[AT] Fun with the manure spreader

[Paul L Waugh]

Winter hogs in the barn and manure spreader made for some long Saturdays

Paul


On 11/15/2017 9:19 AM, Cecil Bearden 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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