Carriage Shifting Rails and Their Function | Engels Coach Shop 

Thanks Mr. Engel !!!!!!!!!!

Outstanding JOB!! Great series!! Thank you ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

One can feel the deep respect you have for the work of your predecessors in the trade. I can only hope that those who come after you show the same respect for your work, Dave. You certainly deserve it!

Once again thanks for the video, until next week.

Very interesting. Love historical education.

Fascinating as always. Thanks Dave.

If you were around during the era of the convertible the armature/bars that made its top retractable the buggy hardware/rails seem rather familiar. Indeed the top's pivot points etc when up held the fabric in tension so it would shed water and as it went down accordianed the material back on itself to take up little space as possible. Looking forward to seeing how Dave makes it all work including the covering over the coming months from the era before windshields where to only thing that thru up dust was the hooves/wind the previous generations knew 100+ yrs ago.

Thanks Dave, another great video!

Yes sir. I did enjoy this. Thanks again!

you make wonderful videoes!

Theres value in a good scrap pile always good to keep a few extra bits around

You just made history by telling this. In an other 50 years when nobody knows this anymore they will find this on the internet and find out what they needed for there museum. ;)

These videos should be declared a World Heritage!

Very nice Dave!! Thanks

I'm 57 and have never heard the word coulee before. Must be a northwest thing, definitely not a southeast thing. You learn something new every day.

Thanks. Great video

Fire crackling in the firebox, wood being cut, routed, drilled....I can only imagine that the shop smells wonderful this time of year.

Great choice Dave I don't think they had that many Cadillacs back then

Seeing all the iron work you have there,tells me that there must have been lots of talented Blacksmiths around in the day.

The forensic investigation is enlightening! Well executed I say ! I enjoy your craftsmanship and you ability to solve any historical problem! Your an American Treasure!

very interesting thanks for pointing all that out

I remember seeing ads for Engels way back in the 80s, in driving magazines, and am totally delighted that you now make videos for us to watch. It's so much fun to see the process.

Very interesting!

Saturday morning routine with a Engels coach shop Vidio and a cup of coffee! I love it! Please never Stop uploading Content!

sorry but I’ve seen it many times, I like the way it does it, I’m from JARAGUÁ DO SUL, SANTA CATARINA BRAZIL

Grand Coulee dam...also find interesting seems ur wood stove keeps ur shop warm.

GREAT START ON THE JOB, GREAT VIDEO, GREAT TO HAVE YOU BACK, { NOW LET'S GO TO WORK...}

Hey Dave, another interesting journey of how to set up thebtop of this buggy. Looking forward tomyour next post! Warm greetings from the Netherlands and keep safe, Bram

It's almost like that last rail was made for your buggy, had you moved the seat brace forward in the original build. The adjustable one may have been a sort of "JC Whitney" unit- maybe sold in Sears catalogue to fit all types of buggies.

Great video looking forward to seeing the next one thank you

I Love the memories and can still put together just about anything to do with the wagon and wheel trade. Love the story goes with this

Another nice video. Your building has obviously been around for a long time. If you ever have a slow week, I for one would like to hear about its history.

Great lesson! I appreciate all the time and effort you put in your videos. God bless and thanks for sharing.

I was going to ask if the hex nuts were original or not. Thanks for the answer, Dave.

Always fascinating information. Thank you for the opportunity to watch and learn.

Thank you for the hardware demonstration. Found that particularly interesting.

fascinating as always

Cool!

Dave, we have a junk pile, just we call it *pre owned stock awaiting sale* 👍😎

Thanks for explanation! Looks great to these seats..

Enjoyed this a lot. The only part that was not so was when it ended. I love your easy going style and I must have watched each one of your past ones several times. Keep it up!

Dave, I always love watching what you do. And don't take this the wrong way (because I like seeing wheels several times to reinforce what I learned before), but I surely do love it when a new topic comes up and we get to learn a whole new item. The comparison of different shifting rails and why you chose the one you did was excellent. Thank you.

At first I had no idea where you were going with "shifting rails" as I come from an automotive background and me thinking transmissions,but now I know what shifting rails are used for on a buggy,thanks for the education and another enlightening video🤔🤔🤔🤔

Recovering from the Covid vaccination (which hit me pretty hard), I'm finding your videos are a nice way to relax while I rest. Thank you for all that you do and thank you for sharing that with all of us!

Sounds like Grandpa was a real piece of work. Too stubborn to wait to get home to remove the cover and store it away in the hayloft

Man, am I glad for subtitles. Never even knew "coulee" was a word till today.

I wonder if the Hexagonal nuts can give some insight as to when the shifting rail was manufactured? Maybe after 1900? Update: I got curious, so I looked it up on Google (Probably should have before I asked) but it seems a guy named James Nesmith created the first hex head bolt in the 1830's. Around 1864 they were written into machining standards in the US.

WOW! Some blacksmith of old put a lot of craftsmanship and skill into making that shifting rail. He likely had a lot of fun doing it, and was pretty proud of himself when it was done. Great lesson tonight Dave! Thanks!

The term "coulee" took me back to when I grew up in Montana. I just don't hear it used in Minnesota or Arizona. If the fellow was local, you could always check the coulees on the road to the ranch to see if it survived 100 years. What I see tossed out and sit for at least that long it would not seem to be such a long shot. :^)

Brilliant!

Happy Friday Mr and Mrs Engle

That 3rd set was probably from J.C. Whitney .

I think it's going to be a long week waiting for the custom work for the buggy top.

I'm thinking: what's a "coolie" and what is a "shifting rail" and an "F 250" what? After a bit of research, I think you mean, Grandad hoiked it into a ditch, it was for the buggy (roof) top and this buggy's style is a bit like a ute, mate. Great show. I'm in. Keep it going.

Well that was a new one on me: I'd never heard of a shifting rail. Of course, I was working more with formal, servant driven vehicles and not so much with buggies. I gather the purpose is to ease shifting the top on and off the buggy? Maybe it makes it so you can move it all in a piece, like moving a camper shell on and off a pickup?

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I agree with your design decision on the plain vs. fancy hardware. I disagree on the Ford F250 comment. I say it was more of an International Harvester Scout, with removable top and seats.

Oh wow as a young man in Colorado 1 of the guys on our crew doing a remodel on a old building found a bunch of irons all together like the first one shown we could not figure out what it was. We also found the irons for what must have been the top, but no fabric on them. Again no idea other then they also had a kind of oval profile to the "rods". Now I can see it and what it was. Sadly some of it went in the dumpster, one of the other carpenters took some of the top rods home and made shelf rails of them for his wife. It came out very nice with a old time flavor to the shelves. Hahaha. So young and so dumb.

Can you hear my hands rubbing together in anticipation for the next video? I might of gave myself blisters! LOL One of my favorite past video was the making of the black carriage top you did back a ways. Can't wait.

I noticed as you were disassembling the shifting rail that hex nuts were used. Would those have been replacements or were there some hex nuts used originally? Ohh, never mind, question answered at 17:10.

Wish there was someone near me that does this stuff that I could learn from. I have rebuilt 2 buckboards in the past just using what was left and replacing what was rotted or broken. I also rebuilt and ice sled used to haul large ice blocks to the ice house. I'm working on a log sled right now and I have a 2 seat buggy that has a set of runners that go where the wheel axles go for use in winter. The wagons and sleds were all owned by my great aunt and were stored under a barn bridge and the wheels were all stored in an old grain room in the barn saving them from the elements

Hoping you would explain why they are called shifting rails.

Hidden behind this star wars like headline is one of your best vids, I think! Can‘t await next week! I would like to hear and watch more history stuff, if you have time for that! Thanks and greetings, from Wuppertal, Germany!

Nice to watch what You’re doing ... Love it ...Greetz from Germany 👍🏽

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Hmmm and I always thought that the tops were interchangeable with slight modifications. see ya learn something new every day!. Thanks once again Dave for a very informative learning video.

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It seems so strange that many decades ago that someone would take something new off a buggy you just bought and throw it away without even keeping the steel portion of it. Perhaps it was not a new buggy and it was a used one and perhaps the parts were not the best but in any event we will never know. I guess littering went back hundreds of years, why wouldn’t it?

Another day another lesson learned. Thank you Dave. The older version of "Smarter every day. ' Love to learn.

I know you are a very busy man but I would like to invite you to a hammer in during the last weekend of june. If you can find the time to come to Desmoines Iowa great if not then maybe some other time we would be honored to have you

I enjoy all the videos, but am always glad to see something new that I was totally unaware of. This was very interesting, thanks for another great video. Regards, Solomon

You can see where Ford making all parts standard in early automobiles waz such a big deal when you watch this video. Even between the same vendor it looks like there could be slight variations, not to mention the difference between the vendors. Thank you Dave. Fascinating to me.

adjustable... same as after market universal?

Dave, you are always working on other peoples projects, do you have a wagon, buggie etc of your own that you plan to or have restored.

Does the front seat shifting rail mounting brackets match the rear seat or am I confused here? Was the purpose of the shifting rails to allow you to "shift the buggy top from one seat to the other or just make the tops removable? Great videos and I really enjoy watching them

What kind of metal are these adjustable rails made out of? I would have thought from the age they would be wrought iron, but from the sparks of the cutoff wheel it looks more like a mild steel.

Always a pleasure to watch you work. Eager for the next episode. Cheers from Australia.

Love all the history you give! My favorite part of your videos, as a craftsman I appreciate your expertise, but your knowledge of the history of your craft is unmatched. Thank you!

Two things, first I wonder if "Doc's" buggy on Gunsmoke was a doctors buggy. Second it's amazing that you could get those nuts off with a little squirt of what appeared to be WD40, I've had modern machinery that only was exposed to the weather a little and the nuts were so rusted we had to heat them with a torch to get them loose. There must have been some difference in the metal then from now. As always an enjoyable history education.

Hi Dave I'm enjoying learning all kinds of things thanks have a day love from TEXAS

I never thought I would learn so much about buggies and wheels. Thank you for sharing your craft and your knowledge.

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You have a way of taking a high energy activity and making it relaxing to watch! When you started t his restoration didn't you refer it the buggy as a Democrat Buggy? You haven't done that for a while, I'm curious why. Are we working on a different buggy now or was that the wrong name then?

I'll bet those hex nuts on the buggy rail fall off quite regularly.

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Great video Dave, enjoyed the lesson on the buggy top. Looking forward to seeing the finished product but I am definitely enjoying every portion of your rebuilding project. Thanks so much for sharing with us. Fred.

Evening Dave. I hope you and yours are all OK. Thanks for the interesting Video yet again. A couple of questions if I may, yet again. You answered one about the Hex nuts, but when did they come into use roughly and is the framework hand wrought iron or steel bar. Lastly what the heck is a Cooley?. I think its a case 0f two countries separated by a common language. Regards Richard 🇬🇧

Were your skills and experience acquired through apprenticeship?

I have a feeling that a “guess” from you is pretty much going to be accepted as fact

Excellent intro to shifting rails. Can't wait to see the top and how it goes together.

Dave Are there any Drawings with correct measurements and photos of the wagons available to to you as designed and from the Wagon Era, part of the 1800 s to the time when Automobiles came into use.?

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Thanks for another great video Dave. Very similar shifting rails to what is fitted to my 1909 IHC Auto Buggy. This is going to be something I will enjoy as you proceed with the top.

I am looking forward to you reupholstering the seats ....... that will be a feat indeed.

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Hi Dave, seems to me that a Buggy top might come in handy like an umbrella in a Rane or snowstorm or Protection from Hot Sunshine, so It is a little puzzling to me why the Man took it off. and tossed it.

Informative, learned something new, Grandpa Naden would say my day is of value now and I have just got started with it (I am watching on Monday morning) Looking forward to seeing the top come together.

No such thing as boring, negative, or tiring on this channel, another 18 minutes gone in 5 minutes lol lol So looking forward to the next scene in this time capsule and future design.... awesome...

you make removing those rusty nuts a whole lot easier than it is for me lol. I always end up with broken bolts, rounded nuts, and having to cut them off. Although your trick of wiggling back and forth does help, but the old signs I work on usually means drilling out broken bolts. it's inevitable.