IH 200 spreader, floor chains

farmallboy15 · Jul 15, 2010

anybody know how to remove the floor chains on a IH 200 manure spreader?

gene bender · Jul 15, 2010

Not fun but loosen up the tightener on the chain so you can move the link to line up the slot and drive it apart, You will need to put something on the slats to pull together so you have enough slack to move the links so you can drive it apart. If you aint going to reuse the chain torch is faster. Get some help that knows how you detach chain as you dont sound like you know or you wouldnt be asking on here.

farmallboy15 · Jul 15, 2010

i have the front sprockets off so there is plenty of slack. do you spread the gap where the links attach? i am planning on removing the floor and sides and repairing and painting

IH fan · Jul 15, 2010

Not nessesarily on a spreader, but I can remember Dad using a fence stretcher to pull up slack in these chains so they can be driven apart. No, they do not need to be spread, just bend them so the slot lines up, use something to back up one side, like a sledge or heavy hammer and drove the other side through.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 15, 2010

I have finished restoring a model 200-H manure spreader, it is the same spreader just horse drawn I took a tractor drawn 200 and horse drawn to make one but have some part left over email need something i maybe able to help or phone me 815/353/9009.

farmallboy15 · Jul 15, 2010

thanks. i got them out now. i tightened them up with a set of lock jaws then put a piec e of railroad iron behind it and it came right out. i was think the link inside was supposed to come out through the slit of the other, not sideways. thanks

armand tatro · Jul 15, 2010

Somewhere on each chain there should-be, might-be, oughter-be, may-be a master link with a pin and cotter pin. Find those master links and it will go togather a whole lot easier. Are you planing on using the spreader or is it for show. You can get these master links at most any ag equipment dealer. Armand

IH fan · Jul 15, 2010

Armand.... This is not "roller chain" on the spreader... it's like "elevator chain"... don't remember exactly what it's called, maybe "drag link"???.

armand tatro · Jul 15, 2010

IH Fan: Back in the 60"s we had a 200 T spreader but we never had to take the chain apart so All I can say is there might be a master link. However I know that those master links are available if not as original equipment than as after market add ons when you were repairing equipment. Any experenced partsman can back me on this. In fact if you look in the fall 2010 Shoups catalog on page 150 where they have the steel detachable chain look for item number cd55 (for #55 chain) and number cd62 (for #62 chain). It is called a coupler link. I want to think that we had these on the clean grain and tailings elevator chains on the older combines. It has been a while since I worked on these old machines so I would have to check the parts books to be sure. By the way in the 60"s and 70"s John Deere built a manure spreader that used a log chain that had steel flights welded to the links for the apron chain. Armand

farmallboy15 · Jul 15, 2010

the type of chain you are speaking of is not in the floor but i did have it on the spreader. its going to be a work spreader. i don't beleive in spending alot of money for something just to sit in the shed. thanks tho i already have the floor out it was more of a "s" type link

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