Bending 4" Kiln Dried White Ash for a 27" Circle | Engels Coach Shop

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  • Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
  • This manure spreader needs 28" front wheels so I'm steam bending 1 1/2" thick by 4" wide white ash into 27" halves to build the felloes for these wheels. I need 4 pieces total, but will bend one at a time. This is how I bend the "unbendable". Thanks for coming along.
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  • @gumshoetooheydyan8183
    @gumshoetooheydyan8183 26 дней назад +99

    Best channel on you tube

  • @imtimrich
    @imtimrich 26 дней назад +70

    I’ve watched you do this process numerous times, it amazes me every single time … 🇺🇸👍

    • @hefy2jefy
      @hefy2jefy 25 дней назад +3

      Yes but I dont recall such thick wood, it looked like it was going to break!

    • @bigredc222
      @bigredc222 24 дня назад

      @@hefy2jefy Yea it seemed like the motor was going slower than normal, but it could just be in my head.

  • @thomasbraeking6225
    @thomasbraeking6225 25 дней назад +27

    It always cracks me up to watch new "expert" woodworker channels do steam bending.
    It usually takes them at least three failures to get through their heads that it's not a sprint, it's a marathon with a sprint at the end to get the wood set before it cools.
    After three failures, they start looking at a longer steam time.
    After fourth or fifth, they finally examine the grain!
    I imagine that Dave makes it look easy because his "hurry up" learning days are long gone.
    It's always a pleasure to watch a master craftsman/artisan work without looking like he's working!

  • @sleim754
    @sleim754 24 дня назад +3

    Your organization to make this bend is really fun to watch.

  • @ThePipeiper
    @ThePipeiper 25 дней назад +17

    This man seems like one of the most decent people you could ever meet.

  • @phillipduncan2497
    @phillipduncan2497 25 дней назад +11

    Your videos are the highlight of my week. Thank you for keeping the past alive.

  • @ron.v
    @ron.v 25 дней назад +9

    Those who aren't subscribed to your channel are the ones who haven't seen your videos yet. You're always amazing.

  • @foxholewilly
    @foxholewilly 25 дней назад +12

    I don't know what's more impressive - the carts this gentleman builds, or the tools he creates to build them with. I'm reminded of a simple saying my uncle once had hanging in his shop, "man - the toolmaker".

    • @larryk5541
      @larryk5541 25 дней назад +4

      I have the same question. I’m totally captured by not only by the fact he has tools to handle every wood or metal working job but also that he is a master of them all. I especially love the fact that many of the tools and machines date from the early to mid 20th century yet they still function perfectly, doing the job they were designed for.

  • @janericolmstead3679
    @janericolmstead3679 25 дней назад +5

    I'm 71 years old and watching you work makes my back hurt!

  • @andrewmargeson6646
    @andrewmargeson6646 26 дней назад +29

    That's amazing that you can bend something that thick on that small radius.

  • @user-cq2wk2qo4y
    @user-cq2wk2qo4y 25 дней назад +8

    No matter how many times I watch you steam bend wood, it always 'looks' impossible. Having that steel band on the outside, keeping the wood in compression sure does make a difference! Inch and a half thick wood, on a 24 in diameter form... 99% of woodworkers would say "Impossible!" Never tire of these.

  • @arnhemseptember2009
    @arnhemseptember2009 26 дней назад +14

    Your steambending never fails to fascinate me!

  • @chalmadanes405
    @chalmadanes405 26 дней назад +21

    I love this channel

  • @brianmros4844
    @brianmros4844 26 дней назад +13

    Hi Dave, and Diane, I didn't think that the spreader was done, but I couldn't put my finger on it. Making new wheels is never boring to watch, or even repair for that matter. The bending is very interesting, and scary, I think of how it was done in the 1800's. Thank you for sharing, and take care.

  • @mayforddavis9291
    @mayforddavis9291 26 дней назад +20

    The "Craftsman" does it again. Amazing. Always glad to be invited along. God Bless you and Mrs. Engels.

  • @lmenascojr
    @lmenascojr 26 дней назад +17

    This video answered some questions I had that go back to when I first started watching your channel 3 years ago. Pays to stay tuned! Thanks!

    • @gregorycross612
      @gregorycross612 26 дней назад +2

      Amazing to watch the same basic process, and still learn tricks applicable to many facets.

  • @peternicholsonu6090
    @peternicholsonu6090 26 дней назад +24

    Since I was a boy 70 odd yrs ago have been fascinated by Cartwrights Wheelwrights, Coopers, one day in the next world I can be one.

    • @harleyb.birdwhisperer
      @harleyb.birdwhisperer 25 дней назад

      @@peternicholsonu6090 Ben, Adam, Hoss, Joe and Alice…who were the Wheelwrights?🤔

    • @jill-ti7oe
      @jill-ti7oe 25 дней назад

      @@harleyb.birdwhisperer 😄

    • @bahoonies
      @bahoonies 25 дней назад +1

      ​@@harleyb.birdwhispererEr... Hop Sing? He couldn't have spent all day in the kitchen😊😊

    • @peternicholsonu6090
      @peternicholsonu6090 24 дня назад

      @@harleyb.birdwhisperer They lived next to the cheesewrights.

    • @harleyb.birdwhisperer
      @harleyb.birdwhisperer 24 дня назад

      @@peternicholsonu6090 Yes, the people from Parma, who made the wheels of cheese…

  • @Mangsaab1954
    @Mangsaab1954 25 дней назад +4

    I remember Dave saying that cracking sound was part of the mechanism

  • @suzisaintjames
    @suzisaintjames 22 дня назад +2

    My greatest wish is that you find an apprentice to take over the shop when you retire. It makes me sad to think all of this might be lost some day. 😢. As always, sending lots of love 💖 from sunny 🌞 Arizona 🌵. Take care of yourself and each other 😷

  • @gregorythomas333
    @gregorythomas333 26 дней назад +4

    No matter how many times I see it...I am always amazed at how far wood can bend :)

  • @richardedkins8856
    @richardedkins8856 25 дней назад +1

    Another awesome video by the master craftsman.

  • @davepost7675
    @davepost7675 25 дней назад +2

    It amazes me that after so many years of making wheels, there is a form you've yet to make and use.

  • @howardnielsen6220
    @howardnielsen6220 26 дней назад +3

    Craftsman , engineer , mathematician , wood expert all rolled into one. Dave again thank you from La Pine Oregon I did not realized what my Grandfather Far Far who was a wheelwright in Denmark had to do to build wagons and carriages It’s been a learning curve for me I have so enjoyed watching you going back the Borax Wagons

  • @daniellarrivee-ic3lg
    @daniellarrivee-ic3lg 26 дней назад +9

    Thanks Mr.and Ms Engel !!!!!!!!

  • @CameronClifford-oc3vc
    @CameronClifford-oc3vc 25 дней назад +1

    Love the channel, I always learn something new with every video you make. Keep up the GREAT work.

  • @johnwillis12454
    @johnwillis12454 26 дней назад +6

    AMAZING, I LOVE IT ! THANK YOU ! From East Tennessee !

  • @sterff8990
    @sterff8990 26 дней назад +6

    I’ve been looking forward to the wheel making process on this manure spreader! So cool to see the wood bending too!

  • @edbelledin9600
    @edbelledin9600 26 дней назад +10

    Well Done! I always enjoy when you steam and bend those felloes.
    Hopefully with those straight grained ash pieces there won’t be any cracking.. but you never know.
    Your craftsmanship is amazing and wonderful to watch.. and for sure it’s nowhere as easy as you make it look!
    Thanks for taking us all along and explaining it all.

  • @richardschillhahn768
    @richardschillhahn768 26 дней назад +4

    Thanks for showing how you make the form for bending

  • @stuartstephens
    @stuartstephens 26 дней назад +4

    Hot job on a 100 degree day. 🙂 It's always amazing to see wood that thick be able to bend that much.

  • @michaelgillespie1206
    @michaelgillespie1206 26 дней назад +12

    I remember the bits of scrap metal and rotten boards you started with.

  • @derkj.jansen3445
    @derkj.jansen3445 26 дней назад +6

    Thank you, beautiful work, I love this. In my younger days I wis such a teacher, all my life I have worked with my hands in different disciplines, greetings from the Netherlands

  • @blackdog850
    @blackdog850 25 дней назад +1

    This is how I got addicted to this channel! Really unsure at first about the equipment setup, but by golly, everything came together...and then there was the Borax wagon! The more I watched, the more I was fascinated and respected the processes and the creations! Really just too cool for OLD school! Well done and best wishes to you both! Excellent channel and still hooked after years of watching! Thanks always for sharing!

  • @gardenman3
    @gardenman3 26 дней назад +4

    I had forgotton how you do that. Thanks for another reminder

  • @markgardiner5150
    @markgardiner5150 26 дней назад +3

    Great work Dave, that is such an interesting process!

  • @lint2023
    @lint2023 26 дней назад +3

    I love watching your projects. I steam bent two items this morning and I will let them rest overnight, now. It's always fun.

  • @Uswesi1527
    @Uswesi1527 13 дней назад

    As always, very enjoyable, advanced learning procedure. Thanks

  • @richardormrod5758
    @richardormrod5758 26 дней назад +5

    good one Dave you make it look so easy skilled man thanks see you on the next one

  • @paullong3036
    @paullong3036 24 дня назад +1

    Awsome,he makes things look so easy,brilliant man,i look foreward to tues & friday shows.

  • @texasjetman
    @texasjetman 18 дней назад

    Always a nice pleasant educational experience when you show up on my feed. The pleasant background music 🎼 makes it most enjoyable. Thank you Bill for sharing your experience in a very special part of cart & wagon history now being documented because of you.

  • @scruffy6151
    @scruffy6151 23 дня назад

    I am so glad your channel is doing so well.

  • @rbhusana
    @rbhusana 25 дней назад +2

    Wow! Thanks again for sharing your wealth of knowledge and years of experience.

  • @Ironman-harmonica
    @Ironman-harmonica 24 дня назад +1

    Very interesting process, Thanks for sharing, Dave

  • @gonegolding
    @gonegolding 25 дней назад +1

    I love watching you work. You do everything so methodical & skillfully. Every time I see you bend these I can't imagine how much pressure is on the ends of the pieces of wood. If that come-along cable ever suddenly snapped I'd hate to be anywhere near it or the wood ends, because that looks like it could easily end up as a Hospital visit.

  • @chrisfairbrother9197
    @chrisfairbrother9197 25 дней назад +1

    It’s always fascinating to watch you steam bending 😊

  • @ellisc.foleyjr9778
    @ellisc.foleyjr9778 25 дней назад +1

    Like so many this process never seems to get old. it's always fascinating to watch. Thanks for sharing. ECF.

  • @pierrefouchard6593
    @pierrefouchard6593 25 дней назад +1

    Fantastique, prodigieux, banal pour vous mais pour moi toutes ses années à vous suivre et je suis toujours éberlué par votre savoir faire, merci.
    Fantastic, prodigious, banal for you but for me all these years following you and I am always amazed by your know-how, thank you.

  • @olddawgdreaming5715
    @olddawgdreaming5715 26 дней назад +3

    Thanks for sharing with us Dave. You are the one running the show and you are doing it quite well. I'm not astute but I sure am slow and over-weight old and learning. Stay safe and the old farmer told me , when I complained about the manure flying on me, that I shouldn't worry about it because it will help me grow too!! So no complaints from me. FRED.

  • @gutsngorrrr
    @gutsngorrrr 26 дней назад +4

    Always love watching the process if wood steaming and forming.

  • @TheDistur
    @TheDistur 26 дней назад +4

    Wood is such a great material. 🪵

  • @jeanhawken4482
    @jeanhawken4482 25 дней назад +1

    Oh wow what an expert can do.

  • @machinemoverman4614
    @machinemoverman4614 26 дней назад +3

    A true craftsman, I’m in awe!

  • @randyharmon280
    @randyharmon280 26 дней назад +4

    the FIRST Video, of Your's,
    I ever watched was You Bending Rails for the Top of a Wagon (about 5 years ago)
    That Process Absolutely AMAZED me then..
    and IT Still Does ! !! !

  • @danaowen9014
    @danaowen9014 25 дней назад +1

    I always love the bending process.

  • @mrclaus859
    @mrclaus859 26 дней назад +2

    Thanks for posting Dave, so darn interesting.

  • @bradbeasley7669
    @bradbeasley7669 26 дней назад +4

    alert artist at work

  • @darkhorsegarage9623
    @darkhorsegarage9623 26 дней назад +3

    That’s amazing

  • @JF-fx2qv
    @JF-fx2qv 26 дней назад +3

    Always learning!

  • @stephenrice4554
    @stephenrice4554 25 дней назад +1

    Great to see your steamer and bender working again , great explanation of the measurements and process. Great video 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  • @mfreund15448
    @mfreund15448 26 дней назад +4

    Happy Tuesday Dave and Diane!!

  • @terryrogers1025
    @terryrogers1025 25 дней назад +1

    Well sir, thank you, I found that very interesting, looking forward to seeing you assemble the wheels, thanks for the update, enjoyed watching and appreciate your work.

  • @alfredomarotta6604
    @alfredomarotta6604 26 дней назад +2

    Thanks for sharing Dave and Diane, another interesting video. Always enjoyable. ❤👍👍

  • @jimlong527
    @jimlong527 26 дней назад +2

    Dave you make this look so easy. Your talent is fantastic

  • @RickOshay...
    @RickOshay... 26 дней назад +3

    Amazing work Dave...💪🏻

  • @dintexas2095
    @dintexas2095 25 дней назад +2

    GOSH ! You are good ! Love to watch you make things work ! 😊

  • @2_dog_Restoration
    @2_dog_Restoration 25 дней назад +2

    I like it that you say I am staring early before it gets hot. As you are adding hot steam to your shop for 3 hours !!

  • @shaunnit
    @shaunnit 25 дней назад +1

    Great video Mr Engels. Thank you

  • @tomtruesdale6901
    @tomtruesdale6901 25 дней назад +1

    Looks like the second set turned out as good as the first set. I enjoy watching you build wheels, I learn something new every time.

  • @flywayhome8903
    @flywayhome8903 25 дней назад +1

    Once again thanks for the video.

  • @stewkingjr
    @stewkingjr 25 дней назад +1

    Nifty bending setup you've got there.

  • @tolydukhovny682
    @tolydukhovny682 25 дней назад +1

    poetry in wood shaping!
    thanks alot for the video.

  • @VAXHeadroom
    @VAXHeadroom 25 дней назад +1

    I've seen a lot of 'experts' say "you can't bend thick dried wood". I just point them here :) The little tricks like using pressure, a metal band on the outside, having your clamping strategy staged, all make it possible, but learned at the school of hard knocks. Thanks Dave for making your hard earned knowledge available to the rest of us!!

    • @ronmccabe7164
      @ronmccabe7164 25 дней назад +2

      I'm pretty sure he also adds ammonia to the water.

  • @danielgriffith7694
    @danielgriffith7694 26 дней назад +2

    Excellent craftsmanship

  • @ferguscosgrave7510
    @ferguscosgrave7510 26 дней назад +4

    Nice work

  • @stevenslater2669
    @stevenslater2669 26 дней назад +7

    Bending those wheel sections looks scary. Tremendous forces are in play there. Wood could splinter; could slip off the form, clamp could go flying across the shop. Nothing I would want to be in the path of.
    I’ll bet any commercial high- volume wheel builder setting up shop would have OSHA crawling all over the process, requiring safety cages and all that stuff.
    My hat’s off to you, Dave. You make wheel building look routine when it isn’t.

    • @donwilliams3626
      @donwilliams3626 25 дней назад +1

      How many commercial-high volume wheelwrights do you believe are operating today?

    • @NV..V
      @NV..V 25 дней назад

      YAFI

  • @PendeltonWhiskey
    @PendeltonWhiskey 26 дней назад +3

    The home stretch!

  • @bigsbyslur
    @bigsbyslur 26 дней назад +4

    Thanks Dave and Diane. Burch and Linda , Reno

  • @BillOwens-vt2wi
    @BillOwens-vt2wi 25 дней назад +1

    Its always good to see this process done again. Thanks for the teaching moment. These hubs are interesting and heavy duty. Well engineered have fun.

  • @davidhudson5452
    @davidhudson5452 26 дней назад +3

    That machine will be nice to see

  • @AdelinoGambiarras
    @AdelinoGambiarras 25 дней назад +1

    That was amazing 👏 👏

  • @seekimheng8929
    @seekimheng8929 25 дней назад +1

    Well done Dave 👏👍👌❤️

  • @MichaelKingsfordGray
    @MichaelKingsfordGray 26 дней назад +4

    What pleasant sounding terms!
    Come-along Fellows...

  • @JimGarver-tx8rj
    @JimGarver-tx8rj 26 дней назад +1

    Very interesting. I really enjoyed learning about steam bending wood. It's something that I will never do, but learning something new is a good thing.

  • @user-gr9to2rb4e
    @user-gr9to2rb4e 25 дней назад +1

    As expected, he is the best technician.
    I'm seeing it in South Korea, but your skills are the best in the world.
    Please continue to show us more videos. ^^

  • @jomercer21113
    @jomercer21113 26 дней назад +1

    This is always enthralling to watch!

  • @petegraham1458
    @petegraham1458 26 дней назад +1

    Always fun to watch steam bending!

  • @timziegler9358
    @timziegler9358 26 дней назад +1

    I always enjoy your instructive videos! Best wishes.

  • @robertdraper7258
    @robertdraper7258 25 дней назад +1

    Viewer: "Dave. We've seen your Homestead on Video but never have seen how you grow U-shaped Trees for the things you make. How do you accomplish that?"
    Dave: "I thought you said that you WATCHED my Videos."
    LOL
    Short and Direct answer, exactly what One should expect from such a multi-talented individual.
    I LOVE watching Dave and he produces such Quality Videos for Us All to Learn from!
    THANK YOU Dave!

  • @johnwaby4321
    @johnwaby4321 25 дней назад +1

    Brilliant job 👍👍👍👍👍

  • @Renville80
    @Renville80 25 дней назад +1

    It's amazing how much math goes into making wheels and wagons. :)

  • @bille294
    @bille294 26 дней назад +3

    Thank you for this video. I don't think I've seen you make felloe forms before, and was really curious how you did it.

  • @jgwilliams5951
    @jgwilliams5951 23 дня назад

    Fascinating to watch , Thank You !

  • @harveyellis6758
    @harveyellis6758 26 дней назад +5

    Steam bending is better done in cold of January rather than July ;-) The heat in the shop must have been terrible.

  • @dlstanf2
    @dlstanf2 25 дней назад +2

    I believe with the heat & humidity here in NC you could just lay the lumber in the yard & it would be wet & hit enough to bend in a couple of hours. Thanks a lot Dave for your videos. I've learned a lot about your work & craftsmanship.

    • @danielbutler578
      @danielbutler578 25 дней назад +2

      Tennessee feels like that too. It's almost enough but it doesn't quite work.

  • @ronaldwood9911
    @ronaldwood9911 25 дней назад +1

    Second board out of the steamer seems like it belt a lot easier. Always amazed at your craftsmanship

  • @josephjohnson3073
    @josephjohnson3073 26 дней назад +1

    I’ve been waiting for the wheels all along. Those hubs are unique. I appreciate wood wheels because I mess with Model T Fords.

  • @1mmickk
    @1mmickk 25 дней назад +1

    See hes not afraid to show his secrets and how its done. Its up to you to have the skill to do what hes showed you.

  • @johnstefaniak4935
    @johnstefaniak4935 25 дней назад +1

    Amazing that is just amazing

  • @vbertrand
    @vbertrand 25 дней назад +1

    Fascinating!

  • @donaldruhland1278
    @donaldruhland1278 25 дней назад +1

    Thank you for you. I would like to see how you finish putting the wheels together if you haven't done a video yet.
    Thank you again for sharing your knowledge.