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Read articles →Three friends put a Tractor Basics PTO-driven fertilizer spreader to work seeding and fertilizing a long swale drainage project. The video covers initial assembly, reading the rate chart, setting the gate stop, and real-world calibration, including adjusting the vanes mid-run after noticing uneven left-right spread. It's a genuine field trial with trial-and-error troubleshooting rather than a polished demo, most useful to buyers curious how the spreader performs and adjusts in actual use.
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Use the key to adjust the gate stop, which controls how far the gate opens. The rate chart matches hole size to tractor speed, for example position four gave about 80 to 83 pounds per acre.
The manual says to adjust two opposing vanes to different positions depending on whether too much material is going left or right. Each vane has four positions.
Yes, the hopper is described as huge, solving a common frustration with other spreaders being too small and needing constant refilling.
