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Allan in NE

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Okay,

Finally dried up enough that I could get the manure spreader in the field. Good news is that I should be done in about 3 weeks.

Anyhooooo,

Decided to use the old M on the spreader and just thought I'd pass this bit of info along.

I find it advantageous to face INTO the wind while using an open station tractor for this type of chore...... :>)

Allan
 
We all thought you had died and gone to heaven. And come to find out you were just out spreading s**t. Wecolme back to the fold.
 
Once in a while I will use the 60 to pull the spreader but it hardly has enough guts to pull it. Since I put that second upper beater on and the wind is right you end up wearing some of it.
 
Recently saw an AC manure spreader pic on here, with the beaters in the front. Surprisingly, it was not very popular. Maybe the decline and fall of Allis Chalmers (or Alice Chalmers or Allis Chambers or Chamblers or whatever) is a little easier to understand now.
 
Thanks for advice Allen and glad you got "dug out" of the early snow!
However, after the last post I saw, I thought you traded a couple of the Red tractors for a White with cab and front wheel assist?
Just kiddin but you know them red ones with front wheel assist do come up every once in a while for climate like yours.
Luckily, our climate has changed in Central Illinois and farmers are finally getting to go all out - See billonthefarm pictures and others.
Jim

PS: Gotta go now as I have an "Old Song" that this post just triggered!
 
..or run 90* to the wind!..did that a week ago Allan..now I got to get a sharp knife and a pair of rubber gloves and cut all the twine off the beaters..and I am so carefull gathering all the bale string..but a bunch always end up wrapped around the beaters!
 
Actually, that was a very well designed spreader, had nothing to do(doo?) with AC's demise. With a front unloader, the back gets empty first, giving the tractor better traction. It actually unloaded straight down in front, with no big clumps, they made over 1500 of these units, and they bring big money, today. AC was a company ahead of its time, in many innovations, such as putting rubber tires on tractors, turbo charging engines, spin out rims, and many other innovations. Every once in a while, one was bound to not sell well. What brought AC down, was that they had so many other divisions, other than Agriculture, that were not making money, that when the economic downturn best known as jimmy carter, happened, the ag division started loosing money, too.
 
Hey Allan, I have some wisdom for you I have learned the last month or so. I don't know if you still have your little 3 wheeler or not but if you do this my help you some day. When move'n cows from one pasture to another and you have a new born calf that can't keep up you can lay them across your lap on a four or three wheeler. Only thing about this is heifers work much better than bulls.

Dave
 
There's no escaping it when spreading with 7000 gallon liquid spreaders for days on end. Our whole county smells like liquid cow manure. Fortunately only happens twice a year.
 
I really like the smell of a barn,the blend of hay and manure and fresh milk. When I was in high school--we lived in town--it was fun to help our friends shovel the gutters. I'm much less thrilled with the liquid sprayed on field nowdays.

Larry in Michigan
 
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