Yardworks Tow-Behind Broadcast Spreader 85 pound Capacity

Gear box has an excessive amount of resistance/binding. At times, it would lock up, and with 50 LBS of material in this 85LB capacity spreader, the wheels experienced so much resistance from the gear box, they would not turn, but skid on the lawn!Fought with it for 3 seasons with acceptable results once it got going, but opening the season this year (= about 3 total hours of use), the gear box connection to the axle gave up and shattered. Good grief.SO - checked with M Nards, and surprise! you can buy replacement gearboxes! So I ordered one. Again, good grief. This thing is bound up so bad, absolutely ZERO effort on manufacturer's part to improve this atrocious piece of engineering. I know now why I fought so hard with the first one, and clearly, I'll be doing the same after I rebuild the stupid thing. Such a huge waste of time, money, and more trash for the landfill.We've been had, folks.Perhaps we should all just get off our tractors, buy a push style spreader again. We'll get some exercise, save some money, some gasoline and keep our blood pressure under check.I give up.

throws to much toward tractor .

Today, my husband bought the Yardworks 125 lb. Broadcast spreader from Menards....We just spent two hours assembling it....Just a heads up....Step 4 states "Insert the assembled transmission to the hole on the bottom of the hopper assembly..." There was NO hole in the hopper , though an obvious circle stamped on the hopper showed where a hole should be. We drilled a hole and proceeded to assemble. Make sure the hole is large enough so the transmission shaft moves easily.

5-9-19 Bought the 85 lb push broadcast spreader, because I was fed up with green lines from my Scotts Edge Guard Deluxe. After a great deal of in person shopping, I purchased this one for $79 at Menards. Directions for assembly were spot on; finished in 20 min. and I'm reasonably handy. (Directions said it would take 15). Love the tires, spreader bin and all-steel construction. Worked beautifully first time on 15,000 sq ft lawn. No worries whatsoever. Comes with a more aggressive agitator which I may try as well. Will comeback if it doesn't hold up. Seems much stronger, with better product distribution than the plastic Scotts.

I bought one 5 years ago lasted 4.5 years and I was very happy with it. This one lasted 2 hrs.

Hard to put together correctly. Directions are poor. I have put 250 lbs of fertilizer down and wore out the plastic spinner. The product drop hole is very hard to get to stay in one position so you spread in different amounts. I would not purchase this if I had it to do over again.

MY son and daughter put it To gather in 15 min. every thing to put to gather was in the box. For 80 dollars it is a great buy. I filled it with 50 lb of fertilzer it spread like a champ. I realy like it best investment. Beats the new walk behind I just bought. If your 69 years old get this tow behind save you a lot of work!

I had the same problem as others, the axle bushings are on backwards from the factory, the instructions don't tell you to disassemble and put back together. An even bigger problem: fertilizer pellets get stuck in the mechanism that releases the fertilizer, so the door doesn't open all the time to let it spread fertilizer. Duh! I have cleaned the mechanism and it will work until you flies it once, then it "sticks" again. Buy something better.