Brilliant innovation, pure genius 👍🏻👍🏻 is it an auger/ screw pump that is feeding the mulch from the drop in bin to the airflow line ? and if so what diameter auger and feed pipe and funnel reduction? Have been thinking of something like this for the rear of a large walking floor tractor driven spreader. Thanks in advance for any feedback 👍🏻👍🏻
Hey man I’m 18yr lawn care business owner in Dayton Ohio. I very interested and motivated to build this. I curious to how exactly you did this. Anyway You can post another video kinda explaining it? I would be interested traveling to you, meeting you and talking with you. This is amazing and I love amazing
You have to adjust the feed rate depending on how wet it is. It works well when the bark is damp and it cuts the dust way down. If we use it during the hot months we will hose it down rather than running dry bark. We are in Washington so the what we use is ground up fir/hemlock. We have only ran the “fine” stuff through it.
Interesting build been reading the comments. I’m not to familiar with salt spreaders any info on it would be great just to get ideas and look for something similar thanks.
Adam I would like as much information on your mulch blower . I would like to come look at this blower in operation. Email AClaud@claudslawncare.com and/or call 757-399-3800
Wow that’s cool and that’s a money maker and saves a lot of time I bet and what’s the set up And I am sole and been thinking about something like this and bet u can put out some mulch fast
Is the auger coming straight down from the spreader instead of the propeller or do you have a horizontal auger in the larger tube? What is the purpose of the two tubes? Is one an air gap or is it holding a feed auger? If it has an auger how did you power the additional auger?
The larger tube has a horizontal auger that is powered by the old hydraulic motor that ran the disc spreader on the sander. The bottom tube is just for the air off the blower.
I just uploaded a video that might give you a better idea of how it works. I just had it in my gallery from earlier this year. Between the blower and the hopper there is a grey oil absorbent pad and underneath that is the auger motor.
Thank you, I’m guessing they combine at the end. About how long is the auger? Do you think a larger blower would increase the blowing capability? I appreciate the help.
It would with a better airlock system like they have on the real bark blowers. We have to prime the auger with bark or else the air will blow back through the auger. We are still working on improving it but it got us through this year.
It might take me some time. We have it taken off the sander box but I should be able to send you a video of the important parts. I'll also make a video of how it works once we put it back together spring of next year.
Thanks! You are correct, it is an old salt spreader. We used an old 8hp Little Wonder for the blower. The bark is fed from the truck into an auger that is powered by the original disc spreader motor. The longest stretch of hose we've ran on it is 60 feet. We have to change the amount of bark fed into the auger with the different lengths of hose but it is easily done with the adjustable door on the spreader hopper. It won't ever push it the 300ft that the professional blowers will but it does pretty good and saves us a lot of time, material and labor. We've probably ran 150+ yards through it so far this year.
@@adamodonnell5685 when creating a hopper what should the distance between the incoming air flow in relation to out flow with Material? I also see on your outflow to the hose is wedge shaped. What is the reason? Thank you.
Brilliant innovation, pure genius 👍🏻👍🏻 is it an auger/ screw pump that is feeding the mulch from the drop in bin to the airflow line ? and if so what diameter auger and feed pipe and funnel reduction? Have been thinking of something like this for the rear of a large walking floor tractor driven spreader. Thanks in advance for any feedback 👍🏻👍🏻
Home made i guess.
Genius idea
can I contact you?
Rauryan99@yahoo.com
Can you make a video of how to build?
I’m going to try and make a video soon. We haven’t had it out for over a year. Staffing issues had us focused on other things.
What all did you have to do?
Hey man I’m 18yr lawn care business owner in Dayton Ohio. I very interested and motivated to build this. I curious to how exactly you did this. Anyway You can post another video kinda explaining it? I would be interested traveling to you, meeting you and talking with you. This is amazing and I love amazing
I’m going to try to make a better video soon when we get it back out. We haven’t used it for over a year.
This is pure American Ingenuity and genius. The million dollar question is does this work if the mulch is wet? Thank you for posting your masterpiece.
You have to adjust the feed rate depending on how wet it is. It works well when the bark is damp and it cuts the dust way down. If we use it during the hot months we will hose it down rather than running dry bark. We are in Washington so the what we use is ground up fir/hemlock. We have only ran the “fine” stuff through it.
Is this an inbed salt spreader with a blower attached to it if so this is what I was thinking about doing pure genius
Need a method of sealing the output air into the manifold/tube while also letting in material
Interesting build been reading the comments. I’m not to familiar with salt spreaders any info on it would be great just to get ideas and look for something similar thanks.
Adam I would like as much information on your mulch blower . I would like to come look at this blower in operation. Email AClaud@claudslawncare.com and/or call 757-399-3800
We haven't had a chance to take it out this year but I'm hoping to in the next couple weeks. I'll do a more detailed video then.
@@adamodonnell5685 I would like to come out and see it work. Give me a call so I can set travel plan in motion cell 7574352061
I need this now. Would you be willing to show me how you build it
I'm going to need more videos of this.
Wow that’s cool and that’s a money maker and saves a lot of time I bet and what’s the set up And I am sole and been thinking about something like this and bet u can put out some mulch fast
Now that’s Genius!!!💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
Is the auger coming straight down from the spreader instead of the propeller or do you have a horizontal auger in the larger tube? What is the purpose of the two tubes? Is one an air gap or is it holding a feed auger? If it has an auger how did you power the additional auger?
The larger tube has a horizontal auger that is powered by the old hydraulic motor that ran the disc spreader on the sander. The bottom tube is just for the air off the blower.
I just uploaded a video that might give you a better idea of how it works. I just had it in my gallery from earlier this year. Between the blower and the hopper there is a grey oil absorbent pad and underneath that is the auger motor.
Thank you, I’m guessing they combine at the end. About how long is the auger? Do you think a larger blower would increase the blowing capability? I appreciate the help.
What is the absorbent pad for?
It would with a better airlock system like they have on the real bark blowers. We have to prime the auger with bark or else the air will blow back through the auger. We are still working on improving it but it got us through this year.
Could you send me info on how you set up the auger and flange from the blower? Andersonwrightlandscaping@gmail.com
It might take me some time. We have it taken off the sander box but I should be able to send you a video of the important parts. I'll also make a video of how it works once we put it back together spring of next year.
@@adamodonnell5685 bro I need this setup!!! 180 yards going in !!!
This is so epic! Nicely done! That must save so much labor time. Wherever you work is lucky to have you! Way to go!
I need this in my life. Awesome work!!!
Very clever! That looks like a salt spreader with a blower on it. What kind of blower do you use and how many feet of hose can you pump through?
Thanks! You are correct, it is an old salt spreader. We used an old 8hp Little Wonder for the blower. The bark is fed from the truck into an auger that is powered by the original disc spreader motor. The longest stretch of hose we've ran on it is 60 feet. We have to change the amount of bark fed into the auger with the different lengths of hose but it is easily done with the adjustable door on the spreader hopper. It won't ever push it the 300ft that the professional blowers will but it does pretty good and saves us a lot of time, material and labor. We've probably ran 150+ yards through it so far this year.
@@adamodonnell5685 when creating a hopper what should the distance between the incoming air flow in relation to out flow with Material? I also see on your outflow to the hose is wedge shaped. What is the reason? Thank you.
@@adamodonnell5685 Great idea, I'm looking to build one similar to this set up. Any more information you would be willing to share about it?