A Descendant of Jacob Haish & The Smith Manure Spreaders | Engels Coach Shop 

I won't bother Mr. Marshall with an email but I do want to say Thank You to him for helping out with this rebuild...very kind of him to do so :)

After seeing how much work it took to dismantle the rusted wheels and gears it is remarkable to see how smooth it rolls and operates. A testament to your experience and skills!

SO NICE to see a machine running THAT smoothly and quietly! Always admire your workmanship and CRAFTSMANSHIP. Kudos to Mr Marshall for the Info!

If there was a Pebble Beach for old farm equipment, Mr. Dave, you'd win every year!

It must be an incredible sense of satisfaction to see that heap of broken wood and metal transformed into this beautiful piece of historic equipment. Great job Dave.

Admirable Dave, instead of just leaving it, make it right, admirable.

To me, it is wonderful that you have found this direct descent person. The smile in your voice makes me think you do as well.

My favourite subject is history and it was also my strong subject in my school years. That's fantastic for this gentleman to contact is nice to keep history alive.

Wow, it's rare to find a direct descendent for an old horse-drawn viehele. Thanks much for sharing.

I've got tickets to see Jacob Haish and the Smith Manure Spreaders at Red Rocks.

That thing should go to a museum when it's done. Great job.

Looking forward to the day Jeff comes out and inspects the project and maybe tells us a little bit about the history of the company that originally built the manure spreader.

I'm from the UK but Dave this a small world we live in. I know by your work ethics that you would have to correct the smallest of discrepancies. Well done.

It really is a small world. Thanks to Mr Marshall for providing input and being open to contact. Can't wait to see the next installment. Great job Dave!

Dave, you know how to look where you have to look! Thank you for showing his wonderful work.

Somites something happens, that reminds us what the 'social' in 'social network' can be. I really love all that old stuff and the craftmanship from long ago, but hell, I really do appreciate living in the 21st century. Greetings from Germany, Marcus

I immediately thought they should be offset, but then I thought maybe the spikes on the top bar might run between those on the beater, so i never said anything. Your attention to detail is impressive.

Hi Dave, and Diane, just like you Dave to switch out the rods for original accuracy, and nobody here is surprised. As much as I love the sheep wagon, this spreader looks so pretty, and new. It's nice to have Jeff to give you some more ideas on this project. I always love to watch. Thank you for sharing, and take care.

I’m really enjoying the series of videos, Just watched it on my morning break.

Historical Archeology worth every second Fantastic work

Great that you could get correct information and photos to help with recreation.

Very interesting. I, too, did some searching for the Smith Spreader. Got me interested for sure. I really enjoy watching you sort these things out.

Cool indeed and great catch on the beater threaded pins

I admire your tenacity and determination to get it right. You had the beater bars assembled, then saw it was wrong. Took it back apart and crafted new parts, then put it back right. Brave. courageous and bold. A lesser person might well have been tempted to let sleeping dogs lay. The person who designed the set up, positioning of the bars and attachment points was genius.

Always fascinating, always fun, Mr. Engle. Thanks to Mr. Haisch for his input and assistance!

Great info on the history of the spreader and the person who designed it and built them. Thank you.

In Northern NY, we've yet to get out of the 50's, but luckily no snow in the past couple weeks. The spacing of the beater bar spikes and the breakup bar spikes should be within 1. i.e. each divides the other by half. That is the only realistic way to ensure the beater bar spikes and breakup bar spikes don't collide(and also ensure an eaven distribution pattern of the sh1t)

The beauty of the mechanics, the understanding of the technology, the attention to detail and excellence in reconstruction. Thank you!

I am glad to see that you are making a working machine instead of just a display piece. History and old technology like that needs to be preserved.

Very cool! It’s rare to get legacy input on this age of restoration.

It's this time of year when I'm glad to be living down south. It was in the mid 70s all last week. Today its raining, but still warm. Eventually summer shows up and the tables will turn when it comes to the weather and we'll be roasting down here, but until then we'll gloat.

Great catch on the beater bar spike configuration. Cost some time to make it right, but that's the only way to go.

Nice catch , it’s always better to get it right even if it takes some extra work even if it’s only you that know the details!

Make it as right as you can, I like it, nice catch guys. What a resource to have found for the restoration of the spreader, this is a fun series to watch, thank you.

NOW it starts to look like a spreader. Good job!

In my youth I worked with roughly similar machinery, cant say I noticed the finger pattern as such but in the last episode it did occur that they would need to be staggered as you have shown in order to clear the moving deck. Maybe I remembered better than I thought? Manure has a nasty habit of clumping and causing blockages, hanging onto the fingers and various other moving parts. Strange most of my memories tend to be of having to clear these machines by hand due to a break down. the side unloading flail type are only just a little more reliable unless you stay on top of daily maintenance. Working in a very wet area of the country also put extra strain on components. My great grandfather and his father did not have such a machine dung was dumped in mounds around the fields and then spread by hand, farming for them was not lucrative enough to purchase such machinery.

Very cool! What a great find in being able to connect with a distant relative of the mfg of this spreader. God Bless Mr. and Mrs. Engels.

Great video. O how I wish my Dad could have seen your work.Thanks Dave and Diane.

It's truly satisfying to see it come together but can't be as good as actually doing it. Bravo!

You have done a remarkable job Dave. I really will hate to see used for it's intended purpose and crap it all up.

The personal touch always makes it better.

Great craftsmanship is almost a lost art , thank you for keeping the tradition alive ... great job ...!!!

Around 3:30 into a previous video “ the Smith Beaters” you showed what you thought was a repair bolted spike. It seems may have been one of the bolted spikes holding the center ring. Great job as usual. Spreader looks fantastic

We've got a delayed spring here in Vermont too. There's supposed to be a chance of up to 18" of snow tomorrow and the day after!

Hey Dave, it was a breezy 82° n sunny in beautiful Fort Mill, SC. Trust Y'all had a wonderful Easter. Blessings🙂 🖐😎

We over here in Wisconsin didn't have much of a winter during winter, either. So we are having winter in Spring too. Snowed all day they say all night and all day tomorrow too!

You actually showed the threaded bolts in an earlier edition, I just assumed that they had become loose so they put nuts on them like you said. A picture is worth a thousand words. Good detective work.

Thanks Dave for your informative and interesting videos.

looking forward to another show thanks Dave great job i enjoy every sec of the show

Simply amazing. Amazing that he too rebuilt the same manure spreader. Good hearts and minds think alike.❤😊

Seems like that's often how it works -- the best way to find the information you need is to do it wrong and then the information will show up to show that you've done it wrong. It's a little reassuring to know that that happens to all of us. Also, looking at that photo of Jeff's version of this wagon, it's going to look glorious once it's all done.

Really liking the background music.🙏

I'm going to have to nominate that manure spreader for the "Lucky Pile of Junk for 2024" award! She's a beauty!

Always a pleasure watching from Joliet, Il. My dad mentioned that one of his earliest memories was watching his dad back up the spreader. ( which apparently had automotive type steering) Grandpa had a New Idea pro powered spreader by the time I came along) Thank you!

That's awesome to be able to get in contact with him! That spreader should be put in a museum when you're done so it can be enjoyed forever! Thanks!

When you started hand threading the nut onto the first threaded pin I thought "that'll get old pretty quick....". Sure 'nuff you put it into a drill before the first one was finished.... :D I must be a mind reader ! ! ! :D

So enjoyed you sharing the history it adds to your videos which I enjoy anyway will continue to watch

Watching for the island of tobago. You have such attention to detail.

Great to see those conections to the heritage ..

Kudos for all the extra work to make this restoration authentic!

It's nice when we get to see you go, Wow. Great story.

Congrats to Mr. Marshall for providing his assistance. Very valuable. At least you can provide him with four spare parts for his spreader. One question I have is the distance between the top bar that has the L shaped pins, and the rotating beater pins supposed to have an interference with each other during operation, or are they spaced apart to prevent clogging ?

The complexity and parts count is greater than I would've expected at first glance.

What a cool story, I'm glad you guys were able to get connected!

Mr Engle, you are a wonder!

Aint gonna pester Jeff since i bet his inbox has blown up but thank you for reaching out and offering your email to help.

Excellent history!

Learning something new every day, this funky internet thing has its uses. Mr. Marshal will be a long time friend of your now…. The manure spreader is looking great Dave and now it’s period correct.

Knowledge is Power.. Well done my friend..

That is awesome that you got in touch with a descendant to the actual builder and he willingly sent you photos and information for you to use in your History so this build will live on several more hundreds of years. It's really looking good Dave, can't wait to see it all come together. It will be fun to go back and watch it again in a few years. Fred.

Thank you Dave. I'm really enjoying these builds, love the attention to details...down to the alignments of the square nuts. Please keep them coming.

Outstanding episode!!!

This is one of your best series; and that's saying a lot! Thanks for the great videos.

good catch. Glad to see another machine being saved. You have to wonder how many bones are lying around of these spreaders. There has to be some somewhere.

Good catch on the spikes. 👍👍

I'm afraid Jeff Marshall's inbox is bulging at the seams by now & since I suspect he'll be watching the rest of this series as enthralled as the rest of us I'll just say a sincere THANK YOU to Jeff for taking the time to make contact with you and provide wonderfully helpful insight to this project. To Dave and Diane: thanks for allowing us along on these incredible journeys.

Excellent craftsmanship

Watched a manure spreader at work behind an open tracker on a dairy farm outside of Stowe Vt. All I could think was the driver must have been glad it wasn't a windy day. Don't see spreaders on the "Jersey" shore although cranberry harvesters have a similar "beaterbar" arrangement.

Hi Diane and Dave, I'm left speechless at how great it runs with ALL of your expertise 🎉 ❤ your definitely 1 in a 1,000,000..

Never imagined that I would say this about a manure spreader; that's a beautiful machine!😅

I absolutely love watching you work.

Looking GREAT !!!!

This is just awesome. Great video as always. Cheers :)

Incredible accuracy. I noticed an anomaly on the Chain Drives of the Beater Bar Shaft. The photo of the Assembled Spreader by Jeff Marshall has 2 different gears on the end of the Beater Shaft. Smaller gear has the chain on it to speed up the rotation. 14:58 and 19:10. Yours has only one gear which appears to match the large gear. There appeared to be other subtle differences in structure hardware.

You’re making a lovely job of it. It’s cold and wet here today but you’ve encouraged me to get on with some shafts, thanks.

20 below at my place in Galena Alaska this morning.

Very cool. Thanks for sharing your content with us.

Another great episode in the spreader story.🙂🙂

This machine is a thing of beauty for the turd fling’’er !

I find it interesting to see the evolution of keyed gears. In your case the key appears to transmitting the torque. That's a big no-no where I come from, the marine service industry. We would call those gears "key-bound" and you don't want it. Our props and fly wheels use keys but there is a tapered shaft. We use the key for timing and with props it's a fail safe. But the taper lock transmits the torque. Interesting.

Boy! Dave ain’t it a booger to have to re-do your work! I’d have been kicking the dirt pretty hard! You seemed just as calm as always. ✌🏻❤️🇺🇸🙏🏻🌎

I remember seeing old machinery like these around my aunts house that were my grandfathers. And of course in yards and pastures of other farms in our area. Shame we don’t see more restoration.

Very Cool to have such a resource when doing such a project......Not many restoration experts around who are descendants of Stradivarius.....but would be super cool to find one if making a classical spreader.....LOL !!

Dave, The manure spreader, and making the contact with Mr. Marshall is way cool. 🇺🇸

The Haish family was a major influence to my home town DeKalb IL. When I was little I used to stare with awe at the large factory buildings that were still standing that they and the Glidden (barbed wire) family had built. I also wonder if the Smith family that is tied to this spreader is or was part of the A.O. Smith that made the large blue silo’s in DeKalb also.

That certainly isn't how I would have done it! I would have put all the beater bars in first, got them all centered, bolted down and finished before I realized I had forgotten the center support ring.

Your attention to detail is phenomenal, Dave, and your reverse-engineering is nothing short of reinventing that thing from scratch!

Stay safe and we'll see you next time.

bravo : faire et défaire c'est toujours travailler. merci pour les vidéo.

Thanks Dave. A wet Tuesday night in Lincolnshire is made better by your efforts. 🇬🇧🇬🇧