Old box wagon followed me home

A good friend left me this old wagon. I?m going to get the hoist in working order and then put it to good use. I plan to fill it with firewood for the winter, hopefully haul hay bales with it come summer, and maybe even haul a little dirt in it for the garden. I know it?s just an old wagon but I?m very happy to have it and to save another good piece from the scrapers.

Very nice!!! Had to flip it for you.

Look like you will need a good seat belt and also some way to hold the load in since it looks like it will all fall out. LOL

Those old wagons are versatile. I have seven old wagons I use for storage. Five of these wagons used to be grain haulers for my dad years ago and then for me when I started farming. They will never leave the farm as long as I am still alive.

That's better

It holds more this way Jim

LOL. I?m sorry I can?t figure out how to turn a pic from this phone. Thanks for straightening me up!

I swear I?ve taken pictures from every angle on this phone and they look right when I upload them. I can?t seem to figure out how to turn them from this phone. Anyway thanks guys now my firewood won?t fall out of it!

Dad and I built two box wagons in the 50's. One had conventional "auto" steer, the other was an old wood wagon steer gear (front axle pivots on a center pin), with car axles replacing the wood axles. We hauled grains with the boxes on, hay and straw bales with the boxes off.
Helping a local dairy farmer bring in straw, a friend and I worked behind a hired baler. We used the dairyman's 2 wagons first. 64 bales (2 rows of 4 high and 8 long) per load would be 8 fork sets of 8 bales each.
After loading the third wagon (my dad's "auto" steer) the same way, we realized that there would be more than 64 bales left to load. Remember, we are behind the baler.
The contract baler was also a local farmer and was busting our butts running a little faster than would be normal, all the while smiling.
We got to 64, added 2 more layers of 16 bales, one row of 8 more down the middle and one single bale on top, total of 8 bales high.
I pulled that load about one mile to the dairy farm on a gravel road. My friend had to get off the top bale to go under wires across the road.
You know that the county grader always left a curb at driveways. The farmer came out yelling that I was going to dump his straw in the ditch. Nope, ain't gunna happen.
I made a wide swing and very, very slowly eased that wagon into the driveway. The wagon swayed but did not tip. WHEW!
His son came out with a camera and took a picture. I have never seen it.

My little center steer wagon with Model A Ford running gear. I redid most of the deck last summer with 2X6 treated wood.

Looks great. I like those spoke rims

Sounds like a load of straw we had for the neighbor one time. 4 or 5 of us all teenagers put up straw for him and naturally being young and strong we put a lot more on the wagon than we should have. My buddy driving the tractor only knew to speeds stop and wide open. Well he took a corner way to fast headed for the barn. Dumped the whole load right in the middle of the road! So we had the fun of loading it all again. Back then tho it was more fun than work to us. Ahh to be young again!

I want to try too. Warmed it a bit.

Wow that looks better thank you

Your very wecome. Really....get some young kid to load this APP. in your smart phone. You can do all kinds of neat stuff with this photo program. Simple to use, just play around with it. Best thing.....it's FREE.

Sure that M can pull it loaded? Use ood used engine oil on the floor let it soak up all it can

Must be a bug going around.
This Oliver flair box followed me home today too

Brings back memories. Pa built 2 of those before my time. He put hoists under both. On one of the wagons he used Plymouth spindles and rims so when it came for tire service you had to remember the right side lug nuts were left hand threads. They were used for rock picking in the spring, hay/straw wagons through the summer, then were used for grain, silage, and cob corn. I can remember the false fronts and ratchet used for silage unloading in the long hopper blower. When the crops were in they got used for fire wood haulers. Along about ?76 Pa bought 2 Rex silage boxes and Built 2 longer hay wagons. That?s when he redid the floors of the old barge boxes. One got rail road lumber and tin overlay for grain. There other got rail road lumber and box car cat walks which was about a 1/8?x2? strip with 1-1/4? holes punch out. That one got dedicated to a rock wagon, but both continued being cob corn and wood haulers.

Came out right my i phone, it?s the compucker people who have it upside down etc, depending on the brand of phone you have, take the picture with the camara at the top left corner!

If that pic makes sense

LOL I guess we?ll soon find out!

That?s exactly what I needed to know. Mine?s an I phone as wellI. always looks right to me but not to anyone else. I was beginning to think i was cockeyed or something! I might take a pic of the project tractor I?m working on tomorrow the way you showed me. Thanks a lot.

I would need about 30 or more of those loads to get through the winter with. That would be heaped up high too.