I appreciate your humor. If we can't laugh at ourselves and with each other, we are in trouble for sure. Don't change! Be yourself, it's your channel after all.
The gate/gaurd that you guys removed in the beginning of the video can be flipped up to be a gaurd to protect the driver from getting hit in the back with the 💩. I have the same spreader, named it the Turd Tosser 2000!
A few weeks ago over our morning coffee, I said to my wife “I think I’ll spread a little horse manure today”. She promptly replied “why should today be any different than every other day?”…. Ouch! Love your channel! God bless!
As the only boy in a family of three children, I was raised by my grandparents and aunt and uncle on my mother's side of the family, This is as if you haven't figured out by now on a dairy farm, while my two sisters went off with mom and dad to the city life. As the only one of my type, I got my fair share of animal pop jobs. With almost 100 cows to milk twice a day along with all the other animals that go to make a farm. I got jobs like testing the electric fence with my hand while standing on wet ground with bare feet, I had to learn to drive the tractor at age 5, but my favorite was standing in the bed of the manure spreader with a pitchfork keeping the spreader tines supplied with manure because the floor track unit was broken and fell out the back on the field someplace and could not be found. I am 80 now, but I can remember it as clear in my mind as if it was only yesterday.
Definitely enjoyed watching! I'm in the hospital waiting for baby #3 to make an appearance... thanks again guys for the distraction (my wife heard Tim's voice and yelled at me "I cant believe I'm in labor and you're watching TTWT!")
Grew up on a farm. We raised cattle, hogs and chickens. We had a New Idea tire driven spreader. Later on we got a PTO one. I have spent my share of time loading, by hand mostly, and spreading. This was fun to watch. Around us not many people raise any livestock anymore. If they do it's the big CFO operation. Thanks for sharing and taking me back to my younger days on the farm.
Hi Tim, Your comment at the beginning of this video has got to be the most priceless comment I have ever heard! I had tears in my eyes after hearing it! You get all the gold stars for it!!! I'm going to make sure everyone I know gets to see it!
I’ve owned a couple of ABI manure spreaders, 50 cubic foot ground driven unit and 185 with the hydraulic bed unit and PTO for beater bars. Still own the 185. I plugged up the 50 cubic foot unit a couple of times with wet manure, operator error. Had to dig it out with a shovel, that was fun. ABI makes some nice equipment.
Tim, they’ve been around longer than that… my neighbor had a horse drawn spreader. In about 1963 my dad modified it to pull behind our B Farmall. The neighbor pulled it behind his Model A Ford pickup. Reduce the blow back by turning it off when you get it near empty. The material in the front helps it climb over center and go out the back… the last load is the only one where you need the rain coat. The ability to turn it off and on from the drivers seat is the advantage of a PTO unit. We had a dairy farm… I spent days at a time Fart-ilizing fields. (My dad’s word. Not mine.)
Brings my mind back to the 50's when Uncle Art was spreading his 75 milking cow manure over his fields. He naturally kept time in the barn over winter so he grew good food for them and he had fields for them to manually spread about. One year he got Big Big Swiss the Bull looked like a Long horn but heavy. His 13 kids worked the farm with him and 12 of them got farms near by and they created a CO-OP of their own. Nice operation for many years. Now only the young ones are active but all sold out for town houses.
Yeah, the dung beetles usually keep to themselves in a manure pile... the gov. dung beetles grew wings and long claws to fly around and harass people while grabbing money 💰
People are not perfect. WE the people make up our government. So the gov't is not perfect. My opinion is that there are mostly good, well intentioned people , just like you and me, working in gov't. I was proud to work directly and full time for my country, my gov't., for a few years in uniform. Some of the ones in charge I didn't like, but we all did our duty. DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY. Most Americans have taken an oath to uphold the Constitution. No one I've ever heard of has been UN-oathed. So we all need to do our duty as good citizens now. Would you rather live in say, N. Korea? They can't appreciate a good joke, esp. about the gov't. Reagan had a great sense of humor, made jokes about the gov't., but you always knew, and he said, he loved his country. Btb, I've used both ground drive, and PTO. Way yonder!!!prefer the PTO. Get stuck in the field, empty right there, spread it later. The Amish get along real well with the ground drive (No way to hook up PTO to the horses.) (It's a joke!)
@@heymakerphd1982 just so you know, I'm a former Marine and a retired police officer so I am aware of working in the government. I made a joke about our current government and make no mistake I love this country and have shed blood sweat and tears for this country and its people. That being said I do not like or agree with the agenda of this current government and will be doing everything I can as an American to change that. So don't think just because I don't like and joke about this current government that I do not love this country. Thank you.
This has tobe one of the best videos yet...👍 I've always wanted to do something like this video...😬 I totally enjoyed... nothing like spreading the joy 😜.... blessings to you all....
I had a Pequea ground drive manure spreader that allowed control of having the beaters off and on and the other lever engaged the floor drag mechanism. Only had the speed at which you were driving to gage the speed of the floor draw system.
Spread manure from age 8 yrs old,on a 1950 case vac tractor with case manure spreader , i learned it was a hard hat experience hit in the head many times with rocks
Some of the old spreaders had cables or ropes from the handles to operate from the tractor seat, I could be wrong but my grandfather had quite a few older new Holland ones and even one old enough it was all wood except for the chains and auger .
When around the more genteel people we refer to it as USED HAY . They ask "what is used hay?" and we explain that it is hay that has been through the animal. lg no neat sig line
Good morning Tim! Neat video! Wouldn’t have thought of a manure spreader for a compact tractor…. While watching the conversation with your insurance agent, could help but notice you look like you’ve slimmed down! Reminded me of your heart issue, hope you’re feeling well, you look good! 😊
Great video Tim and those spreaders are great to spread mulch on the lawn as well if you want to build it up and I really like when you add in the insurance parts
I was spreading one night, on my Aunt and Uncles farm. In January, In the dark and snowing. On a cabless JD 4020. And low and behold, the chain on the spreader broke. Had to shovel quick before I had a giant poopsicle.
I have had an ABI 25 cuft spreader just like you are showing, except one size smaller, for several years and have very minor issues with it. I had a shear pin shear on the right rear axle when I put some frozen chunks in the spreader. The other is there is a grease fitting on the right rear that won't take grease and I am going to have to take it apart a little to be able to get a wrench on the fitting to replace it. I am having some problem with the right-hand lever that adjusts the speed of the feed and I haven't quite figured out the problem just yet. We really like this spreader and I use it year-round and it is still like new. I just rinse it out occasionally with a hose and don't need a power washer to clean it up.
As we say around here (Gloucester, Ma) You are a wicked good poop slinger! Years ago my neighbor used horse manure for his corn patch and my dog would love to roll in it. These days around here fish gurry ( fish processing waste) is used for fertilizer. Interesting machine, thanks for the look see! You and your wife presented the video so well I can smell it! Best Regards, Jay
You have some the best RU-vid videos. Very easy and fun to watch, you get right to the point no rambling on and on. Editing is awesome! Yah need to give the video editor a raise! I hope she got her new stove with all the bells and whistles. I love the banter with some humor. But Tim don't give up your tractor job and become a comedian.
It amazes me how much you get done with such a small tractor. As a guy shopping for a tractor it puts things into perspective. I enjoy your channel. Keep up the great work.
And sometimes too big of a tractor makes things really slow :D moms yard is way too tight for the farm tractor she has for snowplowing so the job is mostly trying to maneuver the tractor around it :D
Another fine example of an old solution that still works today, in the same way. What a closing, the cow was right on cue! With your opening, perhaps there’s another political marketing similarity. “It’s not the content, but how well you spread it”. Christy, the company may not “stand behind” its product, but apparently you were willing to do so😉. Nice catch on the verse as well. Matt is such a personable guy, and is fun to watch. Blessings to all.
Good decision to have a spreader at least as long as your bucket is wide. Makes it work so much better when the poop goes into the spreader and not off the ends.
If someone would have said I would be watching, with interest, a video about manure speaders, not to mention a 20 minute video on the subject, I would have called you crazy, but there I was, beginning to end.
I recently purchased a new 1025R and Frontier 50 Bushel spreader similar to the ABI u used. I have un limited access to every format of cow manure imaginable. I have about an acre mowing yard with poor Oklahoma top soil, plus a back up grass driveway, and weak growing areas in the rest of my 160 acre quarter section. I literally make multiple passes to completely cover organically my Bermuda grass yard. Suggested ground speed for the spreader is 4mph. Slow down and I think the beaters do a better job of breaking it down. My next step, after some drying, is to drag it with spent chain link fence weighted down with pieces of pipe. After that drys and breaks the manure down even further, I run over with my zero turn mower to pulverize into small particulates. Doesn't take much moisture to activate. Since Bermuda reacts to nitrogen at ground surface, the response of new growth is immediate and impressive. Pending fertilizer cost, and remember this is around our home, I would spend over $1,000 in a season on production fertilizer. May be my imagination but I think bermuda responds better organically. Yes, I have pulled it with my Gator, prefer the 1025R. A cautionary note. U canNOT back up with spreader mechanism engaged. Old retired guy with ample time to execute this process! Happy Spreading to all! Please remember to rinse all manure touched surfaces, especially under the zero turn mowing deck.
All these folks complaining about our government ought to spend a year in any number of lesser countries. Shame on you all! Count your blessings if you live in these United States. In God We Trust. 🇺🇲 #stillthebest
We spent a lot of my high school years raising pigs to try to pay for me to attend college. We'd have 30-40 through the winter, and upwards of a hundred to as many as 150 through the summer months. The manure pile that was mucked out of the barn by the pitchfork was loaded in the spreader by the same pitchfork either early in the spring before the hayfield had started to grow, or then after the first cutting. It always took soooooo much less time to unload that spreader than to load it. The one we used was ground driven, but had bed that was a bit bigger than this one. I doubt a side-by-side would have moved it effectively when full, especially not when full of pig barn effluvia. The rats had gotten so large stealing from the pigs that they'd really gotten bold about not getting lost when we were mucking out the barn. I do remember spearing one single rat simultaneously with four of the five tines on the bigger of our two pitchforks, and would have been 5/5 if the tail hadn't shifted at the last moment. That rat went on the muck pile with the rest of the *insert-workin'-word*. There's still discoloration on the barn siding from the muck pile even though the pigs haven't been there for almost twenty years now...
If you only have a couple of horses, then you should look at the Newer spreaders. They're also ground driven, can be pulled by a 10 hp riding mower, and have a bottom discharge rather than tossing everything up into the air for the wind to blow back on you.
This is another piece of equipment that every well funded hobby farm should have. Also does TTWT have a mailing address we’re you can accept mail or small packages? I have a small parcel I’d like to send you.
@@Will-tm5bj Actually I can say anything I want because I don't care if people like it or not. At least in the 50's the US was a powerful country that commanded respect. Not the laughing stock we are now. Coincidence?
@@chucks4328 lolol.. I already said you're more than welcome to say anything you want. Maybe you should learn how to read. America in the 50s was a powerhouse, a powerhouse that had separate drinking fountains for certain people. You still mad you had to send your kids to school with people darker than a piece of paper? Poor boomer
Ok, guys. Knock it off. This is a tractor video. I made a general wise crack about the government. Move along. Please no more bickering on this unrelated topic. Thanks.
Man when I watch the john deere at work it confirms my choice of buying Kubota. Night and day difference in the machines in the field. Loader function is also quite different. Good video all in all but I think I will pass with smelly mess.
When I was a kid one of my uncles talked me into going out spreading manure, well this spreader was old, it was originally a horse drawn one. You had to ride on it, it had four wheels, a seat you sat on and you controlled it while riding on it. Well guess what direction some of the manure went, well it hit me in the back of my head and all my uncle did was laugh, well I did not find it funny.
it was cool to the those two 1 series machines hauling manure....at home i normaly see that with two 6 series deere...so thats a cool "small way" of hauling/spreading manure:)
You can sort of see why a lot of farmers still prefer a simple geared transmission over the hydrostatic on tractors that are intended to work fields. A little extra power and efficiency, less heat buildup.
We used a Case spreader almost like this one, just a little longer and had some counter rotating tines above the beater. Never had a problem with the floor rotting out probably because we kept it under a roof. Before I was old enough to run machinery I remember my dad and brother loading the spreader with pitchforks. We also seemed to have baler twine wrapped around the beater and tines.
