Title: What ever happened to quality tools?
Product review: I hate to sound like an old curmudgeon, but it seems as though even relatively expensive tools like this are simply not made well anymore. Even with something incredibly uniform and easy to spread, like limestone, this spreader was a horror. It would spread nothing, it would dump big thick lines, it would spread on one side of the hopper but not the other. Same with fertilizer, and forget using something a little more challenging, like composted cow manure. The biggest problem, aside from an overall plasticity, is that the spinning rod inside the hopper has tiny tines that seem to do nothing. I'm sending it back, then investigating the Scotts 1000. If the Scotts one is just as crappy, at least it costs half as much.
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