Mini Wagon Running Gear WAGONS/TRAILERS Miscellaneous “I built a wagon gear that looks and works like an actual farm wagon running gear but is scaled down to garden tractor size ” says Steve Nichols Galesburg Ill He started with the front axle and wheels off an MTD garden tractor and fabricated the rest of the wagon which rides on 15 by 6 50 by 6 wheels “The wagon pivots at the waist and has rocking bolsters just like on real farm wagons ” says Nichols “I’ve built and sold 3 of these wagons and let the buyer make his own hay rack or box “I found the decal that’s on the axle at a local swap meet and since I had obtained the white painted wheels at a garage sale I decided to make this running gear a ‘Case’ brand and painted it orange All my running gears are scaled down to the size of an average lawn tractor ” Nichols says he has started working on another running gear using the cast iron front axle from a Huskee garden tractor “It will be more on the scale of my Deere 318 with larger flotation tires Since the wheels I have are painted silver it will likely become a ‘Case IH’ wagon ” he notes Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Steve Nichols 1248 N Seminary St Galesburg Ill 61401 ph 309 337-7141; stevelola77@gmail com

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