Please help identify and value.

travistodd1

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Hello, I just picked this up today on a whim in hopes of saving it from a scrap pile. I'm mostly a hot rod guy but love any American iron. I think it's either a 953 or 963 but don't know how to tell the difference. It has leaf spring suspension and brakes on the rear axle. Someone welded a 2" ball hitch to the tongue. It seems pretty straight to me and the steering is tight. The wood is very rotten and I am removing it. I can take more photos but it probably will need to wait for sun up. Should I build a new bed for it or make a hayride set up? Unfortunately, I am not in the most agricultural part of Arizona... a lot of sand and rock here...

Thanks in advance!
 
That is an interesting description, without the picture coming through it could be a manure spreader, a disk, or a wagon! :)

Paul
 
Good wagon they have some value usually 500 on up. Does it have the master cylinder on it or is that gone. It came with brakes on all four wheels. I have a 953 with the spring but no brakes. Good luck Gordy in Mn
 

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Is the draw bar channel iron plated on the bottom or just open channel? The 963 has the reinforced draw bar.
 
Spring suspension reduces value for a farm wagon, makes it hard to load bales on. Never seen a model with brakes. But the 953 gear rated at 4 ton was the most popular gear sold in these parts. Heavier built than a lot of 6 ton rated gears. Hoists were not popular around so don't know much about them. Just the gear at sales will bring up to $900 depending on condition. I can pay if I find one at auction for $650 or less buy it for my Amish friends to put on there machinery lot for resale so add in what I get for handling it, then what he has to make for handling it and see the price you would come up with. Then realixe that most of them will have the rubber tires taken off and steel wheels at $80 each put on to come up with a final price just for the gear to the farmer that needs a wagon. The 963 I think has a slightly heavier rear axle and is rated at 5 ton.
 
For sure it's a 953. You can build a hay ride wagon similar to the parade wagon I built on a 952 - almost identical to a 953 except the hubs are a tiny bit different. I pay around $400 for my running gears for my wagon building hobby. I've bought JD 952, 953, 962, Gehl 500, New Idea 629 - all lightweights for about $400 each.
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