Quad/ATV mounted fertilizer/lime/seed spreader

[JohnGalway 1,043]

Severe disadvantage, what do you think Ray? I reckon you have the description nailed down to a tee Clint!

 

The drains are in place already, just that they have not been cleaned out for a few years. Winter is the best time for that job IMO, not much will be growing and the ground will be soft from all the rain and short days we'll get.

 

Soak pipes don't work so good here, peat type land which tends to clog them up, plus they're big money to install, trenching, pipes, pea gravel, labour etc. compared to the margin made on sheep farming. Open drains dug by hand or machine are the order of the day.

 

I might get to planting some few trees in the future, no way will they be pine though, you're right, they soak up a lot of water, but there are too many pine trees in Ireland. Be nicer to have something native and, well, more attractive to look at

 

I don't use that much chemical fertilizer as I'm sticking to an environmental plan that was drawn up for me a few years ago. About 800kg which is 60/40 mix of 18.6.12 and 0.7.30 across 20 acres, all carried uphill from the road, all spread by hand out of a bucket The real bitch is the thoughts of a 25 ton load of lime getting dumped at the gate and having to carry and spread all that! No thanks

 

Which brings us back to the quad mounted spreader 50kg a time and away I go Leaves more time for other important work and won't break my back (like the concrete thread ).