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Agitator Type Sawdust Spreader for Use on Dump Trucks

The Georgia Forestry Commission's nurseries use considerable quantities of sawdust as a soil improver or conditioner, but getting this sawdust applied evenly over the area has been a great problem. At first we merely dumped the sawdust in piles directly upon the area and then scattered them by hand. However, this was not satisfactory because it required too much hand labor and, unless closely supervised, the spreading was sometimes uneven enough to cause yellow spots when the seed beds were established. We then tried spreading the sawdust with a manure spreader. This gave an even enough distribution but was costly because of the great amount of labor required to transfer the sawdust from the truck to the spreader.


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Author(s): Sanford P. Darby, Jr.

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 25 (1956)