Lime spreader for cubicles

mengele

https://www.agridirect.ie/product/vink-lime-spreader
Anyone have the above lime spreader for cubicles or a similar one. Seems ok money if it would do the job a bit faster

JOAT

Works very well but very heavy to carry when it’s full. Would be perfect if you had the lime very close to the cubicles and could half fill it at a time. I made up a cart on 3 wheels for my one and run the drill off a tractor battery. It can carry 2 extra buckets of lime as well. Saves the back and have done 125 cubicles in under 15 minutes so big time saving as well

gozunda

Anyone have issues with animals with ear irritation when using lime in cubicles etc?

Markcheese

Often though one of those 4 wheel trolleys would be handy for cubicle cleaning, somewhere to put extra lime,and sawdust,and stand a brush and shovel. Save a lot of walking back and forth.

K.G.

how do ye normally lime cubicles.i think bucket and scatter by hand is fast but you get destroyed at it.is a shovel and wheelbarrow is slower but cleaner.whats yer technique

Panch18

K.G. wrote: »

how do ye normally lime cubicles.i think bucket and scatter by hand is fast but you get destroyed at it.is a shovel and wheelbarrow is slower but cleaner.whats yer technique

Bucket and by hand hear

And yep we get totally destroyed with it, no matter how careful you are

mengele

mengele wrote: »

https://www.agridirect.ie/product/vink-lime-spreader
Anyone have the above lime spreader for cubicles or a similar one. Seems ok money if it would do the job a bit faster

Well I bought the spreader in the end. It's a great job and a very clean way of doing it. My gripe is that it doesn't hold much. It only takes half of the 25kg bag. So have to fill it a few times.

Now I always bought the 25kg bags in a pallet but wondering about the tonne bag. How do people keep the open bag dry from dampness or is that a problem at all?

Buford T. Justice XIX

mengele wrote: »

Well I bought the spreader in the end. It's a great job and a very clean way of doing it. My gripe is that it doesn't hold much. It only takes half of the 25kg bag. So have to fill it a few times.

Now I always bought the 25kg bags in a pallet but wondering about the tonne bag. How do people keep the open bag dry from dampness or is that a problem at all?

It's not a problem as long as you store the bag on a pallet and away from rain. I'd use a bag a month usually and the last is just the same as the first. I've even used a half a bag left over from last spring this year and just broke the lumps by hand, no problem at all.

mengele

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

It's not a problem as long as you store the bag on a pallet and away from rain. I'd use a bag a month usually and the last is just the same as the first. I've even used a half a bag left over from last spring this year and just broke the lumps by hand, no problem at all.

And what do u pay for the big bag?

einn32

Panch18 wrote: »

Bucket and by hand hear

And yep we get totally destroyed with it, no matter how careful you are

I put on the wet gear for it. Ai glove on your arm can stop it going up your arm.

K.G.

use ömilking apron myself.onhee of the ones with cuffs.do ye get all the cows up or just the empty spaces

einn32

K.G. wrote: »

use ömilking apron myself.onhee of the ones with cuffs.do ye get all the cows up or just the empty spaces

Get them up.