Yellowstone Stagecoach - Tapered Push Rods on the Brakes | Engels Coach Shop
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Cutting tapers with a planer is not often thought of, but works well. Instead of a band saw, or a table saw for production runs, a planer can be a quick answer for making just a few quick tapered pieces. I need two of these tapered push rods to rebu9ild the brake assembly on this stage coach. Thanks for coming along.
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Installing flat blade screws with a drill is an art form
Seconded 👍🏼
@@causewaykayak DITTO
I Agree.
G'day,
Ditto...!
I was flinching at the sight of that...; those Olde-timey Straight-slotted Countersunk Woodscrews were designed to make
Master Craftsmen look like Apprentice Wannabes on Tryout - from the stripped Slots & scored Workpieces they leave behind them in their wake.
Dave is a brave man, to tackle them with Power tools, I reckon...
Such is life,
Have a good one...
Stay safe.
;-p
Ciao !
Thanks for sharing 👍
If I don’t learn from everything you post I ain’t paying attention. Thanks for another great lesson.
Thank You Dave for bringing us into your shop to demonstrate your skillset and to share your opinions on tools in and around most wood working businesses. And a hello to you Diane also.
Hello
You are spot on regarding the jointer being dangerous. Mine is as old as I am (73) and I always use it with the mindset that it will happily (and quickly) take my hand off if I don't respect it. Thanks for the video.
Well Dave i am getting long in the tooth.....But love watching you do your work for years now.....Thank you Dave.....
Old Shoe🇺🇸
Thanks for watching!
As a carpenter for 50+ years, I have lost a little blood on several different machines, including a drill press, a table saw, a chop saw and a router, not to mention knives and chisels, but the only injury that required more than a band-aid was at the jointer. I trimmed two fingernails and shortened my middle finger by 1/4", and I consider myself very fortunate it wasn't much worse. That was over 40 years ago. Thank you, Dave, for the lesson in respect.
Watching you do layout on these parts is an education in patience and detail! Finding dimensions off old lumber and the left over irons is more like detective work!!!
Very ingenious way to use that planer, providing you don’t loose count!
Your kids were so blessed to learn to work in a shop with a master like you.
I love watching Engles Coach shop, this is the good stuff.
I would not miss one of your videos , you are the craftsman, I have learned so much over the years from you Dave Thank You.
Time flies when you're having fun. We were having fun watching. Thanks for sharing with us Dave , always looking good around there. Stay safe and keep up the good jobs and videos. Fred and family.
Здравствуйте привет из Нижнего я смотрю и завидую вашему мастерству как вы всё подгоняете каждую досечку станки старинные наверно дай вам и вашим близким огромное здоровья да хранит вас всех господь спасибо за ваше видео жду новых Нижний Новгород Юра
We learn so much by watching the master.
Thanks Dave and Dianne I am loving this new build, best show on you tube. Cheers
Thank you.
New belt on the sander🤠
The old one was “well used”👍🏽
to taper something regularly like the rods of the brakes, I have found it quite easy several times to securely fix the piece at the desired angle to another piece and thus be able to do this with the table saw. This can be fixed very easily with double-sided adhesive tape. Thank you for videos!
I appreciate your time problem. It always takes me three hours to do a two hour job.🙂🙂
Precision takes time, don't rush it. Dave is precise. You can see that in the final projects. Beautiful works of art.
Nice progress,coming right along.just keep on doing what you do best.great work,great video 👍👍👍😎😎😎
It is a blessing and a gift from Our Lord to have the opportunity to watch a master at work. God Bless You and Keep You.
YOU are to be commenedid for be a wonderful teacher. THANK YOU for all YOU DO
Dave, I was taught to "shim" the work piece and then you can run it through a planer. The shim acts as the table, double sided tape on a shim and simple run through. Saves you a lot of time with that wheel. Won't disagree with you about power tools being dangerous. I always tell people that, the best safety tool in any shop is the one that sits above one's shoulders. Truly enjoy your video's, thank you for sharing, cheers :)
Excellent demonstration 👍🏴
Many shapes to make things look right and much time involved but coming along very nice looking good. Thank you.
Dave & Diane,
Really love watching the master at work, AND the local views of winter in Montana!
All the best from Traverse City.
Always enjoy hanging out in your shop. Thanks for having us!
Dave Your videos are so full of information, I started watching a few years ago and I am hooked. Thank you Dave for educating all of us on your wood working craft and you build buy far the best buggies.
Your taper trick on the planer reminds me of how progressive bevels are cut on a boats frames or planks on a shipsaw. There's some good demonstrations of that on Leo's Talley Ho channel. One guy feeds the work through the blade while the other guy cranks the table's tilt in progressively as the work goes through.
Outstand job on those pieces Dave. Thank you for sharing.
23:20 I am not top my game, I just love watching your craftsmanship
I'm amazed at how complicated the whole coach is. There are so many pieces and the builders have to have so many different abilities. Thanks for the great videos.
The Best Screwdriver Craftsman Ever Made!
Than You for another very informative and useful video, be safe and keep the good work!
I usually cut my tapers on the table saw.....yours are very interesting....love to follow along
I dont think his saw is set up for tapering. He could probably make a spacer or something for the fence though
@@demonknight7965 you can use a taper jig.... either make one or can purchase one
New belt on the sander. Sweet.
Fascinating as always, Dave. Many thanks.
I was thinking towards the end that Dave was getting a lot done. Thank you, so enjoy the video and commentary.
Another great video, thank you....Here's an idea for a segment..."Your thoughts on the craftsmanship of wagons/buggies/wheels, built in the 1800's." I, like probably lots of people, thought not much was put into making wheels and wagons, back then. Tell us about your findings with how they were manufactured, uniformity or lack of and the over-all skill, whether good or bad. We see how precise and particular you work, do you think they were originally built same way?
Hola! Realmente, cada día aprendo más y más de la cultura referida a esos vehículos. Tus explicaciones son excelentes. Es como estar en una universidad. Gracias por compartir tanto! Un abrazo!
Germán, Lomas de Solymar, Uruguay
Time flies when your having fun .
If for no other reason, it was worth the time spent to fabricate the wood pieces in order to give all the iron pieces a proper, correct location (and function) home. Nice job.
You are right about the danger of jointers. My middle school had a wood shop and one of my classmates lost fingers of his left hand on a diagonal from the tip of his fore finger to a 1/4 inch stub of his little finger. I wasn't there to see it happen but did see the results when he came back to school. I stayed away from the jointer after that.
a fire fighter came to my work and told us a story . a man was working on a frozen meat grinder whit spikes about 30 cm long , and some 2.3 cm thik . for some reason the guy got caught in the machien . it took 20 seconds screaming at the top off his lungs before it got quit . now this is what the fire fighter said to us , look at your watsh and see howlong 20 seconds last .
Another great job thank you Dave, 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Yeah, I've finally got all caught up! I've now watched all the videos you've posted here !!!
Thank you. Hope you enjoyed them.
Have a good day Dave 👏👍👌❤️🙏
And we will all be here next week 👍
I like the planer trick! Nice job as always.
Was bummed I got to you late today. Got a bad headache trying to absorb the tapering scheme on the planer. I did get it but way later than when you started doing it! Enjoyed it very much as always!
I agree with you about a jointer, it's the most dangerous tool in my shop. I lost the tip of a finger on mine.
yes a wonderful teacher and forensic detective.
I've never used a jointer, but I have witnessed one self-destruct after having its blades changed and improperly tightened. Seeing and hearing numerous large chunks of steel ricochet around a large warehouse, including off the roof (~40 feet above the jointer, if I recall correctly), does instill some respect for their dangers.
Great job thinking it through Nice work!❤
Time flies when you're having fun.
Enjoy watching you do your work you’re very good professional at a lot of different things
عملك رائع ومثالي يجعلنا نتشوق ل هكذا اعمال ننتظر منك ان تعمل يوما ما على صنع عربة لا اعرف اسمها لكن من الممكن ان اصفها العربة التي يصعدها الملوك .
Whoever invented time did not make enough of it.
I got a chuckle out of that
I worked in a cabinet shop a few years, i was an installer, not a cabinet builder, I didn't run saws, but one day a man with years of experience lost two fingers on a jointer.
Hey y’all
In the opening shot there is a red ( lamp ) or something hanging just above your logo . I snap a pic of it and no one in Indianapolis Ind can tell me what it is . Love the show .
I'm rebuilding a 1938 wooden framed railway carriage, removing the old rotten bits show the oak and ash frame held together with brass screws, steel screws react with the tannin in the oak, go rusty and split the wood. All my rebuilds are with traditional brass slotted wood screws, as an aside, I am using stainless steel coach bolts.
The carriage was designed to last perhaps 12 years, it is now 87 years old, so, as a heritage asset i use the stainless.
Thanks Dave
Once again thanks for the video.
Retired carpenter with 35+yrs experience and still a hobbyist woodworker here. My worst accident came from getting two fingertips split from a table saw. Lots of stitches and a broken bone, but everything healed up and I'm not missing any portions of my fingers. Depending on the degree of accuracy required, I believe I would have gone the band saw route and dressed it up with a hand plane (powered or manual). But I believe it's always best to go with the method you are most comfortable with. The tool that I fear the most with regards to most likely having an accident with would have to be my radial arm saw.
Thanks for sharing this. I have cut tapers using the jointer but not the plainer. I will give it a try sometime.
Many years ago I used a drum sander to cut tapered shims to fill cracks in old door frames. The shims were several feet long. I earned my pay on that job.
Thanks for posting Dave
We can all agree that when you spin sharp pointy things at high speed you best be careful or you are going to lose things. The tools that scares me the most is the old fashion Radial Arm Saw followed by the modern miter saw. You get careless with those saws you could lose a lot more that just a finger.
Interesting method of tapering on the planer... but I think I will stick with my jig set at 1/2" qnd do it on my table saw in one pass...
The most dangerous tool in the shop could be any depending on the skill level and cautionary methods by the operator...
Gosh I would end up measuring 16 to 18 times and still cutting 4 or 5 boards until I got it right. You have a very practiced manner to make the most out of your lumber!
Dave, you seem to always use a square to align your drill, why don’t you use a bullseye level glued to the end of the drill? ❤ to Diane. 👍🏴
Really great piece of work, Dave. I don't know about your other viewers, but I am definitely no longer "at the top of my game". However, I am doing better than the day I stuck my finger in the jointer!. ER doc was able to sew it back on ( it was still hangin' on by a little bit ...I guess I was quick enough for that)..Anyway, I still have no nerve in that finger-tip...and that was over 40 years ago! Of course, I still use my jointer all the time.
Stay safe and we'll see you next time.
Dave, you really do have one of the most entertaining, and educational Channels on UA-cam when it comes to wagon and coach’s. I’ve learned so much over the years. It’s amazing how complicated Yellowstone coach’s frames are. Is that for robustness, or just quality engineering when they designed them for the terrain ? Or is it weigh of the coach? I’m curious🤔
Dave says all of the above.
Can't wait to see how you solve the next problem. I also wonder how it was originally done.
Perhaps having a wide plank and part it at an angle on a table saw?
Thanks 🙏
Using the planer in that way is a skill in itself which you have obviously mastered.
For the rest of us, I'm wondering whether resting the workpiece on a sloping tray could reduce some of the potential inconsistency resulting from the need to make a running adjustment.
Thanks Mr. and Ms. Engel !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That planner trick is really smart.
We need to get someone to make a "Saw Stop" jointer. My Dad got his left pinky finger cut off at the first joint on a table saw. They sewed it back together but that first joint was not there anymore. I've had the table saw blade nick the end of my right thumb. Sure makes you respect the danger you face with that machine.
Happy Tuesday Dave and Diane!
I surely agree on the counter issues, like always your a pleasure to listen to and watching your skills.
You can’t rush perfection!
Great job Dave
I look at the complexity of this assembly and try to picture the designer sitting in his thinking chair in a corner of his shop trying to figure out what goes where. Who was this genius?
Thank you, Sir. Know I know another way to do something I do differently. And as you say, more ways to skin yada yada yada. It's always good to learn.
Awesome job, it looks beautiful!
thank you for the links
I have watched you for sometime and i love your work. It got me thinking. Could you build your own personal
coach or carriage without the remanats from old falling parts carcasses
Yes
I lost count on your planner lowering wheel. Good job. That’s a first for me.
Impressive bit of Planer work..........>
You could build a taper stick 1/2 in thick with the single sided taper angle then stick it to one side and run it straight then switch
Thank you
I would have cut that taper on the joiner, but it was interesting to see how you do it. (there is no right and wrong, only does it work or not.)
I think your trick with the planer is just how it would have been done originally with a hand plane.
I can confirm, I deleted my right hand ring finger from the first joint to tip on my jointer. I went looking for the finger in the shavings to take to the hospital. There was no finger to be found.
Thanks your great to watch a craftsmanship
Thanks!
Great job. Thank you 😊
Nice work
Спасибо.
Woodshop Accidents - Fine Woodworking Magazine once polled their readers who had had hand injuries. The leading cause was the table saw by far, BUT many more shops have table saws than have other power tools. As for me, I worked making high-end windows and doors for 25 years and had two accidents. #1 was when a 5hp table saw threw a cabinet door back at me. It hit me in the hip bone, but only resulted in a very bad bruise. #2 my right hand tangled with an industrial shaper resulting in a week in the hospital and several skin grafts. Luckily, everything still works fine.
I also taught evening adult-ed woodworking for 20+ years and my students only had two serious accidents, both on the 12” jointer. One resulted in the loss of a couple finger joints. So, yes, the jointer can be scary!!
I remain respectfully terrified of my jointer and adjust the fence down to just the amount of blade reveal that I need.
Worst injury (a cut) I ever got in about 45 years of woodworking was from a pocket knife. Most painful was a splinter. Somehow a band saw scares me more than either a radial arm saw, table saw, or jointer. I've been lucky, but I run scared all the time.
Can’t beat a good #2 pencil