Take a Tour In a Sheep Wagon & See the Way of a Shepherds Life | Engels Coach Shop
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- This is the home of the shepherd. Come take a tour inside a 1880's mobile home. The shepherd's life was a life of solitude, comprising of some dogs and bands of sheep. However the accommodations were quite sufficient, containing the stove, cupboards, table, a bed and various facilities that suited the tenant.
I'm watching you rebuild one in 2024 and this popped up via the algorithm. Nice tour.
Same for me,am really enjoying the sheep herder wagon rebuild of 2024 also!
Same
In the ‘80’s & early ‘90’s I worked in the field in the microwave & fiber optic communications construction for a major company. I saw herders wagons like this several times. I never approached them. I also saw signs warning of cyanide grenades at baits. I never saw any evidence these herders wanted any interaction with people. I could be wrong, but thought it best to respect my instincts. These were FAR OUT in the ‘back country’. Thank you showing what one possibly looked like inside.
I've been following your newest build in 2024 as well and came across this and have really enjoyed both. My dad was born in one of these wagons in 1931 in Wyoming.
Walt Longmire and Joe Pickett brought me here.
I want to go camping in one of these now.
The vinyl floor in my grandmother's kitchen was the same as what is on the floor and benches of that sheep wagon. 👍😀😎
It is hard to comprehend such a life of solitude out on the planes. Thanks for the tour of an early self contained camper.
Like others have commented on the 2024 sheep wagon build, this popped up and I do remember when this one was posted and viewed by us and it will serve to get an idea of how the current one will turn out. Dave, I don’t know if it was you or YT who reposted this video but it will excite us to see the progress you have made on the current SW. I knew the door had to favor the side of the wagon to give room for the stove and position the brake lever. The end walls and covering for the top will be interesting to see how you make those, also if you include cubbyholes? Thanxz
This was a great tour. So much packed into such a small space. Strictly utilitarion. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.🙂🙂
Reminds me of growing up
In Rawlins Wyoming. Dad used to go visit the sheep herders, and take me with him.
All that wonderful restoration and the owner decided to leave the cheesy linoleum. LOLOL 😂
I remember my Grandma on the farm have one of these stoves. Her's was bigger but the same function
Our newly acquired sheep wagon has a stove just like that. It's missing the ash box though so I'll have to make one. Thanks for all of your videos, they will provide a wealth of knowledge to us while working on ours!
That is a grand little wagon , you'd have to want to be a shepherd . Tough life . 👍🇬🇧
G'day Dave,
Thanks be to the
Mighty
AlgaeRythm;
For slipping this into my feed
I wish I knew where I could get a
Pup...,
If that little Stove ever throws a
Litter...(?) !
What a
Hum-Dinger
That one is...,!
I have a tiny little Potbelly,
One foot across the
Top & Middle Flanges, on a
1-ft Square Base ; already
(Over)heating thelittle Hut I live in.
But I do envy the extreme functionality of that one.
Keep on keepin' on.
Stay safe.
;-p
Ciao !
Thanks for the tour; that was fun!
Storage mentioned in 4.07 is in Finland used to store firewood, kindling stuff (birch bark, old newspapers). Wood is stored in barn, woodshed etc. which are same humidity and temperature a outside. In winter logs are brought inside day or two before burning, to let them dry and warm a little bit, especially when logs are stored under sky and are covered with snow. So waking up in the morning about 5 am, it is much more comfortable to use previously inside stored wood and make fire and then go feed the cattle, clean the yard from snow etc.
So there are still many houses built after WW2, which have renovated in the 70's still having this storage in the kitchen. My neighbor removed it just a year ago when he renovated the kitchen.
Having lived with wood heat in east central Minnesota for many years, having control of a wood stove is a necessity. Mom baked lots of bread, and so many times there were five loaves freshly out of the Monarch wood/electric stove oven just when we kids got home from school.... All our Meals cooked plus Bath and Laundry water heated on that stove, too. Thanks, Mom!!!! Great Memories, Mr. Dave!
Nah, Mr. Dave... a mere 73 as of today!! :-) :-) :-)
Thank You!! :-)
Thank you for explaining how the seep wagon was used. I like to watch your videos to learn how things were done in the old days. Who knows maybe some day this knowledge might come in handy again. Thanks again
It looks very cosy inside the sheep wagon.
Thanks for the tore of the sheep wagon really enjoyed.
The stove being a must have item on the high Wyoming plates. An 1880's RV for sure.
You know, even by modern standards this sheep wagon looks practical, usable. A modern version would be very interesting.
Buenas noches, ¡me encantaría tener una así! Gracias por la demostración.
I've always had a fascination with the sheep wagon, maybe because I drove by one or more of them several times a year in western South Dakota.
I hunted deer on a Wyoming sheep ranch 600 sections big. They had a wagon just like this and the herder stayed there so many years and then went back to Spain. There was a large barn to put the sheep if there was really bad weather.
I've eaten cornbread cooked in an iron skillet on the home's 'wood cook stove'....as well as a lot of other goodies.
Thanks for the tour and renewed memories!
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Thanks for this. Nice to learn about another way of life I'd have never known about.
We have something very similar in the UK, although because the distances are much smaller the wheels are not that big, bringing the whole thing closer to the ground. Some have skids, not wheels. Today, those still left are mostly used as accommodation for short stay vacationers, and serve as easy camping.
Saw them on skids as Line Camps against Blizzards in far pastures of the M&T Cattle Co.as a Boy
Good video thank you
I watched the episodes but I missex the final tour😮 👍👌❤️🧡💚
Thank you - I loved your tour of a sheep wagon - helps one understand the life of a sheep herder. Cheers
Very short and very interesting, can't believe I missed this one 😢
The main rule of sheepwagons are they should always be set facing east. The most important seat in the wagon is next to the stove, givi ng the person access to the cupboard and the stove and table. The first sheep wagons were built at Rawlins, Wyoming by James Candlish.
Dave, This was very educational & interesting to see how the Shepards lived back when these wagons were still in use. Thanks again!
After the conestoga wagons this is definitely one of Americas first camper vehicles.
Thank you for the walk around.
Outstanding, thanks
Very cool!
thank you !
A much better understanding of the ins and outs. Thank you for the tour.
Loved the tour, a lot of history in the design and purpose of these old relics.
Thanks Dave.
Very interesting. Thanks for the tour!
Great way to have it set up.
Thanks Dave for another great video by a great person! And thank you, Dave, for all you do and share with us!
Very interesting, Thank you.
Thanks for the tour. I saw one of these going west on I-90 in Washington a month ago and its shape was very similar to this but it had the automobile tires. William O. Douglas mentions the shepherds and their wagons in his book about his early years hiking in the Cascades above Yakima. I enjoy putting something real to his reminisces of the early 1900's.
Nice restoration.
As always, excellent content. You invariably leave me hungry for more! Thanks!
A litle house away from home,and cozy interesting,thanks for the video.
Yep, a 19th century camper. It's really neat. Hopefully someday I'll run across one. Thanks for the tour!!
I learn something new every time I tune into your channel, thanks.
Thanks very much for interesting tour, old stove included, much appreciated your time and effort. Put me in mind for modern day version
Fascinating...almost the same as a small yacht i owned
I know it has even a year since you did this but I thank you for such an awesome and informatively on the inside of a sheep wagon workings thank you 😀😀
a great video!
Very interesting.
good show
As usual another great video, we just returned from a tour os the Rockies and saw plenty of livestock and and the land was unbelievable, have added another piece of a puzzle,it must have been or was a very hard life.many questions answered..THANKS !!
I've heard most of these sheep herders were Basque back in the day. I believe I still saw one in action near the old ghost town of Bodie California a few years ago. It seems a lonely life style, but to each his own.
Enjoyed the tour, especially the stove. I had no idea how a wood stove can be controlled for burners or the oven.
Late in their period they got pretty advanced and tricky with chambers and routing of heat. I remember a camping stove dating late 1930 ish that had a water jacket, copper pipes running through the water jacket to a separate tank, and, even a small fan that was driven by the heat escaping through the chimney. UK made, quite quality, unfortunately, unbranded or better said, someone had taken the branding off with an axe, destroying the door at the front. Such is life.
I think that tilting storage bin at 4:06 was used for storing firewood. My grandmother had an exactly similar bin for that purpose at home.
More likely to be for flour. You use quite a lot of flour in the sort of camp cooking that would have been done in the wagon. My aunt had two bins like that in her house (built in the early 1950s) that were used for flour and sugar. You use more sugar in a house because of jam making and so on.
I might add that my grandmother cooked on a stove like that, but bigger, until she died in 1973.
That little door - maybe a way of letting some light in with the door closed, if the door was unglazed? Very interesting, thanks for the tour.
It's a vent to reduce smoke or condensation, depending on the type of seal/treatment of the canvas covering and the lining (used when migrating off the highlands to lower pasture, prep 4 winter).
The original get out in the Wilderness Camper.
First, I must thank you for sharing your talents! I totally enjoy your restoration skills and find myself searching for another video! Now, I have a question. I have owned and used for years a homemade sheep camp. However, over the years the stove has rusted, mostly throughout the firebox. I have searched for a replacement, but have yet to locate one. Have you any idea where a stove could be found, or if I should make the effort to rebuild it? Thank you again.
That storage bin at 4 minutes I'd guess was used for firewood. There's one just like that at a property belonging to my in-laws.
now i see why the specialty wagon opposed to a typical covered wagon ... comfort . is that idea brought over from Europe or was it because of the free grazing in north america . did that wagon come with a tongue or shafts originally .thanks , another good video
Very nice tour, well laid out interior. I wonder if that small window could have used in bad weather to see out while driving the wagon? Any idea on how many horses, mules or oxen would be used to pull the wagon?
To vent.
What luxury, ah, the old days........
Superb!
I wonder where did the shepherd sit when he was on the road and had to drive the horses?
@@EngelsCoachShop Thanks Dave. Thanks for the reply and thanks for your magnificent videos.
If the hipsters see this there will be sheep wagons in every RV park.
👍
With vinyl flooring from the 1960s as an upgrade
The original camper
that little door above the entrance was for ventilation when the heater/stove was working, drawing fresh air in...
Or to let excess heat out, being at the top and close to the stove.
I'm looking at the same work as a sailboat interior...
Too bad about that vinyl flooring . Is it really contemporary with the rest of the wagon?
Could be, that kind of flooring goes to the mid/late 1800s. It's probably linoleum, not vinyl.
Not vinyl, at all. And i often find it (in various patterns from bland to really ecstatic colors, patterns and shapes) in houses as old as 1850 even here in Europe.
It was added on later in the wagon's life span. Dave addressed it above.
Are old farm house had that lino
My grandmother had this exact pattern in her kitchen back in the late 70s early 80s.
I bet at times it was tough going too.
I guess that small cubby hole above the door is to peek through outside without opening the full door.
Vent.Air for Stove.
David, that stove is similar to one I want.
Except, I want the flue in the back, not
the side. (Better wrap around the oven.)
steve
Love it. Except for the linoleum, linoleum is gross.
I didn't know they had linoleum back then. Ha !
Lol, I had that exact same linoleum in my kitchen back in the early 80’s. Talk about flashbacks! Then again I have to remind myself that was 40 yrs ago, where does the time go?
Was the stove alight while the wagon was moving?
@@EngelsCoachShop sometimes it was alite when the herder moved it with his horse a few miles
Must have been a frugal if not interesting lifestyle...I take it as there’s no water barrel to store water, they would have always been close to a supply for the sheep...
is the fire stove coal or wood burning
I wonder where they kept their water?
Probably in a barrel mounted outside.
Yeah, but EngelsCoachShop would have found some evidence of that and restored it, no? I sure wouldn't live among a flock of sheep and drink from a creek they were wallowing around in.
You want I should oder ya a new pair of pinkie protectors ??
That fire box is really small. We’re these stoves run on coal? It seems too small to be wood fired.
Thanks for everything. I hope you and your family are doing well and are safe.
WHERE IS THE RIGGING FOR THE TEAM?
very camper !
be a bit hot in the summer
Where's the water for the shepherd?
Indoor plumbing? Ha!Ha! not.
It needs a V-8 hemi.
Very interesting. Thanks for the tour!
Very nice tour, well laid out interior. I wonder if that small window could have used in bad weather to see out while driving the wagon? Any idea on how many horses, mules or oxen would be used to pull the wagon?
Vent window for air due to stove.
One Team.Why so Small.