Agri-Fab 45-0530-131, 85 lb. Tow Broadcast Spreader,Black/Orange

Bought this to fertilize and spread seed on 2.5 acres. Took me 11/2 hours to put together. No biggie. Spread 60 lbs of fertilizer no issues worked great. Tried to spread pelletized lime next and could not get the spreader gauge to work. Had to open it from underneath by hand. Will only close. Piece of junk!

Received yesterday as a replacement for an earthway spreader that we purchased locally. Husband hit a root and bent one of the bars. There was no fixing it. That spreader was almost 300 dollars worked ok but cheaply made. The reviews on this spreader were good similar capacity and at 119 dollars, I took a chance. Husband put it together in about 1.5 hours using the picture instructions. All the parts were included and he kept commenting about how much better the parts were compared to the one we bought last year. He plans to spread fertilizer today and if it doesn’t deserve a 5 star review I will update. But so far it’s a win!

The shifter is very cheap, it will most likely break after 30 movements. The door is cheap and does not close all of the way. The cable piece that clips in the bucket is cheap plastic that does not stay in place, it pops out. This product was engineered to be as cheap and disposable as possible. I will be returning it because I don't feel like using it 1 time and it breaks on me. Assembly wasn't the worst, but it wasn't super easy.

Let me start by saying, I order a lot from amazon.. for like 10 years. and this is by far the worst quality, missing parts (highlighted in blue), worst packaging (non existing) not the rights colors ... item, I have ever received. How they are able to send something like this out is beyond me.. I mean wow.. no words. Anyways.. do not recommend, order at your own risk.

This was a reconditioned product, supposedly good as new. Very hard to assemble. Once put together it become obvious the lever that adjusts the spreader was poor quality and stripped, no doubt the reason it was returned in the first place. Mail office would not accept for shipping.