Spreader manuer spreaders

Whiskey · Oct 28, 2004

Hey gang:

I've been playing with this idea for some time and I'm having a hard time getting off the money for what I really want.

The compost is building up and it's becomming harder and harder to find folks to take it. I've built all the flower beds for this year I care to so, spreading it in the pasture's is what I've wanted to do for some time but the price of want I want is just hard to justify.

Millcreek is what I've been looking at, but for 2,500 bucks + shipping it's just out of my budget for spreading hose poop. I found a differant spreader a while back and it's in the budget but on the smaller side. Have any of you come across, used or know someone who owns a www.newerspreader.com if so give your thoughts.

Wanted something that I could load with the bucket (yes I can load it with a bucket but I'll end up with a lot of spillage) and hold more than this one. They say this is good for about 200' and I have 2 pastures @ about 2 acres each and it seem's like alot of trips but would work like a champ in the yard being small.

cowboydoc · Oct 28, 2004

DON'T get the newerspreader unless you only have one or two horses. It is VERY small and takes about 7 trips just to clean one stall. I have the fuerst spreader that I got at Farm and Fleet five years ago for $899. I saw one there yesterday for $1199. It has held up to doing 12-15 stalls a day and getting used VERY heavily with only a few rusted off bolts. I have been very pleased with ours. It will hold all the manure from cleaning the stalls daily and you can do about 1.5 stalls completely stripping them.

Varmintmist · Oct 28, 2004

Why not look for a used one? Full size. You can probably get one cheap, it will probably be ground driven but for 2, 2ac pastures, so what? It really doesnt have to be in great shape, you are just going to dump s@#$ in it anyway /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif. Look for some farm auctions, I think you can get one way under your budget.

cowboydoc · Oct 28, 2004

Problem with the full size ones, at least for me, is that you have to have a tractor to pull them. Also they are very, very cumbersome to get in the barn and most of them are too big to go down the aisleways for the stalls. The one I have and the millcreek ones you can hook to an ATV or UTV or even a golf cart and go right down the aisle by the stalls and pick the stalls or clean them out right there. Usually with a bigger spreader you have to leave it outside, put your manure in wheelbarrows, haul it outside to the spreader and wheel it up a 2x12 and dump it. Royal pain!!

Varmintmist · Oct 28, 2004

You mean that you didnt build your barn so that you can get your loader in????? /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

My father designed the inside of his horse barn AROUND a Case 1845C /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif You have to fork about 6 forks full when you are done.

Whiskey · Oct 28, 2004

Hey guy's:
Thanks for the quick replys, I've been looking for a used spreader for about 2 years and the E-bay section for manure spreaders is on my fav's. I can't seem to find them at local auctions. The small spreader seem to be kind of a nich idem around here.

Cowboydoc:
Never herd of that company before. I will give them a call in a bit, thanks for the link. I do only have 2 horse's and there arabs to boot so stall are only 10'x10' But I tend to compost it before I spread it so I've got 2 compost bends waiting for something to be done and with the newer spreader it looked as if would be lots of trips

Whiskey · Oct 28, 2004

Cowboydoc:

Yep, I still clean stalls with the old wheelbarrow. The tracror freeks out the stud in the barn so I am still pushin' it out by hand and then putting it in the compost bends and rolling it with the tractor.

cowboydoc · Oct 28, 2004

Oh you can. But it makes a mess of my arena and my aisles. Plus all the diesel fumes from the tractor idling while you scoop poop isn't too good on my or the horses lungs. For me the Gator and the little spreader work great. Easy to get around, leaves no mess behind, no fumes, and cuts my stall time down to next to nothing.

theboman · Oct 28, 2004

My old girlfriend! She not only sling it, she stirred it up good too!

Oh, Northern Tool has a manure spreader for compacts! Mighty cool!

kensfarm · Oct 28, 2004

Wow.. that is small.. I would rather just use the FEL and make a bunch of trips.. which I have done.. and it's a pain and time consuming.

I borrowed my dairy neighbor's spreader last week.. it's an old one that he's been wanting to sell me.

After a week of continous cloudy, rainy, damp weather.. I was walking in 4-6 inches of manure/mud gumbo to feed my steers.. so sloppy the FEL would only stack it so high. I cleaned the entire feeding area and ended up w/ a sizeable pile.

I started by only filling the spreader half full.. to see how my tractor would handle it. Man.. for being an old spreader.. it really sent the manure flying. I worked a field that I didn't get to plant this year.. I had plowed it deep.. turning up as much gravel as dirt.. and thought it could use all the organic material I could put on it. 7 loads later I was done.. I will probably plow it in and plant a cover crop.. but I've been rained out the last 3 weekends.

Maybe check w/ some farmers close by.. pay or barter(there is always work that needs to be done) for the use of a spreader for a day..