One-Wheeled Trailer Provides Lots Of Fun

One-Wheeled Trailer Provides Lots Of Fun WAGONS/TRAILERS Miscellaneous “I built this one-wheeled trailer to pull behind a variety of antique tractors It’s a great conversation piece when I’m in tractor parades ” says Reed Schaeffer Ford City Penn The trailer measures 3 ft square and rides on a swivel wheel assembly off an old semi-mount sicklebar mower The trailer frame is 2 by 5/16-in thick angle iron A metal railing surrounds 3 sides of the trailer and is made from 1-in sq tubing off the frame of an old porch glider The hitch assembly uses a pair of brackets that attach to a 3/4-in dia metal rod that can be hooked up to most tractor drawbars and also to any Cat I 3-pt hitch “I came up with the idea because I remember as a child that our neighbor hauled feed for his livestock on a one-wheeled trailer ” says Schaeffer He says building the trailer turned out to be more fun than expected “I often use the trailer to haul children in parades and every spring I take it with me on a 100-mile tractor ride I fasten a plastic storage box to the trailer floor to haul gas cans rain gear a tool kit jumper cables lawn chairs and other odds and ends ” A one-wheeled trailer pushes straight behind the tractor which he says makes it easy to steer and to back up especially when loading and unloading from a flatbed trailer He has also made brackets to fit his Allis Chalmers G and Deere B tractors as well as his Farmall Cub “The trailer looks really nice hooked up to the Cub because it’s proportionately sized ” notes Schaeffer Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Reed Schaeffer 180 Murphy Hollow Road Ford City Penn 16226 ph 724 845-8794; reednlinda@windstream net

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