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Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2025
Assembly took some improvising by removing the cable retainer to allow slack for the support to attach to the hopper. Other than that, it is a great spreader and the left-side shut-off is a very good feature for a tow-behind. It makes doing the border that much easier and saves you up several pounds of fertilizer that could otherwise go into the tree line, neighbor's yard, or the road. This isn't too useful on the walk-behind because you can see where it goes and adjust accordingly, but it's very nice to have for the tow-behind model.
Dennis Chrzan
Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2024
Specified minor assy required! Understatement. One part was defective. Earthwsy sent a replacement part and the wheel axel assy needed to be assembled. Instruction manual only had a parts breakdown!Besides that the product is great. Works well!
Darla
Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2024
First of all the instructions were pathetic, you can't even make out what the photos they are sharing, super poor quality. Second, you might as well be reading Chinese, nothing makes sense and additionally they start by saying "after the wheel have been installed, yet you have to install them and it isn't easy to figure out with some odd pieces.Lastly, this has to be the cheapest piece of crap EarthWay produces, super low quality and I would never recommend.
Old Limey
Reviewed in Canada on May 19, 2022
Overall the preader seems to be well made, but there are some issues. 1 - the assembly instructions are poor or non-existent other than a diagram of the parts. 2 - access to bolt on the frame is difficult unless you have tiny hands. 3 - There are some design issues, particularly in the attachment of the wheels. Unless you are prepared to do some re-engineering I would avoid this product.
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2022
I have been a earthway fan for 20+ years. I have the push commercial spreader for my home. Moved to a new house that has 1.5 acres to seed/fertilize, decided to pick this up to make life easier. It’s a terrible spreader. You can set the setting and start to move and nothing comes out (seed, any Scott’s fertilizer ). I have to get off, repeatedly open and close, shake the spreader, put my finger up the opening to get anything to come out, this is extremely frustrating as it takes a couple minutes to “get going” every time you refill, let alone the amount of material wasted. Very disappointed in this Earthway. I have zero problems with my walk behind spreader.
JRB
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2015
I was look for a spreader for my zero radius lawnmower. This mowers has the motor in the back and it's not easy to reach the spreader control. After reading the reviews I thought I would try and found that I had to get off the lawnmower to turn it on or turn it off. After a couple of bags I solve this problem with buying a lawnmower control cable. I unhooked the factory cable at the bottom and attach the new cable and brought it over to the lawnmower and held it in place with big hand clamp. This worked quite well. I wish I got a 5 foot cable instead of a 4 but they only had a 4.As I have two large dogs my backyard is quite bumpy and that is why I was spreading palletized line. I found the spreader worked very well never sliding or tipping.It held the 40 lb. bags. I'm thinking that 80 lbs. of lime would fill the hopper to the very top.
Tarkis Emmons (Emmons Island Haunted Trail)
Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2012
I would have to say that no engineer built/developed this thing,if one did they received their degree from the bottom of a cracker jack box. Putting this thing together was a bit of a challenge due to the placement of the bolts you need to tighten. It was very clear that the product I received had been put together once before, because the three areas that you need to screw/tighten were all scratched to hell (yep right out of box) One would think that they would of sent me a new unit (that's what I paid for) but it was clear that the unit I received was used before I got it. Once together it did the job, but required some skill to not tip the unit on turns. Save your money for something else, do not buy this unit.
Arthur Senior
Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2010
ASSEMBLY: I just love it when a product says "semi-assembled" don't you? Its another way of saying, "were lying to you, you pretty much have to assemble the whole thing." The only thing which is already assembled, is the gearbox unit. You have to attach the hopper to the frame, controller to the frame, and the wheels. Though most of it was easy to assemble, I do take issue with the hopper fastening design. Specifically the part where you have to insert the carriage bolts to fasten the hopper to the frame.After tightening down the nuts on these bolts, I noticed the bolt heads were wanting to pull through the holes in the plastic hopper! I just knew that it was not going to last more then one use. So I installed a couple of washers and that seemed to fix the issue. Though they do provide you with instructions, they are poorly written and require you to do more thinking then you generally want to do for something so simple.GEARBOX & WARNING; Incase you didn't know, the Earthway 2050TP is a low end model, this is why it costs around $160.00, now is $92.00. Despite what is mentioned in the SPECS, the gearbox is far from commercial! The insides of the gearbox are all plastic, which means, if you abuse this spreader, the gearbox will fail. The manual states a warning to all operators. DO NOT EXCEED 3-MPH WITH YOUR TRACTOR WHILE TOWING THIS ATTACHMENT! As long as you adhere by this warning, you should not have any problems with the gearbox.HOPPER CAPACITY: The hopper has a 1900 cubic inch, or 80-pound capacity. What this means is, when your hopper is fully filled to its rated capacity, you must use the proper setting on the controller to spread the fertilizer around. If you are unsure about what setting to use, don't worry. On the back of every bag of fertilizer, they provide instructions for all the major brands of spreaders and which settings to use per yard sise.OPERATING: Again, please make sure while operating this lawn spreader to move no faster then 3MPH with your tractor, I use 2MPH as a golden rule. Make sure the lever on the controller is in the off position till you get onto your lawn. Then, move the lever to the proper setting that you are recommended to use. As you start moving, you will notice the deflection wheel rotating, this is what throws your fertilizer around.Using fertilizer, I found that this spreader did a pretty good job, it did spread evenly for the most part. I just moved slowly and made wide turns with it and I never dumped the hopper. As the hopper got low, I had to get off my tractor to shake the hopper to get the rest of the fertilizer to fall downward. I was mostly happy about the performance of the spreader.Using Insect Killer, If you read my "lawn roller" review, you may recall me telling you that the best weapon against the moles is a insect killer. Kill the insects, and the moles leave! You can also buy insect killer for lawn spreaders, it is also a dry based product but with one difference. I find that the insect killer is made up of larger granules then that of the more powder based Weed & Feed.Because of this, even when I used the proper setting as written on the back of the bag, the insect killer did not want to flow right. This is because the granules are just too big to get through the tiny hole and get stuck. When I adjusted the controller setting at a higher number to compensate for this, it began to flow out way to quickly and I went through it all before I even got to the back yard!CONCLUSION: I think that this is a pretty good spreader for the money, its not really that expensive. It spreads fertilizer pretty evenly for the most part, and I am over all happy with the product. However, the spreader not being able to handle an insect killer despite being rated to do so, is very disappointing. I am also very weary of the plastic gearbox. Despite the product having the word "Estate" in the title, I highly suggest you do not use it on your estate as it won't hold up. If you really have a 3 to 6 acre estate, buy the best spreader you can buy.
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