[AT] Fun with the manure spreader

[Indiana Robinson]

Good looking spreader Dean.
I didn't mind forking manure too bad growing up but I did hate walking25'
with each fork-full to get to the spreader...
The open tromp shed type barns were not too bad during the years when we
had a little dozer. It worked really well at pushing everything out into a
lot and into a big pile. In the early days my father had bought a manure
fork to fit on the 3 point hitch and it was not bad to load a spreader
(when you are young and your neck still works). I put in a lot of hours
with it on the back of the Jubilee Ford. It would not rip packed manure up
very well but after dozing it out into a pile it loaded it well. Then we
got a Meyers side entry loader for the Jubilee. It was a good loader. When
we traded the Jubilee for a MF-65-D-HA the loader went on the TO-20
Ferguson. We had built up the TO-20 with oversized pistons and thin wall
sleeves to about 31 HP like the TO-30 and even without live hydraulics and
live PTO we liked it better than the Jubilee and it did more work and was
holding up much better as well. We parked the two side by side and went
over both of them carefully and talked about it a lot to decide which one
to trade-in. The Jubilee lost... Even though it had live hydraulic and live
PTO (hydraulic hand clutch behind the transmission). Today I would love to
have that Jubilee back but we were being brutally honest about our needs at
the time.


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On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 9:19 AM, Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:

> Dean:
>
> I hope you had a front end loader to load the spreader with. That is a
> lot of hand labor to load with a manure fork!!
>
> Cecil
>
>
> On 11/15/2017 6:09 AM, Dean Vinson wrote:
> > My little farm came with two big old piles of manure when I bought the
> place about four years ago, and the young guy who leases the pasture and
> some barn space has had a pretty constant stream of livestock.   The piles
> reached the point where I thought an actual manure spreader would be handy,
> and I wanted a PTO-driven spreader for flexibility in concentrating manure
> in various landscaping and garden applications in addition to just broadly
> scattering it on the hayfield.   So Craigslist hooked me up with a New Idea
> model 213.
> >
> > After a universal joint broke on about the second load, and a pin in the
> beater drive chain broke on about the fifth load, it's now running pretty
> well.   Gives the Super M some honest labor, too.
> >
> > Dean Vinson
> > Saint Paris, Ohio
> >
> >
> > My little farm came with two big old piles of manure when I bought the
> place about four years ago, and the young guy who leases the pasture and
> some barn space has had a pretty constant stream of livestock.   The piles
> reached the point where I thought an actual manure spreader would be handy,
> and I wanted a PTO-driven spreader for flexibility in concentrating manure
> in various landscaping and garden applications in addition to just broadly
> scattering it on the hayfield.   So Craigslist hooked me up with a New Idea
> model 213.
> >
> > After a universal joint broke on about the second load, and a pin in the
> beater drive chain broke on about the fifth load, it's now running pretty
> well.   Gives the Super M some honest labor, too.
> >
> > Dean Vinson
> > Saint Paris, Ohio
> >
> >
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