Comfortable walking pace is about 2 1/2 to 3 miles per hour. Walking through a bean rows carrying 20 to 30 pounds about a foot out in front of you while continually cranking the spreader handle at a constant speed could be tiring. I would guess you would be lucky to average 2 miles per hour not including breaks or time to rest your cranking arm. How long do you think you can crank the seeder before your arm gives out, and how many times a day can you go back to cranking the seeder?
Calibrating the seeding rate to your walking speed will take some trail and error in the field, I would not count on the recommended settings to be very accurate.
If your seeder covers a 10 foot width (four 30 inch rows), you will have to walk about 8.25 miles to cover ten acres. At 2 mph that would be a little over 4 hours of actual time spent moving and cranking. This assumes you can carry enough seed to make a full round without having to walk back to refill. The shape of your field will affect this. For better coverage, you could apply half rate going over the field twice shifting over two rows the second pass, you will have to walk about 16.5 miles, a little over 8 hours spent moving and cranking. How much seed will you apply per acre, 20 to 26 pounds per acre?
43,560 sq ft/acre x 10 acres divided by 10 foot width = 43,560 feet to walk
43,560 feet divided by 5280 foot per mile = about 8.25 miles
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