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[mark.r]

Mark, sounds like we have similar setups. My four are on the larger, back pasture right now and will stay there through March while I work the front pasture and get the fescue started. Then move them and repeat. I wish we had enough space to rest a pasture for a full year, but we do what we can! What kind of seed do you put down in the spring in your neck of the woods?

Yes, it sounds like it. What sucks is that we have a very large pasture which I have yet had the time and money to divide in half. I medium size and a small one. I have to do the small and large together and then the medium one by itself because between the waterer and shelter that is the only way the horses will have both while being locked in either the medium pasture or the large/small combo. I hope the like being in the medium one for a coupel of weeks!

 

[blueberryman]

I got'a agree with Greg. I've got the rubber wheel in mine and no groove or marks on mine and it's about 15 years old. If I had one with a metal wheel i would change it to a rubber one.

I've got to buy a new one this year. The old one the tph pins broke out last year from rust on the inside of the frame and the shock incurred on the blueberry land.

Rick

 

[lawn_king]

The agitator for my Sitrex is one of many of my 'just in case' tools. When I purchased my spreader, it also came without the agitator. I asked at the dealer why and they said basically the same thing. The agitator will wear away the paint on the inside of the cone and create a rust line where it touches the cone. Over time the rust will wear through and you will end up cutting the cone in half. When the salesman told me this, I thought of the spreader at the farm where we used to board our horses and remembered the rusty groove they had in theirs.

So I bought the agitator, 'just in case', but have never installed it. I have never needed to spread anything that was a powder. Everything I spread is in granular form, and unless my fert. or lime is wet, it drops right through the cone.

So the agitator sits in the original box. On the shelf. 'Just in case'.

I have a sitrex spreader thats been great! (no agitator) 5 seasons of trouble free commercial use. Im getting ready to buy another one, larger model.

 

[mark.r]

In reference to the agitator wheels, I finally go around to unpacking the Agri-supply unit I ordered last week. The agitator wheel is made of a hard molded plastic so I wouldn't expect it to wear through the metal tub. Otherwise that would be some hard plastic. I guess on the positive side of things from what I read on the Agri-supply website the hoppers are all replaceable and interchangable. So I could by another metal on OR I could purchase the poly hopper if I so desire and it should bolt right up to the gear box and spreader mechanism.

 

[two-socks]

Speaking of metal agitators, I've heard that they're bad to use with grass seed as they'll crush some of the seed. I've personally never seen a difference with mine but of course, I've never taken it off neither. Anybody else have some thoughts on that?

 

[mark.r]

Speaking of metal agitators, I've heard that they're bad to use with grass seed as they'll crush some of the seed. I've personally never seen a difference with mine but of course, I've never taken it off neither. Anybody else have some thoughts on that?

I could see that possibly being a problem but I was thinking of loading my seed/fertilizer like greg_g mentioned with the agitator held strait up. I don't see how that could be too much of a problem if done that way.

 

[mark.r]

Well I just got my soil test back and it's safe to say that I won't be doing the lime myself. I knew it was going to be bad but D*MN!!! 1.8ton/acre makes me REALLY wonder when the last time this place has seen lime. The fertilizer I am going to do myself along with the seed. I need about 930lbs of fert. and about 100-125lbs of seed. That I can live with.

 

[Eastinlet]

Well I just got my soil test back and it's safe to say that I won't be doing the lime myself. I knew it was going to be bad but D*MN!!! 1.8ton/acre makes me REALLY wonder when the last time this place has seen lime. The fertilizer I am going to do myself along with the seed. I need about 930lbs of fert. and about 100-125lbs of seed. That I can live with.

I cleared land recently for crops, soil test called for 8 ton/acre to bring Ph to 6.2! I'm glad I didn't clear 100 acres.

 

[john_bud]

2 ton / acre is nothing for lime.

Double digit tons / acre is more of a chore. Having a lime truck come out is cheap and fast.

jb

 

[mark.r]

That's insane. Ok, I guess I'm lucky.