Re: Thawing a manure spreader, any hints?

Posted by BLinWMi on February 05, 2007 at 20:57:38 from (24.247.108.241):

In Reply to: Re: Thawing a manure spreader, any hints? posted by barnrat on February 05, 2007 at 15:18:05:

had to many of my share of Gehl V bottom spreader headaches also. Besides the advice of setting a heater up around it, we have also run a hose up and dumped a hundred gallons of hot water on top of the load. If it is like most Gehls, the door seal won't be very tight but I would close the side door and just let the hot water trickle down around the load. But at that point there is no turning back, cuz if it freezes the added water, it will be spring till you are spreading again. Curious, it looks like a stall barn, any chance you can back it in the barn over night and the cows will help thaw it out. I was able to do that with a spreader at a farm right on Lake Michigan once, backed it in with a skid loader and adjusted the fan thermostats to warm up the barn to about 60. Also ran in a hose from the milk house to add hot water, alot of it had drained out by morning but just ran right into the gutter. And knowing how easy they snap shear bolts, better have 3 dozen of them handy. Might do well to take the drive chain off the big auger too, it will more easily start up if you can get the slinger spinning and cleaned out. If the hydraulics still work on the auger, after the hot water sinks in, you might be able to raise the auger enough to pop the whole load loose from the side. Hope ya luck, theres a lot of ways to make one of those nasty things work, just takes some farmer engineering.

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