glasshouse
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are these any good?
Marshall hydraulic push out dungspreaders
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rc mx110
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Apparently you can't fill them as full as I chain floor. But our contractor runs 2 seem to work ok
glasshouse
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- lothians
Looking for an old one
- Location
- south norfolk, uk
orbital not knackered is it ?
Yes, they're good.
I demo'd / hired various rear discharge and a West dual side spreader. I was sceptical of the Marshall concept, but after failing to find a machine that could spread both liquid hen slurry without leaving strips, and straw dung without bridging, I got a demo of the Marshall Vesuvius.
I bought the machine after the second load.
Setting the pusher speed can be awkward until you figure it out.
You can't heap dung above the beater height, but the sides and beaters are very tall. The high sides vastly increases the volume of slurry it will contain in comparison to floor chain rear discharge machine.
Having no floor chains means no leaks, and if you're looking for second hand spreader, you won't be buying something that's going to need thousands spent renewing the floor drive components.
The axle is further back than on floor chain rear discharge machines, so there it's less weight transfer off the require rear wheels web the shower is near empty, useful for spreading slippy slopes.
On an old used machine, look at the condition of the seals around the pusher door that slide against the body, and if it's clean enough the seal and metal support plate on the bottom of the slurry door.
They're all easy and inexpensive to renew, but are price bargaining.
There really isn't anything to go wrong with them apart from the plumber block bearings on the pto shaft, or the two square housing bearings on the top of the vertical beaters. There is remote greasing of these, do they should've give terrible, but the whole lot could be replaced for a couple of hundred quid.
Forever Fendt
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- Derbyshire
Not used one but the spreader looks very well built ,Someone i know has his muck speed by a contractor who has 2 of these and the spread pattern of the fields i have seen is excellent but beware they do not seem to hold value as well as true rear discharge ,a good point if buying secondhand though
glasshouse
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- lothians
It has suffered an injury yes, and is currently in a & e.
They didnt have an empty bed, so it is lying in the corridor, still half full.
It doesnt like strawy dung, hence the injury.
I never spread directly from the sheds its always heaped for six months +
what broke on it ?
glasshouse
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- lothians
side is damaged, not sure if pushed out by dung or by loader bucket
Chae1
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- Aberdeenshire
Thought you'd a dung spreader mounted on front linkage?
glasshouse
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- lothians
yes i have
Chae1
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- Aberdeenshire
Could I be really nosey and ask to see pictures of it?
Forever Fendt
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- Derbyshire
Best send it to a retirement home by the sounds of things
glasshouse
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- lothians
Na, a morning with the mig will bring it back to life again.
How will a Marshall cope with sand slurry on wearing parts? We run a couple orbitals and apart from the rubber seal on back door there isn't really any wearing parts and the bearings are well away from muck. Unlike a west! Downside is useless on strawy muck & tend to get tractors dirty.
glasshouse
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- lothians
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Run to the hills
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- whitby
Just a tip with the marshall always remember to pull the ram back in before you fill it 
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