New Borax Water Wagon Project of Death Valley | 1200 Gallon Wagon
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- This an overview of the Borax Wagons and the start of the Water Wagon project. The Water Wagon will be the culmination of the Borax Wagon replication effort promoted by the Death Valley Conservancy. The DVC is focused on preserving the history of the Death Valley Era of which the Borax Wagons played a major role. This is part of what is known as the Big Hitch Era in the Mojave Desert that was a way of life in the mid to late 1800s.
Death Valley Conservancy - dvconservancy.org
Doesn't matter how long these videos are, they are never long enough
Yeah...never enough...but are saying you'd like more of the metal grinding..?
@@dougankrum3328 Don't care, I'd watch a livestream :) I'm always amazed at the amount of talent you can find on youtube, beats the UK's TV stations hands down
You are not only fantastic at your own trade, you are the only person who ever made history interesting to me. Thank you and good luck.
Another Borax wagon series......what a great way to start the weekend!
Dear Dave, again I have enjoyed every second of your new project. What a great way of compleeting this Borax-project. Please, I hunger for more!!
i just rewatch all the shows about the big wagons and wondered about the water wagon. looking forward to this project. thanks as always.
So on one side you have reverse-threaded nuts. I haven't seen that since my '64 (?) Dodge Dart!! More assurance that the wheels are not going to fall off in mid-ride! Another great series!
You Sir always provide quality content! I didn’t think you could ever top the Borax wagons build. Yet here you are adding to that wonderful series. I eagerly await the next installment.
Excellent, as always!!!!!!!!
More great Friday video's. This will be good to follow, watching the water wagon being built or rebuilt.
Another wonderful project to watch....thank you for these marvelous videos!
This should be a very enjoyable series, looking forward for all the videos!
Thanks , beautiful work of preservation of heritage and American culture...Hello from France
I've been lucky enough to visit DV many times Great History everywhere!!
Big stuff again, best eat your Wheaties! Excited to see this project in all of its facets.
This is going to be a great and much anticipated series !! I'm looking forward to every second of it !!
I'm glad I'm old because I can appreciate these things. Nice job!
I'm young and i very much appreciate these things :D
A unbleviable amount of skilled work.
Thank you for sharing Mr. Engels. I was in Bishop a couple weeks ago buying a mule and had planned to stop at Laws Museum to see your handy-work first hand, but I ran out of daylight. Maybe next time
These projects are facinating, peering into the past as it were.
I have been waiting for you begin this project.
Thank you.
Can't wait to see this wagon come together! Thanks
How could anyone give this a thumbs down? I won't say what I'm thinking!
DITTO
I suspect attention-span issues, or a complete lack of soul.
If it is in the low numbers (usually below ten or twenty) then it is bots.
I agree, must be some, democrats lurking about. Just not very bright individuals, no respect for an art as well as a skill only a hand full of people have. Once they are gone the trade pretty much dies with them. What a downer. !!!!!! In 20 years they will be made of plastic, aluminum and carbon fiber.
Not what you would call traditional........
Roger Marshall
Why would you even think to say it’s Democrats? You are the reason people think so lowly of Republicans.
No reason to bring politics into the discussion at all but you seem to need to validate your pathetic life by thinking your better than someone else because they may think differently politically and therefore ASSume that because someone thinks differently than you it must be the same political reasons.
I could say the same thing about Republicans based solely on you but I am smart enough to know that not all (very few) Republicans are as closed minded as you are.
How exciting. Great video. Keep them coming.
Takes me back as a kid to the old TV series, Death Valley Days; brought to you by, 20 Mule Team Borax. lol....
Very good to have (designed) the right tools...
Thanks again! Best channel ever!
Good afternoon from SE Louisiana 4 Mar 21..
Enjoyed and Thumbs Up
Looking forward to seeing this project to completion.
Thanks for the video. That steady rest didn't come with the lathe. Appreciate that the first is the hardest as you said.
Looks like an exciting project
just love your work
I would compare your emphasis on care and precision in hand craft to be equal to that of the building of Rolls Royce motorcars, this shows in your work.
Closer to Morgan. Most of them have wooden chassis and hand made parts. Beautiful cars hand made for their owners.
I second that.
I love to see this new series. Thank you for taking your time to produce it.
May I ask you a question? Why didnt you put band on the hubs during the drying process. Wouldnt that be better to give the wood some support? What would be the drawback?
Yay. More Borax wagon videos. I look forward to this video series. Actually I look forward to all of your videos even if the next one will be boring. 😉 ba-dum tiss. 🥁
Good word play Wayne.
Those old wagons sure had some horsepower back in the day 🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎
That's some of the fastest sandblasting I have EVER seen !!
This is going to be a job..we must follow this one as well.
Hi, You sure are a quick sandblaster :-), wonderfull tool to have. It will be a true joy to see a part of American history rising again. What will you do with those big cracks in the hubs.
The first wagons were quite the undertaking, the tank wagon should be a great job, since you have the experience on the first three. It's wagon building on a massive scale...
Here I thought the job was done when you shipped out the first ones.
What is the standard clearance between axle shaft and hub bushing? Are they ever made now with ptfe liners? Thanks for another brilliant video. 👍
I think I told you I have a Henndy lathe like yours. I admire your steady rest. Did you build it? Don from Oregon
The men who did the work in the old days were tough beyond today's comprehension.
Call me when the grand kids get ready to ride the pony and I'll remind you where the girth is for the pony saddle. Funny, I was watching Death Valley Days on TV just today and thought I wonder when they are going to have Dan rebuild the water wagon.
I have got to get one of those speedy sandblast cabinets.
edit:- In retrospect, would you put the steel bands on those hubs, when you made the hubs? ie, Even shrunk them on?
and edit again:- I ordered and have received the Traveler, Good stuff, Thanks Dave.
There seems to be a lot of persons working in Ernest. I wonder how Ernest feels about this going on.
It rains and snows there a lot, too.
Ernest isn’t very bright but he always seemed to come out on top.
Know what I mean Vern?
Depends on what part of him they're working in.
the best time spent on TH-cam every week. Thanks!
I've watched,,, literally,,,hundreds of your videos,, and was always wondering one thing about your press-------- and today's answered that!! That huge "screw" at the bottom to easily spin the table up and down!!!!!! (I've only seen you pressing things,,, never adjusting ---- wondered how you went from small stuff to huge hubs!)
Skills. By the way, what sort of tonnage did these behemoths carry? Wheels say it must be large. Melb.
Good use of an old belly strap.
Ahhhhhh! It was over too quickly, but thank you anyway :-)
Is the water in the tank for the mules during the trip?
just curious are the boxings cast iron? and are the axles harden steel?
Was wondering if you have ever done a stagecoach???
3:35 Two persons opearting the front wagon, one operates the second as a brakesman, what about the water tank wagon? does it has one or two crew?
Still awaiting the barrels on the side.
Would you be so kind and post the name of the group (link) who's music is playing in the background? Thanks
Didn't old Dodges have left hand threads on the left side wheel studs back in the day? Plus, is that a saddle girth you're using as a hoist strap?
I had a `68 Dodge with left hand threads on one side. Darn near broke off the studs before I figured it out.
I had an '85 Ford F-250 diesel 6.9 and it had LH threads in the left side wheel studs, front and rear, RH threads in the right side studs, front and rear. I never understood the reason for this on wheel studs/lug-nuts.
I think Chrysler did it in the 70's also
Most old heavy trucks used to use left hand threads on one side and right hand on the other side, especially with the Budd Nut system as used on early Kenworths. I have a 1967 LW 923 Kenworth with that set-up.
I had a 72 dodge power wagon that had left and right lugs. I think some of the heavy equipment on the road today use left and right????
3:57 the water tank in this wagon train is smaller.
Use horse gear to make other stuff.
Love it 😁
We do that too 🤣
(Need to lift beam 🤔🤔 horse harness 😎)
The word of the day is cosmoline.
I mean it's not like the wheel is going to be on a freeway at 65mph so why the overkill on dead on specs? You know the originals were fine "close enough".
I see someone has been shopping at Harbor freight
Here we go again...more addictive viewing...lol...
It's going to be a long time before Artificial intelligence replaces Mr. Engel's expertise!!!
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Now that's a follower rest yikes!
Thanks Dave for the pictorial History of the Borax Mining methods and the Wagons they used to get the product to shipping destinations. I am thrilled to see you take on the reconstruction of one of these very large wagons,what a challenge, wish you the best. I do have a question though, do you fill the cracks in the large wooden hubs with epoxy or wood filler of some type.?
Appreciated the history review and the old photos, along with the start of the project. Your fan from Circle.
e020443 Missed that part too. Sure is nice he had the original to go by. Still a very big project. A lot of iron goes into it too. Heavy axles massive wheels. Someone was commissioned to make those too. Making a hub using a grinder and welder. Makes you wonder how they did it back in the day.
Good clean television! Keep posting vids and teaching me. Love this kind of "old school" fabrication.
I love to see those old photos, thanks.
Remembering my grandfather hand advanced, hand driven drill press with home made spade drill bits, not in my time. I also love that old shear you used at the “dogs”, never seen the backwards handle. Yes I do like a lot of explanation,
though I know what you do and why just by seeing it most times but always have a chance to learn something. Thanks for the many enjoyable videos.
A blue cinch from a saddle-horse adapted to lifting heavy hubs? Innovative!!!!
Love your oversized steady-rest and ALL your videos, This will be another wonderful series. :-)
This channel is 100% better than anything on the History Channel.
Those big chunks checked pretty bad. Many don't know about how wood cures during air drying. Good salvage job.
He wasn't trying to save them, he was waiting for them to dry so he could finish them. He mentioned that when the initial carving was done.
Really like these big projects! And definitely envious of that giant press you have. Is it homemade? And do you have a video on it? If not might be a good one to make.
Dave; What a pleasant surprise, to see you have a project like this again. These wagons are as magnificent as any piece of art ever created. I know you must be excited about recreating this piece. Does this mean I will have to recreate the water wagon in scale?
Great lead in. The story and pictures were very good. Now I have another build to watch and I am looking forward to all of it. Thanks.I to remember the commercials for 20 Mule Team Borax and even now I use Borax for several things including preserving salmon roe.
“Built in Joliet by those who know how”
Really good to see another project. More therapy for the cold winter months!
My neighbor in elgin, ks used to make carriages for clydesdales and the time and energy that goes into a carriage is remarkable and like here just beautiful.
With all of the work that you do to create these wagons, etc, how in the world do you find the time to film the activity from so many great angles?! These videos are almost as remarkable as the actual work you are doing!
Just beautiful craftsman .I hope there will be someone to take his place and do a perfect job like this man.I never get tired of watching this man work his craft.
great video.. look forward to the project and some of the other projects to come.. keep up the good work you are a real master of the trade.
Looking forward to the water wagon build !
I have great respect for your craftsmanship & ingenuity. It's very interesting to see your workshop and the different specialized tools & devices you use. I also think it is vitally important that someone keeps this kind of know-how alive, and the work you're doing in documenting it on video is very valuable.
Thank you !
from a Norwegian woodworker
Like a true craftsman, you make it look easy. Always a pleasure to watch someone who owns their skills. Thanks for sharing
I can only imagine your sense of satisfaction when a project like this is finished...not anyone can reproduce museum quality pieces...i can't wait for next friday!!
Another cliff-hanger for me. I love it and can't wait till next week.What a fun project. Thank You.
Every time I think you've made a mistake, you've apparently forgotten to remove something, or not put something else on, it all turns out to be part of the plan.
It's damn amazing
This will be a good build. Heavy wheels, irons on the wooden frame. Dang....can't wait to see the huge water tank.
Stay happy, healthy and wise.
Cheers
Absolutely fascinating your videos are spell binding so glad I found your channel keep it up you are truly blessed👌👍
Our ancestors where truly amazing men and we can’t fathom the skills they possessed. I’ll be tuned into this build for sure.👍🏼
Great as always. Another series of Borax Wagon stuff is welcome!
Looking forward to seeing this water wagon build.
Good luck Dave.
I can’t tell you how excited I am for this series!
YEPPERS ,AS YOU CAN SEE BY MY PICTURE I LIVE IN THE MOJAVE DESERT..
I LIVE A BIT HIGHER IN ELEVATION 3595' ,IT IS STILL HOT AND DRY,COLD AND WET TODAY ,BUT MOSTLY DRY.
THE WATER WAGON HAS BEEN REPLACED BY THE WATER TRUCK OR THE WATER BUFFALO(TANK ON A WAGON PULLED BY A TRUCK).WELLS ARE 500'+ AND VERY HIT AND MISS.
I LIVE ABOUT 50 MILES FROM BORON.
INSTALLED THE 1st PIECE OF PIPE IN THE 1st SOLAR PLANT IN KRAMER JCT.
LOVE YOUR WORK. YOUR DEDICATION TO YOUR CRAFT IS ADMIRABLE.
I WILL BE WATCHING EVERY VIDEO ,AS I HAVE WATCHED EVERYONE SO FAR(.BINGE WATCHED THEM)
GOD BLESS STAY WARM( AS I LIVED IN IDAHO WHEN I WAS A YOUNG MAN)
I like your shop made steady rest, or should it be called a follow rest because it is affixed to the carriage of the lathe? Whichever you call it it serves the purpose for which it was made. I don't want to sound like a broken record but thank you sir for another great video! You are the best You Tube Producer.... MY FAVORITE !!!
They were forge welding and hot cut on anvil without angle grinders, epic...
And I mean, forge welding on it's own is not a big deal, but forge weld those tires to an exact precise diameter is an art. This must be the hardest thing, and those folks old days just does that without blinking.
In one wagon train. only one wagon hauls borax ore? while two are supply vehicles or on a returning trip (to mine) supplies will be loaded?? (3:48). in this pic the front wagon is loaded with boxes of hays and troughs. I think this resupplies mule teams.
these carriage smiths really are the most skilled of the smiths.
Sir, during the original construction of these wagons and wheels did the workers have any form of arc welding? If not then how do they weld the ends of the bands together and produce a band with the proper diameter?