[AT] Haywagon update

[Cecil Bearden]

I have an old Monkey Wards one my uncle bought new in about 1920.  It 
just has an oversized hole in the inside pipe.   We had it apart to 
shorten it up for a 10 ft bed about 30 years ago.   I think the inside 
pipe had 3/4 holes and the outside had 1/2  that translates to a lot of 
movement when you get 4ft out as the spindles or wheels would be....

Cecil


On 2/22/2018 7:16 PM, Barney Van De Weert wrote:
> This looks like a Deere old wagon running gear reach tube, I have 2 of 
> them, we had one on my Dads farm. under no circumstances would I weld 
> on this. It's made to be bolted tight on each end and the Reach tube 
> twists as required. For mine I ground the heads round on 1/2" bolts to 
> make what Deere used to hold the front and rear together-
>
> Barney Van De Weert
>
>
> On Thursday, February 22, 2018, 4:26:03 PM CST, Spencer Yost 
> <syost at triad.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
> Had to be home today for a personal errand , so I had a chance to try 
> to separate the Haywagon. Chained the rear to a tree and pulled.  Even 
> with penetrant soaking for a few days after cutting a groove in the 
> tube, a bobcat could not pull  that thing apart. So I tried twisting 
> by picking up one front tire with the bobcat bucket and it did create 
> a twist. So I set it back down and pushed to twist it back. Try 
> pulling again and it still wouldn't separate.  So I picked up  the 
> other front tire and got it to twist. Set it back down. This time it 
> pulled apart ever so slowly but it finally came.
>
> I am so glad I didn't bother with any other method and went straight 
> to Cecil's solution of cutting a slot in the tube.  After heating 
> grooving, soaking, twisting it still took a bobcat to pull it apart.  
> I think that thing was close to rust welding itself.
>
> Here's a picture of the groove in the picture of rust on the inner tube.
>
> Next will come welding. I guess I'll  have to be careful not to weld 
> the innertube to the outer tube :-). I'm afraid to weld it without the 
> inner tube in place because if I get some slag/welding material below 
> the groove i will have a hard time grinding  it out so that the 
> innertube can slide in.
>
>
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