Salt Spreader?

Changed the angle on the rotor blades to only spead about a 10' "swath" and added a plywood deflector to make it throw chips mostly to one side. Worked great for years to cinder our sportsmen's club paved entry road and parking lots, then some sheepdip traded it and other pieces of 3PT equipment (and our old tractor) on a new tractor. Guess it never occured to him that every existing piece of equipment would also work on the new tractor?

Nothing like real coal cinders for on ice, but most townships around here no longer use them due to environmental regs. They spread a mixture of stone chips and salt on paved roads...just the chips on gravel roads.

Wow, lot of good thoughts here but mine. I say don't! I moved on my hill 30+ years ago and thought I had to sand and salt too. One year of that cured me for good. First off it takes too long for the ground to freeze up good so I don't tear it up with the plow. Put salt on and your back to slop in a hurry. For me sand was like trying to drive on ball bearings. If you can get coal cinders they work great and are worth the effort but for me and my 3/10 of a mile drive with about a 20% grade the answer has been GOOD snow tires that grip the ice, not them all season things. Four wheel drive is a given that need not be brought up. In the toughest of times I do spread coal cinders out of a five gallon bucket by hand and only down one side of the tire tracks. Saves on the cinders that are hard to get and gives ya two wheels to break with and one to steer with. Good luck with what ever ya decide but unless you have blacktop I say don't. Know everybody has an opinion on chains too but the only way I've been able to plow up hill here in NY is with these custom built double - double ring chains. AB-NY

Rod

Keep it painted and there won't be much for the salt to get to... wash VERH well after use// perhaps spray down with silicone based spray afterwards.. ( polly hopper may help.. some.. )

soundguy

Wash it out = good

used motro oil bath = bad.

#1, it's bad for the environment..

#2.. it's sticky and gummy, and will attract all kinds of dirt.

A silicone spray and intact paint will be plenty of protection...

Soundguy

Salt spreader and Hose / Wash it out very well just do not seem to go together.

If it is cold enough to use the first one I sure do not want to be messing with the second one.

Around here, you spread salt and in the spring wash it down good. And I mean GOOD. Lots of times it is 20-25F when it snows hard, then the next day it clears off and the temps drop to 0, -10, -20 or even -30F. Brrr. You can wash off in a heated garage, but who does that?

A better solution is to spread sand or a combination of sand and salt. You get traction on the sand and some melting from the salt. The sand will also knock off some of the salt residue.

In my book, fertilizer is harder on equipment than salt. The salt is larger granuals and they seem to be less prone to powdering. Hard to say exactly as they both do a number on bare metal.

About the slickest solution is rigging up an adaptor to the FEL for a QA broom. You can quickly get down to bare asphalt with one and there is no clean up or dead grass. Also, you don't run out of broom like you run out of sand/salt. BUT, it ain't no good on ice (we don't get ice very often).

jb