Header wagon

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Header wagon

A wagon used for collecting heads of grain as they were harvested by a Header. One side of the wagon box was higher than the other to keep the grain from overshooting the wagon box while being discharged from the header elevator.

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If the machines are headers, they were not used to windrow the wheat, they were used along with a header barge that the header elevated the wheat into.

Threshing know-how

My dad told many stories from when he was young near Cambridge, Neb., of his uncle's separator and threshing equipment, spike pitchers in the field, horses on the header barge, sleeping in straw stacks, baths in water tanks, taking down fences to access fields and, of course, the food.

Mixing tractors and airplanes in Iowa

The second photo is of two header barges. How does a header barge work?

Old photos spark questions

One was to pull the header barge; the other was to "push" the header.

Field test: Antique Jones Header brings in another harvest

My letter is more geared to Gary's second photo showing two header barges. It appears that the loose stack of grain awaiting the arrival of the threshing machine just has two dumps.