Posted by Leroy on March 23, 2015 at 15:22:46 from (69.88.205.69):
In Reply to: Hay Wagon Bed Design posted by Bill VA on March 23, 2015 at 09:28:08:
Factory built were toung and grove southern yellow pine not treated and plained to 3/4" thickness and a lot of then used 2 x 4 cross members. Remember they were for both hay and small grain-ear corn. Not sure what the sills were, my books might tell. A lot of homemade beds were cotton wood and as long as it did not touch the ground it did not rot. and was the lightest weight wood avaible with the strength needed. Don't know how it would be now with the oak but years ago if the bed was made of that you could not give the wagon away due to the weight and the heavy bedds were called horse killers as it would take 4 head to pull the wagon instead of 2 on a lighter bed just due to the weight. The factory built with the floor crosswise used 1 1/2" material and they had a steel edging along the sides to give strength to the outer ends of the crosswise boards. You should have about 6" of bed in front of front wheels and 18-24" behind the rear wheels depending on length of bed. I am talking factory built beds from 1960 and earlier and I am a 1943 model.
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