Washing out fert spinners

[Dfarmer135]

Do people wash their spinners out after every use i.e if you're using it for a week solid would you wash it at the end of every day or just at the end of the week? I've always done it every day but someone said recently to me they don't see the need to. I do sometimes have the issue of the inside of the spinner being damp if I wash out in the evening and then start again early the next morning which obviously isn't ideal so it would solve this issue if I were to just wash out once finished with it for a while. Thoughts?

 

[DrDunc]

Do people wash their spinners out after every use i.e if you're using it for a week solid would you wash it at the end of every day or just at the end of the week? I've always done it every day but someone said recently to me they don't see the need to. I do sometimes have the issue of the inside of the spinner being damp if I wash out in the evening and then start again early the next morning which obviously isn't ideal so it would solve this issue if I were to just wash out once finished with it for a while. Thoughts?

I used to religiously wash and squirt over with a bit of diesel every evening

But that was before I put up a waterproof shed to park the spreader within overnight

Provided the vanes aren't caked and can't be scraped clean, I'll now even leave a bit of fert in it if I'm going back out in the morning

Spreader is near 25 year old now, and still has very little rust, none at the bottom of the hoppers

 

[Godber]

Ammonium Nitrate worries me with its oxidising properties but the spreading job gets done even if it takes 2 or 3 days before washing. Urea not fussed. Got 25+ years out of the Kuhn Aero

 

[Exfarmer]

a lot if fertiliser will build up badly in the hoppers if you do not do it very regularly. I would certainly be shy of not cleaning g daily unless it was some superb product

 

[Dfarmer135]

a lot if fertiliser will build up badly in the hoppers if you do not do it very regularly. I would certainly be shy of not cleaning g daily unless it was some superb product

Yes this is my main concern to be honest

 

[KB6930]

Mines done when I'm finished the job.

Could be 1 day could be a few days before its washed I usually try to not let it go more than 4 days .

I used to wash out every day but had issues with the day being cut short to wash and having a wet hopper the following morning so give up and usually just finish the job I'm on before cleaning now

 

[David.]

On second Sulky spreader here, this one is lasting MUCH better than the last one, for being washed every night. Without fail.

 

[Dfarmer135]

Mines done when I'm finished the job.

Could be 1 day could be a few days before its washed I usually try to not let it go more than 4 days .

I used to wash out every day but had issues with the day being cut short to wash and having a wet hopper the following morning so give up and usually just finish the job I'm on before cleaning now

Yep this is the problem I've had in the past wet hopper the next morning! Think I'll just wash when the job is done in future

 

[Dfarmer135]

On second Sulky spreader here, this one is lasting MUCH better than the last one, for being washed every night. Without fail.

Do you not have wet hopper the next morning though?

 

[KB6930]

Yep this is the problem I've had in the past wet hopper the next morning! Think I'll just wash when the job is done in future

If it's damp weather it can be an issue but if it's good weather just cracking on

 

[Dfarmer135]

If it's damp weather it can be an issue but if it's good weather just cracking on

Yeah I'd always wash out if there was damp in the hopper at the end of the day asking for trouble else. But if dry should be fine then

 

[Dfarmer135]

On second Sulky spreader here, this one is lasting MUCH better than the last one, for being washed every night. Without fail.

I have always washed out every evening without fail for 15 years but trying to make my life a bit easier haha

 

[Robert K]

Snow foam to remove any surface contamination and steam clean it out after each use and dry it with the leaf blower from the inside out

 

[principal skinner]

Gets washed at the end of the job, finished at midnight on Monday and back out 0700 Tuesday, bugger washing the spreader for seven hours

 

[Zippy768]

Wash it at the end of each day, and chuck a bit of oil in.
No one is getting 2 days in a row spreading this spring!!

 

[Sam Partridge]

If it's damp weather it can be an issue but if it's good weather just cracking on

Its not damp anywhere at the moment is it?

 

[David1968]

Yeah I'd always wash out if there was damp in the hopper at the end of the day asking for trouble else. But if dry should be fine then

You're not really going to be any better off the next morning if the hopper's clean, but damp. I just go round the bottom with a blue electric fence post and make sure any residue from the night before is shoved down the holes before I start again. Often do that every load if spreading dusty stuff in damp weather.

 

[kiwi pom]

Snow foam to remove any surface contamination and steam clean it out after each use and dry it with the leaf blower from the inside out

At the end of every day or when you're done with it for a few days/weeks?

 

[kevindb880]

We have a KV spreader, don’t wash every day, it’s horrible to clean properly.

 

[Jimbo]

We have a KV spreader, don’t wash every day, it’s horrible to clean properly.

Yes I would agree . Not my fav job