RE: rock and a hard place
do you have a tractor? when i buy fert from the grain elevator i get a buggy type spreader to spread the fert. i also use it to spread lime. it takes 2 people. one to drive the tractor and another to sort of feed the lime out the conveyor with a shovel.
there is also my patented "pickup truck and leaf blower" method.
lime costs $6/ton here.