Bundle wagon

In some regions, a Header wagon was used for hauling bundles dropped in the field by binders, and was sometimes referred to as a bundle wagon. Such a design was very convenient to use, since the high offside helped prevent the bundles from being pitched completely over the wagon while being loaded. In other regions, the wagons used for bundle hauling had a wide platform much like a hayrack instead of the flare-sided header wagon box, and the bundles were carefully stacked on it.

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Dad had a bundle wagon, so he was out in the field loading bundles.

Meanwhile, early bundle wagons had arrived in the field.

THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE Threshing Ring

Raymond Evans told me that one man always had a sleepy, old, tired team on the bundle wagon. Every time they stopped, they dropped their heads and looked like they were asleep.

Remembering threshing day memories of the past

During harvest, day laborers - shockers, spike pitchers and bundle wagon drivers - commonly got $1.50 per day.

Marshalling manpower on the bonanza

Unexpectedly, Dad was offered a job as a field bundle pitcher, and I was offered a job to drive a team pulling a bundle wagon.

Man of the house: moving to California forces a young thresherman to start from scratch

"I was born in 1927," Richard said, "and as a kid I hauled a bundle wagon, bringing bundles from the field to the thresher." That machine still sits on the family farm, so Richard measured it to figure out the model's sizes.

Working models: Pint-sized steam engine, thresher were handmade

For his bundle wagons he has specially constructed racks 28 feet long, with smooth floors.

Charles S. Noble and the world's wheat title in 1916

One of the farmers might let us hold the horse's reins or put us up on the grain bundle wagons for a short ride from field to thresher.

Remembering the threshing ring: shared work brought community together

And you might have three, four or more men driving bundle wagons, and more workers in the field loading the bundles."

Young at heart: 1914 Avery kid thresher still going strong

"When I crawled out the door the bundle wagons had pulled up and were about to pitch bundles.

Saving the grain saver: Minnesota man restores rare 1922 thresher

Hand-fed machines required one or two men to stand at the feeder table of the thresher, receive grain bundles from men on the bundle wagons or stacks, cut the twine band on each bundle and feed the stalks head-first into the whirling thresher cylinder that was only inches from their hands (resulting in many accidents).

From farm equipment to washing machines

During grade school, however, he became inseparably attached to IH tractors after a neighbor hired him to pull bundle wagons with a Farmall Model H during harvest.