The Final Sheep Wagon Canvas Top Install | Engels Coach Shop
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- Finally, the custom fitted and trimmed top for this 130 year old shepherd's wagon is done. We're almost ready to send this project home! It's been a long journey from the rubble we started with and I appreciate you all coming along.
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I hope these videos are stored somewhere safe so future generations can sit and watch a genuine craftsman at his work.
People like Dave are what make America great.
Silver haired guys with skills. A rare breed these days. We've fallen out of style with our lack of silly pronouns.
"I have a pile of rotten wood and scrap metal, could you turn it into a sheep waon for me"? Dave, "hold my beer".
Dave seems more like a cold glass of milk kind of guy
Never rotten, weathered!
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I have watched the entire sheep wagon build and I am amazed at your work
I was raised to see a junk pile as - it might come in handy - extra parts.
It's not trash until you give up on it.
Hello everyone, I watched the rebuilding of my great grandfather 's sheepherder's wagon. Dave is doing a fantastic rebuild. Dave can read the wood, and with that information, rebuilds history.
I've stopped by his shop a few times to check on the progress, and every time, I am amazed with his work.
Dave did you ever think when you started your channel there would be so many people interested and amazed at your skill, I've been watching for nearly 4 yrs I'm still in aw of your career keep up the good work
No, we have been amazed.
What a splendid adaptative reconstruction of that dilapidated old sheep wagon which you gave a breath of new life into. This sheep wagon will be one of the most admired displays in this museum. I want to thank you for your descriptive interpretative adaptation process encountered in this build. Also, thank you Mrs. Engel for your professional camera work and editing of these videos content.
Watching you manufacture this practically from scratch is incredible. Your level of skill is second to none, Mr. Engel.
Yessir-tack driving like mother used to do...
Mr. Engel, Another Masterpiece completed. Thank you for allowing me to watch.......
Thank you for taking me with you on this restoration project. You are not just a master craftsman of many areas but a real old world craftsman.
With your videos, people will know how to do such things in 100 years, and you will live forever.
Beautiful work. Something to be cherished and appreciated by everyone that sees it for many years to come. Thank you very much for taking us along this journey. All the best to you and the wife.
This has been nothing short of two masterpieces - the wagon build and the filmography. Thank you both for sharing your work.
You left out the aceology/detective work for figuring out how it used to go together
You make all of this process ... look so easy.
Its an honor to have the opportunity to see these videos.
Does this man ever miss a nailhead with a hammer??? I remember back when I was working as a shipwright there were some bad days where I couldn’t hit a nail with a banana cream pie much less a hammer. Dented a lot of wood. My hat’s off to Dave. A true master.
Are you going to camp out for at least one night before it goes into the museum? I think you and the wagon deserve it. Bring the build full circle.
Not only are you a Master craftsman but you videos are so interesting. You are a living museum, thank you for sharing your skills.
Fun to see Dave's A/C a fan in the door! Most of this project we have been seeing the flames in the wood stove!!
I'd bet this wagon never looked as good as it does now.
The Studebaker Brothers would have been impressed with your one-person craftmanship.
Wow, what a difference from the first video when you brought in a big pile of crap and said this once was a sheep wagon! I said to myself what in the hell is he going to do with that pile of crap....... Well you showed me that you could turn a pile of crap into a museum piece. You Sir are a master of your craft. 🤠🌵🌵🌵🇺🇲
My father was a carpenter by trade. I was always impressed that he could drive nail after nail without ever missing. Dave is equally skilled and a pleasure to watch!
I hope people appreciate how an upholsterer carries tacks around.
40 plus years of confidence. Shes a beauty Dave. I think the rain cap has to go on because youve been faithful this far may as well go the whole hog.
Mr Engle is a National Treasure. Don't miss his Borax wagon build! czcams.com/play/PL3Qu3GIvx73EgVa8dYcN_e9ps2BDMO9j3.html
The variety of skills needed just to build a wagon like this is amazing.
Thank you Dave and Dianne. Two of the best
Greetings from Minas Gerais, Brazil.
The craftsmanship is amazing!!! I just would add a suggestion of showing the inside of the Sheep Wagon after everything was completed!!! To look at a pile of scraps, and being able to figure out what and HOW each piece fits together is mind blowing!!!
Another incredible project coming to a close. I'm always torn with these things... one one hand I'm excited for the next project... on the other I'm aware how much I'm going to miss this project... ah well. The museum should be proud to display such a fine piece of craftsmanship.
Your final result of this sheep herder’s wagon is a masterpiece of workmanship and an excellent demonstration of the many crafts once common, of an era long past and now mostly forgotten, though still practiced by a select few craftsmen such as you.
The craftsmen of Amish and Mennonite religious sects that live in my area also come to mind…
Thank you again for reconstructing this sheep herder’s wagon and documenting the entire process. It has been a joy to watch your transformation from a pile of deteriorated pieces to a beautifully finished vehicle.
Continued great work Dave! I don’t believe the world today has craftsmen with the patience you exhibit!
Mark--
AT Restoration comes to mind!
On one hand I appreciate the owner wanted it to look as original as it could...on the other hand I can't help but wonder how nice it could have been if you built it as new. Love your work and work ethic. Thanks for sharing.
I have watched with great interest this entire build for I wanted to see just what it took. In early 1912 my paternal grt. Grandpa made just such a wagon, as did his brother, to travel from the Oklahoma pan handle to Arkansas, to look for work and visit family. They got all the across Oklahoma but the way became too harsh to continue as my grt. Grandma was with child. They turned back in hopes of reaching the town of Garber, which they had passed the day before, but they did not make it in time. My grandma's younger sister Daisy was born in the wagon on the dusty trail, with no doctors assistance, just the midwifing skills of my grt. Grandma's sister and their husbands. Thank you so much for bringing this bit of family history back to life for me.
I've been watching since before the Borax wagons, I am SO IMPRESSED twice a week. I had to watch when I was in the hospital after a stroke. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO ❤❤❤❤❤❤ the world knows you don't have to ❤❤❤
I personally enjoy watching your videos because I always learn something. And, your smooth narrations and the background music rounds out these great tutorials.
Dave, you might still consider giving the canvas a tea wash to give it a look of age. This can be accomplished with a garden sprayer from the top down to promote a natural rain aging effect.
Thank you for the idea.
Another amazing example of your craftsmanship. I watched this one from them beginning and was continually amazed thru the process.
Excellent work and a true story to all who really remember the days in the plains of America. Thank You Dave.
When I saw Dave carefully folding and tacking down the corners of the canvas top, I couldn't help but be reminded of watching Julian Baumgartner, of Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration, do something similar to the canvas tacking edge of a beautifully restored paining.
Might sound odd but I’ve been searching for tips on building a camper for my wife and I. I’m disabled and ride a wheelchair. Most campers aren’t built for wheelchairs. So we’re planning on taking an old, two axle RV, a 25’ rig with severe external damage and stripping it to the frame. Your sheep wagon offers many solutions to problems that I must overcome. Thanks! It’s been very interesting for me!
This has been an interesting project. It was fun to watch you "age" the materials as you were working and using the original style of fasteners (clenched nails) wherever you could. That is quite a departure from your usual fastidious approach (aligning the slots on screws, squaring up the square nuts) and etc. All in all a terrific build, thank you for sharing your expertise and skills with us. Well Done!
For a pieced together static display, it sure turned out great. Looks like it's ready for the range.
Another amazing rebuild/restoration by the master
I’m 75 now and not as sharp as I once was. I was considered a pretty good mechanic, in my prime. That was one group of talents, Dave covers the whole range of skills, to do what he does and does them all with great attention to detail. It’s a little late, for me, for all this education but I’m not going to stop learning. Learning has never been this enjoyable!
That is an incredible feat Dave. Starting with very little usable old material, only to finish with something that looks like what its first owner would have seen when he bought the original, is nothing short of astonishing. Your skill is just something out of this world.
I thought the tops were removable, the learning never ends! Fantastic videos, some of my favorites. Thanks!
It is such a joy to watch you practice your trade reconstructing these fantastic pieces of history. Growing up on our farm in Missouri I saw so many derilect wagons and pieces of equipment left to slowly self destruct I always wondered what they looked like brand new. Your restorations really satisfy my childhood curiosity.
Thank you for taking the time to record and produce this record of your craft, it is truly wonderful to watch and learn.
Sincerely,
Kirk Skaggs
That's a wrap !! Excellent show piece Dave. Gladly put your signature on the work and the videos are down in History too. Stay safe and thanks again to you and Ms Diane for another part of History saved and recorded. Fred.
Thank you again Dave for taking the time to visit with me on the 17th. I was very impressed with all the various equipment and neatness of the shop. Glad to see the almost completed spreader and sheep wagon. I have watched them from the start and wondered if it would be possible to complete them and my question was answered when i saw them 99% done . Keep doing the stuff that brings back many great memories of years ago that a lot of us still care about ..
It was worth every mile rom Canada thanks again Tom
Another wagon done to perfection.
This is so beautiful. I really impressed by your work. Can't wait until you finish those 12 ft wheels.
Craftsmanship at its finest. Thanks from the UK
Well done Dave. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.🙂🙂
Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum erfolgreichen Abschluss aus Berlin/ Germany.😊
Another interesting episode. History coming to life always gets to me . Marvellous job 👍🏴
I’ve waited months for the canvas cover. You answered all my questions. Thanks. Loved the demonstration
A masterpiece in many ways!
The two of you make a fantastic team.
Amazing work Dave!! Thank you for sharing your experience!!!
I love the subtle Bron-Yr-Aur Zeppelin track in the background. It's unmistakable and delightful.
Watching you finish this work of art inspired me to look up "How the West was won" on YT. Plenty of work there for a man with your talents! My mother died last year. She was100 days short of her 100th birthday. My sister and I are just dividing up her boxes of Christmas decorations. We found the six small, rather dowdy baubles which survived the Blitz when her home was blown to pieces by a German bomb on 15th Sep 1940. She treasured them as remnants of a happy childhood and we will treasure them too.
You talked, in another video, about living a mundane life. I believe that by holding true to the glories of your past you have achieved a kind of quiet immortality. Nothing mundane about the value of what you and Diane have done with your lives. So the next time you sit down together, raise a glass to each other with a toast "To the treasures we have saved. Job well done". Paul
Yours is always the video I look for each week. Thanks for sharing your extensive knowledge.
I certainly enjoyed this build. Thanks for filming and sharing.
Now I know how you get that much work completed so quickly. I paused the video, to answer my phone, at 1:02 and when I got back to it, there were two Daves. They were in different places doing different jobs. Brilliant.
Man, I really would like to spend a couple of days in a wagon like this. It really triggers my imagination to think about all my fellow Swedes that left Sweden, searching for a new life on the other side of the world. It's been a blessing following along on this build. Thank you!
I've read some novels about Swedes leaving Sweden and coming here. I think a lot of them settled in Minnesota. With our sons married girls from Minnesota, and they both have Swedish in them.
Wow excellent work 👏👍👌, thanks Dave ❤️
It's such a nice-looking wagon, It's kind of a shame it's going to a museum. I'd love to take a week long camping trip in it.
I believe your customer will be very satisfied with your restoration.
Think of all the people and generations to come who will get to appreciate all you have done.
Loved the magnetic tack hammer. Never saw one of those before.
Me neither! I couldn’t figure out why he was flipping that hammer after the first stroke. Never occurred to me that it was magnetic on one side until he demonstrated picking up the tacks with it. So simple! Just like my tiny little brain.
17:20 . . . production quality! Thanks, Dave and Diane.
Fantastic workmanship Dave my dad had an upholstery shop he always had a mouthful of tacks he could work that tack hammer like a machine
Definitely has more character than a converted Mercedes Sprinter. That thing has come a long way.
You just finished the Cadillac of wagons! Amazing work sir. Such skills. Thanks for sharing this with us.
As a youngster, there was a wooden box in the garage that had once held carpet tacks. "Sanitized for Your Protection". Now I knew that when carpet was tacked down, the worker would take a mouthful of tacks and spit one at a time onto the hammer. Just took me years to stop to think about why tacks might want to be sanitized.
As always, a work of art. Thanks Dave.
Great to see you at work Dave!
Watching you use that hammer took me back more than 60 years to being mesmerised by my blind uncle assembling divan beds in the Royal Blind sheltered workshops in Edinburgh. With a mouthful of tacks, the magnetic side of the hammer would kiss his lips the tack would go in, the hammer would spin in his hand and the hessian base would be attached in minutes!
That is one beautiful wagon. I wish could see it in person. Thanks for the videos.
Excellent finished product! Thanks.
Damn nice work Dave. Truely amazing and a joy to watch.
Thanks Mr. and Ms Engel !!!!!!!!
Such a fabulous job all around.
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Very impressive
It's beautiful, Dave!! I wouldn't mind camping in it on those cool fall days! Thanks for sharing!
It’s been great fun watching this remarkable restoration.
Another marvelous job on this “rebuild”, the subject matter keeps things interesting!!!!!!
I guess we can start looking for those nifty little hammers with the magnet on one end. Definitely useful.
Got close to Joliet but somehow missed a turn or something. Was looking forward to visiting your shop and meeting you. I admire the many skills you employ in your restoration
S.
Very, very entertaining.
Love the attention to detail. Furring that bottom edge.
You did a great job, Mr. Engels! She's a beauty.
I want to thank you for showing us how piece of History was made I want to thank you very much see you on the next adventure in history 👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏🏆🏆🏆🏆
As an upholsterer, I was taught old school how to put a small amount of tacks in my mouth. Rotate them with my tongue with the head out for the magnet on the tack hammer and then place them with one tap before driving them home with the large end, just as you were doing. We called it, Spitting Tacks. Never really had an accident over the years, of biting down on one. It was was quick but not as quick as a modern pneumatic staple gun. Classic C.S. Osborne bronze upholsterers, magnetic tack hammer. Been around forever. Still making them. Our instructor had us all cut off about 2-3" of the handle for more control.
Use to carry two sometimes three different size tacks in my mouth and was able to pick them out with my tongue and place them on the magnet end of the hammer. My C.S. Osborne hammer handle is also sawed off. And yes, it was pretty fast. There is a reason the tacks were “sterilized”. They are supposed to be carried in your mouth.
@EuphJL I'd forgotten about them being sterilized. At First...... my dusty old boxes of tacks, I don’t think so, anymore! LOL! I'm also impressed that you could sort the different size tacks with your tongue.
Thanks for the compliment! I carried different sizes in mouth when I was doing Antiques that had been reupholstered many times. I would be tacking along with a Cross 2 1/2 until one landed in a hole that was made by a larger tack eons ago. So I would have to extract that one and replace it with a number 4 which was already at hand.
This is probably the best sheep wagon ever made this man is a A1 carpenter and everything else!!!!!
Awesome work as always!!
What a fantastic build
What an Amazing transformation.
Nice video.
It's a nice video series!
I smiled when you attached the tarpaulin with the nail pins. Because it reminded me of a TV show about the upholstery shop in the Palace of Versailles. The upholsterer took a few nail pins in his hand, shook them and put the nail pins in his mouth. Then he held the tip of his hammer to his mouth and put a nail pin on the hammer and then hit the chair that was to be repaired, first with the tip that the nail pin held and then with the other side to drive the nail pin in.
Your work on the canvas was wonderful to watch and your attention to details and how you addressed sharp edges to avoid wear. Awesome. Thank you!
Absolutely well done again, it has been a great project to follow along with. Another week off to a good start.
Great looking project and a lot of work to make something relatively new look old...
Looks Great!👍♥️
When you 1st starting building this, I thought it was a low end vehicle. Now I think it's rather splendid for a shepherd to sleep in!
Wow. Really looking awesome!
Always nice to finish a major project.