easiest way to clean out dung spreader

mengele

How do lands clean out the inside of the side spreader? Currently go in with a 4 pong pike and get out as much as i can and then in with the power washer (which nearly puts more muck up on me than anything else) before finally going with the pike again and then a final spray down of the washer?

Is there an easier way im missing to clean them out properly.

lakill Farm

mengele wrote: »

How do lands clean out the inside of the side spreader? Currently go in with a 4 pong pike and get out as much as i can and then in with the power washer (which nearly puts more muck up on me than anything else) before finally going with the pike again and then a final spray down of the washer?

Is there an easier way im missing to clean them out properly.

Would a shovel not be better than a fork/grape/pike ?

mengele

lakill Farm wrote: »

Would a shovel not be better than a fork/grape/pike ?

sorry should have said using a mixture of the 2 there

Zr105

mengele wrote: »

How do lands clean out the inside of the side spreader? Currently go in with a 4 pong pike and get out as much as i can and then in with the power washer (which nearly puts more muck up on me than anything else) before finally going with the pike again and then a final spray down of the washer?

Is there an easier way im missing to clean them out properly.

Barrel spreader? Load of strawy dung gets 90% of it out and leaves the barrel very clean, quick run of power washer then nd it's all good. Depends on the spreader tho the ones with just 2 rows of chains in a straight line just wrap straw, the spiral gets rid of most

emaherx

I normally just fill with water on then turn on. Usually gets most out. Then power hose whatever is left. Why would you be getting in there with a fork and a shovel?

Sam Kade

I suppose that's the reason there's a rotary spreader roting in every farmyard

charolais0153

Would it be hard to have a latch that you could open in the bottom and let all the **** and water out in, like in diet feeders?

Floki

emaherx wrote: »

I normally just fill with water on then turn on. Usually gets most out. Then power hose whatever is left. Why would you be getting in there with a fork and a shovel?

That's what I do.

discodaveirl

Just after spending the week getting an old spreader going. New top half of the barrel front and back. the curved plate is 99% ok. bar two or three pin holes. Was going to just brush it out and give the outside a quick wash then cover inside in burnt oil...

lakill Farm

Most have a bung on the back , that will let the water/liquid out , but you will probably have to raise the drawbar.

let it dry out and they scrap with a spade and shovel. When 90% cleaned, a quick powerwashing.

Floki

Before there were powerwashers or volume washers or little chaps to climb into the spreaders.
People used to fill up the dungspreader three quarters of the way up with water.
Don't worry the bung will be blocked with muck and go out into the field and turn the pto on and rev the tractor up and whola a big mobile washing machine.

If you haven't tried it yet do.
Success guaranteed.

Won't be much to clean out if anything after that.

patsy_mccabe

I usually combine the cleaning of a water trough with the cleaning of the side spreader. Just bucket out the water.

Butcher Boy

I have a small door in the back of mine about 6inch by 6inch mighty job it is down the bottom,just open and power wash out .it was cut out when I bought it .

lakill Farm

Butcher Boy wrote: »

I have a small door in the back of mine about 6inch by 6inch mighty job it is down the bottom,just open and power wash out .it was cut out when I bought it .

Any pictures?

mengele

Floki wrote: »

Before there were powerwashers or volume washers or little chaps to climb into the spreaders.
People used to fill up the dungspreader three quarters of the way up with water.
Don't worry the bung will be blocked with muck and go out into the field and turn the pto on and rev the tractor up and whola a big mobile washing machine.

If you haven't tried it yet do.
Success guaranteed.

Won't be much to clean out if anything after that.

never tried or even thought about that idea. Will be doing it this year