Possible fix for those burned by Scott’s rotary spreaders

UPDATE: it worked flawlessly. No granules hitting the wheels and it was throwing an even spread out. I may decrease the setting by one click because theoretically a smaller wheel would mean more revolutions and more product per square foot



It’s well known that Scott’s spreaders are a shite design. The engineers must have been drunk when they decided to make the wheels higher than the level of the rotating spreader.

This causes the pellets to hit the inside of the wheels, which have hollow cavities, and collect significantly more granules in the space between the two wheels. This causes stripes in your grass with fertilizer and generally does an awful job of spreading the granules.

So before I tossed this piece of shite in the trash I decided to try to destroy it first. I took a oscillating tool to the wheels and cut about an inch off of each wheel. The wheels easily snap off and on.







This did two things. First, it lowers the height of the wheels so the ejected granules don’t hit them. And it removes the cavities inside the wheel where granules would collect.

I think it will also give the wheels more traction

I haven’t tried it yet, but I’ll update this post after I do. I’m pretty confident this will solve the issue.