Darn it Joe...you beat me to the idea!! I think it a great idea to share wagons. Pictures, manufacturer, gear, and other information would be great. It may take me a while to get pictures of all of the wagons I have because of the pile of snow around the farm. I may not be able to get some pictures together until spring.

The one I miss and wish I had back was a Lundell barge box on a Lundell gear. My dad bought it and it didn't look like much but I spent a summer painting the wood and metal. We sold it on the auction when he retired from farming back in 1995. Any body have one like this? Any one have a wagon like this and want to sell? While I am asking and it Christmas time, any one have the red Lundell barge box my dad once had and sold at Gehling Auction in Preston, MN in 1995? One can wish, can't he?

Can't wait to see the wagons!  

Click on the link below to see some of the wagons I use. I tried uploading them directly here like I usually do but that didn't work (don't know why?). Also check archived posts on this forum - I have downloaded a lot of other pictures to this forum over the past 2 years.


https://s1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff447/jd-tom/Wagon%20pictures/

 

-- Edited by Joe Hoover on Sunday 12th of December 2010 01:54:42 PM

Sharp looking wagon! Really nice work on the gear and box!! How many bushels is this wagon? Is this just for parades or are you going to use this for corn? Where did you get the decals for it?

Well its not a sweet as the IH box, but i love this one.  Its a Walsh box with a Midwest hoist.  Notice the official A-C add on flares on the sides.



Heres a shot of it in oats.



This is the barge box my Grandfather bought new.  At this moment I cannot remember the name of the running gear and I dont know the mfg of the box.  Yours truely is unwillingly posing for the picture.

Here are the wagons that I own: Heider #2 auger wagon, EZ Flow gravity on EZ Trail Gear, Minnesota 130 Flare Wagon on MN Super 6 gear, Minnesota #1472 barge wagon on New Idea gear-in the process of getting new paint, and last but not least Lindsay barge box on a Lindsay gear that my dad owns followed by the orginal bill of sale from 1961 for it.

My gravity box looks a little rough and I hope to give it a fresh coat of paint and decals next summer. I just bought it this past fall and I have never pulled a wagon that trailed any better. I bought the Minnesota barge wagon on a local estate farm auction. I am almost sure I am the 2nd owner of it and it has been shedded since it was bought new. I have had the MN flare wagon for a few years. I got it to haul wood chips on my tree farm. The Lindsay wagon has seen it's share of ear corn, oats, barley, and shell corn. It needs a new coat of varnish, I believe that is what he put on the wood years ago.

I will try to get some better pictures this summer and maybe some in-action photos this fall! One never knows what one may find to add to this collection!

Tom
On the MN flare wagon, I repainted them free-handed. What I did was to take a pencil and mark the edges of what was left or difference in the metal shine. Then I used a small paint brush, one for model painting and spent the time painting the letters and logo. For the MN logo, I found out from a guy at Minn-Cor, Rick Reichert, and the guy that owns the rest of what is left of MN line of farm equipment/parts/booklets, the logo actually has a couple of differences. The first one is the star with bursts coming from it marking the prison and another with individual wheat plants. The logo on my barge is the same as what is on the flare and are in very good shape.

I have asked both men about the colors and both agree that the paint that was used on MN farm machinery was whatever paint they got in. From their stories, when ever a big implement maker had over runs or paint/parts left in the warehouse, it was shipped to the prison. Most of the red paint was IH paint since it was there in Mlps but some stuff was painted in Massey red, green was JD or Oliver, yellow from JD or MM, and orange from Allis.

I went to the MN Historical Society when I found on-line that they had in the collection pictures, blueprints, inventory, account books from the prison farm equipment department. There I found a photo of my 1472 barge but it was black and white. I did find logos and placement blueprints for many pieces of equipment. The gentleman who bought out remenants of the MN farm line from the prison told me that my 1472 barge was painted orange, from what he could figure out from his printed material. I told him mine was red and he surmised that MN either painted some for a special order or they ran out of orange paint and painted the rest of the wagons with red.

I wish I could find other people associated with the MN farm line that could share more information about it with me. Rick at Minn-Cor told me as much as he knew and he didn't have anybody he knew of to send me to since most of the guys who were around in those days when they were making farm equipment are either too old or not on this planet.  I can't remember the name of the guy who bought out whatever was left from the prison, but he owns Shervin's of North Dakota.

Oh, yes I almost forgot, I will get some closer pictures and measurements to you of the logos on the flare wagon.

I have just about finished my MN 1472 barge wagon. I took some pictures to share with you. I have to paint on the lettering for "Fully Guaranteed" and the running gear. I made stencils for all of the lettering, five different sizes and styles.

The barge box is 14x7 and is running on a New Idea 628 gear. The hoist is a Soo hoist. I think the final thing that would really make this wagon is a load of ear corn.

Does anybody out there know of any other MN barge wagons? I would like to find the 6x10 and the 6x12 MN barge boxes.

Last summer I bought a no-name 6'x10' barge box that I am just about ready to paint. This past weekend I bought another MN barge wagon. The model number is 1062 which is a 10'x6' box. This wagon has a real good 6 ton MN gear, Grain Master hoist, and very solid box. I am not sure how much time I will have to get this painted before corn picking but it will look good this fall with corn in it. Now, to find the MN 1262 barge wagon. Hmmm...I wonder where I can find one?!?!?

That's a nice one!

Wow that is a nice wagon. It isn't always easy to find a wooden wagon in that nice of condition anymore.

RFP

Great looking wagon! Nice job painting it up!!

That looks very nice !!

DJ 53 Thank you for sharing the story and the photos. ALOT of history is spoken in those great photos.

A photo from the '70s. I don't know who manufactured the boxes or running gears. It wasn't important at the time but now I wish I knew. The wagons are long gone. 

Hi. My name is Kirk and I...I...I am a barge box-a-holic.  I can assure you that I am not. I couldn't pass up a sweetheart deal on a Heider 6'x12' barge box in great shape. I bought it from a gentleman outside of Readlyn, Iowa and a nice Midwest hoist came with it. He took great care of this barge box and recently used a deck treatment on the wood.  Next summer I plan on cleaning up the metal, priming it, and painting it. The running gear is an IH 100. I bought the gear a few years ago for just this purpose. It needs new tires and a fresh coat of paint-next summer.

Does anybody know what the official red and green colors of Heider was? The metal on my box is red and the logo is green. Is IH red or MF red and JD green close enough? 

Does anybody have a good logo or stencil or decal of Heider that is available to use? I know someone had them on ebay a couple of years ago.

That's a really nice job - thanks for sharing! I have not seen a wagon with a hand hoist like that for a very long time.

Here's the wagon I plan on using this year. Could someone help me identify the type of flare box we've got here. There's no decals visible. I do know it sits on a JD 953 gear with a Midwest hoist. Thanks!

I picked up this wagon at an auction a few weeks ago.  I'm told it was built from a kit that used to be available through either Sears Roebuck or Montgomery Ward.  The box is 12 ft. long. 

I do not know what make the running gear is.  I had to locate all new rims for it.  One was missing altogether and the other three were car rims which did not fit properly.

I have not yet tried out the hoist.

I think everything is softening with the lower grain prices. That wagon would have still brought a grand around here though, because hydraulic dump boxes of any kind are just not common. Seems back in the 50s, gravity boxes were the choice in the region.

I just picked this up a little over a month ago, first Dultmeier wagon I've ever seen.

I have seen a few Dultmeier barge wagons, but not like yours. Nice barge!!  Looks like a 6x10, correct?  What kind of gear does it have?  Good looking tires as well!!

Heres our other 2 wagons

Another #100 flarebox that is now on an early IHC steel wheeled gear

and a Stanhoist with matching hoist and gear. Use it for empting out the bottom of the dryer in the fall and grind off it for when we run out of corn. 

Wiped it down a couple times with Linseed Oil. Did that to our F20 with 2ME also before we took them both to RPRU 2014.