Testing My Driver's Boot Design | Engels Coach Shop
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- Going from a floor sketch to the real deal, trying to bring 100 year old pictures into reality for this Washington state mud wagon. Building and restoring horse drawn vehicles can be a challenge, but that's what makes it worthwhile. Having a few original irons, with pieces of old wood, really helps. Thanks for following along!
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I agree with Phillip, Lance and Paul. It is truly a pleasure to watch you take some old pieces of wood, with bolts attached and turn it into something from the past. You should give Master Classes on wagon restoration. Stay safe.
Once again, Brother Dave, it is pure joy to follow along with your builds. Hello, Diane. We should not leave you out!
Thank you Phillip.
Slowly but surely this piece of history is coming back together.
Watching you work and do this has inspired me to start doing some woodworking again. I'm disabled so doung what you may get done in 30 minutes might take me days or even weeks, but I'm proud just to be doing SOMETHING again. These videos mean more than you will ever imagine. Thank you Dave. Maybe one day, if i ever get back to Montana, I'd like to stop by your shop and just thank your hand.
You are amazingly talented! It makes my soul happy to watch a true craftsman at work! Thank you for sharing your gift with us!
Dave, watching you create something is amazing. It's not just great craftsmanship; you create a thing of beauty. In this world of mass production, the simplicity of design lends itself to beauty. I think that today's craftsmen and engineers have a wonderful lesson here. We appreciate all that you do. ❤
Howdy from Sacramento! Whoever is getting this wagon/coach is getting a work of art. They are fortunate to have you as their craftsman.
This very old man i am but watching you work Dave lowers my blood pressure 9 points or more.....Blessing to you and your family...
Thanks so much....
Shoe🇺🇸
Thank you for watching.
Great work! Now we in America just need you to keep this craft alive for another generation!! I hope there are young men willing and wanting to apprentice to you or others like you to keep the genius of the wheelwright and coachbuilder alive!
Never cease to be amazed at your incredible attention to details. Agree with Tony Rum that extra chain links would make it comfortable for everybody. I think this is one of your most interesting projects since the 20 Mule Team wagons. THANK YOU for taking us along on this project.
I find this to be the perfect episode. A little wood work. A little measuring and marking. A bit of blacksmith fabrication. Like I said, perfect. Thanks and keep 'em comming!
I like your clamp collection, very useful. My granddaughter asked me, "Grampa why do you have so many clamps?". I told her, "Sweetie, you can never have too many clamps."
Your detective work has paid off. You must also be the Sheriff of Joliet.
Thanks for all the content. This is great stuff.
You exceed in the details. This Wagon will definitely be better than it was after the repairs from the wreck, the Original Manufacture would be Proud!
Thank You for another great episode!
You are a great teacher, mister.
Your channel should be mandatory for kids going into crafts.
This is a support comment- hope you keep going for a long time. Your practical skills, attention to detail and devotion to no compromise results is inspiering.
Powerful thumbnail. This mud wagon is looking closer and closer to a hundred years old vehicle with each episode.
Now this is detective work of the highest order
Yep, Those old pieces of wagon make a surprisingly good blueprint. Dave is really good at reading them.
Loved the end where you sat up on the seat and your hands automatically took the pose of holding the reins. Great work Dave.
I think your imagination is taking over
That mud wagon is really coming along. I love watching the process as you bring it back to life.
Its coming along very nicely, great to see another episode in this build , thanks to you both for sharing.
On my bicycle rides in one of the villages I saw an old wagon that looked a bit like this one.
After seeing your videos of the mud wagon, I looked at its details in a completely different way.
Thanks, Dave for teaching us so much.
This has really been a enjoyable detective story and problem soving endeavor. The end product will top knotch as always. Thanks for Sharing.
I really enjoy watching the coach building content. You’re quite the master!
It wasn't a "coach", but my family had a wagon that my Grandfather had built in late 1890's- early 1900's. The foot board on the driver's seat had "shoe boards"... flat boards of several thickness' with iron hangers to drop over the foot board for "short legged rascals". LOL I remember my great uncle telling me I couldn't sit up there if I needed too much extra... I couldn't wait to grow up enough to plant my feet on them boards!
"really close to being similar " ....... now that's a nice concept, I think I might use that one.
A couple of extra chain links on the open hook would allow for adjustment for taller or shorter drivers. Just a thought Dave. The driver's end is really coming together and shows that your concerns are appropriate.
I totally concur! As innovative as folks were in those days, it's hard to believe they wouldn't have had extra links. They adjust the harness to fit the team, it only makes sense the would adjust the seat to fit the driver. Great project Dave!
I was thinking just the same. In fact that's the only sensible reason for having a chain and hinges rather than making the whole thing fixed.
@@royowings3435 And as skilled and innovative as we all know Dave to be, I'd put money on the fact that a few extra links in each of those chains is already part of his plan! 🙃
Isn't that the reason it's on a hinge, so it can be adjusted?
As far as notching for those nuts, it's a mud wagon. I like the fact that you are always looking at making things safer even to the level of detail of putting the carriage bolt in the way they are supposed to be.
Another very interesting video from Dave and Diane. Thank you for sharing your thought process.
Evening Dave. Wishing you both a good weekend. Regards Richard 🇬🇧
Same to you.
My favourite has always got to be the sublime skills of anvil work; that you turn a piece of rock hard steel to putty and mould it which each and every blow, precise. Great episode, Mr. & Mrs. Engels. Camera, lights, action....
Yeah, the way Dave moves metal puts those guys on Forged in Fire to shame a little don't it.
Back then a 6' 2" person was called Goliath and lived in fear of slingshots. lol. You are definitely modernizing the mud wagon.
I love watching your blacksmithing skills, Dave! asmr I think they call it
I wouldn't try drilling through a board where you use your finger to feel it coming through with those brad point drills... Ha ha. Fantastic work, thanks for sharing. Charles
Listening to you talk through the steps of the build is extremely interesting.
Nice job of drawing out and forming the iron for the hook.
If there is any deficiency here, it is that there will be vastly more craftsmanship in the finish product than I suspect was in the original. Thank you Dave. Thank you Diane for all you do behind the scenes.
Thanks for yet another great video on this reconstruction.
Your talents and craftsmanship are amazing and watching you work and the results is a pure joy and brings back many memories of the old cabinetmakers, blacksmiths, farriers, etc of my long ago youth!
Be well and Thanks again.
I just in awe of what you have been able to put together from what was left of the coach and photos, to recreate it. A true craftsman.
My father has gigs that we are going to do up in New Zealand but this is next level!
Amazing how the wagon in the pictures look much bigger,or maybe the people were just smaller😊. Another great video,thanks mate🇦🇺
It still amazes me that you can put a bar of steel in the forge, heat the end of it up to red/white heat and hold the other end in your bare hand about two foot away.
If heated in a coal forge it's okay, for a few heats anyway. If it gets too hot to handle, simply dunk it in water. Now heating in a gas forge is a little different because the heat is blasting out the door and up the bar. This can be controlled a little bit by using firebrick to close the opening, but I find the bar still heats quickly up the length. The only solution to that is a longer bar or grab the bar with tongs and dunk the handle end in water before hammering on the anvil.
Man that Engels power hammer sure made the anvil sing a sweet song ! Great stuff. Thanks for sharing.
1 of the many things I enjoy about what you do it the little thing of aligning the flat edge of the square nuts, so they are inline with the edges of metal they are holding. I'm weird that way, lol
Outstanding work on that mud wagon Dave. The thought process that you have to do to figure out how it all works make my head hurt. You are certainly a Master of wagon building. Thank you for taking us along.
That works for me...6'2" just the same ! The fasteners on the bottom are the better plan...I agree. Little bit...by little bit.
Wondeerful to see your thought processes and then your great blacksmithing. Very interesting and educational. Cheers, Ian in Blackpool, UK
Looking nice! I hope you'll be able to post pics with a team when it's finished.
Great job positioning that camera way up there when you climbed up to check the driver’s seating position!
Perfect craftmansship. I enjoyed watching. Thank you, Mr Engels!
By the time you add some sort of padding on the driver's box it looks perfect for me. Keep these videos coming I've not found anything more interesting.
Dave, I like it just fine. Maybe a bit higher would work and the tall drivers could bring along a cushion for comfort.
As detail oriented as you are. I'm surprised you didn't chisel a square notch for the nut and completely cover it. Great video as always.
A Forstner bit would make a nice half-circle for that nut clearance, with a piece of scrap clamped to the stave.
You always put out good videos, Thanks Again, All The Best Danny
OK Dave you are impressive with your ability with Smitting. I to use to do that but I retired due to yep back problems. Those who never were Smittys or Farriers will never know the pain we suffer. I came from a long line of Smittys and Farriers. My Great Grand dad was the man who shod Gen Custers horse shortly before Little Bighorn. He wrote Custers horse was a cocky as its rider was.😮
Interesting.
Another great chapter in the saga of the mud wagon! Thank You! 😁👍
I'm lovin' this series! Not only for your historical detective work but as a little peek at what a working wagon shop, as opposed to a proper fancy "carriage maker" would have been doing at the time. As for the toeboard spacing since it's hung with chain from the hooks would it then be adjustable for the rider by just hooking the link that suits them? Or should I wait for the upcoming chapters like the rest? 😀
Yes, it's adjustable.
Once again thanks for the video.
Really liking how you have us following along as you reason your way through the reconstruction of this buggy. I think, though, that the felloes that you notched would look more natural if it was rounded or beveled at that end.
I imagine the ends of the chains would have a few links large enough to raise or lower as needed by driver.
Dave, I'm sure it wouldn't be period appropriate, but my first thought was to incorporate and turnbuckle in the chains so it can be adjusted easily!
Always a pleasure to watch your workmanship and skill!
Stay safe and we'll see you next week.
Not everybody back in that era would be clever as you are.
Thanks Dave. Very fun.
Really coming together now!
Really taking shape now. I do wonder what the purpose of a hinged boot and the chains instead of a rigid build. Is it to allow for different drivers to be more comfortable? On a continuous note, your craftsmanship never ceases to impress me. Thanks for sharing.
Yes, it is adjustable
Have I mentioned how much I admire your craftsmanship.👍🏻
Pretty clever to have an adjustable toe board for drivers of different heights. Better solution than trying to adjust the seat height. Precursor of the adjustable seats we have in cars.
Hi Dave, I agree, I think you right as Rane in how you put the Carriage bolt in the Foot board. With the Nut on top it would be a hazard, a please to snag a Boot on and cause someone to fall!
At the ten minute mark where you are notching the felloes to accommodate the nut, I can't tell if you are leaving enough space to get a wrench in there. I've been curious all along why the wreck had the carriage bolts installed the "wrong" way but now I'm wondering if maybe it was because the builder wanted to be able to snug up the nuts when the wood moved with the seasons. Fascinating work regardless.
Thanks for the video, Dave. Like said below, the toe board is chain adjustable. Jon
Dave, I've pretty much quit using C clamps in favor of the pistol style quick attachment ones. My favorite brand right now is DeWalt. I'm pretty sure you eschew the advantage of one hand clamping because of the force you can apply with the C clamp and being able to use them on hot metal.
Hey ! I thought Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin were supposed to sing in this musical ! ...... love your show !
Hey! I passed through your town this Memorial Day weekend and saw your town. Even had a breakfast sandwich. 😊 Maybe next time I’ll catch you open 😉👍
Right, cause people back then were smaller. Nice work!
You could make a set of plans for this thing. People would buy them!
Looking good Dave! 👍👍
I truly enjoy watching your blacksmithing. I was given a nice anvil and am putting together a small blacksmithing setup in my patio workshop. Looking forward to making stuff with it.
Really enjoying this. Thanks
If the chain is a little longer the footboard would be almost parallel; so the radius of the wagon fellow was a good clue to the actual mounting position.
Thank you so much for your fine videos. I really enjoy watching a master Craftsman at his work.
Ed Trump
Fairbanks, Alaska
The benefit of the chain is the foot rest height is adjustable.
Very good Dave.
Brilliant craftsman.
It looks pretty good to me.🙂🙂
Cone mandrel is giving good service-
I saw some of these old wagons in some old John Wayne western TH-cam videos . I stopped videos at different angles, yours looks close .
Perhaps, the chain, link by link, made it adjustable for long-and-low to short-and-high, depending on how long the legs are. Taller people would need it adjusted forwards, whereas shorter people upwards.
True
Nice witch’s hat mandrel you’ve got there.
Dave, One of the things I enjoy most, in these videos is watching you doing smithy work. Did Abbott & Downing hinge the drivers boots also?
Yes
Thanks Dave
Pretty neat stuff
Great work, it's all doable, Regards Doug.
Thank you but I am across the pond in the UK so it may be a little to far for that
Regards Doug.
Another fantastic video in this series. Your replication of the original components shows the skills and knowledge the original coachbuilders had. Do you find as you get older that a day crawling under things and climbing up on things and hammering etc knocks it out of you the day after? I have found from about age 50 onwards, I can’t do as much as I did in my 39s any more, the old bones get creaky…
Yes, he does.
Been watching you some time now. Love your attention to detail and never give up attitude, "mud wagon". Can't wait for the next show. Why do they call it a mud wagon? Thanks
Also they run well in mud.
Hi Dave and Diane ☺, the new drivers footboard is realy taking on a shape we can understand now, I presume the chains allow for adjustment for differant drivers, ? Pretty neet arangement. Thanks for another interesting video, stay safe , best wishe's to you both, Stuart, and Megan UK.
Yes, they do.
@@dianeengel4155 Hi Diane, thanks for the reply, we were wondering if we'd guessed right, kind regards Stuart, and Megan UK.
I have shop envy.
Proof is in the sitting!
As always grate video
The chains would make easy to change the height of the tow board for different drivers.
Great work
Good job 👍