BWH
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I am planning on building a quick attach front mount drop spreader powered by an electric motor. It would be intended to mount on a zero turn, UTV,ATV or lawn tractor. I have been researching a few push type spreaders powered by an electric windshield wiper motor on YouTube with very little modification. I would build a light weight steel frame to couple them together as well as attaching to the UTV/ATV/Zero Turn/Garden tractor.
My reasons for building this unit is the size of my lot and the tight quarters (landscape, trees, etc. I have had broadcast spreaders push type, pull type, large and small. It always seems that I get as much fertilizer on the drive, landscape rocks, flower beds, and up against the buildings also. A drop spreader is so accurate and uniform but its limitation has been it has a very narrow foot print. By coupling three of them together I would get to 60+ inch width.
My questions to the form membership is have any of you built anything like this or know of anybody that has and could save me any design failures?
Thanks!
My reasons for building this unit is the size of my lot and the tight quarters (landscape, trees, etc. I have had broadcast spreaders push type, pull type, large and small. It always seems that I get as much fertilizer on the drive, landscape rocks, flower beds, and up against the buildings also. A drop spreader is so accurate and uniform but its limitation has been it has a very narrow foot print. By coupling three of them together I would get to 60+ inch width.
My questions to the form membership is have any of you built anything like this or know of anybody that has and could save me any design failures?
Thanks!