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| I’m wanting to build a metering box to drop some drop lime behind a subcompact garden tractor. The only thing I can think is an insecticide box from a row planter. What old planter might have the smallest size box with the adjustable gear meter? Any better way to do it?
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I’m gonna have about 5 acres of small patches of garden crops. The patches will be too small to use a small spinner spreader without wasting a lot of product. I also want to use diatomaceous earth as an insect deterrent and that was my first thought of a metering box. I was just gonna meter the stuff into a pipe that leads to a blower intake, possibly a leaf blower. After thinking about more I want to use it for dry fertilizer as well and mentioned lime because its a powder and I didn’t know how well an insecticide meter would work with something that could cake up and bridge like lime and the DE. With the fertilizer I figured I would drop it on to a plate that has fanned out channels to split/spread the product.
Adding: I’ve seen ATV spreaders that are roughly the size I’m looking for. I wonder what kind of metering device I could put on the bottom of one of those that would handle powder materials and give me more precise rate control than the gravity hole it comes with?
Update: I still haven’t come up with a cheap gandy box. But I did find some cheap line chalkers for marking sporting fields. I think it might work fine.
Edited by beanpole 5/17/2025 08:48
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Looking for small meter box
