Spreading Poo

Destroked 450 · Nov 11, 2020

Been doing some late fall spreading putting chicken litter 75 acres of our hay ground.
This new 22' litter spreading bed helped cut down on the number of trips we were making compared to the old 14' spreader wagon we've been using.

A little added nitrogen and potash in the spring and we should get a nice hay crop next year.
Have another 65 acres I'd like to spread on but a couple of neighbors and a church are to close to those fields.

SVcummins · Nov 11, 2020

Thats a nice looking spreader. And probably better not spread
to close to houses unless you are going to incorporate it

showcrop · Nov 11, 2020

Spreading manure was always one of my favorite jos.

Hayfarmer · Nov 11, 2020

My uncle who lived next door had chickens. I think just the vapors from that manure made plants grow, especially in later years when chickens were in cages. Seemed like the fumes also worked like loctite on anything around it.

Determined · Nov 11, 2020

Looks like a nice rig, will it handle corral cleaning?

I have been looking for a good used one for some time but very few come up for sale.

SDE · Nov 11, 2020

hansen and young on line auction. praire farm Wi.
two trucks
03 sterling, current bid is $5100
ENDING on Monday

Destroked 450 · Nov 11, 2020

This one has fans on the back simulator to a fertilize spreader, they dont do well with hay or straw in the mix

Destroked 450 · Nov 11, 2020

We have set back rules we have to go by, cant spread within 350 of a house or 1500 of a business unless they ok it

SVcummins · Nov 11, 2020

350 don’t do much good when you smell it across the valley

fixerupper · Nov 11, 2020

Plenty of turkey litter and hog manure is spread in my neighborhood and the smell does travel but it only lasts a couple days at most. As soon as the ground dries I will have four tons per acre of turkey litter spread on 240 acres surrounding my house and my sons house. If the wind is in the south we will have very potent aerobics coming our way for a couple days unless we get a foot of snow on it right away. Across the road from my house hog manure will be knifed in on a 66 acre field of mine. Even though it is knifed in it still smells. Its part of farming, two days of stink! 363 days of the year will be OK. By the way the worst stink we have ever endured was cattle manure spread north of our house.

larry@stinescorner · Nov 11, 2020

Very good!!I Wish I could get a small pickup load of chicken manure

Determined · Nov 11, 2020

(quoted from post at 17:03:46 11/11/20) hansen and young on line auction. praire farm Wi.
two trucks
03 sterling, current bid is $5100
ENDING on Monday

I would gladly give you double that for it and throw in a steak dinner if you could get it across the border for me.

Saskatchewan Canada.

Paul from MI · Nov 11, 2020

Spreading manure-not as bad job. Hand loading the spreader--not so much. My every week job until I left home, and I don't miss it.

Destroked 450 · Nov 12, 2020

(quoted from post at 18:26:47 11/11/20) Very good!!I Wish I could get a small pickup load of chicken manure

Larry I would gladly give you a load, but the 1400 mile round trip would be a bit of a drive
But if youre up for it youre welcome here anytime

caterpillar guy · Nov 12, 2020

Spreading manure and the smell is kind of like a peeing section in a pool. no way to stop the smell unless it is worked in right away.

T in NE · Nov 12, 2020

Hauled some from Firth to Hastings this
summer, we could only get 15 ton on the
side dumps.
At the feed lots and dairy we can get
upward of 27.
I asked a guy running a pull type spreader
how much it holds?
"50"
Thousand?
"Tons, is what they're rated for, I had 51
on the last load"

They were putting 50-51 ton on and
spreading to the far end of the pivot (half
mile) and coming back across the turn row
around the edge of the field.

Destroked 450 · Nov 13, 2020

Chicken litter is a lot different from other manures, it's usually pretty dry and doesn't weigh much were others manures have a lot of moisture adding weight.
Average weight of chicken litter is 31-36 lbs per cubic foot, the 22' spreader bed in the photo will only hold 10-12 tons depending on how high one humps it up.

fixerupper · Nov 13, 2020

The 6 million bird laying facility 5 miles away from me has caged chickens so no bedding, just the pure stuff. They were mixing corn stalks with it and composting but I dont think they do that anymore. From what I see of the side dump loads they pile in the fields the manure slumps and flattens out after it is piled so it must be pretty wet. A neighbor used to spread liquid chicken manure and it was the most gawdawful smelling stuff known to man. I did some work on his tanker truck once and my shop smelled for a year afterward. No liquid chicken manure is spread around here anymore thank goodness.

Spreading Poo

Destroked 450

Well-known Member

SVcummins

Well-known Member

showcrop

Well-known Member

Hayfarmer

Well-known Member

Determined

Well-known Member

SDE

Well-known Member

Destroked 450

Well-known Member

Destroked 450

Well-known Member

SVcummins

Well-known Member

fixerupper

Well-known Member

larry@stinescorner

Well-known Member

Determined

Well-known Member

Paul from MI

Well-known Member

Destroked 450

Well-known Member

caterpillar guy

Well-known Member

T in NE

Well-known Member

Destroked 450

Well-known Member

fixerupper

Well-known Member

Similar threads