How do you muck spread without a proper spreader?

[kit279]

I've got a lot of good well-rotted muck heap (manure only, 2 years old) which I'd like to spread on our bottom paddock which is being rested over the winter so not going to have horses on it until March or April. The problem is that I don't have a proper spreader - I've got a 4x4 and harrow which works well but I've never spread thus far.

How does every one else do it?

 

[Dry Rot]

Farmers have spread manure for centuries....by hand! Carted out and put into little piles in rows, then spread by hand with a fork. I've done a few acres in my time.

But, seriously, maybe a neighbouring farmer would come in with a tractor, loader, and muck spreader?

 

[StarcatcherWilliam]

Yep, I've done it by hand too, which normally involves pushing a wheelbarrow of the stuff miles (often uphill!), tipping it out, then flicking it around with a fork. Then the field gets chain harrowed. What fun (a great work out though lol).