Channel Trailer & Introduction To Engels Coach Shop 

Where would the world be without men like you - Live long my new youtube friend

You have not only provided information and education through your videos, but you have also provided great joy and lasting appreciation. Thank you Sir!

I would be hard pressed to name anything I have enjoyed more these last several years than your videos. They feel like a refuge in a storm to me. No politics, no wise cracks about current events, no religion other than a general appreciation of a higher power. You sir are a gentleman and a scholar! Love to see more of the mules and draft animals working. Loved the videos of the twenty mule team!

Daves’ skill and knowledge in this trade is simply unbelievable, mastering carpentry, blacksmithing, upholstering, you name it, it’s truly impressive!

This chap is a national treasure and his videos are a store of heritage.

This video library is a national treasure! Also, lots of practical, contemporary teaching for those of us who still work in any kind of shop trade.

For the people "commenting" on Dave's use of modern tools, equipment and techniques: There's a big difference between being a display in a living history museum and being a man earning his living in his own business.

You are a real craftsmen. You do real work, but are smart enough to use machines. Old and new ways. Results amazing.

Dave, you are a National Treasure. Thank you.

It’s Men like you, that keep the Wheels turning.

This is an very old craft. Keep it alive, and no matter what is being worked with!!! Thanks Dave and go ahead !!!! Greetings from Germany to Joliet MT

I never get tired of watching what ever you are doing,, repeat stuff is fine with me. I am 92, and love to watch artisum at work. I was a wood carver, by hobbby, and along wwith hundreds of smaller things , Ihave carved full sized carousel animals, (8)

Your videos are worth 100 times a book with the same information. I love to watch you work.

The world should be very very happy with a craftsman willing to share his knowledge, having at the same time the presenting and teaching capabilities and quite some filming talent! Wish you all the best!

If a picture is worth a thousand words, your video's are worth a million. Thank you Dave !

I could watch for hours. I HAVE watched for hours! Thank you!

Dave your channel is the best and most informative on RU-vid, you are a master of all mechanical / wood trades . Thank you for the many pleasurable hours of viewing and learning how too , you present . Stay safe from down under 🇦🇺🦘

I was amazed watching you build the Borax Wagons. I have tried not to miss any of the episodes since.

An the Oscar for best Trailer and Introduction by a Wheelwright goes to Dave Engels. Great Job.

Sir, you are a true asset society! Thank you, Jim

Thanks Dave. Your videos gave me the confidence and direction to make a wooden pump handle for our 160 year old farm. It sits right off the porch and had been repainted but never a new handle. Without any one knowing I showed up with primer,paint and a new custom shaped hardwood handle with a new bolt. Truck's blew the air horn when making the bend.It really put life back into the front porch.Thanks for all your help on how to go about it and not give in when only hand tools are the answer. I've learned so much. Can't thank you enough!!! Mark Brown Britton Michigan.

Your documentation of how things are done, explaining why they are done and going through the process are priceless. A video library of your work is an excellent idea and a selfless gift to those who come after you are gone (may that be a good long while).

Dave, you are a National Treasure yourself!! We are so fortunate to have you documenting your trade in today’s times and showing how you actually work your trade. Thank you so much for sharing with the world! 👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Enjoyed the video Mr. Engel. It brought back many memories of your fine craftsmanship. Thanks for taking the time to produce the video. Y'all take care and God bless.

Dave, I am 100% convinced that you are creating more than a video library... You are developing our faith for a better future with people with a wonderful heart like yours... Congratulations! I wish one day I will be able to visit you and your shop and say THANK YOU in person... From a fan in Brazil!

Historic trailer already! Your video's are a priceless library for generations to come too!

You are the penultimate Craftsman. Thanks for all your of your fantastic work and videos. I never get tired of you working on wheels by the way.

What an amazing contribution you have made. I think that I have seen every video and I stand amazed at your knowledge,, diligence and hard work. Congratulations.

Ditto what David Harris said. There are no other you-tube videos I have enjoyed nearly as much as this series. WELL DONE!

Thank you Dave. You will be remembered and appreciated. Have a great day and please continue to stay healthy.

Dave. Came across your introduction after watching you for the past few years Thank You

The material in your videos will be a resource that can be referred to hundred years from now. Thank you for taking the time to document the skills of the trade.

Been watching for almost a year. Love your channel. . . after a hectic day it calms me.

This video needs to end with: coming to your local PBS station this fall...

That was a great video. Thank you

Just have to say thanks! ,Dave, your channel has inspired me to cobble together a forecart for my heflinger out of old bedframes and wheels and an axle I had lying around. Would never have imagined it without your help. And thanks, again.

IT is a privilage to watch you work. Yuo make me smile.

Thank you so much for allowing us to learn and discover the history of your trade.

The ones that make the comments about modern tools and electricity, are the same ones that have to remind themselves to breathe. You are doing an outstanding job of documenting the trade!

You are the penultimate Craftsman. Thanks for all your of your fantastic work and videos.

Thank you for your video contributions to the wheelwright trade. I like watching your craft 👍🇺🇸

My grand mother used to tell me I was a jack of all trades but master of none. Dave you have taken the Jack of all trades to a whole new level! I am restoring an older Jaguar E type and doing most all the work myself including upholstery, paint, metal repair and much more. I have learned a thing or two now as I am about to turn 65 years old. I think grandma would have been impressed. Your videos are inspiring for me. Thanks! (I'm the one that asked if you had 3 phase in your shop)

As a fellow wheel- and wainwright (Valley Carriage Works, Dollywood, now gone), I want to thank you for this video library. As a child I grew up on westerns, and I fell in love with the books of Edwin Tunis (a historian and illustrator of America's past) and desired to learn to build wagon wheels. At 20 yoa or so, I was asked to rebuild a set of wheels for a neighbor. He only had the hubs, and wanted very short spokes (the bane of the wheelwright). I took on the job and with the help of an old blacksmith and wheelwright in North Georgia (Judd Nelson) to set the tires, I got he job done. and to my neighbor's satisfaction. Years later, I began work at Dollywood as an apprentice blacksmith, and later in the carriage shop. Dream come true! I hope that your video library inspires young folk to follow their dreams and embrace the knowledge of the past to fulfill them! I salute you!

Nice new logo , this is the modern way to old world technology that transported man/women , child and cargo to centuries , true craftsmanship , mild mannered gentlemen sharing his trades and those tricks he's picked up from decades experience , it never gets old , boring or outta touch , as long as you post vids I'm along for the ride and adventure . Great job once again Dave and his Mrs helping with camera work I'm sure . Two thumbs up once again

Mr Engles, can i just say thank you for passing on your vast knowledge in a timeless, wonderful way, i enjoy every minute of your videos. Much appreciated from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Thank you sir.

......EXCELLENT!!!!! A true craftsman, historian, and videomakerperson. Thank you.

I just love watching him he is so multi skilled a great craftsman

I spent a good deal of time searching the Internet for another wainwright. There is one in the U.K., and none other in the USA. But saying there is but one Dave Engels is still an understatement.

I've been following along for a few years now and I appreciate the knowledge, expertise and artistry of your work. The archive of videos will be a valuable research tool for future generations. As to the question of using "modern" methods of doing your job, I say that this is not a living history demonstration, it is showing how you have to do it to "git 'er done".

I've loved your videos over the last couple of years, Dave. There are three channels I look forward to: yours, Acorn to Arabella, and Sampson Boat Company. I hope I can continue to watch all of you for many years to come! Thanks!

I can see my self spending my Friday nights watching this.

You're doing a great job documenting the wheelwright craft. Your videos are entertaining, and educational. I believe it is a dying art form and deserves to be preserved. The RU-vid algorithm for suggestions is very good, and yet I never see any other suggested videos on wheelwrights. You may be only source of good wheelwright video material in the future. Cheers

And.. You are doing an outstanding job of it Sir. Well done, Dave.. Well done..

Thank You for the making this wonderful library of knowledge and doing it so very well!

Excellent job on the pro-mo Dave! Another winner!

Excellent Dave. Thanks for the journey.

just 3:40 of pure magic, so nice to see the backstory and so many highlights. keep them coming Dave, as David Harris says such simple pleasure from real craftsmen.

Thanks Dave. That was a great presentation, and mission statement. Now maybe people will know the importance of your channel, and the reason it is so popular.

Like the rest of the world, the north of Australia was built on the back of a bullock team. Today the only trace that survives is the odd axle in a fence. I don't think I have ever seen a wagon or coach, doubt I ever will see one in real life but I have watched every video. It has been the small things that have made the most impact. I have been using rivets for 20 years, and not until watching these videos did I find out I was actually bending wire in holes, my hammer and hand were too heavy, still a way to go but I am finally setting rivets for the first time. Also early days but I also started spinning my G clamps, it seems so logical I can't work out how I never saw it before, I guess that is what happens being so remote with no real tradesmen to learn from. Thank you Dave. This is the best TV that has ever been made.

Very nicely done. I enjoy watching your videos that pop up in my recommendations, and am impressed with your knowledge and attention to detail. It’s not so much the specific tools you use, whether traditional or modern, but how they are used to make authentic reproductions or repairs is what is important. Thank you, and I look forward to watching as long as you are willing to continue sharing your knowledge.

The world will be less of what it was when those like you are no longer one of the guardians of the past! I personally love you, and what you can do!

Excellent Dave. A great resource for an almost lost trade.

Well Done! I am a woodworker who just enjoys your practical approach and love the equipment you have made or modified ! My Father was” that kind of guy” , I grew up in Alberta Canada with a farm background got a good education and went to work ! My wife and I raised a family ,ended up moving 13 times for inter company transfers. My background is engineering. I have worked on 5 continents, lived on 3 of them and seen wheelwright shops in North Africa and in Romania and across Eastern Europe and Eurasia , you are the best example I believe of the craft! Your an American treasure ! Thank you for videoing this to preserve the heritage! We live in Alabama now to support our grandchildren. Hope to come by on my way to Lethbridge Alberta some time to see my sister and brother in law . Stay healthy and happy! God Bless!

Thanks for making playlists, makes it easy to find things, Thank you for all your hard work both the shop and the office computer .

Brilliant. What a heritage to give freely!

Thank you so much. I appreciate your skill and effort.

Thank you for making these videos it truely documents lost crafts and skills. Ultimately this series of videos should be shown in a museum along side the wagons and buggies.

I have all of Roy Underhill's books, but most off all his video library is what I use most. The Woodwright's​ Shoppe is a treasure. This series, the Lamp Shoppe, the Colonial Williamsburg collection of videos on arts and trades, the steam powered mill videos, are all treasures.

It’s amazing how much knowledge you have to have to do this and be good at it all thank you for your time to do these videos

I agree with all of the positive comments. Dave Engels has contributed significantly to the breadth & depth of knowledge of the wheelwright trade. He has moved it into the 21st century by demonstrating the use of modern machinery and techniques to keep a skill alive and relevant. Take good care Dave, stay safe and well.

I only recently discovered you site and boy am I glad I did. Please don't let any detractors discourage you. You are an artist and a craftsman and a historian. Keep up the good work I look forward to your videos. I just have to go back and catch up on the ones I missed. Thank you!!!

Rubens train is one of my favourite tracks - Stay Safe

Good night, I love this channel.....

You are a one man Legend. Best wishes from the UK. Stay safe and keep well.

All I can say is that this is a brilliant video introduction for your channel Dave.

Just to sit back, watch and wonder at the skill, knowledge this man has as he works and repairs these wagons. Some from seemingly scrap to high end repairs to scratch to finish works[the Twenty Mule Team Borax Wagons] - Amazing. Thank You for the journey you take me[ us ] on. Hope to travel the path with you for a long time.

I love the opening and closing shots of the wagons, that’s where I started watching them. I’ve went back and watched a lot of the videos before that. One day these may be all that’s left of how to build and rebuild these items. When you’re through, 50 more years or so maybe the state will turn your business into a museum and preserve all the videos you’ve made. I think you have preserved a kind of life that other generations lived. I feel blessed to have known you and some of your life outside the shop. May God continue to bless your family in the coming years. Stay safe

I’ve been a metal worker for 48 years. I love watching your show and I think what you’re doing is absolutely wonderful. All the machines on one side of my shop are from 1910, and on the other side is modern. And you are right if they had the tools back then they surely would’ve use them. Thanks for all that you do

Sir you are a true craftsman regards from Liverpool England

The Best....From Brazil.

Very nice work on this trailer Dave. It shows a lot of thought and planning and some very nice editing. You "done yourself proud"!

Dave. You are truly a great American. Your generosity in sharing all the "secrets" of your trade, but more, the joy you experience in exercising your talents and energies, is truly up-lifting. and inspiring.

I'll say it again...sir, you are a national treasure.

God knows it’s hard enough to just do the work. But to document, edit and publish it is more trouble than most are willing to put up with. God bless you brother.

Craftsmen like Dave deserve the Congressional Medal of Honor!

it is so good to see you again. thanks for your time.

I have nothing but the highest respect for you and what you do. Like I have said a few times before, I would really wish I could go to your shop and have you teach me the wheelwright trade, but i have my both of my grandson's and it would be hard to do so. Even though I think they would love to see what you do but I don't think that they could take the task for doing the same things over and over. But I did historical restoration work when I was young as well as cabinet making and trim carpentry, I know how that is to repeat the same thing over and over. I wish they had more patience to learn such things. Thank you so much for sharing and can't wait for you to share more knowledge like your last video on wheel alignment.

You are a wonderfully caring and thoughtful man, a truly humanitarian gentleman. This tired, old country needs many more like you. Thank you for who you are.

Beautiful mate. Keep up the good work. I love following your story. Ignore the rivet counters, they're just jealous they don't have the skills you do or something like that. Thank you for sharing your experience with us. It's appreciated. I find it very peaceful and calming to watch your videos in a world that can be anything but. Cheers!

Dave Engels, the man, the myth the legend!

Absolutely better than words!

A fantastic job ,done by a fantastic man

Wonderfully done, Mr. Engle!

Dave irrelevant of what angle a fair minded person looks at it You do a grand job. Be it art, craft, historical importance, creating a library, teaching the craft of just pure entertainment, it has been a pleasure watching your videos. Thank you sir and good health to you all. From Australia.

Great summary. Gives a very accurate depiction of your channel, and what you have grown into a very comprehensive library. Which could very well live on long past you. You may want to consider how or where it can live on beyond you. Ha...not that I'm saying you're ready to kick the bucket. I think your body of work is that significant. Thanks for sharing

A MASTER of his trade. That says it all

you sir are amazing I have watched everyone of your vids and will continue thank you

Just started watching. Thanks for all you are doing. Blessings on your work

Beautifully Done !!! 👍

Dave thank you for your videos. I see a craftsman in many difference trades that is skilled and good at what he does. Keep it up.