First trip with my refurbished spreader (pic)

[sflem849]

I "finished" my Allis 140s spreader refurbishing today. I can't call it a restoration but some certainly would. It got a heavy duty pressure washing, rusty metal primer brushed on, cheap Valspar orange once with a gun and once with a brush. I mostly turned it orange so it would look a little better for a while and to keep it from rusting out as soon. If you buy the cheap Valspar DO NOT plan on spraying it out of a HVLP gun. Maybe out of your Wagner power sprayer. :lol:

I consider it finished because it is now functional. It has split rim 6.00-20s which I don't plan on keeping. I am going to try and find some junkyard rims and tires for it. Hopefully some of the other brand spreaders will have traditional style rims. I will then paint the rims Allis cream. (TSC doesn't sell that color, anybody know of a close match?) I also want to do something with the wood. The wood is supposed to be orange, but I think it might look neat stained. Not sure what to do there. I will start a poll!

Thanks to Nebraska Cowman for the manuals.

 

[LMack]

According to my dear wife this is just like a man . . . get it all painted and finished then load it up with manure and head for the field for a dust up.

 

[sflem849]

(quoted from post at 19:55:34 04/29/12) According to my dear wife this is just like a man . . . get it all painted and finished then load it up with manure and head for the field for a dust up.

That's funny stuff. My dad wasn't the biggest fan of filling it full of manure after all of our work. He is the woodworker and I am the mechanic. We had a good time working on it, but it took forever. It was kind of a back burner project that lasted a couple years.

Here are some pictures earlier in the project. I guess I don't have a true before picture.

 

[mattwillson]

nice spreader. my dad and i restored a 1950"s ray cunningham and son tandem, pto with upper beater. 1 rim was shot and all we could scrounge were gold anodized rims. it works great and looks nifty