ATV spreader needed

[RGrizzzz]

I've got a bigger 45 hp tractor, but I also use a small 24 hp lighter tractor at times. You are right that it is better to wait than to put heavy equipment on some soils at the wrong time. For some folks, that is a major consideration.

Two tractors?!?!

 

[yoderjac]

Two tractors?!?!

Yep, I'm not in this alone. I could never have afforded the farm alone. I went in with a couple other families and formed an LLC. So, my buddy has a smaller John Deere at the farm in addition to my Kioti.

Having said that, I actually do have a second tractor myself at the place I currently live in the burbs. The back yard is terraced and too steep for a lawn tractor. I ended up buying a Kubota B2400 at an auction for a few thousand dollars years ago. It is far more trouble free than the Kioti. I typically don't use it at the farm.

 

[RGrizzzz]

Yep, I'm not in this alone. I could never have afforded the farm alone. I went in with a couple other families and formed an LLC. So, my buddy has a smaller John Deere at the farm in addition to my Kioti.

Having said that, I actually do have a second tractor myself at the place I currently live in the burbs. The back yard is terraced and too steep for a lawn tractor. I ended up buying a Kubota B2400 at an auction for a few thousand dollars years ago. It is far more trouble free than the Kioti. I typically don't use it at the farm.

#LifeGoals!

 

[Mountain Man]

I tried a front mount spreader on my ATV it is geat for seeds but I only used it once for fetilizer as you are contiualy driving into fertilizer dust which will rust your machine. I purchased a rear speader which fits the 2 inch reciever and works much beter.

 

[Mennoniteman]

I tried a front mount spreader on my ATV it is geat for seeds but I only used it once for fetilizer as you are contiualy driving into fertilizer dust which will rust your machine. I purchased a rear speader which fits the 2 inch reciever and works much beter.View attachment 29724

I like it, I'm thinking that clover is going to catch up with ours once your longer days get it going.
I'm very careful with handling fertilizer because it's so corrosive that it will ruin expensive equipment very quickly, and one of my former tractors had a fair bit of corrosion on top of the rear axles under the cab from fertilizer. That's one of the reasons that I often get our fertilizer from the feed mill in one of their own buggies that you pull with your tractor. But if that's not an option I have used my ATV, carefully cleaning everything afterwards. The other evening I spread 7 bags of fertilizer on a 1/4 acre plot by hand using a coal scoop and a 5 gallon bucket, this is actually a reasonable way to cover very small plots.
I always have our seed spinner rear mounted, but one time my son and I drove an hour to seed a plot and realized that our wire wasn't long enough for rear mounting so we were forced to front mount. My son volunteered to run the rig and ended up getting seeds in his face, hair, shirt, and about everywhere else, so I made sure not to have that happen again. I can imagine that spreading fertilizer on the front of an ATV would be a very miserable undertaking.

 

[yoderjac]

I like it, I'm thinking that clover is going to catch up with ours once your longer days get it going.
I'm very careful with handling fertilizer because it's so corrosive that it will ruin expensive equipment very quickly, and one of my former tractors had a fair bit of corrosion on top of the rear axles under the cab from fertilizer. That's one of the reasons that I often get our fertilizer from the feed mill in one of their own buggies that you pull with your tractor. But if that's not an option I have used my ATV, carefully cleaning everything afterwards. The other evening I spread 7 bags of fertilizer on a 1/4 acre plot by hand using a coal scoop and a 5 gallon bucket, this is actually a reasonable way to cover very small plots.
I always have our seed spinner rear mounted, but one time my son and I drove an hour to seed a plot and realized that our wire wasn't long enough for rear mounting so we were forced to front mount. My son volunteered to run the rig and ended up getting seeds in his face, hair, shirt, and about everywhere else, so I made sure not to have that happen again. I can imagine that spreading fertilizer on the front of an ATV would be a very miserable undertaking.

Back when I was using fertilizer (a long time ago now), I used to get both the fertilizer and lime buggy from the local coop. Since we went to min-till/no-till, we have used no commercial fertilizer. I don't miss it one bit! My food plots are as or more effective than ever, and I don't miss the caustic effects of fertilizer.

 

[meyerske]

Herd seeders have a rope actuator kit that opens and closes the gate while you are seated in your side by side, Kubota Rtv, etc. It sounds antiquated, but it works. It does the same thing as the $300 electric actuator.

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[Mennoniteman]

Herd seeders have a rope actuator kit that opens and closes the gate while you are seated in your side by side, Kubota Rtv, etc. It sounds antiquated, but it works. It does the same thing as the $300 electric actuator.

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Good to know, I have a Herd ATV seeder that I've seeded a lot of acres with, but I never saw the rope actuator kit. I will have to check this out