Humans have used oxen to pull carts for forever and there are photos going back to the mid 1800s. The wheel base needn’t be any bigger than any other wagon. Assuming a Goliath was 8 feet and 350 lbs (244cm and 159kg), that’s big enough that you’d need to reconfigure the seating, but you’d hardly be doubling the size of the wagon or anything.
Humans have used oxen to pull carts for forever and there are photos going back to the mid 1800s. The wheel base needn’t be any bigger than any other wagon. Assuming a Goliath was 8 feet and 350 lbs (244cm and 159kg), that’s big enough that you’d need to reconfigure the seating, but you’d hardly be doubling the size of the wagon or anything.
Actually, they would do well not to increase the size because they already weigh more, if the wagon did too then they would need more Oxen.
Considering that, I may retract my statement about the Conestoga and switch to the lighter covered wagon for the same reason the settlers did. They were lighter.
Conestogas were generally too heavy to be driven across open prairies and absolute nightmares in mountainous terrain. A covered wagon would be much better.
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If you find some real measurements of those wagons please share them. :-) I tried googling for it, but didn't find anything regarding the average size of a wagon.
In the end I just decided that mine would probably be 5ft wide (like a train's track width) and 7.5ft long to make it look nice (it's roughly the golden ratio that way).
If you find some real measurements of those wagons please share them. :-) I tried googling for it, but didn't find anything regarding the average size of a wagon.
In the end I just decided that mine would probably be 5ft wide (like a train's track width) and 7.5ft long to make it look nice (it's roughly the golden ratio that way).
The measurements for the more common covered farm wagons would have varied by manufacturers. Frankly, considering many towns had multiple wainwrights, there really was no set of standardized measurements.
Including its tongue, the average Conestoga wagon was 18 feet (5.4 m) long, 11 feet (3.3 m) high, and 4 feet (1.2 m) in width. It could carry up to 12,000 pounds (5,400 kg) of cargo.
How big would a Goliath wagon be thats drawn by 2 oxen?
Looking to build one and I need to work out scale.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covered_wagon
Probably about the size of a Conestoga.
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Humans have used oxen to pull carts for forever and there are photos going back to the mid 1800s. The wheel base needn’t be any bigger than any other wagon. Assuming a Goliath was 8 feet and 350 lbs (244cm and 159kg), that’s big enough that you’d need to reconfigure the seating, but you’d hardly be doubling the size of the wagon or anything.
Actually, they would do well not to increase the size because they already weigh more, if the wagon did too then they would need more Oxen.
Considering that, I may retract my statement about the Conestoga and switch to the lighter covered wagon for the same reason the settlers did. They were lighter.
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Conestogas were generally too heavy to be driven across open prairies and absolute nightmares in mountainous terrain. A covered wagon would be much better.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
If you find some real measurements of those wagons please share them. :-) I tried googling for it, but didn't find anything regarding the average size of a wagon.
In the end I just decided that mine would probably be 5ft wide (like a train's track width) and 7.5ft long to make it look nice (it's roughly the golden ratio that way).
The measurements for the more common covered farm wagons would have varied by manufacturers. Frankly, considering many towns had multiple wainwrights, there really was no set of standardized measurements.
For the more standardized Conestogas however:
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