Branding Irons & Tool Boxes | Engels Coach Shop
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- Branding irons are a signature of ownership in the west. After building 2 new tool boxes, these are branded with a rare one-iron family brand we built just for this chuck wagon owner. Thanks for following along in this chuck wagon rebuild.
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Dave, your wagon is the most beautiful of anything mechanical I have seen built out of wood. You truly are a master of your craft..... and thank you for being a video creator.
Yee haw. It's Friday and time for an Engels Coach video!
That short little blurb about making brands stand out better really caught my attention. Those little bits of knowledge I find really interesting and also make me wonder more about you. Thank you for all you share.
I loved that part. That's the experience talking that would baffle most trying to copy this.
Watching you use clamps to hold the toolbox parts together before nailing made me realize ONE of the differences in the quality of your work vs. mine. 🙂
Also drilling pilot holes.
Clamp helps the glue bond properly, nails to hold its place when you remove the clamp, makes working faster and more simple. Modern screws are even better
I was pretty impressed how he was drawing freehanded straight lines like it was nothing.
I have started using clamps in my work. But my stuff still don't look as good either. Oh well the jobs still get done most of the time.
a beautiful wagon and family heirloom for generations to come!
Once again I find myself enjoying the heck out of gaining knowledge that in all probability I will never make use of. As always, thanks for allowing us along on this wonderful journey! Stay well.
What he said! Thanks for letting us watch.
Hell. I'm headed back to my auto repair shop to build a branding iron for a ranch I don't have, to put on a toolbox I don't need for the chuckwagon I guess I'm about to start building to feed the cowboys I don't know on land I don't own. In smalltown Alabama...
@@RICHat22 Lol
I look at this art, this precision work, this passion, and then I think of the crap that comes out of Detroit - I could cry....
The skill level I see in so many different forms of 'making' is astounding. I love this channel. That's a lifetime of learning on display.
*- Simple tool boxes...yes. But incredibly sturdy, too ! ! !*
*- It was interesting to learn about branding irons, Dave. Thanks.*
In 1974, I worked at my Uncle Jake's ranch.
Learned how to drive a truck, a car, a tractor,
and my favourite, Mike the Horse. Snowflake
Arizona. F Bar Cattle Co. (Senator Jeffy Flake
was another cousin of Jake. Look up the Gilbert
23, if you want to see the demise of Jeffy, and his
son Austin. Happened right next door to Jeffy's
cousin, my older brother.)
Uncle Jake passed on, quite a few years ago, and
his wife, the surviving sibling of all my father's
family, a week or so. Tenth of ten to pass on.
Beautiful Lady. Uncle Jake, was a most impressive
man.
Your talk about brands "spurred" a memory for me.
(So did spurs.)
I realized, I have a wee bit in concert with you. David,
PLEASE keep these coming!
steve
Dave, I finally had time to visit the Laws Railroad Museum and see your 20 Mule Team Borax Wagons. I must say they are very impressive in person and I appreciated the details more because I watched your videos when making the wagons. Truly one of the highlights of the museum!
Mudlogger, wife and I stopped by the shop to meet Dave a couple weeks ago. There is a spare back wheel in the shop and it is taller than I am tall (6'). Quite amazing!
Dave, I met one of your customers in Cody, Wy on the 13th of this month. He and his wife have a chuck wagon and they cooked for us and others beside the museums. I looked at the wheel you repaired for him and you must of done a good job cuz it still works fine.
The steak was awesome and so was the town of Cody. Lots of fun.
I remember that episode. Dave was headed for a picnic or something and the ol' boy came in and Dave made pretty extensive repairs before the trip they had planned.
Morning Dave, Does a brand have to relate to the person or outfit, as the one you did was, if i remember correctly for someone called Spiro, or Spear O, but it looked like a spear P? Theres a gun restoration guy on you tube that works on the Cinnabar Ranch and his brand is " \ C / " C in a Bar. Do they have to be logical and recognizable, and do you have to register them.
Many thanks to you and Diane for the time spent doing these great informative video's.
Regards Richard 🇬🇧
Our old family brand a Winged-7 was first filed by my 3rd great grandfather and is still used by the family today.
Nailing everything by hand brought back memories for me. When I started in my trade as a cabinetmaker we were still hand nailing and gluing and clamping. About a decade later we were using nail guns. Anyway, this was great, it's fun to watch a true craftsman at work.
My father in law is a recently retired joiner. He spent decades hand nailing bespoke kitchens, staircases etc.
I asked him a few months ago about Brad nailers as I had purchased one for a fit out. He said he remembered someone bringing one into the shop once, but it didn't catch on. So they continued to nail by hand.
Glad to see you were gentle with the vise. The therapy must be working!!😂😂😂
Has anyone ever mentioned your background music? I really wish all other UA-camrs would take a tip from you. Your music is both pleasant to the ear and so low as not to distract. So many others have music that is deafening or distracting. Thank you for being my favorite UA-camr for so many reasons.
Well done good and faithful servant. Stay safe
I love to see how common items from that era like a toolbox can be so simple yet so functional. Just a good purpose built overall design.
Watching you make the customer’s brand reminded me of my dad’s brand - Arrow N. The actual iron is lost in time, but I have some chaps from when I was a teenager that has the brand on them. Continue your inspirational videos. I look forward to each and every one of them!
I love to study old branding irons to see how they were put together by a Blacksmith when all they had to stick them together was a forge weld. Thanks for the info on the gap at the joins on the face, I was told it was to keep the skin inside the loops from dying due to lack of blood which never mad sense to me, your reasoning does, thankyou.
That's awesome! My grandpa worked for the Diamond Bar S in Fairfield, MT around 50 years ago and I still remember seeing that branding in his workshop. He was really proud of that, he said it was one of his favorite memories. Myself, I worked at the Lazy TL. But only a few times a year, just to help out around the time the Buckin' Horse sale came around. I still have the branding on my old backpack :)
Who you calling lazy? signed: TL 🙂
@@TomLeg 🤣 my buddy terrance said the same thing when he saw the brading for the first time and asked me what it meant lol
Those tool boxes are well attached to the wagon, using those rods they aren't going anyplace soon. Great work in that design etc. Nice touch to brand their chuck wagon. Great work Dave.
Another great video Mr Dave! I ejoyed so much meeting you and your Bride last week, I have shown everyone the picture of us! Thank you again for the great content you produce.
Thanks for stopping.
GREAT JOB, GREAT VIDEO, SEE YOU WHEN...
Hi Dave,
Your skills show again in making those tool boxes and I found it fascinating how you made that branding iron. You and Diane stay safe.
Great video and my bird boxes will never be the same again . Must make me a branding iron too , I can use it for pokering cider in the winter . Great video 👍🇬🇧
I always look forward to your vidios.
thanks for the videos! i have to say there are some impressive vistas in your local and i can only imagine the difficulties of traveling there in a horse drawn wagon.
One of the things I cherish is the brand from my late wife's family cattle ranch (which is unfortunately no longer in the family). Now I know how to add a handle. My personal brand from my childhood was later used for the logo for my consulting company. As always thank you very much for sharing your talents.
Really cool to see how you are equipping this wagon all common sense stuff for the work it is meant for
Nice job !! I just made a brand for a local ranch. The specifications were to be made from 3/8 wide material. It was a rather large brand as well. It turned out good. I do the same thing and add the brand to my wall. Also, I'll find an old piece of barn wood and brand it as well to give the customer so they can see the outcome.
As always it is a pleasurre to be let into "your world" of great craftsmanship. While watching you using bolts and nails I started wondering what was used in place of the modern day screws, bolts and nails in the old days. Thanks to you and Mrs. Engels for sharing your time. God Bless.
Just before modern fasteners would be forged nails. Before that, the various wood joints and where needed pegs. Drilling holes and tying with rope, cord, hide, sinew, root was common. One of my grandfather was still building timber frame barns with joints and pegs in 1918. Timber frame homes have become very popular in the past 25 years- especially in ski resorts.
I just love how you tell an assembly story with your hands,no need for much narration, thanks once again for another educational video🤗😎🤗😎
Branding irons give me the shivers the thought of that on the skin.
... shudders at what some call "body art" nowadays.
@@deconteesawyer5758 Especially Eye Ball Tattoos, they must be raving lunatics.
Another very interesting video - thanks Dave. Once more you have taught this old Scotsman a little bit if your Western history and ongoing traditions.
Fun to hear about how you leave a little gap in the corners of the brand to ensure it ends up looking as intended. In the letterpress days of printing this was called an Ink Trap. When printing small metal type ink would pool in those corners and ruin the print. So they started to leave extra space in the corners on the metal type to ensure it looked correct when printed! I had no idea their would be a similar effect with branding irons.
Hi Andrew. I didn't know you ever watched Uncle Dave. Thank you for the comment. It makes sense that they would be the same because printing is like branding paper.
So, now we know Dave is Also a professional brand maker, because... of Course he is! In his spare time he creates interstellar spaceships & fully functioning time machines. I love watching your work, brother. Blessings to you & your family from Jerusalem. ב"הש
Thank you. Blessings to you as well.
Adding the gap is a nice detail you wouldnt know about until you tried it. Thanks for all you share. Charles
Fantastic
Nails and Titebond 3, talk about belts and suspenders! That box is staying together! A little surprised you didn't clock the screws on the hinges and lock hasps...or did you? Took me a second to process the long bolts holding the front box on until I thought about the weight it would carry and the forces applied to the front and sides as it the wagon bounced along the dirt road, if there was one. Genius engineering and execution, sir.
Once again : Thanks for Sharing ! ❤+🛠=💪🏼
Tapering the steel and cutting the relief at the junctions can make the difference between a brand and a blotch! Tells me that he has been to some brandings.
You certainly are very interesting aways enjoy your videos thanks buddy
Yay! Another video.
Awesome,total respect for what you do.
Yours is one of my favorite channels
Funny you discussed branding irons. Back in 1977, I had an old Blacksmith in Pasadena, TX make mine, it is the (Circle 4K), it is registered in Austin.
Nice job..regards from South America
I rarely buy anything new and traveling with a toolbox has saved me from being stranded on many occasions.
Wow 😲 Nails. It's rare that I see nails used on this channel.
Another lesson in my education of western lore. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.
Very nice boxes indeed, We don't use brands on animals anymore of course but I have had occasion to make a few for this kind of purpose, I have found that making the face slightly radiused allows you to roll the brand onto the wood giving a more easily positioned impression and cleaner mark at the end of the process. I will be trying that trick with the joint gaps next time I make one, thanks for that..
Mark of a true craftsman, puts slotted screws in with a driver!! Mind Blown!!
Yes, I always have a full tool box in my PU and rarely leave home without it. And as preppers all over the world say, "One is none and two is one." :-)
Fantastic job with the tool boxes and the branding iron Dave, they all turned out great and worked perfectly. Thanks so much for sharing with us, stay safe and keep up the great videos. Get your firewood in before it's snowed over. Fred.
Nice birdhouses 😁
That's pretty dang fancy, nails AND glue! 😁
I've only made one brand and I enjoyed the segment on making them. The toolbox adds a flavor to the whole wagon. Well done and thank you.
Good afternoon to all from SE Louisiana 2 Sep 22.
One best videos i never seen was building them huge Chuckwagons and the 20+ donkey team pulling it to washington L8tr what feat that was to watch . 10/10
Chuck wagon turned out super nice, those tool boxes and the branding iron are icing on the cake.
enjoyed the video
Look forward to the next weeks show
I not only love the craftsmanship of your work, but the history that you provide and include in your work. Thank you for sharing.
thanks great Friday fun
I worked in a welding shop years ago. We had a customer who wanted a brand created to mark tortillas if I remember now. It was rather difficult to get it flat. We didn't have the modern belt Sanders to used to flatten it. I think it was made from 1/8in stainless steel.
Thank you for posting
This wagon look perfect
If you ever make it over to North Dakota, the First Western Bank & Trust building along Broadway in Minot has a HUGE collection of brands in its exterior marquee.
Why not Minot?... Freezing the reason... Right?
Use to live there... I know...
I always thank you for your videos, this time I learned that in cattle brands you have to leave a space to better impress the same. Yesterday I saw a film with Jonn Waine entitled
(Red River) in which the protagonist sheltered from the attack of the Indians under a cart and I weighed the similarities with the cart that she is building, in truth that cart had a barrel fixed to one side. A greeting from the City of Catania.
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Greetings to you. There is a place for a barrel on this wagon, too.
@@dianeengel4155 A brand E cask? That other one might be a little off putting to drink from.
Once again the most enjoyable 20 minutes I have spent in a while
.. Cheers to you. ..
I really enjoyed that one! Thanks again!
5:11 hmmmm did ya mistaken your thumb nail for the other nail ;o) but hey wanted to say thank ya for the videos. We love seeing you build the good ol' things from the good ol' days. Even though positive things can be said about them, we dislike all the modern technological stuff
Tool box?
Come on.., I’ve seen that movie.
That’s the Cash box😆👍🏻
Great job as usual. The whole craftsmanship shop!!!
LOVE THE SHUFFLING OF THE PARTS AND THE SOUND EFFECTS!!!.GREAT JOB AS ALWAYS. 👌
GRANDE!!!
Bellissimi lavori con una semplicità e maestria che lasciano affascinati...
My dad had a brand for years, but it is no longer on the list. I so wish I had been able to find these irons when he died.
Good show thanks.
Once again thanks for the video.
Dave you and I drove similar pickups in the past. Learn to fix them or learn how long the walk home is !!
Great work! It was a pleasure to watch.
@Hit me up-Engelsshop-VIA TELEGRAM excited! What do I need to do to claim?
Yet more great work Regards from the UK
It was fun to watch this episode. Seen on 8/27/22 at 2:11 PM. (in Amsterdam)
very nice, thanks - I grew up in Star Valley Wyoming and love remembering how things were when I was younger.
You never fail to amaze. Thanks, Dave!
Thanks Dave
Thank you for another great show, you are so easy easy to watch. And I like what you do, thanks.
Well Done!
I love the fact that you could use a pnuematic or cordless nail gun to nail the pieces together yet you choose to hammer each nail by hand :)
very cool!!!!! thanks for sharing!!!!!
A beautiful wagon!
Hi friends great video Dave have a day love 😍 from TEXAS
The problem with building most of the wagon is maintaining the “just a ranch hand” style of building. I looked at the box and thought dovetails myself.
Beautiful
I hope you remembered to come back and file or grind those bolt ends down on that first tool box. Otherwise, you've left a sharp edge that will rip your hands or arms open.
Very nice. Gave me the idea to make my own. Thank you.
Thanks to you Mr. Engel !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow - that is a neat job. Owners will be proud to have that, and will useful as well as solid, workman-like wagon. Wife and I were trying to read the brand and failed until you said what it was.
Just keeps getting cooler thank you for sharing