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kev@IA

12-03-2000 08:32:32




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We used to have one of these, used a winch and cable to lift the front of your wagon up to dump. Bigest drawback is using diffrent size wagons. Used a tumbleing shaft to run it, with a speed jack one tractor could run it and the elevator too! Haven't seen it used since I was 6, anyone have more info?
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Knut

12-03-2000 15:25:33




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 Re: Drive over wagon hoist in reply to kev@IA, 12-03-2000 08:32:32  
We had two different hoists you are taking about.
One was made of Angle Iron that stood 10' high and you drove through the center with the tractor and wagan and the later one had 4" pipe about 4'high on the sides that had pulley mounted at the top of the pipe for the cable to past over and lift the wheel cradle. Our neighbor had a speed jack which hooked to the jack shafts you are talking about that had a large wheel on top with arm going out he would hook a horse to and the horse walked round and round in a circle to provide the power to turn the shafts running the elevator a

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tim[in]

12-03-2000 13:01:52




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 Re: Drive over wagon hoist in reply to kev@IA, 12-03-2000 08:32:32  
doesnt anyone remember "false" endgates? that you cranked by hand? i saw one in a book that was cranked back by electric motor. a neighbor had 3 wagons with these and a new idea 2 row mounted picker and trailing husking bed from the 50 s mounted on zb minnie. loved to see him coming up road to pick corn!=)one of my fondest memories.! when i started farming used granfathers wagon and shoveled like he did till i bought elevator. then got a sears hopper wagon with the metal bed that folded down into a flatbed for hay. it had rocking bolster and with slip plate on hopper floor was best ear corn wagon i ever saw. bar none!!never used it as hay wagon. beat my jd with hoist that wouldnt stay still all to hell!!wish i had succumed to "efficiency and put huge sideboards on and overloaded it . scrap metal now! never did have much luck with so called efficiencies and so called modern practices. just another way to go broke faster!

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paul

12-04-2000 18:38:06




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 Re: Re: Drive over wagon hoist in reply to tim[in], 12-03-2000 13:01:52  
Yea, the neighbors all got together to chop corn silage, rigged up all the barge boxes with higher sides & a false endgate, with cable to the back, wound around a pipe. Was driven by a tractor pto, which drove a old tranny on a little cart, which geared it down real slow & ran the pipe which wound the cable which pulled the silage off. Later the tractor was replaced with an electric motor.

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tim[in

12-06-2000 03:38:17




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 Re: Re: Re: Drive over wagon hoist in reply to paul, 12-04-2000 18:38:06  
how long did it take to unload a wagon like that? been over 30 years since i saw them used for ear corn and kinda forgot!



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Bayou Dave

12-03-2000 12:47:48




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 Re: Drive over wagon hoist in reply to kev@IA, 12-03-2000 08:32:32  
We had one inside the crib. The elevator was located inside along one wall of the driveway. Haul a wagon across it, stopping when the front wheels were in the cradle, unhitch from the truck or tractor, let the elevator extention down behind the wagon, and open the end-gate. After the ear corn quit flowing, you would operate a hand clutch that would engage the winch raising the front of the wagon. Pulling back on the same hand clutch operated a friction brake. The whole thing operated off the electric motor driving the elevator. There was a wooden ladder going up between the elevator buckets to the top of the crib. The discharge shoot had to be monitored when the crib started to get full. Of course no one ever shut down the elevator before climbing to the top, it's a wonder no one ever got tangled up in something. The elevator is still being used however shell corn is fed in with an auger from the outside into the bottom of the elevator.

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Fudd

12-03-2000 09:13:35




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 Re: Drive over wagon hoist in reply to kev@IA, 12-03-2000 08:32:32  
Yeah, we used one too, don't remember who made it but I think JD made them at one time. The dump wagon with it's own hoist made them obsolete. You had to be really carefull pulling the wagon out from them. If the wagon caught in the cradle it would tip over and land about where the seat on the tractor was. Before we got ours I had to shovel everything off by hand.



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IaGuy

12-03-2000 11:46:33




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 Re: Re: Drive over wagon hoist in reply to Fudd, 12-03-2000 09:13:35  
I didn't think anybody remembered the "shovelling board" the long fold up special endgate you put into the regular endgate grooves in the "triple box". Shovelling kept teenagers home and tired! Shovelling by the light of a Coleman lantern! Leonard



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Fudd@Work

12-03-2000 17:12:22




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 Re: Re: Re: Drive over wagon hoist in reply to IaGuy, 12-03-2000 11:46:33  
We called them scoup boards. More kids now days need to know what they are.



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