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Nebraska Cowman 10-14-2012 09:47:57 166.182.3.201 Report to Moderator	does anyone have pictures they could share? This is a high arch wagon and i think I have only ever seen one. Were many produced? [Reply]   [No Email]
Lee E 10-14-2012 16:55:30 76.250.138.149 Report to Moderator	Re: Oliver 5th wheel wagon in reply to Nebraska Cowman, 10-14-2012 09:47:57   During the 1940s and 1950s Oliver purchased their wagon running gears from Electric Wheel. The 5th wheel design was one of several models made by Electric Wheel and sold to Oliver and some other companies. The 5th wheel design was not popular. As an Oliver dealer in Iowa at that time, we had only one and it set on the lot about a year and we finally sold it at a deep discount. The arched axle resulted in the grain bed height being several inches higher than the more comon wagon design.   [Reply]  [No Email]
oliver fan 10-14-2012 16:50:52 96.60.214.55 Report to Moderator	Re: Oliver 5th wheel wagon in reply to Nebraska Cowman, 10-14-2012 09:47:57   Over the years Oliver/Electric Wheel Co. built several models of fifth wheel wagons. The auto steer wagons were the more popular in the north and the fifth wheel more populer in the south, where they were used under cotton wagons. If you went down into the bootheal of Missouri, and worked your way south, you could fine lots of those wagons parked around cotton gins. They are not used anymore to move cotton. Now days the farmers build big cotton piles on the end of the field, or use the million dollar cotton harvesters that build and compress the big round or square bales right on the machine itself. Then they use big tandem axle trucks to pick up and move the cotton to the mills. Sorry, I don't have a way of posting pictures of the wagon running gears. I think Harvester built some fifth wheel wagons, also.   [Reply]  [No Email]
Nebraska Cowman 10-27-2012 10:18:22 166.182.3.72 Report to Moderator	Re: Oliver 5th wheel wagon in reply to oliver fan, 10-14-2012 16:50:52   here is a couple pics of one I found at a local collector sale. So...This would be a pretty rare wagon in the north?   [Reply]  [No Email]
Triple H Farms 01-19-2013 15:10:39 204.116.247.24 Report to Moderator	Re: Oliver 5th wheel wagon in reply to Nebraska Cowman, 10-27-2012 10:18:22   Anyone know where I can find replacement 16" rims for Electric Wheel Company wagon model 500? Thanks, GA small family farm.   [Reply]  [No Email]
Cordova Steve 03-25-2013 07:14:22 70.194.128.55 Report to Moderator	Re: Oliver 5th wheel wagon in reply to Triple H Farms, 01-19-2013 15:10:39   I"m looking for some myself. I"ll keep yoiu in mind if I find some if your still looking. My e-mail is cpo349@gmail.com. I"d really like some pictures of your 500 series EWC wagons. I am restoreing one now. The model / serial number tag is missing and I"ve done a bunch of research on them. My hub numbers are Q 455 A, that cross checks to a model 540, 541 and wards 431. Mine has a rocking front bolster (not spring) set up and looks to be originally a blueish green color. I"m still trying to narrow it down farther.   [Reply]  [No Email]