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Hauling manure 6 miles - semi trailer, or tractor and spreader?
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NDCat99
Posted 1/6/2025 08:52 (#11043435 - in reply to #11041278)
Subject: RE: Hauling manure 6 miles - semi trailer, or tractor and spreader?


E ND		It kind of depends on what the 6 miles are like and what kind of rounds you can make with one setup vs. the other. One straight 6 mile shot down the blacktop @ 55mph makes a truck seem really productive but a bunch of 1 mile runs to the next corner, gravel, hills, etc. you could just about keep up with a tractor.

I think over the big picture, hauling and stockpiling WHEN YOU WANT TO and spreading WHEN YOU CAN is the best option for the logistics of the feedlot and the logistics of the crop land past a couple of miles.

Loader hours and truck miles are pretty cheap, fast tractors pulling big spreaders are relatively expensive (depreciation, fuel, tires) so I think the economics are still better to reload. You do end up sacrificing a corner of the field and some risk of getting stuck getting in and out if conditions aren't great.
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