Spreader manuer spreaders

[Whiskey]

Hey gang:

I've been playing with this idea for some time and I'm having a hard time getting off the money for what I really want.

The compost is building up and it's becomming harder and harder to find folks to take it. I've built all the flower beds for this year I care to so, spreading it in the pasture's is what I've wanted to do for some time but the price of want I want is just hard to justify.

Millcreek is what I've been looking at, but for 2,500 bucks + shipping it's just out of my budget for spreading hose poop. I found a differant spreader a while back and it's in the budget but on the smaller side. Have any of you come across, used or know someone who owns a www.newerspreader.com if so give your thoughts.

Wanted something that I could load with the bucket (yes I can load it with a bucket but I'll end up with a lot of spillage) and hold more than this one. They say this is good for about 200' and I have 2 pastures @ about 2 acres each and it seem's like alot of trips but would work like a champ in the yard being small.

 

[cowboydoc]

DON'T get the newerspreader unless you only have one or two horses. It is VERY small and takes about 7 trips just to clean one stall. I have the fuerst spreader that I got at Farm and Fleet five years ago for $899. I saw one there yesterday for $1199. It has held up to doing 12-15 stalls a day and getting used VERY heavily with only a few rusted off bolts. I have been very pleased with ours. It will hold all the manure from cleaning the stalls daily and you can do about 1.5 stalls completely stripping them.

 

[Varmintmist]

Why not look for a used one? Full size. You can probably get one cheap, it will probably be ground driven but for 2, 2ac pastures, so what? It really doesnt have to be in great shape, you are just going to dump s@#$ in it anyway /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif. Look for some farm auctions, I think you can get one way under your budget.

 

[cowboydoc]

Problem with the full size ones, at least for me, is that you have to have a tractor to pull them. Also they are very, very cumbersome to get in the barn and most of them are too big to go down the aisleways for the stalls. The one I have and the millcreek ones you can hook to an ATV or UTV or even a golf cart and go right down the aisle by the stalls and pick the stalls or clean them out right there. Usually with a bigger spreader you have to leave it outside, put your manure in wheelbarrows, haul it outside to the spreader and wheel it up a 2x12 and dump it. Royal pain!!

 

[Varmintmist]

You mean that you didnt build your barn so that you can get your loader in????? /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

My father designed the inside of his horse barn AROUND a Case 1845C /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif You have to fork about 6 forks full when you are done.

 

[Whiskey]

Hey guy's:
Thanks for the quick replys, I've been looking for a used spreader for about 2 years and the E-bay section for manure spreaders is on my fav's. I can't seem to find them at local auctions. The small spreader seem to be kind of a nich idem around here.

Cowboydoc:
Never herd of that company before. I will give them a call in a bit, thanks for the link. I do only have 2 horse's and there arabs to boot so stall are only 10'x10' But I tend to compost it before I spread it so I've got 2 compost bends waiting for something to be done and with the newer spreader it looked as if would be lots of trips

 

[Whiskey]

Cowboydoc:

Yep, I still clean stalls with the old wheelbarrow. The tracror freeks out the stud in the barn so I am still pushin' it out by hand and then putting it in the compost bends and rolling it with the tractor.

 

[cowboydoc]

Oh you can. But it makes a mess of my arena and my aisles. Plus all the diesel fumes from the tractor idling while you scoop poop isn't too good on my or the horses lungs. For me the Gator and the little spreader work great. Easy to get around, leaves no mess behind, no fumes, and cuts my stall time down to next to nothing.

 

[theboman]

My old girlfriend! She not only sling it, she stirred it up good too!

Oh, Northern Tool has a manure spreader for compacts! Mighty cool!

 

[kensfarm]

Wow.. that is small.. I would rather just use the FEL and make a bunch of trips.. which I have done.. and it's a pain and time consuming.

I borrowed my dairy neighbor's spreader last week.. it's an old one that he's been wanting to sell me.

After a week of continous cloudy, rainy, damp weather.. I was walking in 4-6 inches of manure/mud gumbo to feed my steers.. so sloppy the FEL would only stack it so high. I cleaned the entire feeding area and ended up w/ a sizeable pile.

I started by only filling the spreader half full.. to see how my tractor would handle it. Man.. for being an old spreader.. it really sent the manure flying. I worked a field that I didn't get to plant this year.. I had plowed it deep.. turning up as much gravel as dirt.. and thought it could use all the organic material I could put on it. 7 loads later I was done.. I will probably plow it in and plant a cover crop.. but I've been rained out the last 3 weekends.

Maybe check w/ some farmers close by.. pay or barter(there is always work that needs to be done) for the use of a spreader for a day..

 

[theboman]

It must be for pony manure /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[KiotiJohn]

This one, from Tractor Supply Company appears to be a little larger.
Mini Manure Spreader
John

 

[LKGuy]

Whiskey, we have three horses and I would not recommend a smaller spreader. You will be making a lot of trips and in the winter when ground conditions are usually wet or semi frozen, this can make a mud mess in a hurry. I have had several spreaders and they were all used. Got my first one by spending 10 bucks for a newspaper add. Got a call from a farmer who said if I come and get it, it's mine! Gave him a 12 pack for it! Sure it needed some TLC but it worked and two years later I traded up and got 150 bucks trade-in for it at a used implement dealer! Bottom line, there's a bunch of used farm implements out there at great prices, check out the used market.

 

[horseman1]

Whiskey,

I made my own spreader similar in design to that Newspreader. I discovered theirs after I had made mine /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif. Mine had a lot of problems if the manure had much straw in it. They may have figured out a way around the problem, but I scrapped mine after a while. Besides, it was way too small anyway. The Millcreek works real well, but I dont like the cable engage/disengage on mine. Seems kinda hokey. I dont know if the new ones still have this setup or not

Kurt

 

[horseman1]

Oh, I forgot to mention the other problem I saw with mine (may or may not apply to the newerspreader). The hopper is basically a tri-angle. Sometimes an empty space would be created down by the drum and the material would not fall down into the drum if it had much moisture in it. Here in our arrid climate, it didnt happen too often unless I filled it up all the way. The more manure in the hopper, the more likely this was to happen too. YMMV, but my basic design was very similar to theirs.

Kurt

 

[Mark4510]

Whiskey,
We tried out the NewerSpreader for a few weeks and it was a mixed bag. It was nice that you could wheel it around in the barn like a wheel barrow. We would block the aisle side stall door, clean, fill it, and take it out.

The down side was that it did not hold much and we kept making trips to the pasture to spread it. The other thing, as has been said, is that it does not handle bale feed very well with all the stems.

As a result we sent it back.

We have gotten in the habit of dumping most of our shavings in a pile to compost them and then spreading around as needed.

A local trainer bought a Fuerst that seems about what Cowboydoc describes and I was pretty impressed with how well it is made.

If I were going to get one I think thats the one I would focus on.

Mark

 

[Whiskey]

Thanks guys for all the comments, with what has been said about the newerspreader I think it is out of question for me...I'am in the process of working out a deal on one and if all comes out...I'll be throwing poop in the near future /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

If anyone has something to add...go ahead and leave it. I keep checking the thread

Whiskey