You REALLY gotta watch the wind!!! With a box spreader, even if you're driving with the wind it's usually not a problem unless you have huricane force winds or at the end of the load where the beater starts throwing it back to the front. That and they unload faster so one pass down the same field (heading into the wind) and I would have been back on the road to get another load.
The wind was blowing a little more and a little harder on Saturday than it was on Friday, and I already had my spread pattern established. Headed back on the second pass and was quickly taught that even a little wind will do bad things on an open station tractor. So I had to drive back to the first side and then make a second pass in the same direction, taking even more time. Later on that day the wind died down and I was good to go again, but the tractor was already covered...
Donovan from Wisconsin
The wind was blowing a little more and a little harder on Saturday than it was on Friday, and I already had my spread pattern established. Headed back on the second pass and was quickly taught that even a little wind will do bad things on an open station tractor. So I had to drive back to the first side and then make a second pass in the same direction, taking even more time. Later on that day the wind died down and I was good to go again, but the tractor was already covered...
Donovan from Wisconsin
