you just have .5~1.0 ton of lime dumped into the back of your pickup. sit it the back with a leaf blower while someone else drives around your plot slowly (3-5 mph). you just blow the dry ag lime out the back of the truck. it has the consistency of fine sand. when i used a shovel, i always had clumps unless i really flung it. it's alot of work to fling a ton of lime. the leaf blower basically spreads it out evenly.

when I was done spreading the lime with the leaf blower, i couldn't tell it was there.

when i was done spreading the lime with a shovel, it looked like a pock marked landscape of different colors because the lime usually ends up in clumps and streaks.