This is a note from the old bearded Australian bloke in the video. Not really in the habit of broadcasting my thoughts for the amusement of the entire planet but in this case a few words of thanks and appreciation shouldn't do much harm.. So.. Thank you Mr. Engel for the privilege of sweeping the floor, poking a few holes and turning round holes into square ones at the forge. It was the highlight of the trip from Oz to Montana 95041. In fact, meeting you was the main reason for the trip. Your kindness and patience with an old coot from Australia will be remembered with a quiet smile when the day seems dim. Thank you also Mrs Engel for having us in your home for supper on several occasions and for introducing Pauline to your friends. Regards Chris Harris Crows Nest Queensland Australia PS: For those whose kind and amusing comments appear below, nobody really speaks Chipmunk down here.... Except for politicians that is and no one listens to 'em........ Mostly.

@aerialrescuesolutions3277

3 жыл бұрын

I plan to visit Mr. Engel myself. Very nice to see you lend a hand there. Take care Mr. Harris, Jim

@sergeantpeppers8858

Жыл бұрын

So now we know what Santa does the other 364 days of the year. 😉

@jimamccracken5783

Жыл бұрын

Bushman was a pleasure to see ya I live back east in West Virginia.

You sir, bring this quote to life. " One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."

@exileinderby51

5 жыл бұрын

That sir, is one of the most appropriate quotes I have ever read and so true when applied to Mr Engels. Thank you for enlightening me.

@edhondo4447

5 жыл бұрын

tell that to John Henry

@rcdogmanduh4440

5 жыл бұрын

Spot on sir!

@zephyrold2478

5 жыл бұрын

I second that.

Two happy old bearded guys .. breathing life into wood and steel. Old style craftsmanship blends with love and harmony to give birth to a Borax Water Wagon. Beautiful beyond words.

You are a Lovely man to allow others from other nations to share your life experience of coach building.

You don't think of those type of wagons as having so much steel in them. Fascinating to watch, and thanks for taking the time to share it.

The Aussie must be a real fan to travel so far to work for free. What a lucky guy.

To be honest I don’t come here just to see the wagons. They’re great. But what keeps me coming back is the attention to detail. It’s just crazy how the finished product is always perfection. No stone unturned. I love to watch you go through every painstaking process and not miss a single detail. Thank you for the high quality content.

Fridays, for me, are not only the end of the week, but a rare view into the inventiveness of times gone by, when watching your videos, so thank you! 😊👍

I try not to miss any of Dave Engels videos. He is a master and this is a fine example. Jc

You are a very kind man to allow your visitor to help you, I am sure he will treasure this experience! Great video as always!

@a0cdhd

5 жыл бұрын

Got that one right mate.

Thank you Sir for your videos and excellent workmanship and to bring alive the wagons.

Chris, It was mighty nice of you to come to Joliet MT and visit and help Dave out. The two of you seem to blend rather well. Good job guys.

The running gear seems to be coming along nicely. A helper is nice-especially when a fellow needs someone to just hold the light and to hand over that wrench which is just out of reach. Besides that, a bit of company is almost always a welcome thing. Wish you well.

I look forward to this more than any other subscription I have. It just soothes my soul for some reason. Still don't know how he finds the time to not only do the work but change the camera angles and edit the vids.

@ramaroodle

5 жыл бұрын

@Shoestring Tom Same. Worked with an Amish blacksmith in Pennsylvania. I used to do just enough shoeing to get by but that burning fingernail smell combined with hay, straw and manure has stuck with me for 45 years. Loved it.

@cspann831

5 жыл бұрын

Doesn't this guy do that to you?Such a soothing manner.What a pleasant fellow!

@zephyrold2478

5 жыл бұрын

I second that.

@milantrcka121

5 жыл бұрын

@Shoestring Tom Same here!

@Bluswede

5 жыл бұрын

I have many different interests, but yes!...I really enjoy watching Dave work. Now for the attempt at a humorous answer: It's no wonder he has time to get all that stuff done...just look at how fast he works sometimes...he should really lay off the coffee, Mountain Dew, or Sundrop! (just imagine it) :D

It is always pleasing to watch this work. When a man has his own way of doing things and lets another man into his shop to help, there is a significant amount of trust and respect flowing back and forth between the two. It is satisfying to see smith and striker working together, too. Each must know the other's movements and intentions - one word is sometimes too much and full sentences are inadequate...silence is most common.

So much knowledge you share with your viewers. Thank you professor.

What a great way to spend a vacation, helping out on a fantastic build. I also picked up on that technique of getting the bolt or pin to go through the steel on the other side of the wood. That will come in handy when fitting new handles to garden tools.

Very nice to get visitors especially to Chris who chipped in and did not mind being in the video . I didn't comment on last weeks unusual one but found it a pleasant change from your normal upload , now we can all see you have a mischievous amusing side to enlighten the 'run of the mill' working day .

Thank you It is a joy watching, the old bloke Chris got a good work out

What better way to learn about a country than in fast motion. It speeds it up a bunch and as busy as you are it must help. lol . Another great video and I could watch you work in regular time. That's how much I enjoy what you do.

Hey Dave and your visitors from Australia. Hope you all enjoyed your visit time and touring. You worked great in the shop with Dave and we could see this wasn’t your first time in the shop and smithy. That’s some excellent workmanship you showed Dave. Always enjoyable viewing your videos. Thanks for sharing with us.

The water wagon is coming along nicely. I bet you appreciated the help. It looks like he really did help and not just get in the way. I know that sometimes help in the shop really isn't. Thank you for sharing. I think I am addicted to your videos. It's not a bad addiction to have.

@jeffclark2725

2 жыл бұрын

He does a lot in that little shop,those 2 worked together really well ,and this video was done 2 years ago

Your new posts always make my weekend. I teach English in a cram school in Taiwan, and nothing I do here is remotely similar to anything you do there. But your work is endlessly fascinating, and watching it just makes me feel better about human beings in general. You've got a hugely positive channel, here, sir. Thank you very much for sharing your work.

@janellerae8160

5 жыл бұрын

Yasso Jermutter i feel the some. It always makes my heart happy readying thru the comments on my dad’s videos! So positive, kind, and encouraging.

I am so glad that I found your channel. It has become one of my favorites. Your craftsmanship is beautiful

great to see someone helping in one of your projects

Mr. Harris, welcome to the USA. Stay as long as you like and come back as often as you can. We're happy your here.

@a0cdhd

5 жыл бұрын

Well.... Thank you Mr. Day. You people make hospitality an art form. Damn sorry to leave.

Great look at how much work has being done. Fantastic work..nice to have a helper at times.

Thanks Dave. You are a real artist both in the shop and with the camera including the editing. Your videos are #1 on my list of what to watch! Please keep them coming!

I've watched this episode more than 3 times and never wrote an encouragement. Your video here is excellent. and I'm just a little bit jealous that somebody else got to pick up a punch and help you get that crazy 1/2 X 5" with a goofy two radius surface plate drifted square for the bolts. Harris has a true gift there in many ways. Number 1, on the gift list, just being there when it counts. And never mind the opportunity to sweep the floor! What a gift indeed! Sorry for not getting this out for three years.

The camera work is as precise as the iron and wood work! WOW!

Didnt know they spoke chipmunk down unda? Learn something new everyday ;) Thanks for helping me unwind watching your workmanship.

@Bluswede

5 жыл бұрын

LOL!...I saw that chirping, too!

@TheGnomestead

5 жыл бұрын

@@Bluswede maybe him and Dave could put out an album. Wagon builder chipmunks songs. I see music videos. Riding along on wagons singing. This could be big!! What do you think @EnglesCoachShop ?

@Bluswede

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheGnomestead LOL! Like in one of Dave's recent videos...I can "just imagine" it!

Your knowledge, skills and abilities constantly blow me away, knowing just where to hit/press on the metal to get it to bend the way you want it. I have several friends from Australia and they are all "Good People", so glad you were able to meet Chris and Pauline. Chris looked like he had a good time helping you.

Fair dinkum a fellow Aussie gave you hand, great stuff. G'day mate

@a0cdhd

5 жыл бұрын

G'day

First time i've seen someone use an angle grinder to that level of precision. Nice, nice control.👍

It was refreshing to watch Chris work with you, I imagine you enjoying the company of your peers. Impressive craftsmanship as well.

How you get those curves just right on that heavy bar using the press, is completely beyond me. Magnificent piece of work, thanks again for posting.

Wonderful stuff! It's great to see real craftsmen at work! Even better, there's no music, just the soothing sounds of the workshop. Great to see an Aussie helping out too! Cheers from "across the ditch" in New Zealand!

Late spring or early fall after the first snow on the Rockies is the best time to see Montana. So Chris and his wife picked a fairly good time to visit. Have been through on I 90 maybe 150 times. I've seen maybe 3/4s of the U.S. and Canaduh and Montana is still the most beautiful area I've seen yet.

I was always surprised that you don't have dozens of people a day begging to do anything for the pleasure of watching you work. If I lived near you I'd be happy to clean up the workshop just to be able to have the chance to learn something from you. Unfortunately I am about 13000 Km away.

Glad to see you are back to your old self.

Sometimes an extra set of hands is helpful. And it's nice to have an apprentice sweep the floor! The smoke rings were very cool!

Another Aussie viewer here, looks like you have quite a fan club Down Under. Love your work Mr Engels.

Dave watching you hand form those reach hounds by eye and having them fit so perfectly is fascinating. Decades of experience making it look like a robot made them 👍👍👍

So very well done. A pleasure to watch. It seems it would take ten of those twenty mule team mules just to pull the empty wagon.

Making us Australians proud!! Avid fellow Australian watcher here myself! Love your stuff EngelsCoachShop :)

@Bluswede

5 жыл бұрын

Gotta love the interwebs! My Pop would have so enjoyed KZread channels like this and reaching out to folks all over the world with just a click of a mouse...he was an avid letter-writer with pen-pals all over from selling car-to-tractor conversion plans through the classifieds in the back of Mechanix Illustrated and Popular Mechanics. Several of these "customers" were from overseas and a few wrote to him to tell of the substitutions they'd had to make given that they were working with Triumph, MG, Holden and other manufacturers' cars, instead of the American makes from which he had specified parts in his plans. Very proud of Americans' fighting men in WWII, Pop also made sure that this Midwestern American boy knew about how tenacious the Australians were through the battles of WWII. Pop was 26 years old when Pearl Harbor was attacked and, after reading the newspapers and hearing radio reports from the South Pacific, sympathized with your ancestors being left with only minimal help from us early in the war due to the Allied "Europe First" policy. If I remember right, Port Moresby on New Guinea and Darwin in Northern Australia were bombed heavily many times and in harm's way constantly. Plus many Australian cargo ships were sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy. Then, there were Australian ground units and RAAF squadrons serving in North Africa, the Middle East, and Greece...as well as the Australian units that were absorbed into the RAF Bomber Command and making "deliveries" direct to Hitler's doorstep. Your people definitely made the papers here in the 'States! Yup, Australians have every right to be proud of who they are...maybe more so than some...but I didn't say that last bit aloud, so as not to offend anyone! Reading this over, I can see that this may be viewed as a bizarre post in this place and time...but I'm going to leave it here because I've run across several Aussies in my online travels and not a one of them showed me anything other than goodness, and a little outside-the-box thinking...plus I know a little history that wouldn't hurt my fellow Americans to also know. G'Day!

@jeffclark2725

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bluswede This all happened 2 years ago,Have you seen the wagons finished? Work of art

@Bluswede

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeffclark2725 Yes, yes...The Borax Wagons were what got me watching, and I've been following along ever since. I'm fifty-plus years closer to this type of craftsmanship than my contemporaries, being that my family have been slow breeders. My parents were in their mid-forties when I was born as were THEIR parents. That means that my grandparents were in their prime around 1900. Being farm folk, transportation and power was mainly equine in nature up til aroung WWII. There was all manner of horse-drawn farm equipment around the farm and my pop had had the 'joy' of working with teams of draft horses. He swapped out the horses, long passed on, for a Farmall F-12 tractor and shared that joy with me. Looking back at it 50 years on...a horse-drawn 'Dump Rake' can be a beautiful thing!

Having been there Many times while I was in the Navy... I can confirm they're Awesome People! Aside from home... (the US of A!), it's my favorite country in the world!

Great episode , as usual . Your friend from down under , had the drill press humming like a didgeridoo . Thank you .

Makes me want to visit Montana just to spend a day helping in your shop.

You a American treasure. An artisan to say the least.

Mr.Engles the more i watch you working, the less i know what to say keep it up SIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dearest Mr. Engel, such fine quality of work. The assortment of wood files/rasps is itself awesome. Each time you used that big flat one I just smiled. I will get to Montana one day, I hear there's some really grand state parks there too, stay safe, and keep up the truly great work. Jim

It was fun watching this one. Didn't know that someone from down under could sound so much like the teacher from Charlie Brown.

Thank you for allowing us to watch true and skilled craftmen!!!

I really enjoyed the Borax wagon series so much I’ve watched it 3 times. Watching you manufacture the reach has taught me another trick of the carpentry trade when drilling through bolt holes. So, thank you.

Mr Engel, thanks for another great video on how to make a wagon from trees and rocks. True art/skill.

@Bluswede

5 жыл бұрын

LOL!...one of my favorite replies when asked, "How did you make that?", is, "I just banged a couple rocks together until it appeared.". Then I confess and tell people that I saw several of them on the internet and copied what I thought were the best parts of each one, combining them to make mine. I usually finish with, "Any idiot can build one of these!". As I say that I'm waving one hand at the thing I was asked about and the other in the air to indicate that I am the idiot that proves the statement. I love seeing that light behind someone's eyes switch on...the light that says, "Maybe I CAN build one of those...this idiot did!".

You are one master craftsmen keep it going as love watching your videos 👍👍😀😀

I get the distinct impression that these recreations are going to be better than the originals.

That was really amazing. Love seeing the project coming together! Thanks Mr. Engel!

You are the inspiration of my heart I’ve never been more edgumacated and entertained at the same time as having my soul. Soothed beyond compare Thank You

Must have been a lot of fun to have Chris in your shop for a visit, and to work together. Cheers from Tokyo!

Every time I watch one of your videos I get more astounded at your talents.

G'day sir, love your work, it was great to see the Bearded Banana Bender in your shop (well done Chris) I'm sure you both learn something.

Slow motion smoke ring was awesome!

Enjoyed the video. I hope they had time to visit Glacier National Park and Yellowstone in your state. I sure did enjoy them when I was out there. I wished I'd known you Mr. Engel then I would love to visit you and your Mrs. in the shop. Thanks for taking the time to produce the videos. Y'all take care and God bless.

No day is wasted if you learn something, it's a good way to confirm you're alive :)

@Bluswede

5 жыл бұрын

Well put, says the sick guy who is happy to wake up on the right side of the grass each day...and happier to join his buddies in a hangar at the local airport to engage in teaching folks young and old to "make". We are working on our second airplane build, and I do my level best to learn something every day!

Thanks for posting Dave. Enjoy watching you work, everything fits, and it's no accident.

You sir are a master of many skills. When I was much younger sixty years ago I would hang around a blacksmith shop in town. He repaired wagons and shoed horses and everything else. I wonder sometimes why you do not have a central vac instead of sweeping. You are a wonder to watch and takes me way back.

These videos simply make my Friday! Thank you!

you got a great lumber supplier. all your lumber is so nice

that opening landscape scene you use is gorgeous

A work of art. Loved the smoke ring. You leave nothing out!

Another video I could watch 10x and still feel like I missed something, mabe it's just the work at hand. I've always enjoyed metal & wood work. Dave just takes me to that special place.... Thank you for your time & the video !!!!!

Watching these every week makes me so relaxed.

Genius level. (from Western Australia)

that 1/2 in. plate forming is unbelievable

@aerialrescuesolutions3277

3 жыл бұрын

Totally.

Wonderful work as always. Thanks

That is a beautiful piece of work!

Another worth the wait for friday night most enjoyable thank you 👍

Like I've said before, A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever.

I was delighted to catch a whiff of gum leaves from that video !

Nice! I would liked to have heard that conversation while they were cleaning up.

As much raw labour and skill than any other trade or endeavour I can think of. Great work.

Brings back some memories when you had a halper in the past? It's kind of nice to have skilled help to boot ! I fairly sure this build show the mindset long prior to any actions to this project, figure it out mentally first then proceed. Thanks for recording !

Great job again. Special moment in this video was the smoke circle!

This video should be titled...."The hard way to make a smoke ring".

Warning - Watching Dave at his craft could be habit forming. Thanks Dave.

Your opening music is appropriate,and awsome, classy. Thank you for the trouble to share your work.

Wonderful series. Bravo

Hands of the Lord. God bless you. Jha Jha - India

Looks like Chris has a little experience in this sort of work. Great video as usual.

@a0cdhd

5 жыл бұрын

Nope, actually I make silver jewellery. Chris

Such a craftsman

Beautiful fitting. Great job like always, Watching it times well spent. Thanks.

That is a thing of beauty...

Hosfeld bender and that hydrolic press ... very nice tools

Boy that Chris works fast too

Great video Thanks again always great to watch your videos

Man to see that wood wrap in metal sure is well fitted. And I bet it is very stout. thanks for sharing. A thanks to Chris for there help.

Love the Mickey Mouse chat on fast forward,even the Makita sounds good,brilliant vid again Dave

How can there be a dislike? Awesome work

@Bluswede

5 жыл бұрын

Haters gonna hate, Jack! It's a sad fact but it's true.

Great video and it looks like you had some pretty fair help. I noticed you use a thumb gage for some of your measuring. I have one just like it. Thanks for sharing.