/diy/ - Do It Yourself

[Anonymous No.2845447]

Is there a good spreader or do they all kinda suck?

Regarding pic related - someone on home depot reviews posted a guide to making it better with a few cheap parts. I like that kind of shit so it's my top choice now.

[Anonymous No.2845449]

It could be a meme from the manufacturer just to invalidate the warranty though

[Anonymous No.2845451]

Oh yeah I'm not intending to use it for ice melt, just lime and fertilizer.

[Anonymous No.2845471]

Walk at a constant speed.
Not too fast, not too slow.
Multiple passes including perpendicular.

[Anonymous No.2845512]

>>2845447
Landscape professional of 35 years here. I used a Lesco yellow spreader, and then an sr2000 from scott. Both of the main parts are made of stainless steel and you can replace virtually every part on there. Yes our 2000 is nearly a thousand bucks Canadian but it's incredibly well adjusted.

The only real weak spot of that spreader is the shitty cover they put for the hopper on it. Cheap plastic and this nylon shot cord to hold it on. Luckily, there's a guy out in Saskatchewan that does horse attack and also does covers for professional fertilizer spreaders for farms and manufactures his own version for about 80 bucks and one of those will last nearly a decade versus a hard season on the stock one.

I really don't get people trying to fertilize their lawns with the spreader that's worth less than a good bag of fertilizer though. They are really hard to adjust and people don't know how to use them anyway. With mine I can just do a pass around the outside and then back and forth rows up the middle and get nearly perfect coverage. With those cheap ones you have to do a criss cross checkerboard pattern to get proper coverage. And even then, what you have to do is calculate just how much fertilizer you've put down versus how much area to make sure you put enough down

[Anonymous No.2845775]

>>2845447
there is a lawn gardening forum where you will probably find better answers.

[Anonymous No.2846150]

>>2845512
Who is guy that makes covers? thx

[Anonymous No.2846152]

Fertilizing an acre by hand like is always gonna suck, in that it's going to take more time and labor. That cart is going to be much easier than laying down manure by hand and shovel, that is the old way. They have walk-behind motorized ones like these as well.

[Anonymous No.2846153]

>>2846152
Is it a garden? A farm? How many acres are you managing? Because otherwise you would be pulling a sprayer with a tractor in order to fertilize the field.

[Anonymous No.2846154]

>>2846152

>Fertilizing an acre by hand like that* is always gonna suck, in that it's going to take more time and labor.

You can manage more land with less labor using these motorized farm tools, suitable for gardens and small farms, heirloom crops.

The real old school way is to use ox and beasts of burden, horses and donkeys. The horsepower in a motor engine is more efficient.

[Anonymous No.2846155]

>>2846154

This is the birth of agriculture itself.

Can plow more than just a garden with a beast of burden.

Then the fertilizer, sometimes just manure rather than processed, is traditionally set by hand and shovel.

The mechanical push cart thing with modern chemical fertilizer is miles ahead, a tractor can plow 5 acres in an hour.

[Anonymous No.2846156]

>>2846155

If you are growing grass, which is a crop, hay is a grass, then you probably are not covering acres and can just manage with this.

[Anonymous No.2846158]

>>2846156

If you are managing large amounts of land, these things can shoot fertilizer, salt, ice, lime, seed, feed, so on.

Would be interesting load this thing up with seeds and just blast an area.

[Anonymous No.2846195]

>>2846150
He's in Saskatchewan someplace. I'm going to have to dig around my emails from years ago to find that. But he might not export any of this stuff from Canada

Sorry it doesn't seem to be in my emails anywhere

[Anonymous No.2846222]

>>2846195
Ok thanks, I have a boat cover maker that has made some but very expensive
Did you ever modify agitator like in OP? Or second post?

[Anonymous No.2846243]

It's like you're all little bbys.

[Anonymous No.2846342]

if all you are doing is fertilizing an acre of grass once or twice a year just buy some cheap hand one