Meredith bogie for fert spreader!

[wuddy]

Does anyone have (or had) one of these? Any opinions. Tia

 

[wuddy]

Surely somebody must have one or know of one!

 

[chaffcutter]

Sorry never even heard of one!

 

[james ds]

They sell well here and are very well made . The local co-op has one with a 6 ton spreader on it working every day of the week and doing a lot of road work. Seems a great outfit.

 

[wuddy]

Now you have and here is a picture!

Sorry never even heard of one!

 

[chaffcutter]

Ah right, looks expensive just to take the weight off the back of the tractor, or is there any other benefit to it?

 

[wuddy]

Ah right, looks expensive just to take the weight off the back of the tractor, or is there any other benefit to it?

Take the weight off tractor but also means a much smaller lighter tractor can be used and the weight spread across 8 wheels rather than four (almost two when spreader fully loaded). Like the idea of trailed but huge price increase over mounted and thought the bogie might outlast two or three spreaders so long as kept in good condition.

 

[james ds]

Here is the one near here with 6 ton on it

 

[ford4000]

Looks like an outfit suitable for flat ground

 

[wuddy]

Looks like an outfit suitable for flat ground

Our tramlines are out at 88” centres which would help to make it stable maybe! Hopefully I will find someone that has one and be able to ask these sorts of questions.

 

[james ds]

Our tramlines are out at 88” centres which would help to make it stable maybe! Hopefully I will find someone that has one and be able to ask these sorts of questions.

Here is the phone number of the man who makes them , he will know more than anybody. He's a very sound guy. 00353879544523.

 

[Nearly]

So buy a trailer spreader rather than a mounted one converted to a chassis?
@Dave W has a little vicon on quad tyres.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

Who’s Meredith and why is she hanging out with Bogie?
















(I’ll get my hat )

 

[Dave W]

So buy a trailer spreader rather than a mounted one converted to a chassis?
@Dave W has a little vicon on quad tyres.

Had

 

[Clive]

Do the axles steer to follow tractor rears ?

 

[wuddy]

Do the axles steer to follow tractor rears ?

Yes they do and we are thinking of putting it on 600/55 26.5 Michelin’s which will be able to run about 8-10psi

 

[Clive]

Yes they do and we are thinking of putting it on 600/55 26.5 Michelin’s which will be able to run about 8-10psi

good idea then - we have a bateman demount 4t K45 that we use when doing solids that we recently converted yo trailed to take the pressure off the sprayers workload, very happy with how its worked. didn't make it steering though as its use is mostly lime , kalphos, fibrophos MOP / TSP etc

https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/pimp-my-spreader.186330/#post-4167188 link to the convesrion

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Local estate to me has a Kuhn spreader on one. Big spreader and small tractor. Looks a good bit of kit.

 

[wuddy]

So just a little update this arrived today! Just got to wait on the new spreader arriving now.

 

[colhonk]

Are the spreading vanes not too high on this type of setup? Even more too high on a demount? My spreader instruction book (I know, shock horror )says 85 / 88 cm above the ground.