Hillbilly manure spreader accessory

SHALER · Oct 10, 2020

I have an old new holland single beater manure spreader, i think its a 519. NH made a million of these in various models. The slop gate is long gone. This is problem
when hauling on roads from barn to field as manure falls out the back due to no slop gate. Have any of you rigged up something you can simply place in the empty spreader
like a piece of plywood and then fill and remove when you are ready to spread? I only spread manure with straw, so nothing really sloppy at all.

paul · Oct 10, 2020

Bale of straw, and can’t fill quite so full in the back. If a little straw falls out wouldn’t cause alarm.

You couldn’t move anything you put in by hand, the heavy manure would lock it down.

We did use a wood gate on the spreader for corn cobs when shelling, but that was a light easy load.

Paul

DoubleR · Oct 10, 2020

We would put a bale of straw or old hay across the back before loading or not load the back of it. Pretty much what Paul said.

Bruce from Can. · Oct 10, 2020

This might sound kinda crazy, but give it a try. If you manure isn’t really sloppy a a Nd is full of straw. When youu is are out spreading don’t run the spreader completely empty, leave some against the beaters. Not like half the load, just a few wheelbarrows full. It won’t fall off cause it is packed from being pushed against the beater. Crazy? Give it a try.

NY 986 · Oct 10, 2020

Just an FYI in case you do not check auctions out but parts spreaders usually only go for 200-250 then it is a matter of finding the right spreader in terms of parts. It's not like 1995 where guys will over pay for a poor condition spreader.

TimV · Oct 10, 2020

Yes--we used a piece of thick (3/4 or so--hard to say exactly looking back 30 years) plywood on our NH spreaders. Made it so it fit across the width of the spreader and stuck up above the beaters. Drilled a few holes across the top to fit the handle of a manure fork in to pry it up if necessary or for finger holes if it was loose enough to come out that way. Our barn's gutters collected a lot of water despite all our efforts to plug leaks, so our manure was usually quite wet. It helped a lot in keeping manure from flowing back into the beaters and clogging them up so they wouldn't start when you first engaged them. Also, as in your case, kept the tailgate from filling up and manure dripping on the road while traveling. The board would last a long time, but when they wore out it was a simple job to make another one out of plywood scrap.

Destroked 450 · Oct 10, 2020

A lot of the older manure spreaders didn't have slop gates, the old McCormick we had and our present NH 3 beater spreader had slop gates.
Neighbors New Idea has a apron for chicken litter but no gate.

Unless your loading nearly on top of the beater with straw in the manure you shouldn't be losing much off the back.

Traditional Farmer · Oct 10, 2020

When using my old IH 200 spreader I put a couple flakes out of a square bale across the rear of the spreader from the floor to the first beater.

4xMF · Oct 10, 2020

(quoted from post at 10:19:02 10/10/20) This might sound kinda crazy, but give it a try. If you manure isn t really sloppy a a Nd is full of straw. When youu is are out spreading don t run the spreader completely empty, leave some against the beaters. Not like half the load, just a few wheelbarrows full. It won t fall off cause it is packed from being pushed against the beater. Crazy? Give it a try.

This is exactly what I do. On first load I don't dump any manure in the back end of the spreader.

miner09 · Oct 10, 2020

I used a piece of old sheet iron years ago. Place up against betters and take out in field.

caterpillar guy · Oct 11, 2020

We would just put some pen manure across the back or frozen stuff from the cement scrapings there then load the slop. Would get to the field and nothing to have to fight out.

jon f mn · Oct 11, 2020

You ain't from around here are ya! Lol. Here a rusted out rotted wood spreader will sell for 8-1200 because all the hobby and horse farmers are looking. There haven't been any new small spreaders made in decades and they are all shot and so anything even close to repairable can't be had for less that 500. Just saw a rebuilt H&S about 150bu spreader that was worn bad but had the wood replaced sell for $2500 at an auction. There are folks here rebuilding and selling them now. I've thought about it too, but so far haven't found anything worth working on yet. They even do it with old ground drives because they can pull them with the little utvs on horse farms.

W_B · Oct 11, 2020

Smallest new spreader I found was an 85 bu. H&S (I have a 125 bu.). If I recall the last time I priced the smaller one it was north of $6,000, a new 125 was around $10K. I paid $4,500 new for my 125 bu. In 2002. I don't see any small ones for sale used or at the area consignment auctions. Just keep fixing mine, have a whole new bed chain on order now.

Greg1959 · Oct 11, 2020

One that I used.....

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