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This ubiquitous wagon handled almost every kind of hauling
job on the farm. Its standard wagon box (shown here) could be lifted
off and other kinds of boxes or racks put on instead. Among other
things, the boxes carried potatoes, hogs, corn and (as in the case of
Oregon's Hood River Valley) boxes of apples.
When haying time came, the "hay rack" was used for hauling
loads of sweet-smelling hay to the barns. At threshing time "bundle
racks" were attached to haul the bundles of ripe grain to the threshing
machine. After the grain was threshed, the original box was put back
and loaded with sacks of grain to be hauled to the warehouses and flour
mills in nearby towns. Ranchers used the same wagon with a "cook's"
box on cattle drives, and this was then referred to as a Chuckwagon.
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