When I was farming, I had two 300 bushel gravity box wagons that I pulled together. With sideboards, I could scale over 600 bushels. BUT, I was only a mile and a half from the elevator.
I pulled them with a D19 Allis, 'cause my 856 wouldn't fit across the scale with the duals on. I only traveled in 3rd high on the road loaded 'cause I didn't have that far to go. There was a concrete pad on the scale, and the guys at the elevator joked that they always knew when I was hauling grain by the peel marks the rear tires on the D19 made on the scale. After I was weighed and dropped the clutch to leave the scale, both rear wheels would turn about a quarter turn before anything else moved.
Frankly, I'd be hesitant about hauling 50 acres of grain ten miles with gravity wagons. I'm not sure where you are, but most larger farmers here in eastern Nebraska went to semis, so there are plenty of single axle grain trucks on the market. You could probably buy something like a respectable C60 Chevy with a 16' box for not much more than you would pay for gravity wagons with the same capacity.
Plus, it would be faster, simpler, and far safer. When I came back from the elevator empty with the gravity wagons, it was like Russian roulette. I had to make a left turn into my field road and I never had any idea what was behind me.
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