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Hooking up wagons

super99

super99

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I'll offer a helpful tip for hooking up wagons. With the wagon hooked onto the tractor, park on a level spot. Get off of the tractor and remove the pin, move the tongue sideways and set on the ground under the tractor hitch. Get back on the tractor, set in the seat the same way you do when backing up to hook onto the wagon. See where the end of the tractor drawbar comes to on the wagon tongue. When you come back for a full wagon, back up until the drawbar is in the same place it was when you unhooked it. You can pick the tongue up and pull sideways and slide it onto the drawbar and the pin hole is lined up. If you can't move the wagon tongue, pull a pin and slide drawbar sideways and then back into the tongue. No more need to get on and off of the tractor several times trying to hook up the wagon. Your Welcome!!
 
I just cut a V in a scrap 2x4 and made a small stand for the tongue. I made it long enough to line up with the drawbar. Drill a hole so it can be wired on to the wagon. No moving the tongue around just back up to it.
 
Yup, that is good.

I hauled 3 sets of wagons with one tractor for decades, fill with the combine, then run the mile to the coop elevator with the three sets of wagons, repeat a couple times a day for most of October.

You get pretty good at positioning the tractor after a few weeks, and tired legs!

It can help to back up to the wagon at a 45 degree angle. There is a little play in the tractor hitch, and a little play in most wagon hitches. This allows you to be off an extra inch, and you can still get the pin wedged in using that little bit of side slop.

Paul
 
Well if ya had a FARMALL with FAST HITCH and you used the FAST HITCH DRAW BAR one can be real lazy on hooking to stuff and you could never leave the seat . No more sore backs from them extra heavy tongs , no more jacking up heavy stuff layen on the ground.
Everybody needs one fast hitch tractor in the stable.
 
(quoted from post at 07:42:05 10/22/20) Getting wagons triple hitched is the hard part! Tough to back double hitched wagons up to the last one.
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You're doing it backwards. You back the second wagon up to the third, then unhook and go grab the first wagon. Then you never have to back up more than one wagon.
 
Cant take 3 wagons down the road here so have only done 3 very rarely, way back with 100bu barge boxes that was easy pull them by hand on a slope to hook.
Probably be useful to pull 3 in the shed overnight if weather is coming, but such a hassle to hook up I just pull 2 in, then back a dingle in behind them.

Paul
 
I keep a 15 inch long or so piece of wood hooked on the front of my wagons and a small block of wood. I use the block on the tire and the long piece under the tongue to prop it up about drawbar height when I unhook the wagon. To rehook it I backup the tractor so the drawbar lines up to he hitch on wagon just a little to one side or the other of the tongue. Then just slide the tongue over a bit and rehook. Its kinda Mickey Mouse but saves me getting on and off the tractor more than once hooking my old wagons up.
 

I do the same thing.

I do pull two wagons at times, it's harder to hitch the second one one, but usually get close enough to roll it in place.

Of course hitching the wagons with the telescoping hitch you can be less careful.
 
If you have long telescoping tongues turn the tongue on the wagon just a bit then drive by at about 45 degree angle telescope the tongue out to first wagon and drop in pin then just pull ahead a bit to straighten out and back up to latch tongue. Some of our tongues have a counter weight spring making the tongue fairly light.
 
My job, from about 8 years old, was to hook wagons for my dad. When I was old enough to do the driving, I didn't have anyone to help. So I had to learn to back up better.
For fun one time, with the Farmall H hooked to the Dearborn one row corn picker and 2 wagons behind, I tried to back up. LOL About 20 feet had every thing jackknifed without bending or breaking anything.
 
Back when we had the dairy each of the four hay wagons had a dedicated tractor but we had telescoping tongues on the green chop and silage wagons, made life a bit easier.
 
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