manure spreaders

[eppie]

Nov 14, 2008 19:44:57 GMT 1 @adamL said:

Dads old Howard 150 was best part of 30 years old, but she's had a little welding, by the time he stopped farming

My Schuitemaker is also that age... I bought one from my neighbor for 125 Euro, with rotten wood, broken floor mat, but good spreader., and complete gearcase. By the time i removed the wood, i found that the steel was eaten away and i could break out lumps of the C-channel flanges by hand.

Just before deciding to build a new frame and have it galvanised, i remembered the old trailer sitting in the bush with 2 flat tires, being used to stock fence posts off the ground.

My brother earned it by helping a neighbour spreading slurry on the field for a saturday, while he was ploughing. That was way back in my memory, i think its 20 years ago. My neighbour then just bought a new Krone spreader, because the Schuitemakers beater was rotten, because it spent 10 years under the muck conveyor, being used every two days.

However my neighbor was generous with the tar during summer when the cows were kept in the field. so the frame was solid.
I welded punch rounds on the beater fingers, installed a new floor conveyor, new bearings in the beaters, and used dried oak planks for floors and sides. The oak doesnt show any signs of rot, though its been used for 5 seasons and parked under the bush since the last 3 years.

However the spreader was designed in the time that even contractors loaded these by hand.... Its a hobby machine, not suitable for spreading over 150t per year. When i load her up with heavy black muck, (mostly too much) i can see the light frame, built from 120x50x3mm cold rolled steel, twist when the 3011 puts its grunt in it...

[dom]

Good point AdamL.... that H&S 370 should last another 20 years..... if I even continue to raise cattle that long. I'd like to, but with grain prices, well, thats another topic. Dad sold the dairy herd in November 2003, and head count has been from 100-430 steers in their place. We were milking 130 holsteins in a parlor built in 1958 when the cows were sold. So now it's just feedlot scrapings, and pen manure. If I dont buy any calves, and just sell steers as they finish out, when they're all gone I'll likely have 200 loads of manure under roof or cleaned out and piled in a vacant lot waiting for clear fields to spread in. Since te cows were sold, that spreader has gotten maybe 300 loads a year.

[eppie]

Hey guys,

does anyone have experience with the German type of spreaders with 4 vertical beaters (instead of 2 vertical ones like the French and English have) ??

I mean the Fortschritt ones, the Kemper Quattro and Strautmann ?

As said before, I think a disk spreading table will throw muck into my neighbours hay, on our small fields, and i dont have the power to drive it. Yet i somehow want to increase spread width to reduce the amount of traffic in the field.

There are very little of them available used, though the last 5 years, contractors seem to buy more and more of them, especially the Gilibert with tractor wheels along the bin and 2 vertical spreaders. Are these different than the older type with 4 vertical beaters, i mean spread pattern, power consumption, shredding action ?