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Fertilizer and spreaders

  • 21-02-2013 11:01pm
    #1
    1chippy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭


    i'm in the market for a spreader, i have been looking at rauch and kuhns, amazone and the vicon abbey and cosmo wagtails. any tips or hints? i have been leaning more towards the spinner types as the wagtails throw a narrower line and can be a bit finicky. have had a vicon wagtail up till now and did its job but.. Any suggestions?
    Also we were always great fans of 18.6.12. here but with tests done ast year we are desperatly low in k. ive coated nearly all the ground over the last 2 years with 2000 gallons of cattle and pig slurry mix. i was wondering how people find urea or what system they would work to get the ground balanced right.
    thanks chippy.


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  • #2
    Blue Holland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 209 ✭✭Blue Holland


    I've a bogballe last 14 year, bought new one 2011, settings very simple compared to some others. Advantage in ould plastic hopper vicon is ya don't need to be as fusy power washing after every use. Will get one to pull behind quad at some stage.
    Bit of muriate of potash will sort out low k, might be issues with grass tetany if you put out a lot this time of year. Much easier bring up k than p levels.


  • #3
    F.D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 718 ✭✭✭F.D


    We have a cavallo wagtail, spreads ok but had a bearing fail at the end of last season had to get a local fitter to change it the whole thing needed to be heated with gas to pull it apart, think its the same running gear as a vicon
    stainless steel hopper is good though, but next time i would go for a spinner, they run smoother and can spread wider


  • #4
    1chippy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭1chippy


    Cheers for the help, i went out and bought a 2nd hand rauch today, now to work out what to spread.


  • #5
    rooney32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65 ✭✭rooney32


    what is right height for spreading with a bogballe l2 plus covering 12 metres cant find manual ???


  • #6
    severeoversteer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 871 ✭✭✭severeoversteer


    the rauch and kuhns are the same have a 2 tonne kuhn here, brilliant piece of kit cost few grand but well worth it all spreading calibrations are online too for all types and brands of fertiliser


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  • #7
    Suckler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭Suckler


    Have a (small) Vicon disc spreader, frame and hopper immaculate after 10 years but I'm convinced the disc was pre-infected with rust to ensure it fell apart quickly and continuously. Infuriating.


  • #8
    49801
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭49801


    rooney32 wrote: »
    what is right height for spreading with a bogballe l2 plus covering 12 metres cant find manual ???

    73cm to bottom of link pins or 75cm to the center of the disc is the norm for BB

    cant see the manual for the EX ether?


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