Home made lime spreader ideas

[Karliboy]

I have available if I want approx 1.8 ton Amazon fert spinner. Tired but useable

This is all so I can get around my steep hill farm with something small enough to fit.
My idea is
Basicly mount the spreader to a chassis.
I have some hydraulic motors. With these I could manufacture a moveing wall inside the spreader that goes up down left and right that I could set running while spreading to help stop the lime bridging inside it. Do we think that this may work ?

 

[rob h]

Seems a lot of work.just find an old zetor muck spreader they are designed to spread lime and can be picked up cheap

 

[Mursal]

Extremely hard to stop the bridging inside the hopper, if you can get around that.
Seen lads using a side spreader for sludge lime ..........

 

[rob h]

We tried an old balmet single disk feet spreader years ago and no matter what we tryed it always bridged and stopped running. Hence the zetor

 

[Grouse]

I used to spread the odd load of lime in the 1980’s with a Kuhn Spinner - only ever had the odd problem with bridging - a prod with a steel road pin used to shift it. It never caused enough of a problem to bother with an alternative solution - that could have been due to the shape of the hopper though.

 

[joe soapy]

Is prilled lime still available ?

 

[Mursal]

Yes but wicked expensive with us .........

 

[michael N123]

Is prilled lime still available ?

Yes

 

[trook135]

G lime goes through a treat!