What Muck Spreader For A Massey 135?

DrWazzock · Mar 20, 2017

PROFarms said:
Do you have any pictures of your Massey hooked up to the spreader? Just interested to see how they compare size wise!

No pics on system. The spreader is about three times the length of the 135 and spreads a 4 foot width approximately. You can vary the feed rate of the manure to the rotor so can get fairly accurate dosing. It handles horse muck and sawdust easily and also well rotted manure. If there is a lot of straw in it you have to feed it a bit slower to the rotor or something is liable to give! I would imagine the spreader holds about 2 tons of wet FYM. I think it is a SKF? Brain fading a bit. It's orange anyway.

multi power · Mar 21, 2017

DrWazzock said:
No pics on system. The spreader is about three times the length of the 135 and spreads a 4 foot width approximately. You can vary the feed rate of the manure to the rotor so can get fairly accurate dosing. It handles horse muck and sawdust easily and also well rotted manure. If there is a lot of straw in it you have to feed it a bit slower to the rotor or something is liable to give! I would imagine the spreader holds about 2 tons of wet FYM. I think it is a SKF? Brain fading a bit. It's orange anyway.

Skh it would be

wasted years · Mar 21, 2017

There was at least 1 small side discharge spreader in Carlisle jumble sale last week, they may not have sold but I suppose transport to you wouldn't be cheap.

barn606 · Mar 21, 2017

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/162258837547 there is a yellow version of this with a wider spread somewhere. Depends how big you need

Laminated · Mar 21, 2017

That will have a 135 doing wheelies down the field!! Haha

borderterribles · Mar 21, 2017

multi power said:
Skh it would be

As in Salopian Kenneth Hudson! Re the OP, barrel type spreaders are fairly bombproof for the novice user, as long as they remember to leave a bit of room at either end when filling it, and not to turn with the pto running. Rear discharge spreaders, either land wheel drive

eek

or pto driven, probably best with a bit more experience . Unless they like hand forking muck!

PROFarms · Mar 21, 2017

Interesting to know, am going to look at a Howard spreader and a Massey rear discharge spreader later today. Both around 3-400

Roy_H · Mar 21, 2017

two-cylinder said:
MF 19.

WHAT! No way never! OK l know a 135 has plenty of power to handle a 19, but they are one of the worst things MF ever came out with. We had two of the horrors. Avoid at all costs .

PROFarms · Mar 21, 2017

Roy_H said:
WHAT! No way never! OK l know a 135 has plenty of power to handle a 19, but they are one of the worst things MF ever came out with. We had two of the horrors. Avoid at all costs .

What was wrong with the Massey spreader??

DeeGee · Mar 21, 2017

Dave W said:
The short answer is both utterly shite.
Most bamford spreaders got turned into fencing trailers before they drove the owners insane.
The Fleming mounted spreaders hold precisely 3 barrows full.
For £1k you could buy 2 Howard barrel Spreader in decent condition. Use one for 5 years and mothball the other for the next 5

So you are not an avid collector of Bamford spreaders then Dave?
Bet you have loads of their leaflets and brochures stashed away in a private collection. You really do love them really don't you, as you do those excellent Fleming mounted spreaders?

DeeGee · Mar 21, 2017

two-cylinder said:
MF 19.

Apparently the MF 19 was a nightmare. Brochures of th six them happily spreading behind a 135 or 165 but some say that they were always breaking bed chains.

multi power · Mar 21, 2017

DeeGee said:
Apparently the MF 19 was a nightmare. Brochures of th six them happily spreading behind a 135 or 165 but some say that they were always breaking bed chains.

I think all rear discharge spreaders at that time were a nightmare

DeeGee · Mar 21, 2017

Roy_H said:
WHAT! No way never! OK l know a 135 has plenty of power to handle a 19, but they are one of the worst things MF ever came out with. We had two of the horrors. Avoid at all costs .

Yes I have heard the same. Those Massey brochures of the sixties and seventies show them happily spreading muck behind a 135 or 165 tractor, but the reality was apparently very different.

Howard 100 Rotaspreader was often used by the Massey 135.

two-cylinder · Mar 21, 2017

The rear discharge spreaders were designed for clean muck, in small pieces.
When people started using bigger loaders, and dumped large fork fulls in- the problems began, throw in some brick rubble too

DrWazzock · Mar 22, 2017

two-cylinder said:
The rear discharge spreaders were designed for clean muck, in small pieces.
When people started using bigger loaders, and dumped large fork fulls in- the problems began, throw in some brick rubble too

That's right. Our telehandler muck grab can fill the SKH with one grab full but best to break it up with the grab on the heap before filling the spreader. The spreader doesn't like lumps of silage bale either.

Looking for a bigger spreader myself but they aren't cheap, even for ones that need a lot doing to them. Could do with something like an 8 tonner.

A bit wary of hiring because I only have 100 HP and worry about bringing disease in.

DrWazzock · Mar 22, 2017

borderterribles said:
As in Salopian Kenneth Hudson! Re the OP, barrel type spreaders are fairly bombproof for the novice user, as long as they remember to leave a bit of room at either end when filling it, and not to turn with the pto running. Rear discharge spreaders, either land wheel drive eek or pto driven, probably best with a bit more experience . Unless they like hand forking muck!

I always wondered what SKH meant.

Roy_H · Mar 22, 2017

DrWazzock said:
That's right. Our telehandler muck grab can fill the SKH with one grab full but best to break it up with the grab on the heap before filling the spreader. The spreader doesn't like lumps of silage bale either.

Looking for a bigger spreader myself but they aren't cheap, even for ones that need a lot doing to them. Could do with something like an 8 tonner.

A bit wary of hiring because I only have 100 HP and worry about bringing disease in.

We loaded our MF 19 spreaders with a MF 35 loader fitted to a MF 165 and the damn things would still break the bed chains even with well rotted muck and no we didn't overload them.

DrWazzock · Mar 22, 2017

Roy_H said:
We loaded our MF 19 spreaders with a MF 35 loader fitted to a MF 165 and the damn things would still break the bed chains even with well rotted muck and no we didn't overload them.

The temptation is always to pile just a bit more on then the muck either overwhelms the rotor or starts pushing on the top edge of the rotor hood, then bed chain or rotor chain breakage is just about inevitable.

Roy_H · Mar 22, 2017

DrWazzock said:

The temptation is always to pile just a bit more on then the muck either overwhelms the rotor or starts pushing on the top edge of the rotor hood, then bed chain or rotor chain breakage is just about inevitable.

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There was no rotor hood on MF 19 spreader. I well remember one had a bed chain break on me AFTER l had emptied the load out. One problem with them was they had only a 2 speed bed chain, 'fast and much too fast' My dad used to say about them "Put any more than a turd and a half in them and they will break!"

PROFarms · Mar 23, 2017

Am going to look at a Howard 100 and a skh spreader later on! The skh has been modified with bigger chains and changed the wooden bed chains to angle iron and seems to work better!

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