"Made It Myself" Fertilizer Spreader

Made It Myself Fertilizer Spreader FERTILIZER APPLICATION LeRoy Momper wasn’t happy with the pull-type garden-sized fertilizer spreader he bought at a local farm store “The first time I used it the frame bent and the spreader collapsed spilling 175 lbs of fertilizer That’s when I decided to build my own ” says the Fredonia Wis man A friend gave him a plastic hopper off a pickup-mounted salt spreader and Momper designed and fabricated the rest of the 2-wheeled spreader from spare parts The spreader holds 300 lbs and is gravity fed with 10 different settings depending on the granule size “It’ll spread from 10 to 16 ft wide depending on how fast I drive ” says Momper The spreader rides on a pair of 13-in car spare wheels Momper built his own axles and spindles out of bar shafts and used 2-in sq tubing to build the spreader’s frame and bolted the hopper to it The spreader’s ground-driven spinner is mounted on a 90 degree gearbox that’s chain-driven off a pair of sprockets – one with 40 teeth and the other with 10 teeth to make the spinner rotate faster “I use the spreader on my 40-acre wildlife food plot and pull it behind my ATV or garden tractor I didn’t spend more than $75 to build it ” says Momper “I can change the fertilizer delivery rate without ever getting off the ATV by simply reaching back and grabbing a spring-loaded lever ” Contact: FARM SHOW Followup LeRoy Momper 215 Lawrence St Fredonia Wis 53021 ph 414 331-2093; leemary66@gmail com

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