Bag spreader

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Clover only, I use the solo 421. LArger seed the earthway 2750. Never used the 3100, but could see that being better than the 2750.. I have broke a gearbox on the earthway, but they sent me a new one for free. I have 2 of the earthways and abuse the snot out of them. Fertilizer and lime in them for years n years. I have a drop spreader for lime and fertilzer now.

I also use a 12v ATV spreader at times too. Started using fertilizer in it, but the motor doesn't like it. It's rye only from now on.

The solo is a bit slow feed for rye seed and oats. It's just enough for wheat though. I prefer to leave it set to the clover feed amount I like and leave it there.

I do numerous smaller plots, so the bag seeder does ok.

 

[SD51555]

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bill

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[SD51555]

What's next?

breaking out the old avatar with Wyatt Earp?

bill

 

[SD51555]

SD. Wow. You got my attention. I understand your previous video. Tell me more. I see the benefit of that. Can it over 30 feet width. Can it be hooked up to a backpack blower or does need it to be a handheld.

If you swing a 180 degrees as you're spreading, you can cover 56 feet reliably with a dense seed. Light seed ain't gonna fly that far. If you arc it up at 45 degrees, you'd probably get 60 feet. Many moons ago I had Roger the fuel man stand out in the parking lot and I shot brassica seed at him, and measured the distance, and that's what I got. You've got to account for the 3' away from your body on each side. Then we ate gravel turnips for a while that fall.

I do about a 10 to 2 type swing out ahead of me so I can keep the light stuff flying where I want it. If it's all heavy and I'm not overly concerned with perfect, I'll walk one path and let it fly wide. My biggest plot is an acre, and I can walk that in one loop and I'm done in about 2 minutes.

You can put that blower on any tube that's 2 3/4" - 3". I just lent mine to a friend of mine, and they spread 30 lbs of red clover off the back of their wheeler. One guy drove, one guy rode on the back and just pointed the blower.

Need to put 1 pound of copper sulfate powder on a half acre? No problem.

 

[SD51555]

I did not invent the blower.

 

[matinc]

SD you may not have invented it but it sounds like you have perfected it. That's amazing you can cover an acre that quickly. Why Johnny Ringo it looks like somebody just walked over your grave. Or

 

[buckdeer1]

I actually have one that I have never used

 

[Skeeter]

Does anyone know what earthway changed on the bag spreader to make it worth 20 dollars more or is it just that their name is on the bag now instead of the plastic base? If there's no real difference I'll likely try and get one of the old ones while they're still available.

 

[Tree Spud]

Does anyone know what earthway changed on the bag spreader to make it worth 20 dollars more or is it just that their name is on the bag now instead of the plastic base? If there's no real difference I'll likely try and get one of the old ones while they're still available.

Over past 3 years material supply chain issues, cost of materials, inflation, etc. have all driven the price of goods up. Steel prices over 2021 to early 2022 saw dramatic increases. Buy it now, inflation expected to continue for another 12-18 months.

 

[Booner21]

I thought about getting the solo just for spreading rye grain, but you think the earth way is better for oats and probably rye too? I spill so much trying to fill the soft sided spreader, just thought would be less spillage dumping bags into the solo.

You will be there all day spreading oats/rye with the solo. I can fit close to 25lbs of rye in the spreader at 1 time. And cover some serious ground, You will not be happy spreading it with the solo.


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[T-Max]

I need to spread some more fertilizer over my corn. My 3 point tractor spreader isn’t up yet and it’s gonna be near 500 lbs. Would the blower spreader be up for something like that? Looks like the hopper may be a little small. Thinking Earthway 3100 for capacity. Thoughts? I don’t mind walking it for the exercise.


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[bigboreblr]

Solo is great for small seeds, sucks for anything large or any amendments. Buy both the solo and the earthway bag. If You had to buy 1, just get the earthway. Mix small seed with some pelletized lime or fertilizer or grains. Get a good face mask if using pelleltized lime. Fertilizer is much less dusty.

Been a very happy food plotter since I got a good drop spreader. Even the tow behind broadcast spreaders from an ATV make alot of nasty dust. I love my 3ft gandy, but it's $1000+ new, basically the ones the golf courses use. Think for either way of $200 the agrifab 175 would be a bad option. However, I feel the drop spreaders tend to break small grains. With the brillion seeder, they replace metal paddles with basically fiber brush door seal strips. Like for the bottom of your front door.

Always hated the dust of lpelletized lime. But, this spring I did spread 3 bags while wearing a 3m respirator. Wasn't bad at all. I have very sandy soil at camp. It needs a light dose of lime and fertilizer often to work well. Like 60-100 lbs/acre of fertilizer and 300-500 lb acre of lime. Not easy to do with most push or tow spreaders.

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

My solo now won’t close all the way. So small seed like clover and vetch falls out when I don’t want it to. It’s annoying

 

[matinc]

Dog. Curious on what you spread in your soil.

 

[buckdeer1]

I bought a bag spreader to replace my old one with a metal base and it's a POS.No I would spread that much fertilizer with a bag spreader.The blower spreader I have probably doesn't hold but a couple lbs. made more for clover.

 

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Gangs of NY meme beats a johnny dangerously one.

 

[buckdeer1]

I just got a chapin,that is the one thats a POS.

 

[matinc]

Buck or anyone I'm curious have you used the solo to broadcast rye I read above it totally sucks.

 

[buckdeer1]

No I drill everything ,except clover and alfalfa

 

[matinc]

This is a dewault clover spreader it runs on 20 volt and holds 5 pounds clover. Works great