Lowe's has these for sale for 73.00 but I cant find hardly anything online about them. They show a old link on a google search of the lowes Reviews and it was only 2 stars on 6 reviews saying that it wasnt accurate. I'm looking for something to replace my Scotts Mini Edgeguard. The opening/closing spring/piece is not working properly so they said if I cut the cable and send the cable sleeve to them, they'll send me a refund for the defectiveness. So I'm looking for something to spread Synthetic Starter fert/Milo on my lawn. I'm going to be doing organics too when I get the soil test levels up to par.

Anyone have any experience with this spreader or recommend a Synthetic safe spreader to use? I have around 7-8K total front and back to do, Pneumatic tires and a wide stance seemed a plus.

I've never owned one of these but my uncle did. But not for too long. Something recently broke on it and he replaced it with a brand I've never heard of but it sounds like it's on the level of an Earthway 2150. I think it cost about $130.

My great grand kids will have to fight over my 2150 when I'm pushing daisies. Or poa.

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I have one.. Had it for 2-years.....
So far, so good... In general, I like it...
It will hold a full 50# bag of fertilizer in it's bucket...
I have dropped a couple tons of fertilizer and seed with it - and it's held up fine...

Key pieces are made of plastic that won't rust when in contact with Fertilizer...
The bucket is HDPE - which won't crack or break with your usual sort of abuse...

The usual caveats apply to the accuracy of broadcast spreaders - If you need accuracy, you ought to verify it's calibration yourself....

The only things I didn't like were that the little gate seems to jam sometimes on fertilizer - and you may have to pop it back closed.... And.. The edge guard mechanism doesn't always work with the lever - sometimes you gotta pull the little fertilizer blocker forward and backward....

Thanks

John_in_SC wrote:The only things I didn't like were that the little gate seems to jam sometimes on fertilizer - and you may have to pop it back closed.... And.. The edge guard mechanism doesn't always work with the lever - sometimes you gotta pull the little fertilizer blocker forward and backward....

I have the Scott's EdgeGuard DLX... lower model with the plastic tires. It has these same problems, and I only bought it last year. It still works fine overall. Disappointing that the better models seem to have the same issues.

I also have a Scott's Edgegaurd Delux. Until recently, I've just "blindly" put the setting to whatever the instructions told me to. Then I decided to do some calibrating and was ASTONISHED at what I found! Check out the distribution curve.... (test material was Menards fertilizer)


...and yes, I made sure the guard was in the "OFF" position. It's really not that big of deal now that I know how it behaves. I just have to know that if I turn around to the right I have to be closer to my last pass than if I turn around to the left.

Each line represents a different setting. I chose 5 different settings across the dial range to test. I am linearly interpolating the data points in between. From here, I set up a calibration curve for the entire range. It looks like this:



I tested out my curve this past weekend when putting down Milorganite. It was a neat test. I was using a product that had NOT been tested in the calibration process, and I was operating at a setting that was not tested in the calibration process. I ran out of material EXACTLY when calculated. It was awesome!

You sir make us engineer nerds proud.....
And to think that my wife laughed at me when I was weighing laundry before and after the washing machine to see how much water was left in the clothes.....

Oh.. Another thing I thought of... Because the fertilizer gate is wider than it is tall - low settings end up clogging with large prill size fertilizers because the hole isn't physically large enough to fit fertilizer pellets.... It seems like the cheaper the fertilizer - the larger the prill size....

Thanks

Hammbone wrote:I also have a Scott's Edgegaurd Delux. Until recently, I've just "blindly" put the setting to whatever the instructions told me to. Then I decided to do some calibrating and was ASTONISHED at what I found! Check out the distribution curve.... (test material was Menards fertilizer)


...and yes, I made sure the guard was in the "OFF" position. It's really not that big of deal now that I know how it behaves. I just have to know that if I turn around to the right I have to be closer to my last pass than if I turn around to the left.

Each line represents a different setting. I chose 5 different settings across the dial range to test. I am linearly interpolating the data points in between. From here, I set up a calibration curve for the entire range. It looks like this:



I tested out my curve this past weekend when putting down Milorganite. It was a neat test. I was using a product that had NOT been tested in the calibration process, and I was operating at a setting that was not tested in the calibration process. I ran out of material EXACTLY when calculated. It was awesome!

Huh?

My cheap Edgeguard DLX is not very well made. I'll be lucky to get another year out of it. I have 2 Scott's SpeedyGreen models in the shed that are at least 10 years old and seem way better built than the newer Edgeguard. Next year I'll go with a commercial spreader.

John_in_SC wrote:You sir make us engineer nerds proud.....
And to think that my wife laughed at me when I was weighing laundry before and after the washing machine to see how much water was left in the clothes.....

Oh.. Another thing I thought of... Because the fertilizer gate is wider than it is tall - low settings end up clogging with large prill size fertilizers because the hole isn't physically large enough to fit fertilizer pellets.... It seems like the cheaper the fertilizer - the larger the prill size....

Thanks

Yeah...I'm an engineer nerd (ME). How could you tell!? My wife gets to put up with all sorts of shenanigans! For example, this weekend I'll be mounting my air compressor in the attic of the garage to save floor space. It'll be suspended from the rafters with vibration isolators, plus I built a muffler for it to reduce noise. Seems like I'm always up to something nerdy...