Quick attach sander

[steviep]

So the other day at work I saw a tailgate slander on the front of bobcat. Talking to the operator he said the just welded a 2" receiver to a quick attach plate. He said it works pretty good.
Now I guess I need to find a good used tailgate sander. Has anyone else tried this .

 

[RNeumann]

The issue has always been keeping the material you want to spread from freezing. If you can overcome that major issue it should work fine. I’d attach it the opposite end of your snow removal device. In that example I have a front plow so I’d hook it into my 3 point box blade with receiver.

To your question- no. I haven’t wanted to mess with the spreader. I just grab a scoop of road base and spread it with the bucket if I need a bit of material. If I need a bit of salt I just use my fertilizer spreader. But I’m only dealing with 800’ or so of driveway. And even though I’m on a good hill all the vehicles are 4WD so we are typically fine. For my operation the spreader would be more work to hook up and manually fill. Then it has to be nearly empty to remove.....not a good fit for me.

 

[steviep]

I have a three point snowblower on bacteria so quick attach on front would be easier. My driveway is also about 800 ft with a hill but after 30 years just looking to reinvent the wheel. I either spread by hand or pay someone around $50.00 to do it for me. I do have a walkout celler so I can store it in 5 gallon buckets in my celler.

 

[mikescruggs]

Check out the scatter shot from HLA. It mounts to a SS Q/A and runs off hydraulics. Once mounted you scoop the material like a bucket, use the hydros to spread, and can dump the extra material when finished. I thought they were a great idea....challenge is to have enough machine to use it, not just run the hydraulics. I have a Kubota L4240 and my dealer said it could not handle the unit on the FEL. I was told they are ideal for skid steer or larger tractors. I asked about a Kubota M7060 and was told it would be good on that sized tractor. There are other brands out there too.

Mike

 

[truckdiagnostics]

I have not found a real easy way to spread salt sand mix. We can get it for free from the town if we shovel it by hand into a container. I had a tail gate spreader mounted on a receiver it ran off 12 volts. It worked well but the issue I had was getting the salt sand mix into the spreader. What i found works best is I have boxes on pallets set on the side of the hill. Then I just shovel by hand on to the road.

when I need to spread just salt I use a walk behind spreader. Freezing rain is hard to deal with.....

 

[6sunset6]

I have a blower on the rear and a plow on the front. I wanted to spread ice melter but did not want to take off the plow or blower. In the last couple of years the brine discussions woke me up. I strapped a 15 gal tank and a pump to the top of the plow arms behind the blade. Hung a nozzle out over the plow. I was using a boomeliminator nozzle but it freezes up as the brine goes thru it. I am going to switch to a bar with straight nozzles maybe 30 psi at 1 gpm,5 nozzles.
I have a 60 gal tank I premix in it has a pump on it as well but then I realized I could use the pump on the tractor and just swap hoses. I mounted a relay up front for pump power and ran some control wires up to a new switch on the joy stick. I have been using a salt hydrometer to try to get to the concentration for calcium pre treat. It is 35% I think which is by weight . I seem to have trouble getting enough material into solution. I just keep pumping it around the tank while adding material . Next year I will try by weight, 1/2 tank of water with what ever weight of Calcium that requires. 1/2 tan gives me space to go either way to finish up 60 gal. At any rate when the nozzle does no freeze it works great. It works better for pre treat than after plowing but that works too. one loss is that when calcium chloride is in contact with ice and starts to lowwer the melt temp and water forms it gives off heat. not much but some which helps the melt some. I think the whole thing is not as good as spreading solids but it works for me. I will post some pictures as soon as I take some.

 

[truckdiagnostics]

I like the brine idea. Thanks for posting.
What are you using for salt to mix with the water? Regular rock salt?
After you mix it where do you store it? It would be nice if I did not have to store 60 gal of brine inside. ? Wonder what temp it would freeze at?

 

[6sunset6]

I like the brine idea. Thanks for posting.
What are you using for salt to mix with the water? Regular rock salt?
After you mix it where do you store it? It would be nice if I did not have to store 60 gal of brine inside. ? Wonder what temp it would freeze at?

I have used rock salt and calcium chloride. I just pour it into the 60 gal tank, it has a 5 inch screw cap lid. The I run the pump so the liquid circulates .I had about 50 gal in the tank but adding solids adds to the volume and I had to pump some off. just put it in 5 gal cans and pumped it back in later. The 60 gal tank is on a skid,I move it around with forks. But I only move it when mixing to near a hose bib. All year it sits under a leanto roof where I can reach it with the front mounted tank on the plow. IT has not frozen at zero d F . AS I said though I have some problems with it freezing on discharge throu the nozzle. I am thinking about heating the supply pipe to the nozzle with 12v motor cycle hand grip heaters. or a sprayer bar. Don't know yet

 

[6sunset6]

I have used rock salt and calcium chloride. I just pour it into the 60 gal tank, it has a 5 inch screw cap lid. The I run the pump so the liquid circulates .I had about 50 gal in the tank but adding solids adds to the volume and I had to pump some off. just put it in 5 gal cans and pumped it back in later. The 60 gal tank is on a skid,I move it around with forks. But I only move it when mixing to near a hose bib. All year it sits under a leanto roof where I can reach it with the front mounted tank on the plow. IT has not frozen at zero d F . AS I said though I have some problems with it freezing on discharge throu the nozzle. I am thinking about heating the supply pipe to the nozzle with 12v motor cycle hand grip heaters. or a sprayer bar. Don't know yet

One more thing. I found out rock salt is filthy. Both of my tanks have a layer of mud on the bottom. I have to time usage so the tanks have not more than 15 gal total or I have to get some more 5 gal cans. But its pretty easy to pump the brine around. Sort of like a winery on a small scale.

 

[truckdiagnostics]

The brine idea does have me thinking. Don't know how well straight brine will work in my situation. We have a gravel road. I have been spreading a sand salt mix. Basically by hand. A normal spreader isn't going to work because the sand freezes and chunks up. But, I wonder if a guy could mix a brine solution and spray road gravel, while he mixes it with the loader bucket. Then over the winter this would keep it from freezing? I could pile it, trap it and scope and spread it when I need it.