This is Heavy Blacksmithing on Borax Wagons! | Engels Coach Shop
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- This style of horn and bumper is a unique part of the Borax wagons. It helps steer and stop the second wagon and the third water wagon. It involves two large forge welds. This whole assembly ends up weighing about 80 pounds! I hope you enjoy!
Incredible work. Blacksmithing during the 1800s must have been paid more than other occupations.
This gentleman should be narrating shows for history channel and discovery channel ! ( very well spoken clear English )
Amazing. As a kid I grew up a few hundred feet from my uncle’s welding / fabricating shop. He made fences, lawn furniture, columns,etc,. Some of the things he made using castings inside frames like the decorative columns. He also had a forge. I use to spend hours in his shop watching him and his son-in-laws building all this stuff made of steel and iron. One day he told me to watch him weld some parts together in the forge. I was use to them arc welding. I remember him telling me what was going on to make a forge weld. Watching you forge weld this piece reminded me of watching Uncle Joe show me something new. All those times in his shop and I have never burnt the first welding rod.
my grand father was a blacksmith I never knew him but your work gives me a great admiration for his work.
Thats not blacksmithing thats industrial production!!! Amazing!!
A master craftsman who is highly skilled and willing to do the blacksmith work with a lot of heat pouring off that forge, very impressive.
Those are really big forge welds. Wow!
Watching some of your older video's, you Sir are an amazing craftsman!
I can't imagine forge welding something that heavy. Master work! Beautiful.
Another excellent video of some fascinating work. Your filming and editing is also top-drawer stuff !
Absolutely amazing skills and effort. I was wiping my brow just watching this!
MAGIC!!!! YOU guys are wizards
Good morning from SE Louisiana 4 Mar 21.
What lovely work, thanks for filming it.
Amazing, never ending amazement of your craftsmanship.
Now that’s a weld !!
Hi, I just found this channel. Awesome I subscribed right away. I will keep watching.
Bill from Seattle.
Awesome.
Toiling,-rejoicing,-sorrowing,
Onward through life he goes;
Each morning sees some task begin,
Each evening sees it close;
Something attempted, something done,
Has earned a night’s repose.
Incredible hability, great work !
Good job guy...I enjoy watching your videos
A true masterpice!
There are many people those days that call them selves blacksmiths, but wery, wery few that actually master things like this, that realy takes a skill of a master, anymore.
(Sorry for my English...)
Great video, that sucker looks heavy!
Great work and narrative! Thank you for sharing.
Nice work.. Excellently laid and and nice video.. Thanks
I took my hand and pushed up on my chin, couldn't close my mouth any other way!!!!!!!!!!!! EXCELLENT!
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Wether you like it or not I m going to tell you that you are amazing craftsman
Congratulations.
Very good video, looks like you could use a striker!
I'm bettin' you sleep really well!
Awesome!
really like your videos mate
Have you got any video of puting the bends in the steel? You mention something about using a press? I would like to see how you did that.
I have two questions.
1. Did the blacksmiths back in the day use Borax as flux? Or ?
2. How long did it take them to do this same process back then?
1. Yes 2. We don't know for sure.
Awesome forge, what kind of coals are you using?
Do you turn/rotate the package in the fire that it gets even heat from all sides? Or do you just lay it in the fire without moving it, until it gets welding heat? Couldn't see any Rotation in the vid. Just curious, no critic...You do a geat work and let difficulkt Things look very easy. Greetings from Germany.
Thanks for the answer. It makes your work even more impressive to handle and turn these heavy parts.
I was just musing about what the wagons cost in the 1883/1889 time period compared what it cost for you to build today. Also, what the work effort in 1800 with their technology against what you folks with your technology.
Amazing how much they cost today. Those borax wagons had a sales price of $125,000 ea once they were completed last year. Imagine how much they would have been sold for in the 1800's. Looking forward to Dave building the water wagons this year for the borax wagons.
Is that US dollar. Am from Australia
Are you using wrought iron (pure iron - as well as possible back then - with several percent silicon content - as a flux for forge welding of separate parts and as a rust inhibitor - and under 0.08% carbon content - the steel minimum carbon content)? Some steels can be hammer forged as you did, but most cannot reliably unless the joint is folded again and again like with Japanese Samurai swords.
Your vice is that a studebaker?
How much is the shop hourly rate to do the forging work?
How do you determine when the steel is at "welding temp"?
How does the trip hammer work? I feel like the spinning bit on top is engaded by a clutch, but it jiggles like you lift it up with a spring.
Sweet, thanks!
What are the man hours that takes to make a wagon from start to finish?
What size giant or trip hammer is this you use if you don't mind me asking ???
Is that just mild steel?
Beautiful work, but I would wear a face shield when using the power hammer. You never know when a hot piece of scale might pop off.
can we welding not use borax.
Saves on Gym fees
This may seem like old time technology, but it's not. When the price of gasoline goes to twelve dollars a gallon, you people in Joliet are going to be very busy building wagons - the new Detroit!
Hearing protection ?
You can see the string pairing his foam ear plugs in some of the shots. Look at 18:48.
Appropriate that you are using borax as a flux to create borax wagons
I bet this is all copyright from EagleCoachShop
No wonder blacksmiths were stout fellows….