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EZ Flow running gears similar to P H gears????

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andy r

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I own four EZ Flow gravity wagons with EZ Flow or EZ Trail running gears. Last week I bought a P & H running gear with a Dakota gravity box. These are roughly 250 bushel wagons and could be 25 to 30 years old. P & H Manufacturing is in Shelbyville, Ill. EZ Flow is made in Arthur, Ill. It is amazing how these two running gears look like each other. It is almost like they were made off of the same drawings. The steering system unique to EZ Trail is the same as this P & H. Is there a chance that EZ Flow made them for P & H or were EZ Flow and P & H relatives and an off shoot of each other? Some of you Illinois guys probably know.
 
I don't know, but I have a Badger, Knowles, Gehl and Kilbros that are all identical. I broke a spindle on the Badger one time, the dealer called Knowles and handed the phone to me. Same thing.
 
The EZ flow is suppose to have two bearing in the steering/pull joint, never had one apart, but looked like a good deal to me,another one i like is the Westendorf out of Iowa!
 
I have a Knowles as well which is red and then have an identical running gear which says Parker and is that lime green color.
 
This new running which says P & H has that same welded box with the two tapered roller bearings in it. That is what makes it so much like a EZ Flow running gear. By the way that box with the two bearings in it was a good design. I do think you want to disassemble that once in a while and repack the bearings. I had one get dry and the rollers/cage/race all wore and it actually fell off the big stud that comes down from the front axle. Made quite a mess out of the running gear. Took a good couple days to straighten everything out and weld it all back up.
 
I have seen the EX trails and thought that was a weak point since it only has support on the top side. If satuck or in bad going in the field I could just see pulling that off from the axle. Or the shaft bending. I have yet to pull a Wagon I built from truck frames or axles pull apart nor break spindles. I have hooked 4x4 tractors to the biggest one and skidded mud over the front axle in the field coming out. Still going 40 years later. The frame might rust out but the axles will still be there.
 
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