[AT] hay wagon build

[Andy Glines]

1. Re:  HayWagon build up. (Spencer Yost)

[It appears I may have gotten my cart before the horse. I have my wood ready, and all of my plans drawn up. I'm already to build it up  and guess what: That haywagon will not slide apart. Took me a pretty good while to even get the stay bolts and the set screws out of the way. It's become very clear to me that the inner tube is rusted really tight to the outer tubes. I've tried heat and hydraulic jacks. Nothing is even coming close to budging it. I wouldn't bother since I'm a small farm but even for me this hay wagon would be too small if I didn't get this thing slid apart.

Any tips?   I thought somehow rotating one axle while holding the other axle still would break the rust better than trying to pull it apart, but I couldn't think of a good way to do that. Maybe two forklifts?

PS:   Think this thing is a model 953.  Here is the ghost of a decal.  At first glance that second number looks like a six, but I think it's a five
Spencer Yost]

Spencer, I think that you are on the right track.  I assuming that there is no bed only the running gear.  Try jacking one of the rear wheels off of the ground (pretty high) in order to put a twist on the center pole.  Make a mark showing the relationship between the inner and outer pipes so that you can seen when things start to move.  Repeat the heat-N-beat that you have already tried.  You might also consider putting the wagon gear between 2 trees or other large objects and using a come-a-long to pull the ends apart in conjunction with the heating and twisting.