Where is your place? I got Selma Co-Op to come spread a truckload (25 tons?) a couple years ago and it was around $1250 as best I recall. They hauled it there in a dump trailer, dumped it, brought a loader and a spreader truck and loaded and spread it. All we had to do was write a check and provide someone to meet and show the driver all the fields.

If you’re within 50 miles of the Co-Op and don’t need over a spreader truck load (5-7 tons?) I’d let them spread it. Gotta have decent roads that the truck can get down without branches and limbs breaking mirrors off the truck.

One thing that made it real attractive to us was none of us had a tractor with a loader that would reach high enough to load a spreader truck or even a tall lime buggy.