Dump Wagon

[Cowboy Billy]

This spring I bought a old IH running gear with a hyd dump bed on it for $150. I have been working on it off and on and now its getting close to being done. This is what the wagon looked like when I got it. Other than the front tire was blown out and the spindles froze up. So I threw a old ford aluminum rim on it that fit.

Thats my Dad and Brother looking at it

Here it is after I got the bed off of it and was pulling it apart to clean it up and paint it.

I got it primed and painted

The IH running gear had to wait for a few other projects to get done. But I am moving on it again. Me and my brother cut down a big spruce and sawed it up for all the lumber for the new deck. Then my friend Scott said tamarack would be a lot stronger. So I went out found some of that cut it down and sawed it up for the beams and am just used the spruce for the deck. I painted all the lumber first so would be painted all the way around.

I made the deck 7'x15' with ten cross members for it. All bolted together. My brother Timmy is going to make me stake pockets for the sides front and back when I give him dimensions of what I want. I only went 7' wide as I am going to be using it in the woods and not for hay. And the stake pockets are going to add at least 2" per side.

It has pretty good lift for something made in the 50's. My friends dad said I should shorten it up and make it lift higher but I have it mostly together now and am leaving it that way.

My friend Scott gave me some rubber roofing materiel to put between the deck and cross beams and said it really helps to keep the beams from rotting out. He said to use it between the cross beams and main beams but I painted it and used lumber adhesive between them and that should keep the water out.

Billy:


What I have found though, is that if you use even engine oil like 30 wt but apply a coat every year or two then the timbers will last much much longer. Mostly cause the water does not penetrate at all and simply beads. With paint - the smallest crack will allow moisture in and then it will collect and bubble up under undisturbed paint and rot the underlying wood. I have some PT spruce that I used for my little log wagon almost 10 years ago. I redo it with 30wt every couple of years. No rot whatsoever. We have another wood trailer made from tamarack that Dad has had for about 25 years or so. He coated it with Irving's finest 5w30 and it is still in pristine shape :D

Rudi:

I almost did it you way. I gave it a test lift after I got the main beams on and broke a hose and it sprayed the main beams. I was going to coat the rest with oil and just paint the top but Dad wanted me to paint it all white so I did. But now that its done painted I think it would have looked better with the beams just coated with oil. And I was worried about coating the deck as I was worried about it getting slippery and I plan on using it to give wagon rides in.

Billy

 

[SolarAndWood]

That is a sweet looking rig especially with the chrome wheels. Is the plan to load the logs with the loader or are you doing some kind of grapple setup?

 

[Cowboy Billy]

Thanks S&W

A grapple is on my dream list it hasn't even made it to the wish list yet! At this point I will be using my log trailer to move logs. I will be using this one for utility chores around the farm. Hauling brush to the burn pile and gravel to trails in the woods that are too soft to get the dump truck to. Also I want to start splitting my firewood in the woods and haul the split wood out with it. I love the wheels on it too they were on my 79 F 150 and I took them off when I scrapped it but had no idea what I would use them for.

Billy

 

[thewoodlands]

Billy nice looking job on the dump wagon, I guess Solar has something he can haul that 60 inch bar around with. :zip:


zap

 

[Cowboy Billy]

Thanks Zap

Man that is some bar I wonder how hard it would be to lift it up on a log! If I hold the front handle a 32" bar pulls the front down about 3 inches.

Billy

 

[savageactor7]

Very nice restoration CB.

 

[Cowboy Billy]

Thanks Savageactor7

I can't wait until its done!

Billy

 

[golfandwoodnut]

That could make an exciting end to a hay ride. Just dump everybody off at the end. Nice job. Did you cut the wood with a chain saw or some sort of band saw?

 

[Cowboy Billy]

It sure would G&WN;
My Dad and uncle bought a woodmizer LT40 in 1998 and I used it to cut the lumber up. My uncle who has had the mill until this summer brought up a bunch of junk wood I would not have used for firewood and sawed up last weekend. What a joke Jay would have out cut him by 3x with his chainsaw mill! Just a little load of logs that should have been done in four hours and he wasn't done in three days.

Billy

 

[Cowboy Billy]

Well I got the deck on and am waiting for my brother to get the stake pockets done. I sent him a drawing of what I wanted but for some reason it got saved to my drafts and not sent. But I should have them for the next time I go up!!

Finally got the Super Uncle Billy hay wagon useable! Now I can take the kids for a hay ride! But if they are bad or get too rowdy I can just dump them out!

Ahh what's going on Help

Going UP!! Hold on!

Ok so I totally staged these pictures. I didn't dump Robby out.

My friend Scott gave me some snow and ice shield to put under the deck. He said it really helps to keep the beams from rotting.

I cut it out and laid it on the beams then heated it up with a frost burner and it pretty much glued itself down. I hung it 1/2" over each side of the beam so any rain will run off.

Billy

 

[smokinj]

Awesome as Always!

 

[Cowboy Billy]

Thanks Jay

I'm pretty happy with it. But I need to get stake racks made for it. I hauled one load of firewood with it but it was too much of a pain trying to keep it on the wagon.

Billy

 

[SolarAndWood]

That's sweet Billy. Can't see anything hanging up with that steep a dump angle.

 

[Cowboy Billy]

Thanks S&W

I hope so. I have a lot of brush and stumps I need to move around.

Billy

 

[smokinj]

Thanks Jay

I'm pretty happy with it. But I need to get stake racks made for it. I hauled one load of firewood with it but it was too much of a pain trying to keep it on the wagon.

Billy

Hard part done and Working Well!

 

[Flatbedford]

Oh man! You got it all dirty Nice. I wish I had a wagon like that, a tractor to pull it, a barn to park it in and all that land.

 

[gzecc]

Well I got the deck on and am waiting for my brother to get the stake pockets done. I sent him a drawing of what I wanted but for some reason it got saved to my drafts and not sent. But I should have them for the next time I go up!!

Finally got the Super Uncle Billy hay wagon useable! Now I can take the kids for a hay ride! But if they are bad or get too rowdy I can just dump them out!

Ahh what's going on Help

Going UP!! Hold on!

Ok so I totally staged these pictures. I didn't dump Robby out.

My friend Scott gave me some snow and ice shield to put under the deck. He said it really helps to keep the beams from rotting.

I cut it out and laid it on the beams then heated it up with a frost burner and it pretty much glued itself down. I hung it 1/2" over each side of the beam so any rain will run off.

Billy

Smokin wheels for a trailer

 

[Cowboy Billy]

Sure is Jay!

Thanks Steve

That's one reason I don't like to paint anything! Everything I have gets used and used hard. I am hoping to find a job and move UP there next year. I can always find something to keep me busy there.

Thanks Gzecc

They were off of my old 79 F-150. I took them off when I scrapped it but had no idea what I was going to use them on. But I got lucky and they fit the trailer.

Billy