Back when our nation was being born he’s the kind of feller who woulda been a huge asset to his community. I think there was a time when there were many more like him but he’s quite a rare man these days. We are lucky that he’s willing to fool with cameras and editing to make these videos so we can all understand how it was done and have a record going forward into history. A genuine treasure.
You nailed saying each type of wheel has its own unique personality. I originally thought you’d have the felloes cover 3 spokes each to counter the alignment of the spokes but the grain direction is important as you explained.
I was just at Hartwick Pines in Grayling MI. They have one of these . It carries the log under it. Theirs is getting to be in rough shape though. I'd never appreciated the workmanship that went into one of these, until I came across your channel. Thanks
In my 78 summers, I have built wooden boats from blank sheet of paper to sailing on the ocean. Nothing has awed me as much as watching you build these wheels. Just shaking my head in utter respect !!
In today's 3D modeling, computer dominated manufacturing world, this project would have started with laser scans of those iron hubs. And then CNC driven cutting, milling and lathes to craft the spokes and fellows. But where's the challenge or handcrafted pride in that!? I love Dave's commitment to preserving the Wheelwright trade.
Hi Dave and Diane ☺, it's just amazing how those feloes are coming together, and that's the result of alot of thinking, working out the angles. And a whole wagon load of skill ,and experience, Dave you never cease to astound us whith your craftsmanship, many thanks for taking the time to show us this, it's appreciated, best whish's to you and Diane, Stuart and Megan UK
Even before you mentioned it, I was so impressed that the shoulders of the spokes matched the insides of the felloes so tightly: my hat-if I had one-is off to you.
The combination of geometry meeting the characteristics of individual pieces of wood and the thought needed to make them play nicely has been most interesting. And, I do like having the BOB theme back.
Dave you are a master craftsman. Even when your working on Something different it does not hold you back . You give all your projects the same commitment to detail. The wheel is coming along nicely. 👍👍👍👍👍
I can see why you decided to record this build. It’s so different than a regular wheel with a wooden hub. This wheel’s personality starts with the hub. I hope you and it get along well together. Lol
Dave, you truly are practical genius personified. If ever I had a choice of being stranded on a desert Island with nothing to survive with. I would dearly want you as my companion. Thank you. I so enjoy watching your magical skill all the way from New Zealand. I would love to come and visit you one day!
One hell of a geometric puzzle to have to figure out. Ancient Greek and Egyptian mathematician are clapping from their graves, as am I!! Yes, the world can work just fine without computers. Thanks once again for the pleasure of watching a craftsman at work.
Hi Dave, and Diane, these logging wheels are really looking beautiful. These have just been a lot of work from the very start, and you have been on top of all the issues. Now it's paying off, and so amazing how you have managed to keep the accuracy going throughout this project. Thank you for sharing, and take care.
Last time I was on a wagon it was on my great-uncle's Hay Wagon, and it had rubber wheels. I was 12. In fact, I don't think I've ever ridden on a vehicle with wooden wheels. Having said that I find each one of your videos mesmerizing! I'm never going to do what you do but as a fellow woodworker, I find what you do to be amazing!! Thanks for sharing your craft with us👍👍👍
Dave you must have for your age the strongest arm to beat those felloe's into place. The only thing you will get assistance for is the giant 10' rim. Which will be amazing to watch at the end.
So impressive how accurate it all is when tiny errors can end up being magnified into massive mistakes. Really nice to watch it all falling into place.
Just watched one of your older videos of a sickle mower repair and it was great! If I may be somewhat presumptuous, I think all of your viewers would like some more variety of any extraneous projects you may do. Your versatility and problem solving aptitude is remarkable and is the reason I never miss an episode and browse your older videos. Thanks for your sharing your work!!
What a show. The experience shown in this process goes beyond anything I've seen before. I have more experience in machining metal with very fine tolerances but I don't think it is enough to tackle a project like this. Knowing where to make adjustments seems as for this "MASTER"!!!!
I have to admit that again I totally misjudged this build. As a retired dentist of 76 y/o that might be forgivable. I thought, with somebody else having all the trouble making the hub, „all you need to do“ is putting in some spokes and fellows and tighten some nuts. Boy was I ever so wrong! This has you fighting every step with unusual angles, tension that you normally don‘t have and all that with a weight and size that is easily equal to a whole buggy! But when I got thrown a curveball like that in my line of business I always told myself: „If it was easy, everybody else could have done it!“ This build is suspense and a challenge with every step. But solving puzzles and dealing with challenges you, Sir, are the Hercule Poirot of the wheelrights! Thanks for documenting all this because unfortunately we do not see you teach some eager young fellow to carry on (one should think they would stand in line at your shop in the morning). Our youth does not seem to appreciate an honest day of hard work with their hands any more. Thank you and your wife for going the extra mile and taking us along!
This wheel is quite a teacher. Your workmanship is excellent. Fun to watch it come to gather. Setting the tire will need many hands. Great job God bless.
I told me older brothers who both are teachers that teach wood and mealt shop class to have the kids to watch his channel. They use somethings in class for the students. Yeah 😊😊😊 .
I'm sweating, out of breath and an aching shoulder just watching you work. Amazing workmanship, so much respect for what you are doing and capable of doing.
Holy cow! I hope you're charging an obscene amount for these wheels. There are probably a dozen or fewer people in the country who could make them. Can't wait to see them done. Thanks Dave.
Thanks for including the clip of him applying the soap, and the mention last video. (I noticed.) Sending lots of love 💖 from sunny 🌞 Arizona 🌵. Take care of yourselves 😷.
Having done some wood projects that are complicated, I see a lot of that here. Spectacular work. Pretty amazing that you are doing it without an assistant. Thanks Dave.
Incredible, all the measurements and angles coming together on such a large scale. It's like watching the last section of a suspension bridge being installed and forming the final curve.
You don't need to go to the gym today. You have total body workouts every day, including your mind. Your artistic abilities and mathematics are only superceded by your work ethic.
My arm hurts just watching you hammer on those fellows! After the first one I'd have to have switched to using a long ram air hammer. My hat's off to you!
Yeah, a lot of my jobs I have to figure it out as I go along. Ideally, I like to do the whole job in my mind ahead of time, rather than improvise as I go along. Very enjoyable video. I saw big wheels like this at the museum near Flagstaff, AZ many years ago. I think they were used when they logged off the old growth Ponderosa Pines there. If I ever come back to America, I sure want to come visit you.
As I have said before I can watch build wheels all day. Maybe I’m just a boring old man. But I love you ability to think things out and at the end it comes out perfect. Again thank you for your videos. I always look forward to them.
Your years of experience really show up on this episode! Thinking 4 to 6 steps ahead on every action with the complete finished project always in focus makes it look easy , having done complex assembly myself I know how hard it is to be efficient and effective and do it once right first time ! Well done.
Dave your nothing short of a GENIUS figuring out all those complex angles of such huge dimentions. It has been very interesting seeing your thoughts from start, to where your at now. What I can only imagine how big of a fire you will need to get those HUGE tires hot enough, and then be able to put them on, I cannot wait to see the process.
Well Dave , I just ate a bit of crow as the saying goes. I have to admit. been watching you for years now. seen you do this play with the fellows, hundreds of times and it always amazed me how well they always came together. but these above and below spokes. gave me pause. even though I understood your logic in the beginning when you were doing the spindles. I had my doubts. on their alignment with the fellows. all aligning. And they are dead on. so my apologies for even having the slightest doubt and I willingly eat my crow. and applaud your engineering and craftsmanship. .ECF
Great job Dave, you figured that out perfectly and it has come together . It's awesome watching you work and explain how you managed to solve any problems you might run up against and how to fix them. Thanks for sharing with us and keep up the excellent work and videos. Fred.
It takes you, Thats a saying from Northern Ireland, my part of the world, meaning only you could do it. Hats off to you sir.
Never seen a better craftsman. This amazing wheel is built by one man on his own - my deepest respect.
He's an engineer, artist, fine furniture maker, blacksmith, inventor, tailor, ...amazing!
Story teller!......not the tall tale kind!
Good seamstress, too.
If you add physicist and practical genius to that list, you just might cover all the bases!
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Back when our nation was being born he’s the kind of feller who woulda been a huge asset to his community. I think there was a time when there were many more like him but he’s quite a rare man these days. We are lucky that he’s willing to fool with cameras and editing to make these videos so we can all understand how it was done and have a record going forward into history. A genuine treasure.
You nailed saying each type of wheel has its own unique personality.
I originally thought you’d have the felloes cover 3 spokes each to counter the alignment of the spokes but the grain direction is important as you explained.
I was just at Hartwick Pines in Grayling MI. They have one of these . It carries the log under it. Theirs is getting to be in rough shape though.
I'd never appreciated the workmanship that went into one of these, until I came across your channel.
Thanks
In my 78 summers, I have built wooden boats from blank sheet of paper to sailing on the ocean. Nothing has awed me as much as watching you build these wheels. Just shaking my head in utter respect !!
Now that, is a compliment!
There's a national treasure in that video
In today's 3D modeling, computer dominated manufacturing world, this project would have started with laser scans of those iron hubs. And then CNC driven cutting, milling and lathes to craft the spokes and fellows. But where's the challenge or handcrafted pride in that!? I love Dave's commitment to preserving the Wheelwright trade.
Hi Dave and Diane ☺, it's just amazing how those feloes are coming together, and that's the result of alot of thinking, working out the angles. And a whole wagon load of skill ,and experience, Dave you never cease to astound us whith your craftsmanship, many thanks for taking the time to show us this, it's appreciated, best whish's to you and Diane, Stuart and Megan UK
Brilliant programm,pleasure to watch a master at work.
If the videos were two hours long, I would watch until the end. Great work.
WOW!!! So very Awesome!!!
Dave; i watch a lot of craftsmen on TH-cam. You rank with the very best of them all. Thanks for sharing your unlimitless skills.
I've run out of superlatives for Dave so will compliment Diane on another fine edit. 👍👍👍
Dave ist ein Handwerkskünstler
Just incredible. I feel so fortunate to be able to watch this
Dave again I learned something new Thank You
For He's a Jolly good Felloe, . . . Indeed!
Once again thanks for the video.
I'm exhausted just watching you.
Even before you mentioned it, I was so impressed that the shoulders of the spokes matched the insides of the felloes so tightly: my hat-if I had one-is off to you.
The combination of geometry meeting the characteristics of individual pieces of wood and the thought needed to make them play nicely has been most interesting. And, I do like having the BOB theme back.
I actually applauded when it all lined up - like scoring a home run or a touchdown. Brilliant.
One of the sweetest fit ups I have ever seen
Super Job, Hut ab vor diesem Handwerker. 👍👌👍👏🤔
Dave you are a master craftsman. Even when your working on
Something different it does not hold you back .
You give all your projects the same commitment to detail.
The wheel is coming along nicely. 👍👍👍👍👍
JUST WOW, Speechless!
I can see why you decided to record this build. It’s so different than a regular wheel with a wooden hub. This wheel’s personality starts with the hub. I hope you and it get along well together. Lol
Dave, you truly are practical genius personified. If ever I had a choice of being stranded on a desert Island with nothing to survive with. I would dearly want you as my companion. Thank you. I so enjoy watching your magical skill all the way from New Zealand. I would love to come and visit you one day!
It is a pleasure to be "invited" to join you on this remarkable journey. God Bless you and Mrs. Engels.
One hell of a geometric puzzle to have to figure out. Ancient Greek and Egyptian mathematician are clapping from their graves, as am I!!
Yes, the world can work just fine without computers.
Thanks once again for the pleasure of watching a craftsman at work.
Hi Dave, and Diane, these logging wheels are really looking beautiful. These have just been a lot of work from the very start, and you have been on top of all the issues. Now it's paying off, and so amazing how you have managed to keep the accuracy going throughout this project. Thank you for sharing, and take care.
Another apparently insurmountable problem brushed aside with the aid of a good eye, some clamps and a large hammer! Bravo!
Last time I was on a wagon it was on my great-uncle's Hay Wagon, and it had rubber wheels. I was 12. In fact, I don't think I've ever ridden on a vehicle with wooden wheels.
Having said that I find each one of your videos mesmerizing! I'm never going to do what you do but as a fellow woodworker, I find what you do to be amazing!!
Thanks for sharing your craft with us👍👍👍
Dave, I doubt anyone else in the World could figure these wheels out and make the entire assembly.
Congratulations.
No way you close this without liking it!
Dave you must have for your age the strongest arm to beat those felloe's into place.
The only thing you will get assistance for is the giant 10' rim. Which will be amazing to watch at the end.
I'll bet you'll be happy when this project is finished. Whew!, what a job!
So impressive how accurate it all is when tiny errors can end up being magnified into massive mistakes. Really nice to watch it all falling into place.
Just watched one of your older videos of a sickle mower repair and it was great! If I may be somewhat presumptuous, I think all of your viewers would like some more variety of any extraneous projects you may do. Your versatility and problem solving aptitude is remarkable and is the reason I never miss an episode and browse your older videos. Thanks for your sharing your work!!
Few wheelwrights would even attempt this set of wheels.
Great job keep up the great work love your videos thank you
What a show. The experience shown in this process goes beyond anything I've seen before. I have more experience in machining metal with very fine tolerances but I don't think it is enough to tackle a project like this. Knowing where to make adjustments seems as for this "MASTER"!!!!
What a mixture of heavy engineering and finesse
Dave, there is NO ONE on this earth who could have done this. No one could ever change my mind!!😊
Your precision is impressive.
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I have to admit that again I totally misjudged this build. As a retired dentist of 76 y/o that might be forgivable. I thought, with somebody else having all the trouble making the hub, „all you need to do“ is putting in some spokes and fellows and tighten some nuts. Boy was I ever so wrong! This has you fighting every step with unusual angles, tension that you normally don‘t have and all that with a weight and size that is easily equal to a whole buggy! But when I got thrown a curveball like that in my line of business I always told myself: „If it was easy, everybody else could have done it!“ This build is suspense and a challenge with every step. But solving puzzles and dealing with challenges you, Sir, are the Hercule Poirot of the wheelrights! Thanks for documenting all this because unfortunately we do not see you teach some eager young fellow to carry on (one should think they would stand in line at your shop in the morning). Our youth does not seem to appreciate an honest day of hard work with their hands any more. Thank you and your wife for going the extra mile and taking us along!
This wheel is quite a teacher. Your workmanship is excellent. Fun to watch it come to gather. Setting the tire will need many hands. Great job God bless.
Massively IMPRESSIVE.
👍👍
What a grueling job! Thankfully Dave has the patience, experience and expertise to do a job this complex.
Such an unpretentious and modest man.
Thank you for the video
That overhead shot around 12:20 really conveys just how big these wheels are!
Great watching you work and problem solve Dave.
I told me older brothers who both are teachers that teach wood and mealt shop class to have the kids to watch his channel. They use somethings in class for the students. Yeah 😊😊😊 .
When u attached first felloe i personally felt a sense of accomplishment ..
A Master class. Thank you!
I'm sweating, out of breath and an aching shoulder just watching you work. Amazing workmanship, so much respect for what you are doing and capable of doing.
Holy cow! I hope you're charging an obscene amount for these wheels. There are probably a dozen or fewer people in the country who could make them. Can't wait to see them done. Thanks Dave.
You need to get one of those sledge hammers they use at carnivals for ringing the bell.😄
Huge wheel is taking shape. Well done.
You need a bigger club Dave more of a sledge but it sure is looking great!!!!
It’s amazing to watch, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for including the clip of him applying the soap, and the mention last video. (I noticed.) Sending lots of love 💖 from sunny 🌞 Arizona 🌵. Take care of yourselves 😷.
Very good Dave thanks for the ride
Wow I really thought those big felloes would be a bearcat to get on, but you made it look easy-ish.
You are doing an amazing job constructing that huge wheel! God bless!
Having done some wood projects that are complicated, I see a lot of that here. Spectacular work. Pretty amazing that you are doing it without an assistant. Thanks Dave.
I so look forward to developments on this project. Thank you for sharing
Very skilled!
Incredible, all the measurements and angles coming together on such a large scale. It's like watching the last section of a suspension bridge being installed and forming the final curve.
This is amazing wonderful job 👍👏❤️
We all knew they were going to be 10 ft tall but when you finally see it taking shape it is huge. Good job .
You don't need to go to the gym today. You have total body workouts every day, including your mind. Your artistic abilities and mathematics are only superceded by your work ethic.
My arm hurts just watching you hammer on those fellows! After the first one I'd have to have switched to using a long ram air hammer. My hat's off to you!
Well well well looks like i am 3 day late again.....That is one huge wheel for sure....Thank you Dave....
Old Flying Shoe🇺🇸
Just amazing how you make it look so easy. Love watching
Great work, hope we get some footage of them working after they are delivered.
That is a humongous wheel is a peace of art on is on right.
You are the greatest problem solver, I have ever seen! Thanks for letting us watch!
Now that’s old school 👍
The way those mortises close up tight to the felloes blows my mind. I can't get any joint to line up no matter how simple.
Yeah, a lot of my jobs I have to figure it out as I go along. Ideally, I like to do the whole job in my mind ahead of time, rather than improvise as I go along. Very enjoyable video. I saw big wheels like this at the museum near Flagstaff, AZ many years ago. I think they were used when they logged off the old growth Ponderosa Pines there. If I ever come back to America, I sure want to come visit you.
It's great to see all those parts become a wheel! I'm always amazed by your skill and experience, great job Dave!
As I have said before I can watch build wheels all day. Maybe I’m just a boring old man. But I love you ability to think things out and at the end it comes out perfect. Again thank you for your videos. I always look forward to them.
Your years of experience really show up on this episode! Thinking 4 to 6 steps ahead on every action with the complete finished project always in focus makes it look easy , having done complex assembly myself I know how hard it is to be efficient and effective and do it once right first time ! Well done.
From Australia one admirer of you beautiful craft😮
You are the master at angle figures. I could never have done that and it all line up
Add athlete to that previous list. He certainly got his workout with the Garland mallet.
All I can say is, the man is good at his craft and the side jobs he does.
Awesoome stuff, my elbows are hurting just watching you do all that hammering!
Dave your nothing short of a GENIUS figuring out all those complex angles of such huge dimentions. It has been very interesting seeing your thoughts from start, to where your at now. What I can only imagine how big of a fire you will need to get those HUGE tires hot enough, and then be able to put them on, I cannot wait to see the process.
I love it when a plan comes together.
i like watching your videos but when it comes to watching you build these wheels it's amazing to watch thanks for the videos.
Massive wheel and work.👍😉
Well Dave , I just ate a bit of crow as the saying goes. I have to admit. been watching you for years now. seen you do this play with the fellows, hundreds of times and it always amazed me how well they always came together. but these above and below spokes. gave me pause. even though I understood your logic in the beginning when you were doing the spindles. I had my doubts. on their alignment with the fellows. all aligning. And they are dead on. so my apologies for even having the slightest doubt and I willingly eat my crow. and applaud your engineering and craftsmanship. .ECF
Amazing.
The great shame is I only get to like once.
Great job, you are truly a craftsman.
You make it look easy maestro, God has certainly blessed you exceedingly. Thanks for sharing your knowledge, calmness and expertise with us.👍
Great job Dave, you figured that out perfectly and it has come together . It's awesome watching you work and explain how you managed to solve any problems you might run up against and how to fix them. Thanks for sharing with us and keep up the excellent work and videos. Fred.
Very, very impressive!!
Hats off, Sir