36 years ago as today we spent £1600 on new muck spreader

[startinghandle]

I can remember 36 years today as we took delivery of a new SKH 403 muck spreader and with allowance on our old land drive spreader and haggling we parted company with £1600 , I remember a Howard rotaspreader would have been cheaper.... the dealer delivered it towed with his Daihatsu

 

[Still Farming]

I can remember 36 years today as we took delivery of a new SKH 403 muck spreader and with allowance on our old land drive spreader and haggling we parted company with £1600 , I remember a Howard rotaspreader would have been cheaper.... the dealer delivered it towed with his Daihatsu

Big money then !

 

[goodevans]

I can remember 36 years today as we took delivery of a new SKH 403 muck spreader and with allowance on our old land drive spreader and haggling we parted company with £1600 , I remember a Howard rotaspreader would have been cheaper.... the dealer delivered it towed with his Daihatsu

i would of kept the Daihatsu and sent him back in the muck spreader

 

[DrDunc]

I can remember 36 years today as we took delivery of a new SKH 403 muck spreader and with allowance on our old land drive spreader and haggling we parted company with £1600 , I remember a Howard rotaspreader would have been cheaper.... the dealer delivered it towed with his Daihatsu

That's the equivalent of about £5500 today if you take account of inflation.

Bought this for £8000. Think it's fit to spread more than half again the amount in an awful lot less time

(Admittedly it took more than a diahatsu to get it here )

 

[Still Farming]

Dear stuff muck

 

[solo]

SKH 405 here around about 1980 ish.

Took over from this spreader which i don't know its name. Photo 1968. Now if this was as cold as the beast from the east would have a job to find a steering attendant. Air con came as standard

 

[tomlad]

Massey harris spreader???

 

[msheep66]

SKH 405 here around about 1980 ish.View attachment 652228

Took over from this spreader which i don't know its name. Photo 1968. Now if this was as cold as the beast from the east would have a job to find a steering attendant. Air con came as standard
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We had one of those SKH spreaders back in the early 80s to spread poultry muck but we replaced it after a couple of years with a Fraser rotor spreader as it could carry a lot more and spread quicker.

 

[7610 super q]

Had something similar too. Had some sort of ratchet device to wind the bed chain on. Spread a couple of loads, repair it, spread a few more loads, repair it.....
The muck spreader is one of those implements never to buy S/H.

 

[Fivedoors]

The picture is a salopian before they became skh can remember the ratchet floor my grandfather bought it from Leicester market around 1952 the tyres were diamond pattern like aircrafts ,fetched it with the ford lorry father said bearings were hot when it got home

 

[startinghandle]

you say that the muck spreader that your grandfather bought around 1952 had diamond pattern tyres like aircraft.... is it possible they were world war 2 surplus bought cheap in large quantity by Salopian

 

[solo]

We had one of those SKH spreaders back in the early 80s to spread poultry muck but we replaced it after a couple of years with a Fraser rotor spreader as it could carry a lot more and spread quicker.

My father also replaced the skh with an 850 fraser rotorspreader and I swapped that for a bunning this year.

 

[msheep66]

My father also replaced the skh with an 850 fraser rotorspreader and I swapped that for a bunning this year.

We ended up with 2 Fraser 850s which we pulled with 80hp 2wd tractors.

 

[solo]

82hp 2140 2wd used here too on the same twin axle spreader followed by 100hp 6410

 

[TeaBread]

In the 80s Dad had a howard or kidd rotor spreader (150 model i think). David Brown 885 then a 1390 to use it. Now we have a west 2000 side and teagle titan rear. A john deere 7530 or 6210r . Im sure its called progress

 

[Renaultman]

I've just bought a 13 year old one for considerably more than that
It's alright saying never by 2nd hand but a new equivalent was way out of my budget.

 

[Fivedoors]

you say that the muck spreader that your grandfather bought around 1952 had diamond pattern tyres like aircraft.... is it possible they were world war 2 surplus bought cheap in large quantity by Salopian

Yes quite possible never saw a size of the originals it was converted later to a more popular size which fitsif they were a odd size,worked for thirty years original floor chains were similar to Reynolds chan links they didn’t like muck so these were changed to a later type.

 

[JLTate]

This is ours

Really small but good for other halfs horse muck

 

[Exfarmer]

you say that the muck spreader that your grandfather bought around 1952 had diamond pattern tyres like aircraft.... is it possible they were world war 2 surplus bought cheap in large quantity by Salopian

There was unused ex WW2 stock around for many things till well into the 80s remember getting a couple of axles to build a trailer. Found a pair at a yard still wrapped in grease proof from an unknown source ex WD. Only problem after building the trailer we could not get any wheels tofit
Had to have some made, so the saving was zero

 

[mixed breed]

Prices from the past seem to upset me. Dad often talks about how they bought this and that for what now seems very little.

As I always say to him. It may have been tough but at least you could buy it.

I guess my tales of the past will be something like.. "when we were going to buy a new tractor and loader back in 2018 it was 70odd thousand, so we didn't"