A Lot of Structural Strength is in This Roof | Engels Coach Shop

Without the roof, the body will twist and roll, but the roof will strengthen against that twisting and add support to the whole wagon. The series of bows with these lateral slats adds a lot of integrity to the stability of te wagon box. Thanks for coming along,
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[@berndheiden7630]

Everything falls into place when the Hercule Poirot of the wheelwrights finds one hole that does not make sense! One quick check in the pile of rotten remnants and the culprit is identified and eliminated. It is so inspiring to watch you turn back the time and build this shepherds wagon exactly the way it was originally build.

[@jerryjohns7358]

Bon

[@michaelkelly8955]

Haha.

[@aserta]

It's elementary!

[@user-ys3dh5gl3o]

Wow. For something that is going to be a static display on someones property, you are turning out a museum piece.

[@glencrandall7051]

The original wagon maker would be proud to see his creation living on.🙂🙂

[@Dave-ty2qp]

In hindsight he might agree with Dave about needing 6 bows instead of 5. 😀

[@jerrygillette854]

The old saying that "You can never have too many clamps" is proving to be true again. Nice work, Dave.

[@robinstuyvesant7187]

Jed Clampett reincarnated

[@meldert]

But apparently you can have too many bows… 😉

[@aserta]

That's so true. Even when you think you do, even if you have a cabinet dedicated to keeping your clamps, it's still not enough. :))

[@stephenrice4554]

Thanks Dave , a great demonstration of why you never secure a part until you're sure it's right . Looking good 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@miltonpomales5405]

Dave, the Schools in your town should send you more students. Your expertise needs to be shared to the young generations. I can say it, because I worked with my uncle in his cabinet shop when I was in High School and in College. Everything that i learned has helped me in life!!!

[@amandagardner565]

exactly, kids today need to learn some basic skills that then gives them some confidence. also they need to know it's OK to not know something - they just need the confidence to admit that sometimes and to ask for clarification / information.

[@richardsurber8226]

My only reply is that I heard Dave say that the student has to pick the activity he/she wishes to apprentice. I know it is not that

[@robertvotaw6019]

Dave, Thanks for recording the method and logic of construction of the shepherd wagon. In just a few years without your recordings, I'm afraid that no one would know how to build this or any of your other constructions. History will thank you for this.

[@Daniel-gi3jo]

Great progress Dave. It'll be good to see you making the canvas with the sewing machine which is a work of art by it self.

[@richardthornhill4630]

Now the sheep wagon is taking shape with its own personality.

[@cm-ek4ci]

Maybe a air be an be all kind of space is rented out for a weekend stay 😊

[@BillOwens-vt2wi]

Looks good the old wagon parts have been a good teacher. You have been a good teacher. Thank you.

[@duanelundgren7985]

One can have enough Clamps, but never too many!!! Thanks D & D

[@tomtruesdale6901]

Watching you build that wagon, figure out what is working and not working and then correcting that shows your attention to detail and historical fact. Thank you for share this build with us.

[@martindonald7613]

You are no doubt taking way more care and using much more precision than the original builders. In a Romany vardo, we would have put the horizontal pieces on the inside. I am curious to see what the covering is going to be, We would have had a layer of chintz fabric on the inside, a layer of thick felt as insulation, followed by the standard green canvas as the outer layer.

[@jayh1947]

I am sure glad there is demand for your work so we can keep watching. Thank You Jay

[@judsonr1]

Almost as impressive as your knowledge, is the number of clamps you own! What a wonderful channel!

[@ellesmerewildwood4858]

When the shepherd filled the wagon with his belongings, food and water, I hope the shepherd made his sheep earn their keep by hitching them all up to pull this heavy wagon.

[@daviddaniels6473]

13 minutes. 264 views. Dave's right popular!

[@Cheggley45]

My great-grandfather ran 5000 head of sheep. He had Basque sheep herders working for him. I remember the sheep herder’s wagons. Couldn’t have been the lap of luxury living in these little wagons and chasing sheep, but I guess it was a living! Your attention to detail on this project is nothing short of remarkable, thanks.

[@Garth2011]

"How, Sweet It Is" to go from building all new and getting them nice and shiny finished. This project is building old and getting/keeping them dull and weathered. Not as easy as it may seem in the real world .

[@dianeengel4155]

True

[@shrumittofarmer439]

Talk about your Tiny House Nation!

[@81cb750fss]

Can't believe how outright blessed i was to find this channel. Amazing work, any project, every time. Cheers to y'all from springtime Virginia, all the best!

[@milt7348]

Stay safe and we'll see you next week.

[@elvinscott2356]

You don't need advice Dave but i'll make one suggestion. I changed my jeans to a pair of work pants that have removable knee pads. Not only do they protect my knees from harm, they also protect my knees from the cold when I'm on concrete. The pants I got have plenty of convient pockets for all I need to have with me as I work. The only down side with the pockets is it adds twenty pounds to my weight. I don't want to see you injure your knees. I want to see you continue with our wonderful and entertaning videos! I'm pushing 80 years and I still love working.

[@markthompson4885]

I also have work pants with knee pad pockets. I absolutely have to have them .

[@brh4115]

Always fascinating when you allow the old wood lead you in the build! 5 bows instead of 6. Fun to watch your wagon archeology at work!

[@thekenneth3486]

If I may say: hip, hip, hooray for clamps!

[@brianmros4844]

Hi Dave, and Diane, well that answers my question about the rib over the kitchen cabinet interfering. It sure looked like it was going to hit the cabinet, but I guess it's all going back together as it was. The ribs in place give a great perspective of interior space. I hope that we get to see it in the museum, and I hope that they outfit it with gear. It will be amazing. Thank you for sharing, and have a great weekend.

[@bigredc222]

I don't think it's going in a museum, I think it's just back to the spot where it was sitting for the last 50-60 years as yard art.

[@dianeengel4155]

It is going in a museum.

[@brianmros4844]

@@dianeengel4155 Thank you Diane, I've been searching videos from last year to find the answer🙂

[@legend7ify]

@@dianeengel4155 I also thank you for reminding us Diane.

[@bigredc222]

@@dianeengel4155 Thank goodness. I guess I misunderstood.

[@olddawgdreaming5715]

Nice catch Dave, always thinking and looking both ways. You'll be happier that you caught it now and can be proud of the fact that you are a perfectionist and will make it right the way it was originally. Thanks for sharing with us. Stay safe and keep up the great videos. Fred.

[@one44east77]

Great video. Your attention to detail is impressive and always a pleasure to watch.

[@raymondbrandt7831]

your videoing is on spot i love your videos wish they was longer, i have re-watched all your videos i can find ,have a blessed day

[@timfowler4642]

Loved your “so be it” chuckle when you determined it was a 5 bow wagon.

[@aake59]

Your conclusion on the number of bows relative the snowload, really exited me. It perfectly align with the current building code here in Sweden - the further north you build, the bigger the trusses. It´s always 16" apart (60 cm) though.

[@usmcforever7630]

Well done

[@53HOTROD]

I have appreciated your talents for years. I have watched every single video you’ve done. Tonight I was watching “Restoration Roads with Cliff Harp - Montana Covered Wagon” about the so called restoration of 4 Sheep Herds Wagons. My appreciation of your talents quadrupled while watching the so called restoration. I would call it more of a recreation than a restoration. I kept telling my wife that my guy wouldn’t do it that way - he would do this way and then explain exactly how you would do it. The wagons are in Greycliff, MT. You are a very talented individual and I really enjoy watching you work.

[@tomswindler64]

Very nice,wagon is taking shape.just keep doing your thing.great video.😎😎😎👍👍👍

[@ronald428]

It is absolutely inspiring to watch a master at work. I love to fing this type of posting, so I can spend my relaxing hours watching something meaningful. Thank you - Ronl

[@mikeunum]

I have learned all the things 50 years ago. Bad part is i can't give it further to the next generation.

[@margaretardouin265]

I always admire the logic and method of your reasoning. Each of your actions teaches me something. your videos will be a true anciclopedia for generations to come. it's a joy to know that this whole experience will not be lost

[@billk8780]

Engles Coach Shop, a.k.a. "C-clamp City". All the best!

[@Hertog_von_Berkshire]

Great to see the sheep wagon steadily coming together. I guess with those bows, you have to pray the first bow doesn't prove to be a freak that can't be matched.

[@patmancrowley8509]

Thanks, Mr. & Mrs. Engle

[@brucemeller2794]

Another wonderful-filled video. Thank you. I love what you do - not just for the technical work, which is so good to watch, but for the analysis and logic and careful observation that you always show, Dave. My favourite channel without peer!

[@johntracy9398]

I guess one can never have enough C-clamps.

[@dallasarnold8615]

In woodworking, you can never have too many clamps... of any kind ! LOL

[@jockcherokee5180]

As usual Dave. Classy detection of something not quite right & easily rectified by a craftsman.

[@tolbaszy8067]

I'm certain, given your usual precision of construction, that once you set that first bow you could just make the others the same length and mount them at their stations. Any arc discrepancies could be resolved with a heat gun. Adding the purlins will also tame the errant bow. I would guess your favorite shop tool, next to your hydraulic press, would be that Fay and Egan table saw. Your camera work showing that beast ripping the slats was exceptional! This is a great series! Thanks!

[@thepandeslar8062]

FWIW - I think it might have been a good idea to measure the installed length of the first bow, and use that as a pattern for the rest of them. This would also help forming the top stringers, canvas, etc.

[@34base34ball]

I saw a wagon replica once and the bow ends 15:02 were under the first and last bow, the canvas fit smoothly on the bow where it was tied down around the front and back.

[@seekimheng8929]

Thanks, take care have a wonderful weekend 👌❤️🙏

[@mrclaus859]

Thanks Dave

[@lint2023]

I really enjoy you and your projects.

[@donwilliams3626]

I appreciate your bringing us along. It is interesting to watch you share where you discover the clues this wagon gives each step of the way.

[@omegaman7456]

I have an idea for you. Design and build a wagon that James West, of the TV series, Wild Wild West, would have in his ''arsenal''. The first electric generator was built in 1831, so you could squeeze that in there. When I saw the manure spreader, I thought about electrified wagons. Another idea i thought of, is an ice delivery wagon that has a refrigeration compressor driven off the axle. I noticed in a lot of Hollywood movies, they used the wrong wagons. Something based on a sulky could have been the first EMT service, or mail delivery.

[@Hazmatt4700]

The action shot of the inside of the saw is always impressive with the two blades.

[@scotth4760]

Good example that you can never have too many clamps

[@shelferd3219]

Dave, boundless energy! Great job so far! Be safe!

[@AdelinoGambiarras]

Coming along nicely 👌

[@stuartlockwood9645]

Hi Dave and Diane ☺, kind of sounds like something you'd order , a plate of ribs and slat, lol. Seriously though your persistence in analysing where the original parts went is truly admirable, and when you've finished I'm sure it'll be as near to what it looked like as makes no difference. Thanks for another interesting video mate, stay safe, best wishe's to you and Diane, Stuart and Megan UK.

[@ellisc.foleyjr9778]

I was dondering if you were going to run out oc C-clamps! its so nice when you do have what you need when you need them. it's coming along really good now. great pickup on the extra Bow. Thanks for sharing. can't wait till the next one. ECF.

[@jeffcraft3980]

It don't got to be perfect just excellent is my standards

[@terryacker9505]

I'd love to know more about your background music. It increases my old heart rate in a very good way. Thanks

[@bigredc222]

It's Bluegrass, maybe "Union Station". Allison Krauss usually sings with them but I do believe they have put out some instrument albums without her. If you like bluegrass you will like them.

[@ralphmills7322]

Any Shepard that had to live in that wagon during the winter would opt for the additional bow! Also I just realized from this episode that the door was at the front of the wagon. I assumed the door to the living space was at the rear because that is how pickup truck campers are.

[@user-jq2rf4nf3o]

Cozy little wagon An 1800s 1900s Gulf Stream camper

[@wolfie854]

I was wondering what wisdom lay behind the decision not to secure those bows until they were all in place. Great video, Dave.

[@chrispemberton7000]

Great video Dave. I got the vision of the original builder. Thanks again.

[@gordbaker896]

It isn't the Space Shuttle but it IS the Sheep Shuttle. The rare 6 bow lowland type was used in emergencies to get to the Snow Line. Only Dave would start installing the slats at the peak.

[@dallasarnold8615]

How else would you do it ? Seems to me only one way to get it right. Like Dave said, kind of like setting trusses. If you don't get the top right everything else will be off.

[@gordbaker896]

@@dallasarnold8615 The Bows are all Vertical checked off the leveled floor. Slats could be started at the bottom. I would have left the 6 bows perhaps.

[@dallasarnold8615]

@@gordbaker896 Well, you have made a couple of errors here. One, many times Dave has told us that his floor is not level. Yes, he did square them with his combination square in relation to the box, but that is a small square. However, you might recall that Dave commented that the #2 bow was off by 1/4 and another ( I think it was #4 ) was off by an inch. If he had started at the bottom this could possibly get off even more growing as he moves up. And then he would have to go back and adjust them all. Anyone that has worked on framing a roof on a house or a large commercial building knows this as just second nature. When setting trusses or rafters the first then you do is align the ridge, and the rest will pull into place. You always want to get your alignment straight at the farthest point, which in this case it the top of the bow. Consider doing a layout for a foundation. If you merely use a square in the corners, and then check for square by measuring the diagonals, chances are it will be off. The same applies here.

[@gordbaker896]

@@dallasarnold8615 In the video I watched, He LEVELED the floor of the wagon and items above it were level/square/perpendicular to that. Bows are the same height as installed. Your errors! Done.

[@dallasarnold8615]

@@gordbaker896 Apparently you missed the part where I said Dave squared the bows to the box of the wagon. So, you are simply restating exactly what I said. So, what does the height of the bows being the same have to do with them being perpendicular to the box ? NOTHING. And Dave points out that he is NOT leveling the box, but making all the corners even. Unless his floor were perfectly level, which he says it is NOT, this does not make the box/bed of the wagon LEVEL. So, what errors are you referring to ? I was not trying to start a feud, just pointing out how construction is normally done. But if you want a feud, I can show you your own butt.

[@terryrogers1025]

Details and attention to details, that’s why I watch sir, always enjoy the videos, appreciate your efforts.

[@dallasarnold8615]

My first thought was that the slats would be on the inside of the bows. And they still could. He only clamped the center one so far. Dave does have a tendency to surprise us sometimes. But I am sure he will explain why one way over the other in a future video.

[@mfreund15448]

Happy Friday Dave!!

[@huntz3215]

Not sure how much time you spent re-clamping bows but perhaps a steel rectangle tube piece could be the clamped jig & slide the bows inside, a small rubber pad for friction perhaps. Planer reminds me of the movie Dumb & Dumber (1994) "the most annoying sound in the world" scene :) Good detective work again on the design of this rig.

[@andrewjones1649]

Thanks Dave.

[@TgWags69]

You get to peek inside the mind of the original builder. Instead of thinking mathematically and dividing 12 by half and making six bows. They did a more organic method of dividing into four sections/spaces. Now that you know how they are thinking you can use that thinking to infer how they would space the purlains and other layout mysteries.

[@sirloinofsuffolku.k.9968]

Another fine video, so much valuable information for future generations thankyou

[@legend7ify]

...................G'day Dave, greetings again from Australia mate. Love your work Brother (f.a.m.) Cheers and kind regards, Malcolm.

[@BlueFlyer21]

Reminds me of the 1932 movie Freaks

[@keithbrowning3899]

Dave 99% perfect..!!

[@geraldmiller5260]

If you paint your bows golden, would you have the golden arches? If you had weevils in the wagon, would they be bow weevils??

[@gpanizzolo6090]

Buen día! Excelentes tus trabajos de restauración. Gracias por compartirlos. Donde yo vivo, no se conocen ese tipo de carruajes, se conocen unos similares que más que nada se usaban para transportar mercaderías y eran tirados por bueyes. No se usaban mucho como viviendas. Es sumamente interesante, por ejemplo, saber que tenían una estufa dentro... Increíble. Un abrazo y hasta la próxima! Germán, Lomas de Solymar, Uruguay.

[@orbsphere-]

5 bows seems to make more sense as it doesn't require any cyphering. Put a bow at each end and one in the middle and another bow in the middle of each of the 2 new spaces. 7:00

[@opendstudio7141]

By any chance, a sheep wagon’s insulated cover contains wool insulation? I know wool resist mold and repels water. Plus it can be felted to any thickness desired.

[@davidchisham]

Very good video. I love how you explain every small detail.Thanks Dave and Diane

[@jdhtyler]

Brilliant job, well filmed, quiet music, great explanation. Back in the 1970s I helped my dad in the Blacksmiths shop to build a large 2 level sheep / cattle box on a flatbed lorry / wagon. Sadly, well sort of, we use channel iron and aluminium sheet held on with pop rivets. I just found my Octopus line shaft belt staples for jointing wide belts, have a look on my channel there are only 2 videos, the other one is beer. I like the jigs you make, we made a great many for Forging items for the cotton industry, we also found why our very simple jigs got us the repeat work when we saw what our competitors did or should I say overengineered a solution, it was quite a surprise. 20+y ago I made a wood jig with a router bolted onto it, so that I could mill aluminium bar 12mm x 6mm section so that it would have a T section I used WD40 as a cutting fluid. I needed 30 mounting bars for wardrobe hinges that I bought for 10p each since the diecast mounting plates were missing. all the best

[@jeanhawken4482]

Looks so good

[@thisolesignguy2733]

lol watching this made me want to have the wagon look like those old cartoons with a swayback like an old horse. I just thought that would look funny.

[@daftDAFdriver]

Fantastic

[@peterdicapua1891]

Dave, You are a national treasure

[@judithdomangue9995]

Another very enjoyable video, thanks! Really liked the music, also.

[@Barnagh1]

I’m thinking of the original builders creating this with hand-tools, doing things like planing the slats and rounding them over with moulding planes - a prodigious amount of work.

[@erickengels8003]

as always, love your videos. can't wait for the next one!!!!

[@willwipf7030]

Like the song goes she close enough to perfect for me, love this channel

[@davidmelville5675]

Dave, how happy were you that you hadn't drilled any holes yet? XD

[@ferguscosgrave7510]

Thanks

[@skeets6060]

As always I am impressed

[@errolpoxleitner9586]

Beautiful detective work it's looking very good.

[@blackbuttecruizr]

Wonderful progress

[@flywayhome8903]

Once again thanks for the video.

[@ted9876]

You can never have too many clamps

[@amateurshooter6054]

Thanks Guys

[@paulgar8]

Again, a great video.

[@BobBlarneystone]

left/right sides - nowadays we who build our own tiny campers say curbside and streetside.

[@buckhorncortez]

You figure the sheep wagon is going to be parked next to a curb...?

[@cotton-Dave]

@@buckhorncortez Maybe Bob was simply making a comment?

[@user-vn6hi2bi3g]

It's a small detail but it appears from my limited views of the old slats that the leading and trailing outside edges may have been rounded as with the longitudinal edges? Ray

[@timbradley5848]

Wow number 1 Hey Dave!