New Borax Water Wagon Project of Death Valley | 1200 Gallon Wagon 

This channel is 100% better than anything on the History Channel.

Doesn't matter how long these videos are, they are never long enough

Another Borax wagon series......what a great way to start the weekend!

You are not only fantastic at your own trade, you are the only person who ever made history interesting to me. Thank you and good luck.

Just beautiful craftsman .I hope there will be someone to take his place and do a perfect job like this man.I never get tired of watching this man work his craft.

I can only imagine your sense of satisfaction when a project like this is finished...not anyone can reproduce museum quality pieces...i can't wait for next friday!!

A blue cinch from a saddle-horse adapted to lifting heavy hubs? Innovative!!!! Love your oversized steady-rest and ALL your videos, This will be another wonderful series. :-)

Great lead in. The story and pictures were very good. Now I have another build to watch and I am looking forward to all of it. Thanks.I to remember the commercials for 20 Mule Team Borax and even now I use Borax for several things including preserving salmon roe.

So on one side you have reverse-threaded nuts. I haven't seen that since my '64 (?) Dodge Dart!! More assurance that the wheels are not going to fall off in mid-ride! Another great series!

I love to see those old photos, thanks. Remembering my grandfather hand advanced, hand driven drill press with home made spade drill bits, not in my time. I also love that old shear you used at the “dogs”, never seen the backwards handle. Yes I do like a lot of explanation, though I know what you do and why just by seeing it most times but always have a chance to learn something. Thanks for the many enjoyable videos.

i just rewatch all the shows about the big wagons and wondered about the water wagon. looking forward to this project. thanks as always.

Our ancestors where truly amazing men and we can’t fathom the skills they possessed. I’ll be tuned into this build for sure.👍🏼

More great Friday video's. This will be good to follow, watching the water wagon being built or rebuilt.

My neighbor in elgin, ks used to make carriages for clydesdales and the time and energy that goes into a carriage is remarkable and like here just beautiful.

Good clean television! Keep posting vids and teaching me. Love this kind of "old school" fabrication.

The Borax story is a testament to Americans true grit and amazing motivation . It must be preserved and showcased as such for as long as possible . History , mostly good , sometimes bad ( and always gritty and sweaty ) is an important lesson around the globe .but extra valuable to Americans like myself and others . So glad to see these renewed projects come to fruition . Especially @ this current time when our nations history is trying to be covered up and discarded . We wish to thank you for the valuable lessons you consistently teach us about our important and priceless past . And thanks also for keeping the traditions and heritage of our past alive . We know you think of it merely as a profession , but you are far above and beyond the norm . Just wanted to let you know it's much appreciated , more than words can express . Keep up the great work ! 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

Really good to see another project. More therapy for the cold winter months!

Dear Dave, again I have enjoyed every second of your new project. What a great way of compleeting this Borax-project. Please, I hunger for more!!

the best time spent on RU-vid every week. Thanks!

Like a true craftsman, you make it look easy. Always a pleasure to watch someone who owns their skills. Thanks for sharing

Another cliff-hanger for me. I love it and can't wait till next week.What a fun project. Thank You.

Looking forward to the water wagon build ! I have great respect for your craftsmanship & ingenuity. It's very interesting to see your workshop and the different specialized tools & devices you use. I also think it is vitally important that someone keeps this kind of know-how alive, and the work you're doing in documenting it on video is very valuable. Thank you ! from a Norwegian woodworker

Excellent, as always!!!!!!!!

Appreciated the history review and the old photos, along with the start of the project. Your fan from Circle.

You Sir always provide quality content! I didn’t think you could ever top the Borax wagons build. Yet here you are adding to that wonderful series. I eagerly await the next installment.

They were forge welding and hot cut on anvil without angle grinders, epic... And I mean, forge welding on it's own is not a big deal, but forge weld those tires to an exact precise diameter is an art. This must be the hardest thing, and those folks old days just does that without blinking.

I can’t tell you how excited I am for this series!

Every time I think you've made a mistake, you've apparently forgotten to remove something, or not put something else on, it all turns out to be part of the plan. It's damn amazing

YEPPERS ,AS YOU CAN SEE BY MY PICTURE I LIVE IN THE MOJAVE DESERT.. I LIVE A BIT HIGHER IN ELEVATION 3595' ,IT IS STILL HOT AND DRY,COLD AND WET TODAY ,BUT MOSTLY DRY. THE WATER WAGON HAS BEEN REPLACED BY THE WATER TRUCK OR THE WATER BUFFALO(TANK ON A WAGON PULLED BY A TRUCK).WELLS ARE 500'+ AND VERY HIT AND MISS. I LIVE ABOUT 50 MILES FROM BORON. INSTALLED THE 1st PIECE OF PIPE IN THE 1st SOLAR PLANT IN KRAMER JCT. LOVE YOUR WORK. YOUR DEDICATION TO YOUR CRAFT IS ADMIRABLE. I WILL BE WATCHING EVERY VIDEO ,AS I HAVE WATCHED EVERYONE SO FAR(.BINGE WATCHED THEM) GOD BLESS STAY WARM( AS I LIVED IN IDAHO WHEN I WAS A YOUNG MAN)

As a teenager pumping gas after school, the garage had a big can of borax hand cleaner by the wash up sink. Just dip your fingers in, scoop out some and scrub up. I remember watching "Death Valley Days" on our BW Zenith back in the day, complete with 20 mule team Borax commercials.

This will be a good build. Heavy wheels, irons on the wooden frame. Dang....can't wait to see the huge water tank. Stay happy, healthy and wise. Cheers

Great as always. Another series of Borax Wagon stuff is welcome!

This should be a very enjoyable series, looking forward for all the videos!

Another wonderful project to watch....thank you for these marvelous videos!

Looking forward to seeing this water wagon build. Good luck Dave.

Thanks , beautiful work of preservation of heritage and American culture...Hello from France

Thank you for sharing Mr. Engels. I was in Bishop a couple weeks ago buying a mule and had planned to stop at Laws Museum to see your handy-work first hand, but I ran out of daylight. Maybe next time

This is going to be a great and much anticipated series !! I'm looking forward to every second of it !!

Takes me back as a kid to the old TV series, Death Valley Days; brought to you by, 20 Mule Team Borax. lol....

great video.. look forward to the project and some of the other projects to come.. keep up the good work you are a real master of the trade.

Big stuff again, best eat your Wheaties! Excited to see this project in all of its facets.

A unbleviable amount of skilled work.

With all of the work that you do to create these wagons, etc, how in the world do you find the time to film the activity from so many great angles?! These videos are almost as remarkable as the actual work you are doing!

I've been lucky enough to visit DV many times Great History everywhere!!

These projects are facinating, peering into the past as it were.

Dave; What a pleasant surprise, to see you have a project like this again. These wagons are as magnificent as any piece of art ever created. I know you must be excited about recreating this piece. Does this mean I will have to recreate the water wagon in scale?

i agree another worth while video to watch so glad there are still peeps like this around.

Another excellent video...no need to speed through anything....well, maybe the grinding...I've done a lot of metal work and Never, Ever heard anyone say..."I like to grind"..... Back in the 1960's my brother spent a LOT of time camping and dirt-bike riding around Death Valley, and just last year, 2018, spent a few days there while on a cross-country Motorcycle trip..at 68 years old!! But the bike was a new Kawasaki 750 Versys.....Ever since grammer school in the early 1950's, he was well versed in the culture of the days when all this was 'Reality'.... And...the steady rest on the lathe....that answers a few questions I had...!!

Good afternoon from SE Louisiana 4 Mar 21..

How could anyone give this a thumbs down? I won't say what I'm thinking!

I'm glad I'm old because I can appreciate these things. Nice job!

Cool steady rest. I use 20 Mule Team Borax in the laundry for my work clothes. Really makes a difference.

Very good to have (designed) the right tools...

Absolutely fascinating your videos are spell binding so glad I found your channel keep it up you are truly blessed👌👍

Thanks Dave for the pictorial History of the Borax Mining methods and the Wagons they used to get the product to shipping destinations. I am thrilled to see you take on the reconstruction of one of these very large wagons,what a challenge, wish you the best. I do have a question though, do you fill the cracks in the large wooden hubs with epoxy or wood filler of some type.?

Can't wait to see this wagon come together! Thanks

just love your work

Thanks for the video. That steady rest didn't come with the lathe. Appreciate that the first is the hardest as you said.

Enjoyed and Thumbs Up

I'm really looking forward to this series. Thanks for sharing!

Keeping our history alive!

The large ring steady rest looks like one of your home made inventions.

Totally cool! These videos make me look forward to Fridays.

Jack of all Trades, Master of all.

Enjoyed the video Mr. Engel. The pictures were really interesting. Thanks for taking the time to video. Y'all take care and God bless.

As always another interesting video. Thank you for taking the time to record and edit it.

I have been waiting for you begin this project. Thank you.

Really like these big projects! And definitely envious of that giant press you have. Is it homemade? And do you have a video on it? If not might be a good one to make.

Dave, I think this is a start of a long project. Only wish I could be there to see it first hand, but since that won't work, I'll wait for the videos each week. Thanks

If you took a skim cut on the ring at 20:20 it would run much truer on your steady rest. Thanks for making these videos!

Very nice videos Thank you for sharing your good workmanship, I have seen most of your videos.....

Looking forward to seeing this project to completion.

Looks like an exciting project

YOU ARE GREAT LOVE AND RESPECT FROM FRANCE!!!

I would compare your emphasis on care and precision in hand craft to be equal to that of the building of Rolls Royce motorcars, this shows in your work.

Whoo! This will be a fun project!

Great start. Looking forward to the rest of the series.

Great video

This is going to be a job..we must follow this one as well.

Fascinating video series. Duly subscribed, thank you very much.

That's some of the fastest sandblasting I have EVER seen !!

How exciting. Great video. Keep them coming.

Thanks for sharing!

The first wagons were quite the undertaking, the tank wagon should be a great job, since you have the experience on the first three. It's wagon building on a massive scale... Here I thought the job was done when you shipped out the first ones.

This will interesting and fun to watch.

Thanks for making!

I like your shop made steady rest, or should it be called a follow rest because it is affixed to the carriage of the lathe? Whichever you call it it serves the purpose for which it was made. I don't want to sound like a broken record but thank you sir for another great video! You are the best You Tube Producer.... MY FAVORITE !!!

glad i stumbled across this series, this man's voice is just so relaxing and the topic is fascinating

Those old wagons sure had some horsepower back in the day 🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎

I love to see this new series. Thank you for taking your time to produce it. May I ask you a question? Why didnt you put band on the hubs during the drying process. Wouldnt that be better to give the wood some support? What would be the drawback?

You are the most awesome man

The saga continues! Great News.

Awesome, another wagon project!

Yay. More Borax wagon videos. I look forward to this video series. Actually I look forward to all of your videos even if the next one will be boring. 😉 ba-dum tiss. 🥁

Thanks again! Best channel ever!

Hi, You sure are a quick sandblaster :-), wonderfull tool to have. It will be a true joy to see a part of American history rising again. What will you do with those big cracks in the hubs.

awesome work

Love this Guy!

I know that you like special tools that save work. If you have a ball bearing on a short bar in your tool post I bet you could press the bands on the hub by rotating the hub and adding pressure with the carriage with the bearing to the edge of the band to walk the band on just a thought save on hammering at awkward angle I all ways love your work from the uk

Excellent video and I am glad to see you are using lifting devices to help move/hold those larger pieces. Is that a modified girth strap that you used with the come a long?