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In agriculture, a ladder wagon , also called a ring wagon , is a traditional, mostly wooden, two-axle wagon with a drawbar , the side walls of which have the shape of a ladder. The inclined ladders were often supported downwards with stanchions on the wheel axles.

Small, hand-drawn carts is known in some parts as a handcart .

Ladder carts were mainly used during harvest to bring in straw , hay and other agricultural products. Manure barrels and people were also transported with carts.

Horses - one or two horses - as well as oxen and cows were used as draft animals . With the spread of tractors, the carts continued to be used with towing eyes attached instead of the Ortscheit .

The possibility of simple conversion makes ladder trolleys a versatile means of transport. The ladders could be removed to transport wood and other goods. A jute cloth was laid out in the car to transport loose goods such as grain that would fall through between the rungs. Boards could be placed in front of the ladders to transport manure . The manure was pulled from the wagon with a rake or the karst and spread over the field.

photos

  • Ladder cart with a wooden slurry tank

  • Ladder cart hauled by two cows

  • Rye harvest 1948, drawbar side of a loaded ladder cart

  • "Handcart" around 1946

  • Disassembled cart as a garden decoration in Frankenfels, Lower Austria

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Döllner : History of the development of the city of Neustadt an der Aisch up to 1933. Ph. C. W. Schmidt, Neustadt a. d. Aisch 1950, OCLC 42823280 ; New edition to mark the 150th anniversary of the Ph. C. W. Schmidt publishing house, Neustadt an der Aisch 1828–1978. Ibid 1978, ISBN 3-87707-013-2 , p. 442.