GrandSoftDay wrote: » I think it's rocket fuel con, I know where I spread it had a very low ph and I got a serious immediate response from it. I actually couldn't believe the difference it made to be honest. I'd consider it some of the best money ever spent here, wouldn't be able to travel a lot of our land with a lime spreader either and I'd imagine it will be a very slow labour intensive job spreading with a vicon.
Conmaicne Mara wrote: » Not a chance, you haven't seen the land. The vicon was for ground lime. Gran lime is easy to work out, I just consider it very expensive for what it is, therefore bad value.
Conmaicne Mara wrote: » Had you an agitator inside it? Was the lime dry? Sisters fellas brother did it so I know it works, also heard it from many others. If you look up the old vicon manual it references spreading lime and slag.
moy83 wrote: » We put out gound lime with the manure spreader before . I had to perch myself on the spreader to poke it down when it would clog . Not a nice job !
tabby aspreme wrote: » There were lime spreaders fitted on ford countys, google"ford county forward control" and you should find some
Figerty wrote: » Back of the vicon has a place for a ball hitch. Screw in a ball hitch and pull a four week car trailer behind you and the spreader. 7 bags in the hopper and another 13 in the trailer and you job is made a lot easier.
J.O. Farmer wrote: » I've helped dad and learned from him too.It's definitely not a dying breed. I'd probably end up doing the same.
Reggie. wrote: » There's still a few of us dotted around
J.O. Farmer wrote: » I thought we were a special breed in the west. You see some of the machinery on say big tillage farms and it's hard to imagine them guntering 2 spreaders together before hooking on the silage spreader to head down the local co-op for a few tonne of manure. My dad on the other hand I've helped at that kind of thing.
Reggie. wrote: » I think that could be most farmers
J.O. Farmer wrote: » That sounds about right for an old school West of Ireland farmer.
moy83 wrote: » Manual ! Ha ! It was probably 2 different shakers that he had patched together knowing his MO
Figerty wrote: » I've done and the hitch stayed on. Tighten the nut and put a Lynch pin across the hole in case it comes loose. Moy83, In fairness put 3 ton behind a two bars about 8mm thick with a big hole in it was asking for trouble. I'd say he never read the manual!
C0N0R wrote: » The dolly trailers normally have conveyor belts. Have seen some that actually but out a set of jacks and can tip over the side if you get what I mean.
Reggie. wrote: » If I tried that the ball hitch would come off
Zr105 wrote: » a lot of boys in nz and oz running unimogs and man 4wd trucks with spreaders on the back, for them its all about speed getting there, passed a yard in oz one day and there was 5 trucks sitting there with spreader bodies(think it was fert plant but not sure) and all towing dolly trailers with roll covers. cant remember wether it was auger or conveyor on back to load truck. think theres a few over in uk aswell
Reggie. wrote: » Ouch
moy83 wrote: » Happened the father one time with 3 tonne of fert in the silage trailer . The pin ripped through the eye on the back of the spreader and buried the hitch in the road
Conmaicne Mara wrote: » Am thinking ahead, probably jinxing myself in the process. Was thinking about my Dads land, and liming it. Actually it's the merchants fault, because I knew the answer before I asked about 500kg bags of granlime, "We don't do them, no demand". Missing the point that I was looking. Anyway, went back to thinking of bulk lime. Half afraid that, seriously, helicopter might be the only option to lime that land. A small tractor with vicon would do it, but there's a long "commute" shall we say, from where the ag lime would need to be dumped, so a bazillion trips would be needed. Small problem in relation to many, but annoying all the same. A tracked dumper converted to carry a lime spreader was another thought, very slow, not that the land allows any speed anyway.
Reggie. wrote: » I'm sure I've seen that system running before somewhere
GrandSoftDay wrote: » Have you much to do Con? I spread 2 bags of gran lime to the acre with the fert here 3 years back and the response was unreal and I put it out again this year and still have the same response. I think myself it would suit your terrain a lot more. Seen a neighbour here putting out ground lime last year and it has made no difference yet, how long does it take to start acting does anyone know?
Conmaicne Mara wrote: » ESB Unimogs, could they be converted to take a lime spreader on the truck itself, if so how would that work?
Conmaicne Mara wrote: » Would you PM me the guys name, wondering if it's the same fella McGraths told me about. I wouldn't mind seeing that rig in action to be 100% honest.
merryberry wrote: » Seen one in uk modified as a tractor unit with a beet trailer yoked to back.
