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Looking for plans/ideas to Reconstruct steel wheeled wagon

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Wade Rash

01-24-1999 07:26:10

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I have a neighbor who has an old steel wheeled horse drawn wagon that has been on the family farm near Gatesville ,Texas for many years and may have been built in that area. The old thing is just about rotted away except for some of the wooden support structure. The steel wheels and spindles are in very good shape. He wants to restore it to it's original condition as nearly as possible but has no idea what the original size, color, configuration, etc. was. It was probably built around 1900 and looks to have been designed for freight or other heavy hauling, probably about a ton looking at the wheels. Any ideas on finding design plans, especially front axle configuration or any photos would be appreciated.

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Matthew G. von Hobe

01-25-1999 11:47:20

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Re: looking for plans/ideas to Reconstruct steel wheeled wagon in reply to Wade Rash, 01-24-1999 07:26:10

Good new and bad news.....
Standardization and the concept of "interchangeable parts" were pretty foreign among the makers of horse-drawn equipment. i have books on wagon and carriage building, there are gazillions of diagrams and drawings in my favorite periodical, Small Farmers Journal, and at least twice a year I go to a horse-drawn equipment auction and if I held a tape measure against various parts of similar wagons they would all be different. In case you weren't sure, that was the bad new.
The good news is that you can likely choose how this wagon is going to look NOW and no one will be able to say "that don't look right", or if they do, you could sniff disdainfully at their remarks. I suppose the TX Historical Society might be a place to start if you're looking for info. about the outfit who made this rig to begin with.
As much as I think you will likely have to let go of the wish to restore it to original appearance, I also hope that doesn't discourage you from your project.
Boy, once all the paint flakes off the tiny bit of wood that's left, it's pretty much "guess and by golly". If there are any symbols or numbers stamped on, or cast into, the metal parts, there might be someone far brighter than I who could put those clues together. Might invest some time picking the brains of some of the old timers around those parts.
Regardless, get after it Wade! With luck, you might find you have the parts there that indicate you have what used to be a belly-dump wagon or some such.

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