Which Rotor/barrel/side flinger/devils own machine (what ever you want to call them) spreader to buy.

IOW91

IOW91

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ollie989898 said:
As an aside, has anyone had a go with one of those Keenan orbital jobs are they any good? They look a bit complex to my eye?
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Had a look at them while spreader shopping, look good in principal but to me they look like the worst parts of both rotor and rear discharge spreaders.

Heavier than a rotor spread and more complicated

Not the capacity of a rear discharge, but the same potential for expensive stuff to go wrong. Plus looks a heavy machine to pull about.
 
ollie989898

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IOW91 said:
Had a look at them while spreader shopping, look good in principal but to me they look like the worst parts of both rotor and rear discharge spreaders.

Heavier than a rotor spread and more complicated

Not the capacity of a rear discharge, but the same potential for expensive stuff to go wrong. Plus looks a heavy machine to pull about.
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I thought it looks an ok machine in theory, helped not least by the ram pushing the stuff to the front but that big rotor and whirly bits looked a bit delicate.
 
Henarar

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ollie989898 said:
As an aside, has anyone had a go with one of those Keenan orbital jobs are they any good? They look a bit complex to my eye?
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Had one for about 20 years, bought it at a farm sale for £1600, had to put a new PTO shaft on it when I bought it and after a couple years the bearings went in the small rotor that cost about 300 to get done, aprt from that just a few pipes bursting.
Hell of a good spreader on sloping land as it pushes the weight to the front, spreads well and fast against a rotaspreader and it can be loaded from both sides with the slew or loader
Mine is getting a bit rough now, goodness knows how old it is, its a Keenan moore, I don't know when they stopped using that name.
I bought another one for scrap money a couple years ago, needs some welding up but could be got going if needs be.
 
IOW91

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Henarar said:
Had one for about 20 years, bought it at a farm sale for £1600, had to put a new PTO shaft on it when I bought it and after a couple years the bearings went in the small rotor that cost about 300 to get done, aprt from that just a few pipes bursting.
Hell of a good spreader on sloping land as it pushes the weight to the front, spreads well and fast against a rotaspreader and it can be loaded from both sides with the slew or loader
Mine is getting a bit rough now, goodness knows how old it is, its a Keenan moore, I don't know when they stopped using that name.
I bought another one for scrap money a couple years ago, needs some welding up but could be got going if needs be.
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Glad it's served you well. Good point about it keeping weight on the tractor. That's a big plus over a rear discharge.

Is it all your own muck you spread? Just wondering if you used one contracting, how the rotor would cope. When a shall we say a less careful farmer, happened to leave an concrete block or another large solid lump in his muck heap.
 
Henarar

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IOW91 said:
Glad it's served you well. Good point about it keeping weight on the tractor. That's a big plus over a rear discharge.

Is it all your own muck you spread? Just wondering if you used one contracting, how the rotor would cope. When a shall we say a less careful farmer, happened to leave an concrete block or another large solid lump in his muck heap.
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I used to do some contracting with it, I have had concrete blocks in it which make a bloody good rattle but it seemed to smash them up and chuck it out wouldn't want to many though, had car tyres in it to, good thing about it is it tends to chuck string out and not wrap in round anything, just spread our own now and a bit for a mate get the odd stone have to watch spreading towards a road or anything as stones don't land very quick
 
IOW91

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Henarar said:
I used to do some contracting with it, I have had concrete blocks in it which make a bloody good rattle but it seemed to smash them up and chuck it out wouldn't want to many though, had car tyres in it to, good thing about it is it tends to chuck string out and not wrap in round anything, just spread our own now and a bit for a mate get the odd stone have to watch spreading towards a road or anything as stones don't land very quick
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Yeah I guess the clues in the name sends stuff into orbit literally...😂
 
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tractorsandcows

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IOW91 said:
Glad it's served you well. Good point about it keeping weight on the tractor. That's a big plus over a rear discharge.

Is it all your own muck you spread? Just wondering if you used one contracting, how the rotor would cope. When a shall we say a less careful farmer, happened to leave an concrete block or another large solid lump in his muck heap.
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You mean like me. But apparently there are some kipper wielding villages who will re-educate me
 
Henarar

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jondear said:
They just throw everything into orbit literally no control of spread .All hits that grill and knocks it back and forth .
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ollie989898 said:
Just looked at the Keenan machine on the youtube, it's got a movable barrier grill thing at the opening, a small slurry door and a big slurry door plus the pushing ram/arm. More complicated than I thought. The Shelborne Reynolds dual spreader will be the kiddie to have.
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no grill on mine and no small door simple machine really, I had a duel spreader and I wouldn't go back to one.
you can control the spread by changing the pusher speed, changing the forward speed or changing the rev's or in the case of slurry how far you open the door.
 
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A rotary barrel spreader is as simple as you can get no doubt about that and the best one on the market today is a Spreadpoint https://www.spreadpoint.co.uk/products/rotorspreaders/r-1050/ paint work is oven baked probably the best painted product out there last for years
the have a unique rotor for smooth running I have seen one in G R Pykett’s yard in Derbyshire https://pykett-tractors.co.uk/product/spreadpoint-r-1050-rotary-barrel-manure-spreader/ Spreadpoint is connected to Kane Trailers they used to make self-propelled crop sprayers an barrel spreaders etc for around 40 years their 5.5cu to 16cu monster unarguably best farmer/contractor spreaders back in the day
 
Rob Holmes

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Spreadpoint?

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Henarar said:
no grill on mine and no small door simple machine really, I had a duel spreader and I wouldn't go back to one.
you can control the spread by changing the pusher speed, changing the forward speed or changing the rev's or in the case of slurry how far you open the door.
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One of the contractors down here were using a couple of orbitals for spreading bio solid 😱
Would not want the task of repairs!
 
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