Re: Re: Re: David Bradley Wagon

Posted by Elden Denning on February 09, 2001 at 16:39:48 from (216.93.119.242):

In Reply to: Re: Re: David Bradley Wagon posted by JohnG(TX) on February 09, 2001 at 13:48:39:

Hi Again!
Yeah, the Sears tags were usually where you found yours. Here in Hillsdale Co., MI where I live, Wards "Lo-Load" wagon trucks(or chassis, I guess you could say) were more popular but there were some Sears around. The racks here had stake pockets at the ends of the two main bed pieces that held vertical 2 X 4 uprights whatever length the standards were high plus what went into the pocket, short ones for grain use and 5-6 foot ones for hauling hay-straw-fodder-etc. Sides for grain fit into a vertical slot on the ends of the short grain box end standards(made with 2-1 X 2 inch cleats bolted to the ends. Down the edges of the floor a 2 X 2 or a 2 X 4 was bolted to the ends of the cross pieces which served to retain the bottom of the upright sides and to provide a sort of strong edge for the floor. Then a cross light weight chain or two was strung across the upper area of the sides to keep them from "bulging out when the load filled in". We use to build our own racks because we had a sawmill and used native rough-cut lumber for the frame pieces-usually white oak. We even built 3 chopper wagons following plans from the Gehl Co., who built the field chopper and blower we bought.
Gehl furnished the hardware for those wagons too, they were a self unloading type using a winched back sliding endgate method. I sure remember fixing a lot of flat tires on those wagons until we got them all converted to 6 or 8 ply tires. The old Wards wagons stood up real well though.
Well, once again I got carried away-sorry. Take care. Elden

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