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anderson farms

02-13-2006 23:20:24




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Bought a grain wagon at a sale Saturday. It is in real nice shape but could use a fresh coat of paint. The wheels and running gear are red and the wood bed is a "oliver" green looking color. Anybody know what kind it is and what paint to use. Thanks for any help




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J.C.H.

02-14-2006 08:39:48




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 Re: wagon in reply to anderson farms, 02-13-2006 23:20:24  
A Wagon Making Company was in buisness for a long time in Ottawa Ill. The company Name was "Formhals and Son" and thier Wagons were Painted the same as you discribed. I had one of them in the early 1960's which I used to Sow Oats using a IHC End Gate Seeder. It was a Wooden wheeled Gear with a shortened Tongue with a triple Board Box.By coincidence that Company was still in buisness in the Winter of 1959 as I bought a 1960 Pontiac Catalina from thier Dealership then.

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Ducknose Bob

02-14-2006 05:47:59




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 Re: wagon in reply to anderson farms, 02-13-2006 23:20:24  
Because a lot of running gears/boxes were a regional thing, it might help to know where you are.
Wooden Boxes were typically painted whatever colour a person wanted after the new wore off.
My Dad had 3 wood Heider barge boxes, all painted dark green with white extenstions and flares, and an Anthony steel barge box that was faded red, with white extensions and flares.
My uncles had 5 John Deere varnished wood boxes, that never spent a night outside.
Obviously the John Deere gears were green with yellow wheels. Electric Wheel running gears were red, as were Westendorf, which were made at Smithland, Iowa, and now are made at the old Wilson trailer plant at Onawa.
I always thought a red wood box, with white sideboards and flares, on a Westendorf gear, with its white rims, looked snazzy.

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