With only Fragments Remaining, Here's an Old - New Window | Engels Coach Shop 

Dave”I have a 3x10 inch piece of dry-rotted, ragged wood. I think it is the frame for a door of a 1823 wagon used for carrying settlers from the east traveling to the gold rush.” Me squinting staring at the rotten, ragged wood,”I see a miracle about to be performed by Dave!”

I very much appreciate your low level background music rather than what some creators use which belongs in your your manure spreader.

Watching you wash the window reminds me of "Hey grampa, what's for dinner" from a 70's TV show.

To watch a Master Craftsman meticulously reconstruct something built by someone with a hammer and a pocket full of nails is awesome. The respect for that craftsman is amazing. Thanks for taking us on this journey with you.

You can never have too many clamps...great work Dave.

3:16 I would say the reason for the odd window size is it was piece of glass they had on hand and used it.

Lying in bed hearing the sheep bleating maybe beans cooking on the stove taking a break mend my socks.

The window size wouldn't be the first time a design decesion was made based on a piece of available material. Especially for one offs.

Hanging the window reminded me of the old sketch from Hee Haw "Hey Grandpa. What's for supper?" I guess I'm showing my age.

Canvas must be next or the stove stack, the suspense is killin me

Tuesdays and Fridays are reserved for watching Dave perform miracles!

Your videos are alwsys exceptional to watch. Skills from time gone by are deminishing daily. Your video library will keep the knowledge available for the next generation to use.

They made it to fit the only piece of glass they had...

Dave, I always think, when I watch you at work, that you truly found work that makes you happy. You are blessed, See you later this summer. Gil

This is fascinating wagon archaeology at it's best!

I have never thought you have done anything that wasn't done like I would do it until now lol . To my way of thinking the window should open out . In a light rain for example the window opened slightly would still offer ventilation and shed the rain . But to make matters worse when you trimmed the outside. I my homble option any rain that runs down the glass on the outside is going to make its way inside . At the very least the sill should be tapered towards the outside. And lastly with inside space being so limited the window opened out is a plus. Thanks for all the pleasure you give me watching your videos Donny

Just a hint--put a big X of masking tape on the glass, or don't clean untill you have finished the waggon! Don't ask how I learnt to do this!!!

Another great video, that Sheep wagon is coming right along. Thank you for sharing with us.

From the UK in Co. Durham. I wait for your videos every week, just to see how it all turns out,

Amazing. There’s always a lot of thought to cipher what the original design was. Always interesting, thanks Dave.

I love how you decipher every clue from the original wood.

Looks right to me to Dave. Good thing you were making the decisions though. It's getting so close now. You are doing amazing work with what you had to work from. Thanks for keeping History alive for this family and American History too. Stay safe and keep up the great videos and work around there. Fred.

Здравствуйте привет из Нижнего как всё хорошо получается это вы выстанавливаете как было в старину хорошей вам здоровья и вашим близким удачи да хранит вас господь Нижний Новгород Юра

Dave is truly the consummate craftsman, as we all know. It will be a sad day indeed, that when Dave joins the big wagon train in the sky so much invaluable knowledge and experience will be lost, never able to be replaced. To me, the man is one of a kind.

I used to work as a school keeper years ago and often had to repair doors or replace glass. I wish I had some of the skills you have so my work would have looked better. Thanks for posting, This is a learning place type channel....

Excellent craftsmanship. A joy to watch Dave.

Notice around 5:16, that Dave places the vertical posts by hand and eyeball then checks them with the square. A few very minor taps is all it takes to achieve perfection. What an eye!

A piece of history emerging. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.🙂🙂

I think one could live in this wagon. Thanks Dave and Diane

This project has been a serious jig saw puzzle, and like many puzzles some pieces are missing. But in the end you are making quite a picture of it with a lot of the extra thought and research.

Are you sure that long board was an upright? It looks like both ends were tapered. It looks to me that it would have been horizontal which would have made the window open sideways instead of up and down. The length of the remaining framework also looks like it would fit better down to the tailgate boards in that orientation. Of coarse it's too late now,

I’m always amazed,you have taught me to look things over and study things before you start to work. I definitely appreciate all that you have taught me and you don’t even realize it.🌴😎

Dave, you turn wood and iron into jewels! Deepest gratitude for what you share with us... Congratulations!

Thank you for another educational and informative video on your reconstruction of this Shepherd's wagon.

You make the old look great again. Enjoy watching the progression of the rebuild of the wagon. Stay safe.

Great work Dave, I always enjoy and look forward to your videos. However, doesn't code say that the window has to have safety glass?😂

It has been amazing watching the progress on the sheep wagon from week to week.

As always Dave Nailed again!

Está quedando impresionante , una auténtica autocaravana del siglo XIX. FELICIDADES!

I like the look of that tack hammer.

*- Nice window, Dave. If it was never there, it should have been and you made it happen.*

Well done. I would have thought the window would swing out - to make it a little more weather tight.

Happy Friday Dave!

Pre drill and nail, love the hammer sound. That joint to match 1909 Model T front axle modification.

I watch RU-vid channels of folks who restore old châteaus in France and Portugal, and i notice that all dwelling windows open to the inside. Here in South Africa, windows open to the outside. I wonder why the difference? Perhaps Dave has the answer. Dave, you are a wizard. I just love watching you go about your work.

This is Western Americana Archaeology at its best!!!

I wonder if they had a small rope running from the bottom corner of the window frame ,up and across the ceiling towards the front of the wagon.

Never ever seen that before…sandpapering a nail before hammering it in.

hello dave, you are a special guy,ifollow you a several years. greetings from the netherlands.

I think I would have hung that window the other way. You can then open it if it's raining outside and not get much water in the wagon.

Slick edits at 5:35! Gotta love it. At 21:00, anyone else remember Hee Haw and Grandpa Jones ... "Hey Grandpa, what's for supper?"

… and he cleans windows!

Thank you for the update, I think you seem to have as much fun figuring out how things went together as you do building the components. Enjoyed the video.

Thanks for all the work and interpolation. Keep after it

I can see thru that project. Stay safe and we'll see you next week.

If I had to guess, this sheep wagon is probably the most well made wagon compared to the wagons of old. Dave don't make anything that ain't perfect. Love this channel and look forward to Fridays and Tuesdays.

And the puzzle is coming together. Amazing craftsmanship as usual. Thanks for sharing.

If this gentleman decides to stop re-creating old equipment, I think he might make a great detective.

More Engels excellence! The bottom trim on the exterior of the window could have been left off as it will only be a trap for moisture and debris. Great video, as we have come to expect! Thanks!

I'm surprised the window swung into the the wagon and not out of. The window could have been open in the rain and still been usable to bring air inside.

Maybe the window was small to keep bears and cougars from sneaking in during sleep time. Or maybe to let some fresh air in when the stove was on.

We put putty between the glass and frame for water proofing. Maybe they didn't have putty in those days? I love to watch every video you post!

being that the window 🪟 frame was narrow style to what was available to cost measures. Made do.

Once again thanks for the video.

Wow it's amazing 😍👏👍👌❤️

Well that was a new one on me (and I need to file that away for future use); putting wax on a nail before driving. I've used, and sold, rosin coated nails so the nails kinda glue themselves in - but waxing.....never seen that before (for screws - yes!). Very interesting! Were rosin coated nails a thing back then?

Thanks Dave

A few years ago, I came for the blacksmithing but stayed for the wheel & wainwrighting. I continue to be fascinated and mesmerized by your work. While most of your skill sets are beyond anything I will ever master, they are nonetheless applicable to some of the minor projects which I embark on, albeit at a skill level orders of magnitude less than yours! The main thing I want to comment on is how much I have learned to appreciate about the job of the wainwright and the wheelwright. Like a lot of people in my cohort, I grew up on western movies ("dusters" as my late father used to call them). What I recall about most of these movies was that there were a lot of "disposables" in the storylines; the largest disposable being the men in the black hats (figuratively speaking) getting shot off their horses, balconies and rooftops. While I have never compiled a body count, it was high. The other disposable in these movies was the wagons. Damn near every western movie I have ever watched depicts the destruction of wagons of all shapes and sizes. Wagons blown up with dynamite, going over a cliff, flipping over, being shot to pieces with gatling guns, and otherwise being rendered into matchsticks in the blink of a eye. When strictly based on western movies, one cannot help but infer that wagons were cheap, shoddy, flimsy contraptions that required a minimum of effort to construct. Watching your videos has opened my eyes and my mind to just how complex these machines were and how much skill was involved in the building, repairing and maintaining of them. I have gained an appreciation for not only the wagons, but the wainwrights and wheelwrights who made them. Turns out there is far more to these machines that what one sees in the movies. Add to that, the immense amount of labour that you put into the repairs and rebuilding; and that you have at your disposal, modern power tools that were not available to the wainwrights and wheelwrights of bygone days. I cannot imagine the time and effort that these men had to expend in the practice of their craft before power tools. I cannot help but have an immense amount of admiration for both you and your predecessors. I think we all owe you a debt of gratitude for sharing your knowledge with us. I do hope that you have a protege lined up to take up the reins (no pun intended), when you decide to retire. Thank you Mr. Engels.

I admire your attention to detail. Enjoy your videos!

Very convincing! Well done.

I wonder why there was not a back door to that wagon. Was it a matter of security? Or privacy? Enlighten me, Dave!

I struggled with this project from the start when the pile of damaged wood and bent iron was revealed, not least because of the plan to utilise as much of the original as possible. The condition of the material just looked too bad. However, I have stuck with it and thoroughly appreciated the level of skill employed to determine the layout and rebuild the wagon. I still prefer the manure spreader but great work from you and Diane as always

Its coming together nice job looks good and works well.

Spot on with that rear wall / window Diane and Dave 🎉

I think you nailed it 👍

Nice work as always! Thank you!

Love the project!

Wizard level capability folks, watch and enjoy….. and learn. This is more important than you’re likely to appreciate. Thank you, Dave!

dang I would love to get my hands on a table saw like that. Bry

4:44 Narrow windows keep out wolves, sir.🎉❤❤😂🎉😢

Thanks for taking us along 👏

Hi David I was surprised to see you put a peace of wood the on bottom outside of the window as this will allow rain to enter the carriage and been a rot trap. But the wagon is looking great.

Thanks, Dave. A pleasure to watch you work. My fumbling and bumbling efforts at most jobs are lacking. I wish you well.

Hi Mr. Engels, To tell you the truth, I will be clade to see this thing out the door and down the road, and will be looking forward to you beginning your own sheep wagon and doing it the right way and not the way someone thinks someone else 100 years ago built the wagon, I know that the wagon you build will be vary functional and useful when you take a break from tending fence and cattle out on play creek, thank you for being such a good moderator and wheelwright as well as all the other things you do so well.

Всем здравствуйте! Думаю что если бы NASA дало Дэйву заказ на изготовление деревянной космической станции, он справился с этой задачей на отлично! С уважением к мастеру. Привет из России.

damn it jim im just a wheel wright

Hey that window is about the right height for a guy to relieve himself at 2:00AM… just a thought.😂

I used to work in a piano shop restoring 100 year old pianos. We once bought all the stock from a piano workshop that had closed down, the old boy who had ran it was very good at taking the old pianos apart but not so great at putting them back together. Each piano was in a box. There were thousands of parts in each box. All the pianos could be saved and restored, it was just a case of working out where all the bits went.........and what was missing.

Enjoyed the clip

Just goes to show you how much deducing you can do, with minimal amount of parts if you use your God Given Imagination!. great deductions Dave and great end result. Thanks for taking us along and the video editing wasn't too shabby either. fact it was down right excellant. again thanks for sharing God Speed. ECF

Thank you

How much would a full wagon build like this cost? Not necessarily this particular one, but the hours alone this project takes must cost a small fortune. With this back panel, I think there would probably have been a weather board / drip rail on the bottom of the window leaf.

I’m thinking that the window size was chosen based on the availability of the pane glass at the time. I doubt there was much choice as to size back then.

I’m not sure who might notice but that modern glass is a little too perfect for the time. An piece of wavy glass from an old window should be fairly easy to find. Just a thought,I know you’re puttin in a lot of effort to make this wagon right and folks who see a lot of antique stuff are gonna notice it.

Fantastic I am enjoying every minute. MORE MORE MORE (I AM GREEDY)

Wow! that looks amazing

G'day Dave, Somebody should probably give you a Termite-ravaged Tailskid from a Sopwith Camel ; and then Run a Sweepstakes to guess the colour of the Paint-job you'll apply to the rest of the Aeroplane - which such an Olde Tailskid (clearly) requires, to make it look Period Correct..., when finished (!). lol. Great work ! Keep on keeping on. Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !

I think the window is narrow because that's the chunk of glass they had available at the time.

It looks fantastic.

I wonder if the window size was to meet a standard glass pane size. Also usually you don't put a bottom piece of trim on a window as it directs the water in side which in this case into the bed. If anything it would get a draft board along the bottom inside edge of the window and the sill board would be beveled.