Manure Spreader

[tnfarmboy]

Has anyone of you ever made a spreader? I need one and don't have the money to buy even a used one, but I'm pretty handy with a welder. I haven't put a lot of thought into this yet, but I thought I'd just fish around for ideas and much to my suprise searching the net hasn't turned up much yet. I have a rusted out cone spreader that I could use the gearbox of it, turn it sideways and mount it on this old two wheel trialer I have...humm

 

[Anonymous-0]

I bought a 180bu Roorda spreader in decent shape for $125.00 on a farm sale, yes I got a deal but can you build one for that?

 

[M Nut]

Any place nearby that rents out spreaders? Before I got my tandem axle spreader I used to rent a 400 bushel manure spreader for $150 a day. (They've since gone up to $200 a day on a 400 bushel spreader) The smaller ones were even less.

 

[JMS/.MN]

With limited $$ I"d look for a repairable- good driveline....box can be patched...spend some $$ on a new apron. Aprons never break when empty.

 

[old]

Don't have the $$ ????. I looked for a year or more for one and kept going to auctions and watched for what I wanted. Passed up a good many of them the around $100 give or take a little bit. Then one came up and I got it. No way O could have even got one of the tires on it for what I payed for it. I got one for $5, yep $5 and it had 9 sheets of roofing metal in it and a couple of cables with clevis on the cables I figured I payed for one of the clevises and got the rest for free

 

[cjd12000]

You can usually buy one needing a floor for a few hundred dollars or less. My brother bought a old massey that needed a floor for $50. put some lumber in it and it hasnt give him any problems in the year he has owned it. Steel and axle and tires would add up. Look in headrows. Some has got one that can be renewed or reworked to usable condition.

 

[RodinNS]

From my observations over the years, you can buy a lot of half decent, usable spreaders at auctions for under 300 bucks. They're not pretty by any means, but I suspect that most will work, or work with some minor repairs. Floor replacements would be the most common thing...

For 300 bucks you couldn't begin make a spreader if you had most of the parts. Building stuff isn't cheap...

Rod

 

[rrlund]

Not true. I've had'em freeze down and broke them by foolishly starting them up to break them loose. They broke alright,but not loose.

 

[ChrisinMO]

As others have said, look at auctions. The one we use we bought for $35. Few people around here spread manure anymore, as they all feed round bales outside. And the yuppy farmer types want something newer or perhaps smaller. There was one other guy who made a couple of bids, otherwise I would have had it for less than that.

Christopher

 

[MSS3020]

As a matter of fact I just bought one weeks ago for 120.00. Rebuilt and painted up all nice and green. J.D. too. I spread neighbors goat stuf with it and my own horse. Works great and cheap.. I've come to the conclusion that it least for me..I can by used and repair it cheaper than building from scratch.

 

[phillip d]

Holy sh!t (pardon the punn) they charge 350 a day for 400 bu ones here,of course that's at a Deere dealer

 

[RodinNS]

They don't call it 'Green Diamond' for nothin', eh?

Rod

 

[tim [in]]

In farm show magazine one guy made himself one that tilts up to feed manure to the beaters which means no advance chain to break down or freeze.

 

[phillip d]

no they don't lol,they maybe should call it green nugget (as in horse nuggets)

 

[tg in VA]

You can always dump your manure in piles and spread it with a landscaping rake.

 

[Randy-IA]

I was looking for one for a couple a years then this spring I took one of my crew members home and there was an old spreadmaster in the backyard of his house full of scrap metal so I asked him if the spreader was going to be dumped along with the scrap. It was so I looked at it and the tires held air and it looked like it was in repairable condition so after a little talking I took possession of it for free. Aired one tire up a couple of pounds and drug it about twenty five miles home, scrap and all. Found a like new but basically worthless JD B flywheel on the bottom of the pile and twenty or so good T posts plus a few other usable items. And it works fine. It still needs a little metal repair but otherwise it's in usable condition. It's about the right size for my small field too. Even the wood is in good condition for a while yet. So keep looking, sometimes good things do happen.

 

[Anonymous-0]

When it comes to manure spreaders, you get what you pay for, thus what can you expect out of a homemade cobbled-up thing built with less money than it takes to buy a used manure spreader? You might be more respectable pitching your manure off with a pitchfork.