35 loads hauled and probably 80 more on the pile

Don-Wi · May 26, 2014

Well, I was hauling manure just about all weekend. For a short while we were able to double up and hall with 2 spreaders since I picked up a second H&S 220 for $200. I spent 1/2 a day Saturday getting it ready, dad used it must of Saturday, and then the floor broke.

Back to hauling 2 1/2 miles away with one 220 bushel spreader. And atleast 1/2 of that I had to be careful to not fill to much as it was some pretty sloppy stuff. Once I got it cleaned up under the auger and moved on to the other pile then i could load it up a little more and it stayed put.

I could have got more hauled but I quit at supper time and then after eating i hooked onto the cultivator to work it in right away. Today going solo and starting late (and helping pitch out the busted one) I still managed to get out 11 loads. That field is about 1/2 covered.

We really need a bigger spreader...

Donovan from Wisconsin

M Nut · May 26, 2014

Can you rent one? We have rented a 400 bushel spreader
several times. Always get an almost new machine machine
with a slop gate and dual beaters on the back, tandem axle. I
want to say it cost something like $250 for a Friday-Sunday
rental. I asked about buying the machine, because I really
liked it, and the cost was about $15,000. I figured I could rent it
one weekend a year for quite a while instead!

Don-Wi · May 26, 2014

Yeah, but now the smallest they have is 500 bushel, and the 1855 could barely handle the 400 we got 2 falls ago.

We asked last fall but they only had stupid huge. Our neighbors actually had it today and I saw them going home with it almost fully loaded. This one had vertical beaters. I broke shear bolts on one with horizontal beaters when the pto kicked out and the hydraulics kept the apron going. Wasn't fun clearing out the beaters.

We'd like to find a used H&S 310 to buy buy even those are pretty expensive for
rough shape.

Donovan from Wisconsin

M Nut · May 26, 2014

500 bushels is a lot. I wouldn't have a tractor big enough for
that either. I bought a new holland 680 tandem axle a few
years ago for $2500 so I haven't rented one since then. I think
my new holland is about 300 bushel, and that is enough for
me. I've looked at the h&s machines before and I liked what I
saw. Just a little higher priced than what I had to spend at the
time, so I went with this new holland. No complaints on it
though.

hrRoss · May 26, 2014

get a knight slinger, youll get a better spread pattern, had one for years. now have a 8118, 2-135 handles it easily. skip the aprons etc. auger is the way to go. in winter you just need to be able to crack the door open, every thing else will work. in frozen manure, if we can scrape it up with skidsteer, the knight will spread it, coming out the size of golf balls

Bruce from Can. · May 27, 2014

Just a different thought for you Don. Why not buy a dump trailer. You could haul manure to far away fields in winter, when ground is frozen, and windrow it there , and spread on the field when the time allows. Could be pree planting, or post harvest. I have been doing this with my old truck now for a few years, second farm is more than 5 miles away from the home farm and dairy cows. I we spread with a NH185 and a old NH510. Truck will carry 2 and 1/2 loads of the NH185. You can make a dump trailer out of a old dump truck, and with your talent for welding and fabricating , it will look good and work well. Bruce

Dick2 · May 27, 2014

I remember the days before we got a loader and a dozer. We just did all that by hand. If one of us boys stayed out a little too late at night, we knew that we'd all be pitching it the next day - no matter what the temperature was.

It was usually my next oldest brother that got us on the manure pile - and he was the one that could figure out how to slip away and leave me and my oldest brother with the work.

John Fulton · May 27, 2014

Hauling manure 2 miles down the road reminds me of a story here in Virginia of a new female State trooper that witnessed a farmer spilling a little s**t on the road while hauling. She ticketed him and returned to ticket him again and again. Finally someone over her explained the facts of country life to her and ordered her to confine her patrols to more appropriate locations and pursuits.

W_B · May 27, 2014

One of the local BTO's thought it would be a good idea to put some "composted biological waste" product on the field across the road from us. Got it free, at the local town sewer plant... yep, human waste. Don't really have a problem with that but it stank to high heaven. Saw an article in the local bird cage liner with a similar complaint at another location, but they said after a few weeks the smell goes away. Trust me it doesn't. Stank for some time even after being incorporated. Stanks again when they tilled the ground up late last week. It has been there over a month and a half. The local feeder pig operation doesn't smell that bad compared to this stuff.

formenwhogrow · May 27, 2014

Sh#tty job...

Cas · May 27, 2014

One time was hauling manure and stopped home for lunch. Accidently left one wheel on the pavement.
a NY state trooper stopped.
She came to the house and said she was going to write me two tickets. One ticket for the wheel on the road and one for no license plate on the spreader.
After a shouting match, she went away and I had two tickets. I called every phone number I could for for NY state troopers(accidently even complained to Long Island Expressway). No satisficaton.
Came home at night and phone, phone rang my wife answered. I took the phone call and the guy on the other end said he was an advocate for the troopers. He said my tickets were dropped and if I ever had another problem he gave me his phone number, extension, and name. This was about 10 or 15 years ago.

showcrop · May 27, 2014

I once pulled out of the field after putting the tail gate down, without turning the PTO off. After a little way I noticed the town police cruiser behind me and saw him suddenly swerve to the other side of the road then back. After he did it twice more I realized that a little manure was dropping off the back each time a crossbar came to the back, so I then shut the PTO off. He didn't turn his lights on but I stopped for something and he told me that I'm supposed to spread it in the field not the road and that he could give me a ticket. Yeah smart azz. I asked him "Yeah and what would be the point in that?" He didn't answer and just took off. He never had a very good attitude.

Brian806 · May 27, 2014

Buy a hagedorn if you wanta spreader that will take a beaten
day in and day out! I use to spread sludge for a company i
worked for 550 bushel spreader did 500 ton a day 5 to 6 days a
week or 42 plus loads most i ever did was thousand ton in a day
that was my record only probly we ever really had was keeping
tires on it we just worn them out we were putting a tire on
atleast once a week those spreaders are pounded and they just
keep goin the three they has now are about 10 years old! And
still goin

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