Yep looking for used. Seems like an item that would lend well to buying used. Any advice on ground drive vs PTO drive? Seems like it would be easier to use ground drive if you have a lot to spread compared to capacity of spreader. You can more easily unhook, use FEL to load and hook back up since no PTO shaft to worry about.
Horse Manure removal
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EddieWalker
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Currently I'm just piling mine up in an out of the way location. This year I've tried dumping it on a bare spot where nothing is growing and back dragging it with my loader bucket. It's only been a couple of weeks and there is no sign that anything is growing. Maybe it will help, maybe it's a waste of fuel doing this. Maybe I need to dig up the area and then add the horse poo to it?
I would think you would need to either amend it into the soil or compost it and then amend it into the soil. I think our plan right now is to spread it in the woods if we can find a spreader at a reasonable cost. If not I may end up moving the pile to a more out of the way location and composting it or waiting until it is dry and burning it.
I have heard someone as describing horses as hay eating s*it machines.
sseelhoff
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We compost ours and use it in the garden and spread it in the pastures. I turn it periodically with the FEL and water it if we don't get rain. Water is necessary for the microbes that break everything down.
PJSprog
Elite Member
We don't have horses, but one of our neighbors does. He has recently been giving his to the guy who works the field across the road from us, where he's been spreading it. I watched him one day bring over two tractors; one to load the spreader, and one to haul the spreader. That was before planting, of course. No idea what he's doing with it for the rest of the growing season.
Halftrack
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Couple of places in our area to check. Myer Implement on SR 19 and CR 28 south of Elkhart and a welding shop at the NW corner of SR 5 and 700S, west of Topeka. Both places had 4 to 6 used last time I was shopping. A pto drive gives you more options when spreading and allows slow and thick, for gardens and fast and thin for pastures. A bear claw paddle with maybe a second higher beater is better IMO, than the old 3 beater ground drives.
