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  • #32
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,611 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    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.

    There's still a few of us dotted around


  • #33
    J.O. Farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,578 ✭✭✭J.O. Farmer


    Reggie. wrote: »
    There's still a few of us dotted around

    I've helped dad and learned from him too.It's definitely not a dying breed. I'd probably end up doing the same.


  • #34
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,611 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    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.

    I'd rather make it than buy it if I could. Usually spend too long trying to figure out how to make something before I realise I can't :rolleyes:


  • #35
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    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.

    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.


  • #36
    tabby aspreme
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    There were lime spreaders fitted on ford countys, google"ford county forward control" and you should find some


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  • #37
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    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.

    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 !


  • #38
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    tabby aspreme wrote: »
    There were lime spreaders fitted on ford countys, google"ford county forward control" and you should find some

    Ooooooooooooh, I like :D


  • #39
    Conmaicne Mara
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    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 !

    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.


  • #40
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    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.

    There is a small agitator inside but it got damp where it was tipped on the ground and just got sticky in spots . If it was 100% dry it probably wouldn't have been a problem alright


  • #41
    GrandSoftDay
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    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.

    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.


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  • #42
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    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.

    I never said it doesn't work, but it is a lot more expensive. My goal isn't just the immediate result in the top couple of mm of soil, but to raise the PH on the farm.


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