Dumpster Wagon Made From Tank Manure Spreader

Dumpster Wagon Made From Tank Manure Spreader MANURE HANDLING Miscellaneous 19-5-8 A Pennsylvania farmer converted an old liquid manure spreader into a 12-ft. long, 6-ft. wide "dumpster wagon" that works great for hauling logs, round bales, silage, junk, etc. The home-built hauler dumps hydraulically out the back. "It's handy to use because it's so low to the ground that I can load it by hand or with my skid steer loader," says Scott Dibert, of Bedford. "It works better than my dump truck because the low sides al-low me to always see what I'm doing." The spreader tank originally had a rotor and chains inside to throw manure out the side. Dibert cut the rotor off and took the back end and top half off. He then mounted a 30-in. long hydraulic cylinder off a tractor loader on each side and used a pair of heavy steel rails off an old plow to make an 8-ft. wide hinge point across the frame about 2 ft. behind the axle. The rails bolt to the brackets originally used to attach the tank to the frame. "It holds 5 tons. I just flip a lever on the tractor to unload it," says Dibert. "A selector valve keeps both cylinders level when raising the tank on side hills. The axle has a dip that conforms to the bottom of the tank so that even with 20-in. tires it's only about 1 foot off the ground. When I unload, the back end of the tank is only about 3 in. off the ground. It works great for filling in potholes. I just back the tank up and jerk it a little to dump gravel in the hole. I spent only about $100 to build it - $50 for the cylinders and $50 for the selector valve. One problem is that the loader cylinders work too slow. "I bolted a steel milk carton basket onto the front of the tank to hold gas and oil when I'm cutting firewood. And I attached a board with slots in it to hold my chain saws." Dibert also used an old 3-pt. hay rake frame and the teeth off an old pull-type box blade scraper to make a 4-ft. wide grapple fork for his Bobcat skidsteer loader. "I use it every day. It works better than conventional bucket-mounted forks be-cause the teeth are much longer. I bought the scraper to clean out manure and didn't need the teeth." . Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Ron Dibert, RD 1, Box 429, Bedford, Penn. 15522 (ph 814 623-6768).

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