normanbobo
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We have a 4/10 mile long paved blacktop driveway that is very steep at points (up to 20-degree grades) we have to salt about 10-15 times per winter. It takes about 8 to 12 40-lb bags of ice-melt for each application (depending on the severity of the oncoming storms).
In prior years, we have been doing this with a walk-behind salt spreader -- very tiring and time-consuming -- and dangerous as well as we sometimes slip and fall.
We have a 4x6 gator and are thinking about purchasing an ATV. We also have a Honda Pilot with a 2-inch receiver hitch. Our farmhand will want to use his truck when he is here. It has a 2-inch receiver hitch as well.
I thought about a tow-behind spreader, but most of these are activated when they roll. I would prefer an electric spreader to turn it on/off as we go up and down the hill. (There will be times when we are moving when we don't want to actually be spreading the salt.) Plus most of the tow-behinds cannot be attached to receiver-type hitches or to hitch balls, so they would work only with the gator.
It seems to me to give us several options for vehicles to which we can mount the spreader, we should get an electric spreader which mounts to a 2-inch receiver hitch. I have found a company that makes a 2-inch receiver hitch for our gator (to match the 2-inch hitches on the Pilot and the truck). I'm assuming there is some way to get a 2-inch receiver hitch for whatever ATV we will likely eventually buy.
Any recommendations for an electric spreader that can mount to a 2-inch receiver hitch? For the truck and the pilot, the spreader would need either a long cord with a cigaretter lighter connection or a way to hook up to trailer lights. For the gator, the system would need cords with clamps to connect to the battery underneath the gator, as the gator does not have a cigaretter lighter socket.
I looked at the Herd spreaders, but the company says they are too big for the gator and they would definitely be too big for an ATV.
Also, if we find ourselves having to use the Pilot, we would definitely want the spreader to have a guard to keep the salt from spraying back on the nice paint on the Pilot!
Any other ideas I might be missing for a way to spread the salt quickly and safely?
Thanks!!!
In prior years, we have been doing this with a walk-behind salt spreader -- very tiring and time-consuming -- and dangerous as well as we sometimes slip and fall.
We have a 4x6 gator and are thinking about purchasing an ATV. We also have a Honda Pilot with a 2-inch receiver hitch. Our farmhand will want to use his truck when he is here. It has a 2-inch receiver hitch as well.
I thought about a tow-behind spreader, but most of these are activated when they roll. I would prefer an electric spreader to turn it on/off as we go up and down the hill. (There will be times when we are moving when we don't want to actually be spreading the salt.) Plus most of the tow-behinds cannot be attached to receiver-type hitches or to hitch balls, so they would work only with the gator.
It seems to me to give us several options for vehicles to which we can mount the spreader, we should get an electric spreader which mounts to a 2-inch receiver hitch. I have found a company that makes a 2-inch receiver hitch for our gator (to match the 2-inch hitches on the Pilot and the truck). I'm assuming there is some way to get a 2-inch receiver hitch for whatever ATV we will likely eventually buy.
Any recommendations for an electric spreader that can mount to a 2-inch receiver hitch? For the truck and the pilot, the spreader would need either a long cord with a cigaretter lighter connection or a way to hook up to trailer lights. For the gator, the system would need cords with clamps to connect to the battery underneath the gator, as the gator does not have a cigaretter lighter socket.
I looked at the Herd spreaders, but the company says they are too big for the gator and they would definitely be too big for an ATV.
Also, if we find ourselves having to use the Pilot, we would definitely want the spreader to have a guard to keep the salt from spraying back on the nice paint on the Pilot!
Any other ideas I might be missing for a way to spread the salt quickly and safely?
Thanks!!!
