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| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 40.0 inches | | Product Width: | 30.0 inches | | Product Height: | 30.0 inches | | Product Weight: | 35.0 pounds | | Package Length: | 30.3 inches | | Package Width: | 27.4 inches | | Package Height: | 16.1 inches | | Package Weight: | 31.8 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 12 reviews |
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 Quirky with Cheap Components Oct 02, 2009
What could have been an excellent spreader is in fact a quirky mix of plastic, metal, and rubber. But what isn't today? The only difference is that the plastic is used in key areas of the spreader where the metal ought to be. Take for instance the door on the bottom of the hopper - a small rectangular piece of feather-weight plastic that slides along two plastic grooves and NEVER opens properly in accordance with the manual setting. Thus be prepared to manually free the hopper door while shoving the door lever back and forth. Shoving the door lever back and forth vigorously then often precipitates binding and movement of the cheap nylon wingnut that is supposed to lock the setting in place. It fails miserably. Agri-Fab can and should have built a better, more durable product but chose, like so many other manufacturer's to skimp on the most important and surprisingly least expensive parts.
Expect to babysit this pig'n a poke frequently and also to dismount your garden tractor often as well to reach the door lever and readjust the nylon wingnut. You'll discover that after you've spread an entire 50lb bag of fertilizer over just a few hundred square feet that it's time to replace the nylon wingnut with a metal one - that's after of course you've vacuumed up the excess fertilizer with your bagger mower!
Finally, when Agri-Fab decides to re-engineer this mess, and provide a spreading chart consistent with industry standards, I might take another peek at the rest of their products!
 Small Acreage User Jun 15, 2009
I bought this broadcast spreader to use on my 3 acres. The assembly instructions were adequate and it's always a pleasant suprise when all the parts and fasteners are there. Once it was assembled, I began applying fertilizer. The initial tub full went down OK but the lever arm is much too short to reach easily from my tractor seat. You would think the designer had 8' arms or something. About mid-way through the second tub full I noticed fertilizer dumping everywhere and the drive wheel sliding in the grass. The factory installed portion had come loose and the drive gear was out of alignment and locked up. I drug it back to my garage, unloaded all the fertilizer left in the hopper and readjusted the gear alignment and tightened all the fasteners. This seemed to remedy the issue for the remainder of the job.
This is not a bad spreader for the money, just double check all the fasteners before using it. I still have to modify mine to extend the on-off handle as it's just not useable with the current reach.
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 Poor gearbox design Jun 02, 2009
I have purchased four Agri-Fab units over seven years and have had to repair or replace the gearboxes on every one.
I keep buying them because they're cheaper than comps in their class.
But I've had enough. [Have you ever experienced the frustration and anger of the freakin' thing 'seizing' during your "Weed 'n Feed" run? It sucks, believe me.]
Spend $100 more and save your heart and your lawn.
I have written Agri-Fab extensively over the past five years asking them to fire the engineers responsible for designing this POS. [What good is them sending you replacement parts if they fail identically in short order?]
I write this review only because they continue to put a cheap plastic gearbox ... costing maybe $1 ... on their $100 and $200 units.
Broadcast spreader-towable Aug 27, 2008
The Agri-Fab Spreader #45-0211 came packaged in a large box. It was very simple to put together and took about 25 min. reading the instruction booklet. Hooked it up to my garden tractor, dumped 100 lbs. of fertilizer in it and away I went. Did a nice job of spreading product with even coverage. The spreader door at the bottom of the hopper was difficult to calibrate but presetting the size of the opening before putting product into the hopper is a wise move so there is no over-delivery of fertilizer, seed or whatever. The enclosed spreader charts were helpful but you need to familiarize yourself with the set screw assembly on the door opening devise before you place product into the hopper. Overall, good machine that appears to be ruggedly built.
very good so far Jul 23, 2008
only used once so far. it worked very well. only drawback is the lever for the flow control. it does not close completely, and you must play with it to get the right setting.
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