Two horse wagon almost finished

[farmsc]

Just had to share this..This is a 2 horse wagon that was bought new in the local gin and fertilizer company and spent all it's life about 2 miles from where I now live. The old farmer let me take it as long as I promised to fix it up and let him come see it. First picture is the wagon just after I brought it home in 2003. I took it apart and stored it in the rafters of the shop until last winter when I started restoring, well actually rebuilding it. Besides the wheels, the only original part on it is the rear axle. My brother-in-law helped me cut a new front axle (I'm not patient enough for that kind of precision) and I remade all the other running gear wood from the old pieces as patterns. The bed had been rebuilt and fixed many times over the years and I had to go by pictures I found online of other Owensboro wagons. Anyway, I'm going to pull it behind my 1953 Massey Harris corn snapper to catch the corn for the mill.

[Jebaroni]

Great job! That looks fantastic. What did you put on the wood to make it glossy and weather resistant?

Jeb

[farmsc]

Minwax "early American" stain and 2 coats of Helmsman spar polyurethane. I've still got to make the bed stakes for the sides along with the stake pockets they slide into and I've got to build a new tongue.

Kevin