How do you fill your fertiliser spreader?

[SuperTwo]

What methods are people using?

Hanging the bags over the spreader then cutting the bottom out of the bag or do you use a machine/device for filling?
Doing a bit of research for an engineering project...

 

[traadilooar]

Think most people just purchase a fendt with a front end loader.

 

[Tarw Coch]

It's called pallet forks here but whatever's to hand, there ain't enough money in the job to buy a specialist machine .

 

[Bald Rick]

Suspend over spreader with the loadall, cut bottom out of bag with a sharp knife in a V cut. Exclaim loudly when expensive fert runneth over side.

 

[Courier]

Used to use a Fyson Rubber belt elevator to fill a 1750kg trailed vicon behind a DB 780 - 50 kg plastic bags

 

[hollister]

loadall and combine knife welded on a bit of tube to cut the bottom

 

[Kiwi Pete]

We had a dirty big wooden gantry/gallows that we'd hang the bags from and that saved running an extra machine around the road, or trying to get a full 3pt spreader lined up and covered in off the tyres.
It creaked and gave me the 's but it worked well.
Then I welded up a wheeled platform to put the spreader on so it was easier to wriggle on when full, and it was faster than you'd think
Now most all dairy farms have a big silo and use bulk N for safety reasons, too many cowboys like myself...

 

[Zippy768]

loadall and combine knife welded on a bit of tube to cut the bottom

Good idea

 

[Wombat]

Bag lifter and Yorkshire bill hook to slice it. Did use the 8T digger the other week when loader was elsewhere

 

[hally]

Bag lifter on the spreader bought for next to nought and saves needing a second machine

 

[Bovril]

Long handled slasher, tip sharpened to a point.

 

[bravheart]

What methods are people using?

Hanging the bags over the spreader then cutting the bottom out of the bag or do you use a machine/device for filling?
Doing a bit of research for an engineering project...

Suspend over spreader with the loadall, cut bottom out of bag with a sharp knife in a V cut. Exclaim loudly when expensive fert runneth over side.

Funny enough can remember a couple of mates having exactly this conversation in the car after a night on the sauce.
The answer to the problem as they saw it at the time was to put the last bag in first

 

[Deutzdx3]

Teleporter and an old bagging hook! Works a treat.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

Anyone use one of these?

 

[SuperTwo]

Seems like the common theme here is the need for a second machine for lifting the bags over the spreader unless a bag lifter is used.
My initial concept is for a system into which a few tonne of fertiliser can be filled into at a time without having to get out of the cab and manually cut the bag open.
You can then fill up as often as you need..
Could something like this be useful or am I trying to come up with a solution to a problem that doesnt exist?

 

[Cowabunga]

Skid steer loader with a home-made bag lifter attachment. Always use the loader safety stop before getting out and using a sickle welded to a long handle made from a steam pipe.

Its amazing how much difference the occasional sharpening of the sickle blade makes.

Pet hate? The corners built into the big bag inner liners than always have to be poured out by hand to get the last 10kgs of granules into the hopper.

 

[Clive]

1) Connect pipe
2) press button

 

[phillipe]

Seems like the common theme here is the need for a second machine for lifting the bags over the spreader unless a bag lifter is used.
My initial concept is for a system into which a few tonne of fertiliser can be filled into at a time without having to get out of the cab and manually cut the bag open.
You can then fill up as often as you need..
Could something like this be useful or am I trying to come up with a solution to a problem that doesnt exist?

Its called a hopper you can fill ,then open chute to fill spreader ,yes you maybe be thinking too much

 

[bravheart]

Seems like the common theme here is the need for a second machine for lifting the bags over the spreader unless a bag lifter is used.
My initial concept is for a system into which a few tonne of fertiliser can be filled into at a time without having to get out of the cab and manually cut the bag open.
You can then fill up as often as you need..
Could something like this be useful or am I trying to come up with a solution to a problem that doesnt exist?

Seen a big trailed hopper wagon with a moving floor and a three point linkage on the back. Hitch your own spreader to the back and fill the hopper with the conveyor. Should keep you in the cab all morning before a refill.

 

[SuperTwo]

Its called a hopper you can fill ,then open chute to fill spreader ,yes you maybe be thinking too much

Fair enough, its for my 4th year mechanical engineering project so it doesn't have to be commercially viable. ..