I have the same spreader and love it. Fertilize pasture and hay fields. 1) the 'distribution vanes' on the spinner have 3 holes to adjust to get even coverage on left and right side of spreader. I had to adjust mine from new factory specs. 2) I've been using the Farmis Field Navigator app to track my coverage area. It uses your phone and GPS and 'paints' an area on the field that you have covered; just like a large farming operation. Hope this helps!
Thank you ounce again for being honest!! All to often these videos are nothing but advertisements and are not accurate. Thank you for your honest opinion!
Nice video. I have an older cone spreader that still works fine. I do the cleanup technique you demonstrated as well. One additional thing that I do that works well, especially since my older spreader does not have stainless steel, is to pour a couple of cups of vegetable oil in the bottom of the cone once you are finished washing it out. Then, engage the PTO at an idle. Let the vegetable oil sling and coat the lower spreader parts. I can't remember where I originally heard this technique, but it has worked wonders in helping extend the life of my spreader in an easy and economical way.
I have the PTS700 and absolutely love it. It wasn’t cheap, but it was worth every penny. I got it so I can use it behind my vintage cub cadet garden tractors.
What you said about them being similar is correct. Behlen, King Kutter, Frontier and a couple others all sell the same spreader made in Italy. Buy based on price, not brand when it comes to these particular spreaders. The good thing is that part availability is easy, just pick whatever brand has parts in stock.
Neal you mentioned that there are better implements for spreading more valuable (expensive) products such as grass seed, can you expand a little on that?
The homeowner attachments for smaller yards and smaller tractors are such junk. I've been looking at options for quite some time and still can't match the application from a walk-behind broadcast spreader, unfortunately, and those still have a few issues with uneven distribution. I did consider both the Landpride and Kubota spreaders, but they are $uch a high co$t for only a couple acre$ and still have problems with seed and fine-grain fertilizer. I found the really fine-grain fertilizers are much harder to apply as the gate opening in the hopper has to be adjusted very carefully (which I learned on several attempts using my lawn tractor). The more granular product vary in size (Size Guide Number (SGN)), too, but seem to be easier to use in the bigger spreaders. The search continues for a sollution. Thanks ,Neil, for addressing the issues/cons in these products as well.
Someone needs to make a make a modified planter into a drop style fertilizer. It could be hooked up to a 3 pt hitch and the wheels would drive the propeller
It's probably either Cosmo or Vicon. I have the pendulum version of one. They also have differing options for material agitators and the hydraulic gate is just a signal action. Additional things -- quick hitches mostly don't work (larger models sometimes do but think they normally required another additional option.)
