would scoop up the pile so clean that I scooped up maybe 3-4 inches of dirt? do you think that would come out the spreader? Do you think it would break the apron? There is an old cement cattle feedlot on the other farm I do for him and we dump the pellets there when spreading on that farm. That works great. But that would mean driving a mile to this field every load and what would the loader operator do while waiting for spreader to unload? Seams kinda fruitless to shuttle a bucketful a mile. It would take so long doing it that way and would cost the owner a fortune to hire me to do it. Opinions??
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