JOHN DEERE HH MANURE SPREADER

[ZYLMAN FARM]

I BOUGHT A HH MANURE SPREADER. I FOUND OUT LATER THAT THE PART THAT IS BROKEN IS NOT ABLE TO BE REPLACED. IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED TO SELL IT FOR PARTS FOR SOMEONE WHO IS RESTORING MANURE SPREADERS. ANY SUGGESTIONS?

 

[paul]

Stuff built in the 1940s tends to be simple and robust. if broken, can often be welded, repaired, or fabricated by a good welder/ blacksmith type of person.

What is it you want to do with it?

What part is broken?

It’s best if you take caps lock off, otherwise it feels like you are shouting at us.

Paul

 

[ZYLMAN FARM]

Stuff built in the 1940s tends to be simple and robust. if broken, can often be welded, repaired, or fabricated by a good welder/ blacksmith type of person.

What is it you want to do with it?

What part is broken?

It’s best if you take caps lock off, otherwise it feels like you are shouting at us.

Paul

Sorry about the shouting. lol. I have a mechanical friend who is working on it. Its the cast part outside the gear box on the drivers side. He has a welder that states he can fix it but it will cost almost as much as I paid for it. My plan is to use it around the house, small area. My friend said it might be better to part it out to someone or sell it for a restoration project and buy something a little newer and operational. I am in east Texas and have not found anyone that restores them. thanks

 

[Tx Jim]

Welcome to this forum. Technically a model H-H manure spreader has no gearbox. What part is broken?

 

[ZYLMAN FARM]

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Welcome to this forum. Technically a model H-H manure spreader has no gearbox. What part is broken?

Ill find out and get pictures

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

Sorry about the shouting. lol. I have a mechanical friend who is working on it. Its the cast part outside the gear box on the drivers side. He has a welder that states he can fix it but it will cost almost as much as I paid for it. My plan is to use it around the house, small area. My friend said it might be better to part it out to someone or sell it for a restoration project and buy something a little newer and operational. I am in east Texas and have not found anyone that restores them. thanks

Tractors are the overwhelmingly popular choice for restoration projects. Next most popular are plows. After that it falls off dramatically, with manure spreaders being somewhere near the bottom of things people restore.

Unfortunately selling it for more than scrap in its non-functional condition, is going to be difficult. You probably won't even get what you paid for it.

Take a look at buying something more modern and functional vs. having the part repaired. Even if it cost what you paid for the spreader to have the part repaired, total overall cost will still be far less than a different spreader. You will have significantly increased the value of this spreader and you'll know what you have.

 

[ZYLMAN FARM]

The broken piece is missing so it has to be built back up and machined down to fit.

 

[Leroy]

I BOUGHT A HH MANURE SPREADER. I FOUND OUT LATER THAT THE PART THAT IS BROKEN IS NOT ABLE TO BE REPLACED. IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED TO SELL IT FOR PARTS FOR SOMEONE WHO IS RESTORING MANURE SPREADERS. ANY SUGGESTIONS?

Have you tried looking for the part under the most popular version of that spreader? That would be the model H as that is the tractor drawn version with a tractor hitch instead of the horse hitch on the HH spreader. Deere might still have that part avaible if you look under the 2 wheel tractor version. And for used parts are you close to any Amish as that would be the lace to start looking for that part

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

The broken piece is missing so it has to be built back up and machined down to fit.

Pish and pshaw. That looks to be a fairly simple part to me. No need to spend hours with a TiG welder manually "3D printing" the missing area of the part. It looks to me like the whole part can be fabricated from a few simple mild steel shapes in a fraction of the time. The only real machine work would be in turning the bearing tube because odds are it is not the same as a piece of pipe.

 

[showcrop]

Yes, I would whip that up fairly quickly out of mild steel. I would cut the hole first, then lay the rest out around it, welding pieces on to the base plate. Then cut, grind, and trim to get it just right.

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

By the way if you'd like some inspiration take a look at Engels Coach Shop on youtube. He recently restored a horse drawn spreader that was nothing more than a pile of rotten wood and bent metal. He even fabricated up a couple of parts along the lines of what you need.

 

[will-max dairy]

Pish and pshaw. That looks to be a fairly simple part to me. No need to spend hours with a TiG welder manually "3D printing" the missing area of the part. It looks to me like the whole part can be fabricated from a few simple mild steel shapes in a fraction of the time. The only real machine work would be in turning the bearing tube because odds are it is not the same as a piece of pipe.

In a recent, similar situation, we did a trick similar to replacing that bearing tube by buying a nut with the that was just barely under-diameter, and then drilling out the threads to the correct diameter. In this situation, I would be tempted to buy a nut of matching diameter, drilling out the threads (which would make the fit a little loose), and then drilling/tapping a grease fitting into one flat of the hex. A little grease is probably all the "bearing" that this will need for the user's lifetime.

Nuts are available in many more sizes than tubing.