Finished another project today!!! New Round bale mover

Posted by JD Seller on July 19, 2013 at 20:54:15 from (208.126.196.144):

I bought a gravity wagon and running gear at a sale 8-10 years ago. The gravity box was a real nice 400 Bushel Parker one. The running gear was a 10 ton Electric gear. It was not heavy enough for the gravity box. So I bought a 14 ton Meyers wagon for the gravity box. The Electric 10 ton wagon just set in the weeds since then. I kept in in the back of my mind for some kind of use.

I got it out last week and cleaned it up. I had to rebuild the telescoping tongue as it was messed up. I replaced all the bearings and seals. Than fresh coat of paint and two new tires and the wagon was done.

While cleaning up the wagon I found the name plate. I never knew what the full company name was for Electric wagons. There were a lot of them around here years ago. The name plate read: Firestone Electric Wheel Company, Quincy, IL. Never new Firestone owned them. Looked on the Internet and it seems that Titan Tire now owns it. Just found that interesting.

The bale mover/rack is a full 10 ft. wide and 24 ft long. I had to lengthen the coupling pole to get the wheels where I wanted them. The main tubes are 4 x 8 x 1/4 walled square tubing. The cross tubes are 3 x 4 x 5/16 walled tubing. I placed a lot of gussets at angles to brace everything and to keep the tubes supported.

I have a factory built one and the tubes are breaking all of the time. They are lighter metal and it has fewer gussets.

So the final mover will hold 8 bales on the bottom and I will more than likely stack 3 more on top. We have the quick hitches for the chopper boxes and one of them will fit this wagon tongue. So it should work real nice for bring bales in.

I think it turned out fairly well.

Replies:

• Re: Finished another project today!!! New Round bale mover donjr 15:01:37 07/21/13 (2)
  • Re: Finished another project today!!! New Round bale mover JD Seller 19:08:40 07/21/13 (1)
    • Re: Finished another project today!!! New Round bale mover donjr 21:30:33 07/21/13 (0)
• Re: Finished another project today!!! New Round bale mover Formerly PaMike 15:04:00 07/20/13 (1)
  • Re: Finished another project today!!! New Round bale mover JD Seller 21:15:31 07/20/13 (0)
• Re: Finished another project today!!! New Round bale mover lme 09:52:10 07/20/13 (0)
• Re: Finished another project today!!! New Round bale mover John M 08:28:56 07/20/13 (1)
  • Re: Finished another project today!!! New Round bale mover Paul 11:53:55 07/20/13 (0)
• Re: Finished another project today!!! New Round bale mover fixerupper 08:08:40 07/20/13 (0)
• Re: Finished another project today!!! New Round bale mover The Red 06:15:30 07/20/13 (0)
• Re: Finished another project today!!! New Round bale mover doversix 05:55:11 07/20/13 (0)
• Re: Finished another project today!!! New Round bale mover Dean 05:17:26 07/20/13 (0)
• Re: Finished another project today!!! New Round bale mover Lazy WP 03:30:50 07/20/13 (1)
  • Re: Finished another project today!!! New Round bale mover JD Seller 06:24:59 07/20/13 (0)
• Re: Finished another project today!!! New Round bale mover Traditional Farmer 02:31:13 07/20/13 (3)
  • Re: Finished another project today!!! New Round bale mover JD Seller 06:34:42 07/20/13 (2)
    • Re: Finished another project today!!! New Round bale mover bison 08:01:18 07/20/13 (1)
      • Re: Finished another project today!!! New Round bale mover JD Seller 12:46:41 07/20/13 (0)
• Re: Finished another project today!!! New Round bale mover JerryS 23:17:34 07/19/13 (0)
• Re: Finished another project today!!! New Round bale mover ih_bug 21:19:44 07/19/13 (1)
  • Re: Finished another project today!!! New Round bale mover JD Seller 21:55:48 07/19/13 (0)

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