Where To Find A Wood Tongue Adapter?

[TBigLug]

I’ve got an old John Deere running gear I’m converting into a flatrack people hauler. I finally got the wagon tongue out. Now I need to find the piece to bolt the wooden horse tongue to the wagon. Looks like a Y, has threads in the side. Is about 11″ wide and the threads are a 7/8″ coarse.

Anybody know where I can find one?

Pioneer sells them for their running gears but I need a wider one that fits the old John Deere. I’ll get actual dimensions tomorrow after work when I get my tape measure back from the boss.

[J-L]

I have always just bolted a lodgepole under my tractor tongue and cut holes where I need them for 2 bolt holes and evener pin. I made a hammer strap out of scrap on one wagon. For the other I took the existing tractor hammerstrap and fitted it with a spacer so it’d be big enough for my evener to fit under.
This is how we’ve always done it since I can remember and it works well enough. I have a picture somewhere in the photo gallery that kind of shows it.

[TBigLug]

I thought about that, just bolting the wooden tongue to the wagon tongue. Provides extra support. I guess it wouldn’t be too bad. Two bolts holding it to the tongue. One hole drilled for the pin to extend through. I could still just unbolt the wooden tongue and use the wagon tongue to get to and from my venues…. Not as simple as unbolt one tongue and bolt the other one in but still good enough. Not like I’ll be in a hurry where I’m at. 😀

[Joshua Kingsley]

@TBigLug 11335 wrote:

I thought about that, just bolting the wooden tongue to the wagon tongue. Provides extra support. I guess it wouldn’t be too bad. Two bolts holding it to the tongue. One hole drilled for the pin to extend through. I could still just unbolt the wooden tongue and use the wagon tongue to get to and from my venues…. Not as simple as unbolt one tongue and bolt the other one in but still good enough. Not like I’ll be in a hurry where I’m at. 😀

An alternitive is what my Uncle and I did years ago. If your wagon is equiped with a sliding pole that you can hook by backing up you could make a steel pole that hooks in with a pin in that location. Then add the hammer strap to the back of the toung for the evener and you could use two short draw pins with safety clips to hold in the long pole. when you want to use the tractor you can slide the pole out and slide the tractor hitch back in and pin it in place.
just an idea, Josh

[Carl Russell]

I have also used U-bolts to attach a pole to the tongue. This is a good way to prevent splitting that can occur from single bolts through the pole.

On my wagon I have a permanent pole, and then U-bolt on a wagon tongue when I want to move it to a job, or somewhere using the truck.

Carl

[TBigLug]

U-bolts are a good idea Carl. I hadn’t even thought about the wood splitting.

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