roxynoodle
Platinum Member
I also have a 50's New Idea spreader and it still works great after all these years. I only have 3 horses and a goat. What I do is put the manure, etc that I clean out of the stalls daily into a big compost bin. When there is enough to spread (provided the weather is cooperating) I load it into the spreader and then take it out. Some of what I compost I use for gardening so there is almost always some good compost. Sometimes other people want it too. Lately the weather has been very uncooperative with a lot of rain. All the ground is mush. If I were to try to spread I would bury the tractor. So having somewhere convenient to put it until it can be spread is helpful.
