It's a Planter Box! It's a Packing Crate! Noooo, it's "Rusty" the Spring Wagon!

For the first time in a little over two months, Rusty's seat is (temporarily) sitting on the box again!

But I can tell you, that even after the preliminary fit-up, the box went back together kicking and screaming!

Everything had to be kind of loosely reattached, then gradually tightened down all over.

The metal threshold and the tailgate hinges were a pure nightmare!  Now I realize why I had to originally take the tailgate off in pieces.  When it comes time to paint, the tailgate will once again come off in pieces!

So, I get to look at it happily for a little while, enjoying the fruits of my labor!

Then I need to take the seat back off to nail the floorboards down, then flip the box over to install screws and cut off long bolt threads.

Then it's back onto its running gear.  I will need to drill a couple of bolster holes in the new sill.  Did not trust the old sill for a pattern!

And back into the shed for the remainder of winter.  Warm weather means painting begins!

See you next spring!  Thank you for following along!

1/26 Update

  One more day's work remained, to drill new sill/sidewall screw holes, drive the screws, nail down the floorboards and cut long bolt threads.  (Some bolts remain long because they will be removed for painting.)

The wagon is now ready to be re-attached to the gear and moved to the shed for storage until warmer weather arrives and it's time to paint!

And finally...back on its gear and into storage until painting weather!