>Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 12:26:26
>To: [log in to unmask]
>From: Pat Mitchell <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Wagon Sale
>Cc: [log in to unmask]
>
>To whom it may concern or be of interest - here is the response from my son
and his friend to the query on Wagon Jargon on 10/27/2000 by [log in to unmask]
>
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>>To: Pat Mitchell <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: Wagon Sale
>>
>>Mom
>>After consulting the neighbor I always borrowed the mules from, we
determined without any real surety that:
>> the gears are actually sprocket that drove a sead spreader from the
>>rear wheel of the wagon and the fifth chain was to let you know it had a
>>chain for each set of gears or an extra cause the first set chain wasn't
>>counted since it was on the wagon.
>>
>>Bearskins are as stated, bearskins
>>
>>jackscrew is the jack used to raise the wagon for changing wheels and
>>the sprockets (gears)
>>
>>ten bags would be the seed bags of differing size and most likey
>>different size openings in the bottoms to set the amount of seed to be
>>released per acre
>>
>>When I first started telling glen about this add or discription and the
>>price he didn't understand it was from many years ago and he was getting
>>ready in his mind to go buy it.  He is a character first class.  He told
>>me of a large warehouse in kansas where he once went to a sale of old
>>farm equ consisting of this same type wagons plus old steam tractors, a
>>model A ford with dual rear wheels and a sprocket that drove a seed
>>spreader from the back much like the wagon you have described.
>>
>>Well you now have our best guess.  Try that out on your friends and see
>>how it calculates.
>>Sorry it took so long but still plenty busy.
>>Gotta go.
>>Scott
>>
>>
>>
>
Pat Mitchell of Bloomington, IN

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