Wood Kicker Wagons and Throwers

Bill VA

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You folks with wood kicker wagons and throwers - how to you keep the wooden kicker racks from spreading with a full load at the middle - half way back?

Mine are getting the job done, but I think I need some reinforcement.

Thanks,
Bill
 
I've always tied a rope or connected a light chain half way back and half way up. The top still spreads a bit but not a lot
 
What he said. Or build them with two middle uprights extending below the deck and add knee braces.
 
I made two right angie triangle braces for each side. One in the middle and one on the front end on both sides of the wagon. We just made a L out of 2? angie iron , with the base being 18?-2? long, and about 6? long on the 90 Degree section. Then welded a piece of pie in to make the angle. Bolted the shot section to the floor, and the long section up the side of the wagon. Keeps the sides and the fronts from spreading.
 

Everyone I see has a chain in there. Gives you something to trip over and fall on your face while unloading.
 
Bill,
I run a 2x6 laid flat on top of your uprights, that stiffens it a lot.
Another thing I want to try on my next one is to extend the middle uprights on each side down, and brace them back to the frame
Pete
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I've seen them right about face height and up top. Either way, something to trip over or smack you in the face. I don't see a way around it either. You'd have to do a lot of bracing to keep wood from flexing.
 
(quoted from post at 08:43:51 06/09/18) I would have thought the chain or rope would have been at the top of the racks.

Okay Bill, now I know where the confusion is. Around here I've seen a lot of people stack on a "kicker" rack when it starts getting full. I even know one guy that had a kid in the kicker rack piling while he was kicking bales into the rack! That kid should have gotten combat pay! In cases like that you end up tripping over the chain/rope. Sorry for the confusion.
 
A friend put 4" channel across under the bed about midway, then welded 4" channel uprights to it making a big "U". That don't spread a-tall! LOL
 
Was just a chain, possibly 2 to keep from spreading, and that chain did not hurt the bale. Had a bar across top front to hold front together but the thrower would pitch the bales under the bar unlike a Deere kicker. These were the flat bed grain wagons we took the bale sides of for other grain harvesting. 1970s-1981. Local hay buyer had same setup only he unloaded from side and we unloaded fron front.
 

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