ice problems

[powerscol]

I have used my Sears tow behind fertilizer spreader (50 to 60 lb capacity) with ACE or HD Ice slicer granules with good results behind my Garden tractor (have chains for it). As long as the spreader wheel will spin everything is good.

 

[leonz]

The spreader gradually losing all its weight would not spin as well due to the load lessening in the hopper.
Filling the spreader tires with windshield washer fluid would help some with the above issue.

To maintain traction you would want to have more tongue weight by adding a solid cinderblock to a beefed up frame. Putting the block on top will only make it top heavy and it will tip over and bend the tongue of the hitch.

You would have to make a new tongue/frame for the spreader to hold the weight as the tubular steel they use will not hold up.

 

[Soldier415]

If you only need the drive sanded several times per year, would probably be cheaper and less aggravating to hire someone who plows/sands for a living to hit it when it needs it.

 

[Thomas]

If you only need the drive sanded several times per year, would probably be cheaper and less aggravating to hire someone who plows/sands for a living to hit it when it needs it.

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That's if plow/sander fellow doesn't sugar coat mostly on slope.