Mini "Forage Wagon" Used To Catch Grass Clippings

Mini "Forage Wagon" Used To Catch Grass Clippings FARM HOME Miscellaneous 24-5-31 Garry Wood of Westlock, Alberta made yard work a lot easier by building a mini dump wagon that looks like a small version of a forage wagon. "A co-worker and I built it during our lunch hours," says Wood. The 4 by 8-ft. wagon has 30-in. sides. It's fitted with a hand-operated, self-contained hydraulic pump that he took from an old press, and two 1 3/4-in. rams with a 12-in. stroke. The frame of the wagon is made of square tubing taken from the hitch of an Allis Chalmers small round baler. The wheels came off two different lawn mowers. An expanded metal tailgate has a trip pin at the bottom for easy self-unloading, as well as two spring-loaded pins on the top sides for complete removal. "My wife uses the wagon to dump grass clippings into when she mows the lawn with the bagger. She pulls it behind our yard tractor and dumps the clippings out in our pasture," Wood says. There's a step on the front of the wagon, making it easy for the operator to climb in it if necessary. The whole unit is painted John Deere green and Wood even applied John Deere logos to top off his display of John Deere pride. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Garry Wood, R.R. 1, Site 9, Box 3, Westlock, Alberta, Canada T7P 2N9 (ph 780 349-2104).

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