wagon slip tongue

[kydick]

anyone out there ever make a wagon slip tongue?

 

[ArlyA]

By "slip" do you mean an adjustable length tongue?? If that's the case, I have.

 

[kydick]

thats what i am talking about. seems like new ones about 250 to 300 dollars. more than i would like to spend. could probably get a hole running gear off a used wagon for that much. pretty handy with a torch and welder. think i could build 1 with odds and ends laying around my shop. any details would be welcomed. thanks

 

[ArlyA]

I'm not sure if this will help but here is photos of an adjusted length tongue we built for a UTV trailer. This setup worked very well for us. With one wench (or two) we could adjust it in 60 seconds. Of course yours need to be heavier duty. For $250, you might be better off to buy it.

 

[Xfaxman]

I have never seen a wagon with a slip tongue.

What is the reason for it?

 

[kydick]

looks good. thinking of using my square tongue. getting a round pipe and bore a 1 inch hole in it. cutting a hole in 2 pieces of flat piece of steel for the pipe to slide through and welding it inside of my wagon tongue. have to weld a piece of steel on the end of the pipe so it will not pull through. make a hitch for the other end. bore a 1 inch hole in my square tongue. mount a bracket over top of the hole so i can put a pin and a spring that will hold the pin in the hole when i back up. seem like it should work?

 

[kydick]

unlatch the lever and pull the tongue out a foot or 2 and when you back up to the wagon you just have to get in the right neighborhood just push or pull the tongue to the draw bar and put in the hitch pin. back up untill the tongue latches and you are ready to roll. sometimes i would miss about a inch and instead of getting back in the tractor i would try to move my wagon that much. with a load of hay or corn that puts a lot of pressure on my knees. they just not as strong as they used to be.

 

[Xfaxman]

OK, very handy. :thumbsup:

 

[ishiboo]

OK, very handy. :thumbsup:

Yeah, hooking up to an adjustable tongue is WAAAAAAY nicer than anything else. I had two gears and I sold one and unfortunately the nicer adjustable tongue went first, sucks having to hoo up the regular tongue but the adjustable are a snap.

I'm curious about this thread too, would like to see a good simple solution. Would love to make my remaining wagon an adjustable.

 

[Renze]

I put a tree branch under the tongue and back up right to it. Ive even used wagons at a contractor that had a 1/2" pipe as foldable tongue stand.

Truck trailers have springs on the tongue that hold it on drawbar height. With threaded rod adjustment its allways close enough.