Heavy-Built Grain Hauling Rigs

Heavy-Built Grain Hauling Rigs GRAIN HANDLING Wagons (63E) 19-5-7 Farming over 3,000 acres on farms scattered over a wide area means a lot of road travel during harvest. That's one reason Bob Bunne decided to put together his own heavy-duty running gears for two 500 bu. grain carts. Bunne mounted 10-ft. wide commercial grain boxes on truck frames. When fashioning hitches for the truck frames, he came up with a pintle hitch design that he can hitch and unhitch from the seat of a tractor. One reason Bunne wanted heavier running gears on the big wagons was that he wanted to pull both wagons together be-hind a 2-WD tractor. He needed more stability under the wagons in order to handle that much weight with a smaller tractor. Bunne first bought new J&M grain boxes from a local dealer, and then fitted them to heavy-duty truck frames he picked up inexpensively. Since the wagon boxes were 10 ft. wide and the truck axles only 8 ft., he had to widen out the axles using pieces of I-beam. "The extra 2 ft. adds lots more stability on the road," Bunne notes. The wagons are fitted with dual wheels fitted with inexpensive truck tires. Bunne narrowed up the front end of the truck frame so it comes to a point with a pintle hitch. An automatic hitch mounts on the tractor 3-pt. Bunne slips a hook on the hitch under the pintle hook on the grain wagons, them uses a rope to drop down the locking hook that goes over the top. Lets him hook and unhook from the seat of the tractor. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Bob Bunne, Rt. 1, Box 60, Ostrander, Minn. 55961 (ph 507 324-5686).

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