Dave, I love the narration, and it’s fascinating to experience your puzzle solving. Of course, your experience with so many wagons serves to trigger stored knowledge, but it’s still really impressive. Your chronicling of this old art form is really valuable. I know I’m not alone in my appreciation of what you do and share with us.
Once he stopped talking about the sound quality, I forgot all about it and just focused on the video. I didn't even think about it until I began reading the comments and seen your comment.
Does anyone else pay an unusual amount of attention to wagons in movies after watching this channel? I like the old tv westerns too paladin maverick rifleman etc..to get my wagon fix 😆
I was out your way this week, landed at Billings Tuesday morning just as the snow was starting. As I sat in the hotel room the rest of week I thought to myself "I wonder if Dave got his water line finished up?" Glad to hear that you did! Thanks for another great video!
your channel is making History come alive old wagons & whatnots restored . The 1st Video that hooked my line & sinka was the Chuck wagon builds & trip to washington 20 mules played it a few times amazing piece of history . Maybe some Wood cutter mills will Donate some Oak for your needs . cheers from OZ i still remember a few buggys & horses tied to trees out side church sun 1960s
I don't think you need to apologize for the audio. Your process of organizing the seemingly disparate pieces is so fascinating that whatever background noise you discern is unnoticeable to an attentive viewer. Thanks for the superb videos!
Regarding the appearance of dinosaurs, early on that was in part actually how it went, but these days we're much closer to the appearance than you may think. Gotta fill in the blanks, or there's nothing there, but these guys and gals working on those images know what they're doing. An educated guess with emphasis on educated. As do you, you've seen so many wagons and their parts in your life, you can make an incredibly well educated guess.
*- What a wonderful journey you have started us on with all your "Yackin'", Dave. Thank you ! ! !* *- Gosh, It felt soooooooooo good to hear that vernacular once again...took me home to logging in the woods of Northern New Hampshire with the old timers.* *- ORIGIN OF YAK2: An Americanism dating to 1820-25 for yakety-yak (noun)*
No problem with the audio and wouldn't have noticed it if you hadn't mentioned it in the intro. Love the story, looking forward to the reconstructive process. 😀👍
You can do it Dave, this mud wagon will turn out well as all your projects come out. Great Audio…but it’s the professional work you do is the important lesson.
Sir, let me tell you, listening to you ruminate, picking your own memory, making guesses or comments, is astonishingly satisfying, and your audio was never a problem... Wow, it reminds me of when my dad or granddad would be messing with something and just talking, partly for me and partly for themselves... you got a glimpse into their mind... Thank you!
You are such an interesting man, and on so many counts. My wish for you is that you live forever, and since we all know that wishes DO come true, you will. Thanks so much, Dave and Diane! Hugs!
Wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it Dave. Excellent job of figuring out the Mud Sled. This is going to be another exciting BUILD from the ground up using original parts to hold the wood together better this time around. Stay safe and get the Calves water taken care of and then start the show. Looking forward to your winter job inside the shop. Fred.
Thanks for narrating your thought process. Very educational! When I first watched your videos I sure wouldn't have thought that they would become so addictive, interesting, and educational. They sure have, and I thank you for all of them!
Dave without your past experience this project would be an impossible nightmare, you are completely correct when you compare this "digging" as you call it to the work of dinosaurs diggers...can't wait to watch all of these videos one each morning as I drink my first cup of coffee, thanks Dave for giving this old 75 year old kid something to do each morning...
Very interesting, Dave. Never really realized that so much iron went into these wagons. Doweling the mortise must mean a lot of pull on the joint or just from extreme vibration. It is an archeological project. The carcass of the wagon is it’s bones. Very cool.
My understanding was the only glue worth anything then was hide glue. That likely would not hold up on a coach running in all sorts of weather. One could either use more hardware, pin the tenon, or draw bore. The former the most expensive, pinning the easiest.
You seem more like a Forensic Wagonologist. Looking forward to the amazing finish results! And that water-feed shed completion! Glad the Tubers came through with oak sources and hold you find some 6x6!
What a perfect analogy. Like an paleontologist you take the "bones" of a mudwagon and through your knowledge and skill create something that looks like something.
Dave your expertise shows on every video, your methodology is from many years of effort! Thank you and your wife for all your efforts and sharing your knowledge! Don’t listen to the whiners!!!
Thank you for for sending all those videos and the ones you do on Tuesday those are very interesting videos and the ones on the farm and the ones that you do in the English workshop
Some of the other RU-vidrs I watch call that little fuzzy thing a "coon tail" and I think that fits. The audio was not that distracting and the education was AMAZING as always. THANKS for another great video for the library.
It's like watching someone assemble a puzzle without all the pieces or even a photo of the final picture. In his case, the irons are the edge pieces. It's really fascinating to watch how Dave's mind works.
My son that lives above Philipsburg has had winter for two weeks now, lots of snow and cold. Bundle up Dave when you go out to work on the water and shelter project.
This s is patience at its best. Anybody else in this century would quickly dismiss this as a pile of junk and throw it away . Your first snow fall has completely changed the landscape and it looks wonderful. Thank you and stay well.
That wagon has good bones. And I wouldn't say that you're Silent Cal. The true Man of Few Words is Mr. Chickadee, living like the pioneers who busted a homestead out of the Kentucky wilderness one timberframed building at a time.
When I ran a const outfit, I formed a 2nd company doing casualty repair only. I took a great interest in discovering how and perhaps why the craftsmen of yonder years did their work. It was insightful, exciting, sometimes dismaying, but always informative.
On a purely audio technical note one can definitely hear a difference, but the average person would not necessarily be able to explain that difference, or maybe they would not even have noticed. No big deal. I learned a long time ago somewhere that it is better to not point out the issues or apologize for something ahead of time and draw attention to the problem because then it becomes a focal point that distracts from the message. I really appreciate the narrative in this video because it does give me some insight to the thought process. Keep up the excellent work and thanks for sharing this process!
Hi Dave, years of knowledge showing through. I would not have a single clue. Many thanks for the trip through time. Don't worry about sound, didn't notice until you mentioned it.
Dave, I think you’re kind of a special guy and you’re able to take this kind of stuff look at it and figure it out and know where it goes. I can do the same kind of thing in the field that I do and I feel your pain sometimes you don’t know exactly everything where it goes. What do you have a similar idea look forward to you to start putting this thing together and you get to see the final project next spring or dinner during the summer. Look forward to seeing you get the project started.
I always enjoy your videos as a glimpse into an almost forgotten skillset. But this one with the detective work going on was a cut above. I'm already looking forward to the whole journey as you figure it out and a new wagon takes shape. Your videos are also very nicely produced. I never feel like skipping forward. I'd miss too much! You get just the right blend of content and pace.
Dave Please can you make up a sketch of what the Mud wagon could have looked like too help out some of us non Wagoner's understand what you're finding out, thanks.
Maybe I'm deaf but I didn't hear no huffin' and puffin' (and no houses blown down, either). All audio sounded good to me. Love the narration, too. Thanks, Dave!
Your videos are always so interesting Dave, I don't pay too much attention to the audio quality as long as I can hear what you're saying. It all sounded fine to me.
The fuzzball "dead cat" also helps prevent getting rubbing sounds from your shirt/scarf. But your audio is still better than many channels. Lots of folks just have a camera mic 10' away and they sound like they're narrating from the bathroom.
Looks like you have a handle on the process so far. With that 'almost' complete side it seems you should be to match the irons on it to the ones on the table. Looking forward to watching this series.
Great vocalization of your documentation, Detective Dave. As a retired tour bus driver, the Concord Stage Coach is what I see as a predecessor. The mud wagons remind me of the Ford Model T depot hacks. The sound quality was very good. Don’t beat yourself up about it. That was an awesome video. 👍🏼👍🏼
That was a great video showing how you start to figure out what you have and maybe where to start in your design for the Mud Wagon. It will be very interesting watching you put together drawing and then start to manufacture a wagon from "scratch". jack
I once was commissioned to rebuild a 1926 REO automobile two door coupe body. These were composite bodies with steel over wood. It was collapsed in on itself but was all there. The doors were built of two different species of wood. One white oak the other was maple. They both were original as these were hand built cars and pieces don’t interchange. One door had the skin strap nailed while the other was screwed. When I was an apprentice cabinetmaker we did work on one of Marilyn Monroe’s Rolls Royce. It was a really clean car that had some damage to the rear boot. We tried to find a blond hair to no avail. Greetings from the high plains of Texas.
The old coach is fascinating! Thanks for caring about the sound! Your sound is great in comparison to some RU-vidrs, who sound like they're talking into a bucket or through 3 covid masks. I often have to use closed captions though my hearing is not that bad.
Well done Dave, there cannot be many people in the world who could do that bundle of parts justice but with your knowledge and a bit of educated guesswork it'' be a fine thing when finished.
Very nice. Putting something together is one thing, but figuring out what you have from scraps in something else. Very nice job and thanks for sharing your process.
Hi Dave, your telling us on what you do and think is hardly jakkin´ that word has too much of a negative connotation. I do love to see you work and build, but a video like this where you take us through the proces required to come to the working and building is invaluable and very loved aswell! This minute looking through each of the remnants with a toothcomb and finfding out similarities and differences is great video to me.
If these irons and splinters could talk what a story they may tell of many a mile of ruts and fence-less prairie that have passed under her frame. Your explanation gives voice to part of their story and I am looking forward to seeing your interpretation spring to life in this remake of her glory days.
Watching you work through all those pieces it becomes apparent there is much more information to be obtained than one would believe. It will be very interesting to see you put these pieces together. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.🙂🙂
