what does everybody do for their wagons for the winter time? i am a graphite happy person i coat everything that has something sliding acrossed it with it, i also think it helps prevent some rust i was just curious if other people did different things?
My Dad always put his in the alleyway in the barn, one was kept out and used to grind corn in to feed out of. His brothers kept theirs (JD wood boxes and JD gears in a machine shed).
Wagons are cleaned up and put away in a shed. Granted most of my wagons are wooden barge boxes but my two gravity wagons are cleaned and stored inside.
We take the bangboards off, sweep ours out, and put them in an open-front shed (far enough inside to stay out of the driving rain). We grease and oil all the necessary spots before each harvest, and put them away immediately afterwards. We have four wooden boxes for ear corn picking. My uncle has a small galvanized box wagon that he keeps outside. I wish I had space for it to be inside.
We also have three metal gravity wagons for shell corn. We built "roofs" for them so we can feed the cows out on the stalks through the winter. A little snow blows in, but overall, it works very well. Kind of portable granary. Sure cuts down on the distance we carry 5-gallon buckets.
Mine goes in the shed and is used to hold the ear corn for the chicken feed!---I gotta pick it by hand,---still looking for an older picker of some kind! thanks; sonny
