Posted by Don-WI on January 26, 2009 at 16:46:29 from (72.135.123.231):
In Reply to: Re: Hay wagon posted by Leroy on January 26, 2009 at 16:32:17:
Lots of those wagons didn't hold near as much hay, so they were lighter. I personally have never seen a wagon built with just 1 2x8 per side for stringers. Atleast 2 of them fastened together, absolutely.
Most people who use wagons now don't have such small tractors anymore (8N, 2N, 9N...) and nobody who builds these wagons pulls them around with horses.
Myself, I would rather overbuild and be able to overload without worry than underbuild and tear it up with a load that's about 10 bales too big. Whenever 1 of the 2 hickory trees go down that we have in our feild, it's going to the sawmill and getting turned into usable lumber.
Bigger wagons are much more usable than small ones. Changing a tire isn't any worse than a wider running gear on soft ground. On a solid surface and with the wagon properly kept from rolling (hitched to tractor for example) you can easily change a tire under a loaded wagon with a bottle jack of the right size.
In this area, as well as many others, 8' is as small as wagons go. Kickers are almost exclusively 9' wide, atleast 18' long. Flats are ussually 8x16. We use 2 that are 8x18 and they hold 1 more row of bales.
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