NonTypicalCPA":3vxcwg3t said:
I'm thinking about picking up a used spreader to take advantage of the free nitrogen for my food plots. Ive been giving manure away up until this point. I've got a 40hp Kubota to pull it with. What are good models to look for?
I have a JD model N....that ought to date it, in original condition. Only damage is that one of the side boards is rotted away but up in the lower, left, front corner which is before the containment area and is of no functional value. Best I can tell it still has the OEM tires, weather cracked to beat all but still hold air for years at a time (between checking pressure).
The ground drive moves the bars along the floor, moving product to the rear. The PTO drives the slingers. There is a handle, accessible from the tractor seat, that varies the floor scrapers from zero ft/unit time to 1 of 5 speeds.
It's parts are loose and wobble but it still works well and I really like it. I used to use it to dispense the clumps of debris that accumulate when you feed round bales, one on top of another (limited space). Now, having sold off my herd, I use it for leaves that I vacuum up in the fall and old hay bales that don't get sold...put residue out on my annually planted hay patch and work up the humus in the soil.
All of the above is for your information in that old may not matter in your quest for a spreader. I bought it over 10 years ago (at least) at an auction site and only thing I have done to it was to replace a couple of missing links (when I bought it) on one of the ladder chains (TSC had the parts) that drag the steel bars along the floor to move the product to the slingers at the rear.