Spreader One-point Spreader 1968 IH Farmall 140

[DJ54]

No way I'm selling my spreader, LOL... Need it myself...

Custom lime application must be getting expensive everywhere. Around here Farmers are buying their own spreaders, and trucking the lime themselves. Some have them on floater type trucks, and custom spread for neighbors. We're very fortunate to have a quarry that has Ag. lime within 35 miles. Last I bought was around $9.00 per ton. Got 3.5 tons on my little 1 ton dump, and spread it by hand. Just slung it with a nice light short handle, square point shovel. Took about 2.5 hours, including several coffee & smoke breaks. Definitely some incentive to get my spreader back in operating condition though..!!

Any neighbor farmers that may have a spreader..?? Possibly some independent large dump truck drivers that would haul you some lime in? Around here they were charging $3.00 per loaded mile for a dedicated load. Find one that hauls away, and comes back empty, that hauls near a quarry, and maybe would cut a deal on charge. Depends a lot what they're hauling too. Sure don't want a contaminated load, with someone hauling salt, or coal.

Might also pay to keep an eye out behind building's in the weeds & fence rows for a drop spreader. I still see one here, and there around here. Watch small equipment jockey lots & local auctions. A good community auction can bring in items like that. With the price of scrap high, a lot of that kind of stuff is disappearing.

Here's a pic of my poor ole' spreader. I meant to get it fixed up about 5 years ago as a winter project. A lot of life changes happened before I got to it, and just no chance to get that done yet.


I believe it was in Davin, where I saw half of a hospital, setting on concrete pillars, out over the small river that runs through there. Sure makes me appreciate where I live..!!

 

[diamondjfarmwv]

Not a thing wrong with that spreader; a little tlc and it'll be back in operation. Everything I own is paid for. I'd rather buy and own used equipment and vehicles, not have to make monthly payments (been there, done that, but I'm lookin at 56 come April), and buy parts and do repair work. Much cheaper, and nobody can come take your things away.

I.m lucky to have a 2000 Chevy C3500HD 2-ton diesel, dually flatbed w/sides, with which I've hauled 6+ ton gravel on more than one occasion and trucked 20+ miles back across ridge-top roads. Traded a reconstructed '07 Harley 1200 for it last spring. (Still have my old 2002 Road King that me and my boy ride all the time). I.m gonna check with our local stone/gravel yard down by the river to see if they sell bulk lime. Do I ask specifically for "agricultural lime"?

What you saw was the Logan General Hospital, which is built right agin the side of a mounain and on a river bank! With all the slides and floods down there, don't know how that thing' still standin after all these years! Patched up a many a hurt coal miner, logger, gas and oil man, and trucker over the years. Davin is just south of Logan about 10 mile or so. I believe that's the Guyandote River there.

 

[DJ54]

I'd imagine you'll need to find a limestone quarry, although some smaller stone yards may stock some. Some quarry's may not have Ag. lime. And yes, specifically request Agricultural Lime. They should also have an analysis for it, telling the magnesium and calcium content. Might be worth calling the extension agent, and see if it can be found locally. The custom operators are getting it somewhere. Either trucked in, or by rail, and stockpiled somewhere.

The spreader needs some TLC on the back end. Paddle wheel is pretty well shot, and need to redo the bottom edges inside the hopper box. A PO (golf course) didn't keep it cleaned well, or spray it with something like diesel fuel to kill the fertilizer. Got the steel, plasma cutter & MIGS to fix it, just no time, or real place to fix it yet. New shop isn't wired for the plasma & welders yet. A fridge going ka-put last fall took care of funds I'd put aside for that for a winter project. And just too cold this winter to work out of the other shop with no heat, or outside. Hopefully I'll get to it this summer, after a few higher priority projects get done.

Guess it was Logan. It was back in the early 80's when I was there, and only one time. I do remember riding in the front of their minivan, going to pick up the BIL's grandmother, to go to his parents for Thanksgiving dinner. It was rather strange not being able to see the sky in any direction because of the mountains.

 

[diamondjfarmwv]

That part of the State has extremely narrow valleys; like I said, just enough room between the feet of two opposing mountains for a road, a creek,and a railroad track. Houses, literally, are built against hillside slopes or uo on hillsides where you can find a flat big enough for a 24' x 32' or so foundation.

Will check with my extension agent about the lime available in our area, and what mag and calcium contents I need. I'll also recheck my soil analysis from October this year.

Know what you mean about limited funds; also had a fridge go down middle of the summer. Not sure what I had that $400 set aside for, but it ended up payin for a new, little kenmore.

Hope you get your new shop completed soon; and post a pic or two so those of us with old '70s shops, with leaking roofs and cracked concrete floors can drool!

 

[DJ54]

It's getting there. Here's a few pics while still pristine. I did get a few walls finished out, and a couple benches moved in. Got another one to bring yet with the drill press, and Smithy lathe on it. Weather caught me, and will get back to it this spring.

And my old, from the 40's Florence wood/coal stove. Built the heat shield/heat extractor behind it to protect the wall, but yet scavenge all the heat I could out of the old girl. Need to get my waste oil furnace set up next summer too. Brought a lot of "stuff" from the other place to sort through over the winter, and working on that when I get a chance.

 

[DJ54]

What the heck... Since you're horse folk, might as well share a couple of pics of the new horse stalls I built. Built everything you see there from scratch.

 

[diamondjfarmwv]

Dad gum. You're a bona fide craftsman. Fine a shop as I've ever seen. Questions: are you leavin the top section open for clear siding for light or just haven't gotten the siding up that high yet? Also, what kind of flooring is that you've laid? I like that I-beam set-up; is that for your chain hoist. I bet that heatin' stove is about one of a kind! Yes, sir. You and your buddies will enjoy lots of hot coffee, iced tea, and soda pop in that shop. Fine job.

 

[diamondjfarmwv]

Dad gum, again! Fine stables. Now is this under same roof or different? From scratch, huh? Bona fide craftsman, I say.

 

[DJ54]

Light panels are on the outside, need to put it on the inside, to make a dead air space, and less heat loss. That's a 6" thick concrete floor, with what they call diamond coat sealer.

I've got 3 trolley's & chain hoists to go on that beam. Just have one up now, the other two are still in the other shop, and the other place. Other shop is larger, just didn't have the room here to make it as big.

Had more then one person ask what in the world I was going to work on in there with that kind of floor & beam. My answer... "What ever I want, that will fit through the door."

That's a Florence Hot Blast Stove, made in Columbus, OH. I saw an old newspaper archive ad that had a similar one from the 40's. Does a nice job..!!

Horse barn is separate. 42' X 96'. 4 stalls, room for 60+ round bales of hay, and 100 bales of straw. 2, 12' X 12 OH doors, and 12' wide drive through, front to back to bring hay in & haul manure out. Two more bays partitioned of so as to get my LQ trailer in one bay, and the 3H slant & 2H bumper pull in the next one.

Figured this will be the last Hoorah, so gonna' get what I want. I might as well spend it, as leave it to someone else to have a good time on... Or the gub'mint...

 

[diamondjfarmwv]

What material are those light panels? We may, one day, build or add on to our little 3-stall bar, and I like your setup. On that floor, are those panels over the concrete w/metal expansion joints, or is that an actual finish on the top layer of the pour? Very interesting. Great look and finish. And what size are those vertical and horizontal ( H or I?) beams? I need a similar support in my old shop to pull motors and such.

I like your philosophy. Echoes just what our Founding Fathers had in mind when they penned that old Constitution and BOR for their children and grandchildren. You know, that doc that seems constantly under attack today thru revisionism, reinterpretation, and judicial activism.

Now that's a big equine facility you got there. What horse breeds get to live in such fine digs?

And you are right about spendin' your hard-earned dollars; no use to leave it to relations to feud over, and Big Brother perennially spends more than it takes in, and wastes a good portion of what it does spend. Guess I better not get myself started on them politicians and bureaucrats, and such. Again, best of success on puttin the finishing touches on those two new facilities. Well deserved additions to your farm, I'm certain. Well deserved!