Operating Instructions
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‘Accuway Control’ Instructions
Calibrating your Spyker Electric 120 and 220 Broadcast Spreaders...
1.
Dial your recommended setting (or use the “Calibration Pan” to find the
most accurate setting for that particular product).
2.
Start with the ‘Accuway control lever’ up or forward.
3.
Begin to spread your product. As you are spreading you should be able to
see the spread pattern in front of you. Generally, all spreaders will tend
to throw fertilizer heavy to the right. As you continue to spread, (using the
left lever) Accuway control, pull the Accuway control towards you very
slowly* until you begin to bring the spread pattern dead center in front
of you.
4.
Once you have the spread pattern ‘dead center’, leave the left lever alone
for the rest of the time you are spreading that particular product. There
should be no reason to re-set the Accuway for that product unless you see
that the spread pattern has changed due to bumping the lever. If it has
changed slightly simply re-adjust the pattern while you’re spreading.
Note
*”slowly” means as little as 1/100 of an inch at a time. It will not
take much to change the pattern. If you radically move the left lever
Accuway control, you may impede or shut off the flow of fertilizer or lose
the Accuway position and it will be necessary to push the lever all of the
way forward and begin to bring it back towards you slowly until the pattern
is set again.
For Spyker Spreaders without the ‘Accuway Lever’ on the handle...
1.
Dial the Accuway from underneath the spreader. Start by positioning the
Accuway teeth so they are just starting to appear in the opening from the
handle side of the spreader.
2.
If the pattern is ‘skewed’ stop the spreader and turn the Accuway screw so
the teeth move forward further into the opening. Try spreading again and
repeat until pattern is centered.
Operating Instructions
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Operating at the Mulch Setting
1.
You will notice a slot in the spreader setting dial control right where the 9 is or was
located. Simply dial the setting so that the metal guide will go through this dial slot
when you move the right control lever.
2.
The spreader opening will now move all of the way open to the maximum opening
that the spreader can achieve.
3.
This setting was basically designed to spread PennMulch® at 70-75 lbs. per
thousand square feet at 2.5 miles per hour. It’s easy enough to check and adjust
your walking speed. See Mulch-n-More calibration instructions “Calculating your
walking speed”.
4.
The “all of the way open” setting can also be used to spread dry sand, dry organic
top dresses and fertilizers, salt and ice melt products and other normally difficult to
spread products.
5.
When using the mulch setting you can gate the flow of the material as you’re
spreading. For salt, sand and top dress materials in which an accurate setting is
not critical simply watch the flow of material as it comes out of the spreader. Either
open more or close off (gate the flow) until you feel comfortable with the amount of
material you are spreading. If you would like to check the flow rate simply mark the
position of the control lever with a piece of tape and use the calibration bucket to
check the coverage per thousand square feet. (See the calibration instructions
included with the calibration bucket or “Calibrating the Mulch-n-More” on the
www.spyker.com web site.)
6.
Through trials involving mass flow products such as sand and salt we have found
that using the “mulch basket” gives you the best spread pattern. Although the spread
will be slightly to the right using the mulch basket, the actual spread of the product
is even all of the way across the effective spread width. Depending on the type of
product you’re spreading, using a standard spinner blade the product will flow heavy
to the left and give you a less than desirable spread pattern leaving a heavy line of
product in one spot and light at another. This is the exact reason Spyker developed
the Mulch spinner blade. No other ground driven spreader has the capability of
spreading materials at these high rates because they all use a standard spinner
blade.
Changing the Spinner Blade
1.
Simply remove the special “spring pin” from the spinner shaft that holds the regular spinner
blade onto the spinner shaft. Lift the stainless collar that holds the shaft together
.
2.
Slide the shaft upwards a few inches and remove the blade from the shaft.
3.
Slide the Mulch Basket onto the shaft, slide the collar back onto the shaft under the blade,
re-connect the shaft and slide the collar over the break in the shaft.
4.
Put the “spring pin” in the lower hole on the shaft (for the Mulch Basket) and clip the spring
onto the shaft using the hook. The “spring pin” holds the spinner blade in place and stops the
collar from moving upwards so that the shaft will not separate.
5.
Reverse instructions for replacing the regular spinner blade. The only difference would be that
you must pin the regular blade using the upper hole on the spinner shaft. It’s easy. The upper
hole is for the regular spinner blade, the lower hole is for the Mulch Basket.
