Bunk Wagon Built Out Of Odds And Ends

Bunk Wagon Built Out Of Odds And Ends WAGONS/TRAILERS New Wagons 22-3-33 We built this bunk wagon out of odds and ends in the late 1960's. We quit using it 10 or 12 years ago when we got our first mixer/weigh wagon but it was ideal for feeding small groups of cattle. The idea would probably still be good for smaller operators. We started with an old World War II howitzer ammunition carrier. It was like a small pickup box with a cover, which we removed along with the ætailgate'. We mounted it on the undercarriage of an old field digger which was equipped with two fixed 15-in. wheels. We mounted a third 10-in. castor wheel off an old Deere Van Brundt seeder on æfront' of the wagon so we could push or pull it into place easily when manually filling feed bunks. We built up and leveled the wheels with frame-work we took off the digger so the wagon cleared our 30-in. high bunks. The wagon held about 800 lbs. of corn silage and 300 or 400 lbs. of haylage. It worked well for us for years and cost nothing to build. (Dan Peschel, University of Wisconsin, Agricultural Research Station, 7523 University Farm Road, Lancaster, Wis. 53813; ph 608 723-2580)

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