Hay Wagon

[mitchmaine]

hi donn,
i really like your sliding pole idea. i have two separate pole for each cart that are not interchangeable and you can probably imagine that mix-up.
anyways i’m doing the math here, trying to keep the short pole short enough to load hay from a chute off the tail end of the baler, and keep the extension long enough to give the horses room in front of the wagon AND have two feet of overlap. something has to give here, i’m considering lengthening out the bale chute which is do-able. could you measure out each section of pole ends for a starter. it could help me out. thanks bud

[Donn Hewes]

Hi Mitch, I will get some measurements tomorrow when I get home! My tongue has always been a little short and my overlap too. Probably ran into the same problem you did.

[Michel Boulay]

Hey Ed,
That deck looks real good. What kind of wood did you finaly use and size of beams, cross beams or joist? I’ve got a friend that sold me a wagon and he’s keeping the deck to put it on an other wagon so I’ll have to build a deck. I’ve got access to a little sawmill and wood from my property or rough sawn lumber from a close by Mill. I don’t think i’ve got that much hemlock but spruce yes. That sliding pole is a good idea too.

Mike

[Ed Thayer]

Mike,

I used 2″ hemlock for the deck and long members. The logmembers are 3.5″ x 8″ and the cross bunks are 3″ x 5″.

Green lumber and very heavy but it will dry out eventually.

Ed

[Michel Boulay]

Thanks Ed,
We made flower beds with hemlock 6x6x10′ green yup very heavy. Did you settle on 16′ long for your deck and how wide? I was thinking of cutting a 6×6 in two so 2 pieces of 3×6 probably not as strong as your 3.5×8. I’m paying $1.80/foot for 6×6 hemlock so 28.80 for a 16 footer. Don’t know if its a good price compared to a mill down your way but that’s what the mill sells them for here. I calculated the price in bf and found 6 cents a bf so that would be a good price I think. Sort of makes you think of the possibilities, as long as your sized wood is strong enough for the load.

Mike

[near horse]

Nice work, Ed. So I need to ask if the tongue setup shown is ready to hook up to a baler? I’m wanting to bale onto a wagon too but need to rig up a chute and extension to do it —– nearly every small baler out here comes with a quarter turn chute to drop bales on their edge so they can be picked up with a stacker/stackhand ……

So do you have a hitch setup on your baler?

BTW – I noticed Pioneer sells a telescoping tongue they call their tractor tongue.

[j.l.holt]

Good to see people interested in the sliding tongue idea..I posted about sliding tongues a few months back, on logging bob sled and got no interest. Must of been out of season !

[Ed Thayer]

Mike,

I made the deck 8′ wide x 16′ long. It will fit nicely in my barn loaded if I need to get it under cover in a hurry. .06 sounds reasonable to me for hemlock. I paid .05 cents deliverd to my house.

Geof,

My baler has a hitch but it looks like it was used for a buncher not a wagon hitch. I would like to fab a hitch to be able to tow the wagon behind the baler. That will be next year. I really only have one field that it would work well in.

Ed

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