Ford 7000 lime spreading

[JP1]

One for @Cab-over Pete and @Mounty

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[Cab-over Pete]

That's brilliant!!!

Thank you very much for posting that.

 

[Mounty]

Thanks @JP1 - Very good!! Like the conveyor on the back of the lorry.

 

[multi power]

Thanks @JP1 - Very good!! Like the conveyor on the back of the lorry.

Very common in that part of the world

 

[Mounty]

I've seen the hoppers they tip in to and the tipping ramps but never the conveyor. My grandad used to run 10 tonne flatbeds with a conveyor to load the lorry spreaders but they'd gone before I was about.

 

[Henarar]

I've seen the hoppers they tip in to and the tipping ramps but never the conveyor. My grandad used to run 10 tonne flatbeds with a conveyor to load the lorry spreaders but they'd gone before I was about.

we use to use a landrive dumpbox,
in the early 80s they had a separate engine driven conveyor to load a unimog
landrive spreaders were loaded with ramps when I started, I still have a set or ramps

 

[SMID]

It was all ramps and land drive spreaders round here , their used to be a place with nasty biting collies near here spreader man jumped out with his hammer to take the pin out the ramps , unfortunately when he went to shoo it away the hammer connected with its head , no more biting doggy.

 

[7610 super q]

Back in the day, with smaller, narrower tractors, the ramp used to stick out about 12" either side of the tractor, with the spreader towed behind the ramp. Speeding oncoming car hit the ramp belonging to a local contractors outfit one day, traveled along the road for a bit on 2 wheels.....then onto it's roof.

 

[multi power]

Back in the day, with smaller, narrower tractors, the ramp used to stick out about 12" either side of the tractor, with the spreader towed behind the ramp. Speeding oncoming car hit the ramp belonging to a local contractors outfit one day, traveled along the road for a bit on 2 wheels.....then onto it's roof.

You sure you were not watching the duke's of hazard or something?

 

[David.]

They didn't worry much about soil structure in those days.

 

[Flat 10]

They didn't worry much about soil structure in those days.

What do you mean?! Tractor had duals and wide fronts on, mind spreader could have done with duals on IMO

 

[Cab-over Pete]

I remember Dad had duals on his first David Harber spreader, but they carried too much mud onto the road.
At that time Super Singles became popular on artic lorry trailers. They were a nearly exact radius to the dual wheels so he fitted a pair thinking they would do the job well.
They were useless on ploughed ground.
It was only a short time after that I reversed over a wheelbarrow with the spreader, totally ruining a Super Single tyre so Dad bought a pair of Goodyear flotation tyres from Moretons. While he was there he put a set on the back of the MF 188 he used.
It transformed the job and bought quite a lot of work in for Dad as farmers became aware of compaction.

 

[multi power]

Dad has a spreader exactly the same, wheels are rock hard

 

[Henarar]

We ran 13.6 duels on the back of the tractor and on the spreader

 

[Zebbedee]

Very smart

 

[Ray996]

Smart classic at work ,good to watch,some dodgy ploughing to bounce on to!

 

[bobk]

I remember Dad had duals on his first David Harber spreader, but they carried too much mud onto the road.
At that time Super Singles became popular on artic lorry trailers. They were a nearly exact radius to the dual wheels so he fitted a pair thinking they would do the job well.
They were useless on ploughed ground.
It was only a short time after that I reversed over a wheelbarrow with the spreader, totally ruining a Super Single tyre so Dad bought a pair of Goodyear flotation tyres from Moretons. While he was there he put a set on the back of the MF 188 he used.
It transformed the job and bought quite a lot of work in for Dad as farmers became aware of compaction.

David Harber lived 400 yards from us , assume he's no longer with us ?

 

[Mounty]

Duals on the tractor but some nice floats on the spreader. Taken mid 90's.

 

[Mounty]

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