This is blacksmithing the drawbar and the horn and bumper irons to hitch 2 horse drawn wagons together to be pulled at once. This can be used for sheep wagons, farm wagons or freight wagons.
I have been binge watching your channel and I am not only enjoying it but learning a lot of stuff in the process. You sir are not just a Wheelwright but a Jack of many trades. A blacksmith, a carpenter, an upholster, an artist and a historian. Thank you for all the vids and hope to see many more.
I have been a toolmaker and woodworker for many years so I have a greater appreciation for your talents than most folks would and you my friend are a true craftsman; sure enjoy watching you, Thanks!
I look forward to your videos. Love watching what is involved in the wagon building and the skills needed to build such beautiful things. It is similar to the building of the old sailing ships, witch I also find fascinating. Thanks for sharing and taking the time.
Great job Dave, never knew what all went into hitching on more wagons. Thanks for sharing with us all the craftsmanship it takes to make these connections. It’s so interesting to see all of these videos. Fred.
Just found your videos, and I'm amazed at the precision of the work you do, both the woodwork and the smithing. Absolutely awesome. If I were 40 years younger, I'd ask to apprentice to you. Alas, age has as bad way of catching us with our britches down. Thanks for the shows.
My God man, you have the most beautiful sets of tongs I've seen in any shop I've known or worked in. Anything else I say will just come off all weird and homoerotic so I'll leave it at that lol fantastic
Dave, what impressed me most about this video is that I'm watching it in July of 2020 and it is awesome -- but it doesn't compare to the videos you are putting out today. Not only are you a master wheelwright/wainwright, but you also have made great strides in the quality of the videos you produce and the early ones were darn good! Here we have a straightforward smithing video showing how you forged a horn and bumper, and it is just fine. In 2020, we get hubs made with a stop-motion mortiser. Long story short, thank you!
Outstanding video, really enjoy watching you shape and weld the parts from flat or round stock. Never really thought about it till I started watching your videos. Looking forward to the next one. Just tell everyone that your gloves are "well broken in" ;-)
I once saw a man buy a rotten wagon years ago and thought he was a fool . after seeing how much work it is to make those metal brackets . that old man was a genus . he bought all the metal for a wagon for $25
We have a metal bending thing like the one used for shaping the metal early on in the video. We were trying to figure out how to use it. Friend looked it up and couldn't find anything. I load this video to find out something completely different and see how it is used. LOL.
Forge welding is not becoming a lost art. That's a myth being propagated. There are thousand's of smiths across the country who forge weld. For the National Park Service, I've blacksmithed and forge welded for many years. However, it will become a lost art if we cannot get young people interested. I fear for the future of this craft..............
Well, perhaps my perspective is a little different because I've been around so many Blacksmith's and have done so much of it myself. I guess it would seem rare to the general public, and I suppose it is. Sure is fun to watch though, isn't it?
Love the tapp tap tap of the hammer on the anvil as you were thinking and looking at the first forge welding joint. ;-) looking at the way all the fixings and hardware needs to be tapped together, is this because the wood shrinks or swells with age or just so its a tight connection of materials? Thanks for the great videos as always
Great looking hammer weld! If you cut through the weld, would it look like one homogeneous pice of steel? I really enjoy watching you work. Hope you have an apprentice. 😊
what grade of iron/steel do you use for replacement or modification irons? this kind of 'size to fit' work is dramatically different than the Tenths of a thou' precision work showcased in machinist shops
Hi Dave, itt is Fridrik in Iceland. I am curius to know what powder it is you are using spreding over the red hot iorn when you are finished hammering it?
I'm curious to learn what happens on, say, a molecular level when welding with the flux and hammering... I suppose Google is my friend... :-) :-) Another great Friday Treat, Thank You, Mr. Dave!!
Hello, As ever, an excellent video, a true artisan at work. What is the white powder that was added to the steel during the fabrication of the towing iron? Yours Andy
Of all the videos you do, my favorites are the ones of you doing ironworking. It might have something to do with the fact that between my dad and three uncles, they had the major machine shops in Worcester, Mass. covered. When I was a kid, my father worked at Reed & Prince, Reed & Prentice, and Wyman - Gordon, North Grafton. One uncle worked at Wyman - Gordon < Worcester, another at Norton Abrasives(now St. Gobain), and the third at Heald Machine. Had the fourth one lived to adulthoopd, he probably would have wound up at Morgan Construction. Now a question. Would wagon builders of old have had steam powered hammers similar to the one you have? Jim Willoughby Cody.
No, I became a firefighter in my home town of Shrewsbury. I started as a callman in '71, got a full time appointment in'74 and retired in 2001. I moved to Cody in 2005 after coming through here on the return leg of motorcycle trip to Alaska in '04.
Power hammers have been around for hundreds of years. The earliest were powered by water. Cast iron framed mass manufactured power hammers such as the 50 lb. Little Giant have been in existence since the latter part of the 19th century. They could be powered by a number of sources, i.e., water, steam, or electric.
Airdrop 1 I think I can answer that it's hot roll not much sense in using cold roll if you are going to be putting it in the forge and scaling it all back up, any strength gained from using cold roll would be mitigated by the forging process anyway, and it's expensive.
When we used hot rolled in the machine shop you would experience hard spots and was curious if it was a little harder to work with or not in this type of Application .
I'm curious as to how or why 5 people disliked this. I wish they would say what was wrong. Perhaps it's more to do with attention span-but I'm guessing.
Thanks for your reply. Like you I have not been taught. I find pretty much everything you do just about right and would not think to doubt or criticise your methods. As far as I'm concerned you're an expert. In this fast and instant world I still suspect attention span may be involved. Please keep up your good work.
ed hondo, perhaps those three were women. Try reading 'rats arsed ' above. He certainly dislikes me and with that much vitriol directed at my simple curiosity I expect he might occasionally give a thumbs down.
EngelsCoachShop I have 2 of them that claim to do what you do within a couple hours of me in Nebraska. I have seen the ones work, and had the other replace a wheel. They are not you. I have watched your videos with fascination, the pride that you show in your fit and finish is awesome to watch.
