How to Build Buggy Wheels | The Art of the Wheelwright
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- čas přidán 9. 06. 2015
- This is an excerpt from my 2003 instructional DVD called. The Art of the Wheelwright. I hope you enjoy seeing some aspects of building traditional buggy wheels. This is videoed with an older version of camera in 2003 so please bear with the lesser quality of video.
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Dave as a pup. Watched a lot of the later vids, This is archive stuff! Love it.
Indeed. And even back when this video was shot Dave was drilling through things arrow straight by hand :)
@@bobafetting6373 Yeah, well, he’s younger when this was shot, but I don’t think it was his first day on the job.
Jun 10 2019. Been watching a pile of your newer videos and thought I'd start from the beginning. Anyone else doing the same?
Yep, me too!
Yell I just found this, it popped up on my iPad
yup I am boy was he younger and his voice changed an octave lower
Yup
Yes, i'm here Mar 2020, when he crossed the 100k subscriber mark.
I just clicked on one of your videos I haven’t seen before the shop was the same all the tools and machines were the same but there was a bald faced young man with your voice doing the work. 🤣. Scary how fast we go from that point to this point isn’t it.
Wow, back to the futur video... Same shop with Young Dave... 8 years ago. Wow !!
This brought back SO many memories of my early childhood. My father was a master wheelwright, born in 1888. I remember helping him in the shop building wagon and buggy wheels. He did everything by hand, no power tools at all. He forged all the metal work himself, also. Sadly, he died when I was 12, so I never got to learn the trade myself. At the time, he was supposed to be one of only 6 wheelwrights left that could build and band a buggy wheel in the traditional manner. All hand tools, and no fastenings. When he put the tire on, it would burn a groove into the wheel. My job was to crank the blower on the forge.
How much fun is it to see the shop with 20 years less ware 😆.
That looks like the same hammer he’s still using, just not as shiny
My Great Grandfather was a wheelwright. This video series brought back memories of talking with my grandfather about his father's work. Fantastic heritage. Thank you for perpetuating the art so selflessly.
COOL Dave you are almost unrecognizable from the current videos.
Seeing a young Dave was quite enjoyable. What would Dave look like
without a beard today?
Now thats a cool old one!
Just watched your borax wagon series of videos. You are preserving heritage. Passing these skills along via video will ensure that they do not die off, along with the master's like yourself. Thank you for what you do.
I enjoy your voiceover. I learned more by listening than watching. That's just me. You have taught me a lot about what you do. I thank you for that.
I decided to check out any videos that I may have missed. I will say i can tell that you have aged very well. But I found this to be quite informative. Thank You for posting this video,
Excellent job. In lndia still at some rural places we see cart wheel making by handskill but nowdays It is rarely seen.Anyway excellent job.
Wow, if we could all go back in time. Still a great video.
Starting at the beginning, 09 October 2020. This channel has been one of the bright spots in this year that mostly sucked. Thanks again Dave.
It's nice to see all explanation of what's being done. Glad I came to see some of the first videos. Although I kind of guessed what the explanation would be.
Excellent craftsmanship, interesting and informative too, thanks for posting.
Just like your dad,,,,,,, good lock , 👍😍😎
I really enjoyed this video , thank you for taking the time to make it
Mr. Dave, I speak from Brazil, and I really like your videos, and I liked it very much.
Skilled craftsman: Great outcome!
Nice video. I saw it the first time today. Pictures from yesterday. Wonderful
I love everything about this video
Very professional work.
Was fun watching this old video before the gray mustache 😂
Dave...you would have made a great teacher . Even I could understand. Good video.
gil engel
yes his patience is a joy..
awesome.
You look so different before the beard!
Very interesting. Even the chair hasnt changed.
Wow! Skill of creating this I had no idea .
Thank you. I remember seeing this work being dome as II watched it happen 73 years ago.
What a joke 🙄🙄🙄😂😂😂
Thanks so much!
Thanks for sharing a small insight to your craft!
....13
5years ago?
The difference is so profound it might as well have been in black and white with captions and jerky movements like an old silent movie such is the professional delivery so rapidly developed that we have become accustomed to.
But it taught us more. The gap between the felloes closing as the wheel comes into dish as the tire shrinks, for example. That hasn't been noted (by me) in more recent videos. Indeed, in some we see the final fit achieved by clamping both sides of the join and sawing the joint. No gap. But not a dished buggy wheel?
Maybe one day Dave will do a test edition with "what do I do next?" questions to test our acquired knowledge?
Great videos thanks for posting
Michael Flynn
Awesome video. My thanks
God thank you for this man.
Materials, tools, procedures and techniques, that's all you need to build everything ever made by Man. And 10'000 years of time if you start from a pile of stones.
Great video. I don't find many things now that leave me surprised but seeing how the rubber tire was fitted was one of them. Why don't they stretch the tire onto the wheel? I can only guess that the rubber would eventually go slack and fall off if it was constantly under tension.
Compressed rubber doesn't wear off on the road nearly as quickly. Modern rummer tires use a compressed rubber tread, which is made by making the tread larger than the rest of the tire. It is compressed into a mould before the rest of the tire is bonded to it. This also explains why over-inflated tires wear faster.
Me too ! 10/05/2019 Better then TV
Geweldig
Who is this young man?
Dave, you looked a little like Dale Earnhardt back then.
very good
Thanks!
After the apocalypse, a wheelwright will be more important than an electrician is, in present day. Learn it now, while he's teaching or try and remember it later, when CZcams isn't around to show us.
Great video! 2021
2003 - the wall is white; 2018 - the wall is covered in grinding dust... interesting! I commented on the colour sometime down the track... I had never seen the original white wall - no pun intended and probably a bad one!
God’s blessings on Aging Gracefully!!!
20 years can do a lot to a body. It doesn't seem to affect Mr Engels though.
must have been the borax wagons boss! and yes Mr. Glen Petherick I am forgot date 02/ 28/2020
Mr Engles, love your vid and your teaching style. I do not suppose you consider ypourself as a teacher, but you are. Superb.
Just one question though. As a machinist I could not help noticing [and wincing] that the boring for the boxing is SO off center from the steel hub piece. This is obviously not intentional, but how is this accommodated on the finished wheel, or do you just not bother with the fact that the hub is rotating off center?
@@EngelsCoachShop Got it. Makes sense. Thanks
once again for all the videos.
I have an old buckboard with wheels that are deteriorating. I would like to try rebuilding them if I could find a source to purchase spokes. I have rebuild a smaller wheel on another vehicle. Does anyone know where spokes can be purchased?
jUST STARING FROM BEGINNING
Do you bolt the channel piece to the wheel before the rubber goes on? Wouldn't mind doing that all day long. Love working with wood and metal.
I am pretty sure it is a shrink fit.
I have a little bit of a hearing problem. Where in Montana is this shop and is it still in operation today?
Never mind. I watched to the end of the video and saw that it is in Joliet, MT. Still would like to know more about this shop. We are in Hamilton, MT regularly. Would love to see this shop in action.
What do i ask for to order the Bering centers?Thanks Steve
Was wondering who this guy was and where was Dave? The voice is kind of familiar though.
Great work sir
May I know which wood is suitable for wheels?
sesha rao, hickory, oak or ash are favored.
como ha envejecido en cinco años,parece que han pasado veinte
Imposter attack of the seed pods from outer space
Where do you find a source of good quality files these days?
👍👍👌👌
Wow that's awesome, hahahaha
Who is that guy? Imposter, imposter! ha ha ha
🇪🇨👍🏻
you have a lot to teach about making wheels. you also have a lot to learn about filming.
Wow whose this kid? Lol
OMG CZcams makes you old
What you call the hub,in England it’s called the naff, just a bit of useless information for you😅
Nave maybe the correct spelling but it is pronounced naff, I’m just getting a set of wheels made now 30in front 32ins back