Build a manure spreader?

[Deberosa]

Well, I can't find the thread about this but someone was thinking of building a manure spreader.

I just found out about this site:
http://www.newerspreader.com/

They are almost as expensive as a full size spreader but the concept seems like it would be possible to duplicate by someone more mechanical than me - seems like it's just a rotating blade in the bottom of the cart?

Anyhow - thought I would share.

Debbie

[bee_pipes]

Naw, think older. We have a museum out here with old ag equipment - much of it predating tractors. A manure spreader was just a wagon with a slatted fence - like cyclone fence - that made a conveyor belt to drop manure through the bottom of the wagon. Pretty simple device, but easier to throw together at a time when old wagons were more common and salvage parts were easier to come by. These old ag museums have a wealth of ideas, but they need to be translated into modern terms - welding salvaged auto parts together to make the devices.

Regards,
Pat

[walls0stone]

depends on the size, but a walking floor, with the right gear ratio, and a clutch to dissengadge the linkage when your in travle...but a simple ground driven wagon with gears is all it realy is.

[Drawbar]

I converted my old manure spreader into a fire wood processor of sorts. I know this is not what this thread is about, but some may be interested anyway.

Basically I took off the rotating throwing tines on the back and disengaged the live bottom from the wheels and added a big lever. Then I mounted my wood splitter side ways on the tongue of the spreader. I drive the splitter using a PTO pump on the tractor. In this way the height is controlled by how high I pick up the 3 point hitch,and the speed of the splitter is controlled by the rpms of the tractor.

The manure spreader box works well because now I block my firewood up with a chainsaw, then throw it on the wood splitter and split the wood. Then I toss it right into the manure spreader. And when I get a trailer load, I back up to the wood shed and off load it. But instead of walking up front in the trailer to get the wood, I just crank the whole load back to me as its unloaded. This stupid thing saves me a lot of rehandling of wood.

Now if I can turn a manure spreader into this conglomeration of parts, once can easily be made. In fact Northern Hydraulics has a small one for sale in their catalog and is designed to be pulled behind a garden tractor.