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

Best channel on you tube

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

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

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!

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

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

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".

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.

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

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

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 😷

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.

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

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

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.

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

Your steambending never fails to fascinate me!

I love this channel

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!

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

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

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.

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!!

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!

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.

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

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!

Thanks for showing how you make the form for bending

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.

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.

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

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.

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 ! !! !

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.

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

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

It has been a long time since I’ve heard that telltale sign off steaming wood that is the dripping water into the bucket 🪣 😂😂😂😂😂👍

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

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

Здравствуйте привет из Нижнего как всё хорошо получается это форма как модельщик сделана отлично настоящий столяр хорошего вам всем здоровья да хранит вас всех господь Нижний Новгород Юра жду новых видео спасибо

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

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

Great work Dave, that is such an interesting process!

The home stretch!

Happy Tuesday Dave and Diane!!

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

Thanks Dave and Diane. Burch and Linda , Reno

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

That machine will be nice to see

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

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.

It’s always fascinating to watch you steam bending 😊

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 !!

wondering if you ever had something explode when you were bending it,, thinking it would make a mess of things. Great job,,,excited to see the finished spreader.

alert artist at work

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.

Nifty bending setup you've got there.

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.

I believe there is an "endgate" as well as the "hood" that goes along with the beater drum to operate and funnel the manure into the beater. Also, I believe the "hood" and "endgate" are adjustable from what I have seen in pictures. All very interesting.

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.

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

Dave Engels, never one to skimp on making a jig or fixture to get it right. Patience is not an attribute common in this world but it's what is required to get the great results. Maybe this is why this channel is so addicting. Just wasn't terribly sure that this was going to go well. dave

I always enjoy watching you do the steam bending process. What is the thickest wood you have bent and what is the thickest wood you believe you can bend? What other woods besides ash are good for bending? Thanks for an awesome video, you're the best channel on RU-vid, don't ever change the 'quality' of your style of working!....(and I know you won't).

Could you put the time it took to complete the operations in the corner of the video? That would be fun to know.

Always learning!

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

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. ^^

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

Thanks for posting Dave, so darn interesting.

Oh wow what an expert can do.

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

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

Amazing work Dave...💪🏻

I’d love if you could show us how you made your pressure steamer. I could poss see how you get steam but not the dialed in pressure.

Always interesting never a dull moment..as Im contemplating my place amongst the stellar universe... Yelling STELLAR STELLAR STELLAR I could of been Sumone I could of been champ...

Well done Dave 👏👍👌❤️

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.

Nice work

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

Wood is such a great material. 🪵

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

We always had a special coat to wear when spreading manure, a must if the wind was blowing the wrong way, but that was manure from dairy cows!

Great video Mr Engels. Thank you

Just think this manure spreader started as a pile of “junk” that had to be moved so you could build the fire to heat the tires for the 10’ logging arch wheels and now in your “spare time” you’ve nearly completed a museum piece. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

I worked 40 years at Paoli Chair in Indiana and we used a lot of bending. How’re they were plywood . Great video

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.

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

Thanks, this will help me steam bend some KD tiger maple for a skirt around a coffee table. I didn't think KD could be bent. I just need to build a solid box, that's some big square tubing.

I am so glad your channel is doing so well.

Excellent craftsmanship

That’s amazing

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

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

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.

Very interesting process, Thanks for sharing, Dave

I've ssen you do this a few times, as far as I can remember it's the first time you've gone through the calculations needed to get the length you need. I do like maths

Another awesome video by the master craftsman.

Always love watching the process if wood steaming and forming.

The other thing you forgot was a rear view mirror to keep an eye out for The Manure Police. 👍👍👍

Great video--again! A load binder with a couple of nylon straps might work better than a come along. You know, those things a trucker uses? Maybe so, maybe no.