Finished a wagon project, well almost

[super99]

That would help but we’re trying to get away from high sided flair and gravity beds
Many of our fields are not flat and have water ways, every year at some point we had the elevator come down and strike the front of the wagon, about every year I have to straighten out the cob deflector on the elevator
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Add one 1x12 flared out on each side, back far enough to clear the elevator and nothing on the back.

 

[super99]

Looks to me like it needs more lift angle to dump out clean. Maybe just me also. I like them to just about stand on end so I'm not climbing in there to shovel out product of any sort.

The only way to get it to raise higher would be to shorten the wheel base.

 

[Destroked 450]

30 miles west of Rock Island

I have cousins in the Galesburg area and in Wyoming

 

[JWinIndiana]

Or build a square frame over the triangulated frame and move the hoist back to that frame member then.

 

[Destroked 450]

I had a few acres of corn still in the field so we tried out the wagon, the wagon worked great with no issues unloading the ear corn at its low dump angle, not planning to haul dirt or gravel with it so it’ll be find for grain
I did make one small mistake in my choice of hydraulic hoses connecting the wagon cylinder to the tractor, since Ford tractors are well known for their low volume hydraulic pumps and the fact I have a larger inventory of 3/8” hydraulic hose than 1/2” I used 3/8
I didn’t take into account the reduced return flow rate it would have on a 6” single action cylinder, so the bed goes down pretty slow, otherwise I call it a success
Wish I could say that for everything else with the injection pump going down on the second round, burying everything in the field the next day in the one wet spot in that field, and the blower belt on the picker breaking so there’s a good bit of chaff in the corn
Had a spare inj pump so we’ll deal with the failed one later, around here getting stuck in the mud is just part of farming, we’ll replace the blower belt before next season’s harvest, the corn will be ground for cow feed so the chaff isn’t a issue like it would be for market corn

 

[Leroy]

That would help but we’re trying to get away from high sided flair and gravity beds
Many of our fields are not flat and have water ways, every year at some point we had the elevator come down and strike the front of the wagon, about every year I have to straighten out the cob deflector on the elevator
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I had the elevator hit the beds but never any dammage. But low sides every little bit an ear is over the sides and lost. Sounds like you need a longer toung on the wagon. Or somebody to walk behind the wagon picking up ears that have missed the bed. The Oliver picker had a lower elevator and had that over the side ear problem, The John Deere 227 mounted picker higher elevator and did not hit the bed on the hopper beds and did not have that over the side problem. Is there a way to make the elevator set higher? some pickeres have that adjustment. But to me it looks like you will loose about a fifth of the ears over the side or back end with things being that low. And tried using a flair sided box and every thing over the side.

 

[caterpillar guy]

Well for the waterways we keep them in sod so they are pretty level smooth they are not always. That keeps the ditches out of the field then for the elevator why not just use an old oner and extend it about a foot or so. then it would not be such it would bang the deflector on the wagon if you raised it some. Can always ad a board or so on the sides for an ear stop and the back so they don't fall off the back. We use truck frames for some of the wagons we have so mounting hoist far enough back to dump out is fine and if needed I will use a longer or heavier hoist to lift the load.

 

[Rich'sToys]

I had the elevator hit the beds but never any dammage. But low sides every little bit an ear is over the sides and lost. Sounds like you need a longer toung on the wagon. Or somebody to walk behind the wagon picking up ears that have missed the bed. The Oliver picker had a lower elevator and had that over the side ear problem, The John Deere 227 mounted picker higher elevator and did not hit the bed on the hopper beds and did not have that over the side problem. Is there a way to make the elevator set higher? some pickeres have that adjustment. But to me it looks like you will loose about a fifth of the ears over the side or back end with things being that low. And tried using a flair sided box and every thing over the side.

He just said he tried it out and it worked great. No need to fix something that isn't broken.

I had a few acres of corn still in the field so we tried out the wagon, the wagon worked great with no issues unloading the ear corn at its low dump angle, not planning to haul dirt or gravel with it so it’ll be find for grain

 

[Destroked 450]

Our water ways are in sod but still have a dip, the dump raises high enough to unload the corn so I don’t see the need to change it. Wagon hoist are rare in this area and for no more than we’ll do with the wagon I can’t justify the cost of a newer larger, longer hoist, the flair box has the same hoist so I’ll probably use it if I build another dump wagon unless another hoist becomes available cheap

 

[SweetFeet]

Been working on a wagon to haul ear corn in, getting ear corn out of a gravity bed is a bit of work for me these days, my little flair box dump wagon is to narrow and several ears are lost over the sides in our not straight fields
So I built this 12ft flat with sides and extensions to how around 70 bushels
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Did I mention that it has a hydraulic scope shovel

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Just needs paint but at 20 degrees and no heated shop to paint in that will have to wait

Very nice!

And it is not a bad thing to let the wood age/dry more, before painting it.

 

[super99]

I have cousins in the Galesburg area and in Wyoming

I'm about an hour and a half from Galesburg

 

[paul]

Very nice.

We picked corn from when I was old enough to hook hitch pins into the early 2000s. Mostly a pair of 100bu barge boxes like yours but with the narrower end gate not all the way across; and a narrow old triple box for emergency use. Used those 3 for decades as dad and uncle picked corn together, 80-100 acres. Moved to 200bu Parker gravity wagons at the end. Much preferred the gravity wagons, but was unloading into an elevator so the full across gate would not have worked, I can see where you will get along well with that for your needs.

Of course the 100bu barge boxes and 200bu gravity boxes really only hold about half that in cob corn. It became difficult to hold a round of corn on a wagon as corn yields went from 50 bu to sometimes spots over 200bu in those decades.

good memories. I still pick a wagon or three of ear corn a year.

Paul

 

[flying belgian]

Very nice.

We picked corn from when I was old enough to hook hitch pins into the early 2000s. Mostly a pair of 100bu barge boxes like yours but with the narrower end gate not all the way across; and a narrow old triple box for emergency use. Used those 3 for decades as dad and uncle picked corn together, 80-100 acres. Moved to 200bu Parker gravity wagons at the end. Much preferred the gravity wagons, but was unloading into an elevator so the full across gate would not have worked, I can see where you will get along well with that for your needs.

Of course the 100bu barge boxes and 200bu gravity boxes really only hold about half that in cob corn. It became difficult to hold a round of corn on a wagon as corn yields went from 50 bu to sometimes spots over 200bu in those decades.

good memories. I still pick a wagon or three of ear corn a year.

Paul

Hi Paul.
Took a load of bales to Sleepy Eye yesterday. Lunch at Karls Corner Essig. What's going on with the old elevator in Essig?

 

[560Dennis]

Nice wagon