Mounting a fert spreader on to a sands sprayer chassis.

[Sprayer 1]

After watching cab over pete s thread with great interest, and seeing a lot of older sands sprayers for sale cheap, I was thinking about mounting the fert spreader on a sprayer chassis. Advantages would be high clearance , floats and rowcrops and 4 wheel steer.
I would be interested to know, if anyone has done it and what are the drawbacks, is there enough weight on the back, is the hydro PTO powerful enough and getting 3 double acting spools? Any advice welcome.

 

[David.]

Worst case you could put a Honda engine on spreader, sure that is all the old Agribuggies etc, used. Would keep constant rpm too.

 

[thesilentone]

It's fairly common on most self propelled sprayers (including SAM) to mount a spreader on. Speak to one of the spreader suppliers, maybe KRM.

 

[gm69]

Ring sands they would probably make a frame or know where there is one which would just bolt straight on. Many years ago I had a hilo Bateman with amazon fert spreader on top then changed to bredall k45 on a rb 15 Bateman which used to do all compound and nitram

 

[Brisel]

You'd want a good controller for the PTO speed though a hydraulically or electrically powered one should be ok. KRM Bredal make decent sized bins for demounts.

 

[T C]

I have a frame I may sell. Off a househam, has 3 point linkage and hydraulic PTO. A mounted spreader needs to be mounted as it would be on a tractor (not as it sits on the ground)