Mount for a Spin Spreader

[Foggy47]

I wanted to share some pics with SD on mounting a Herd GT77 Spin Spreader. He has one similar to mine. I cut a section of 2x2x1/4" angle iron about 18" long and drilled a few mounting holes for the spreader and welded it to a 2" receiver hitch bracket in order to raise the spreader about one foot higher than the front reciever on my Honda Prairie 700.

I have a front reciever (and a rear one) made by KFI which is all bolt on....thus I can run the spreader in front or back.....but I MUCH prefer the front so I can see what is happening. Then I run a 12 volt power cord with a switch to turn power on and off. I do have to get out of the cab to operate the rheostat to increase/ decrease the spin speed but that is a minor inconvenience.

On an ATV you could easily reach the slide gate over the handlebars to shut off the flow of seeds (or fertilizer) but I had to rig a rope and pulley system so I could operate the gate from the drivers seat. Pull the Red rope to shut it off and the green rope to open the gate. Easy / peasy. On an ATV you likely would also have an easier electrical hook up and access to. the rheostat.

I attached some pieces of bent round tubes I had to that front angle iron.....so that I could more easily set the spreader down on a rolling cart when not in use. Works well. I also bent and attached the "stabilizer rods" to that 2x2 angle.....and that keeps everything quite rigid and self contained. In use......I do add a couple of rubber bungee straps to keep things tight on rough ground.

Later this year I may also mount the spreader on a plate on my tractors front loader so I can lift the spreader high above my taller crops when overseeing rye and clovers in fall. Pics are worth a thousand words.

Thought this may be of interest to others.

 

[jsasker007]

Looks like a heavy duty unit! Any control over the seeding distance? Will it spin faster or slower or is it a fixed speed?

 

[Jonathan]

Looks good, I have the same setup, if you do not have the welding capability Herd/Kasco sells a receiver hitch mount that bolts up as well.

 

[Foggy47]

Looks like a heavy duty unit! Any control over the seeding distance? Will it spin faster or slower or is it a fixed speed?

yep...can regulate from about 10' to over 30 feet via that rheostat which controls the spin speed. Works well for me.....as I have various width trails and plots.

 

[Foggy47]

Looks good, I have the same setup, if you do not have the welding capability Herd/Kasco sells a receiver hitch mount that bolts up as well.

Yep.... gave Some brackets to SD for mounting the GT77 on the racks of his wheeler. But I no longer had that cross-piece. He tells me he cannot buy a receiver hitch fro the front of his Can Am......so he is trying to jerry-rig the Herd seeder to mount on the front..

 

[Bill]

I’ve been meaning to do something like that for years. Mines an embarrassment. It’s bolted to a 2X8 with lag bolts on the ends of the 2X8’s. The ratchet straps hook to those in the back of my side by side. Shameful, but it works…

 

[Brian662]

Are you guys using this method for broadcasting fertilizer? Over seeding rye?? Seems like an inexact science that would need some room for error. I was given something that would work similarly but haven't tried it yet, have always chose to broadcast fert/rye with my solo while on foot.

 

[Foggy47]

Are you guys using this method for broadcasting fertilizer? Over seeding rye?? Seems like an inexact science that would need some room for error. I was given something that would work similarly but haven't tried it yet, have always chose to broadcast fert/rye with my solo while on foot.

I despise using a hand-held spin spreader and walking plots. Doing ten acres that way is way more work than I can do. So.....over time I have made my Herd seeder do everything from a few lbs of clover / acre to applying 50 to 100 lbs of rye to the acre. It can be quite accurate with a little effort. I have used mine for fertilizer once or twice.....but usually use my 3 point cone spreader for such things. I put seeds down with a drill whenever possible.....but sometimes I need to broadcast rye and clover into a brassica plot, etc.