It takes a true knowledgeable, intelligent, caring.professional to rebuild heritage. However, doing it so accurately and precisely is a task far beyond description.
Tip from an old man: when pulling a load, wrap a strap or rope around it and pull it like a horse or mule pulls a wagon. Saves the strain on your hands and fingers
Seeing you drilling and chiseling those spokes out reminded me of the time I removed a broken ax handle with a cutting torch. A couple guys were betting on how long it would take and if the ax head would be too hot to handle. As soon as the wood started to glow, I turned off the acetylene and let the oxygen burn the wood out. It was done in about 2 minutes and I picked up the ax head immediately and took it to my car. Nobody was even close on their time estimates and they were shocked that I was able to pick it up immediately even the shop teacher insisted on checking my hands for burns. Just an idea for quick removal of stubborn wood from metal parts.
I can hardly wait to see the world's most beautiful horse drawn manure spreader but I'm going to love watching every detail of your work building it. Thanks Dave!
What a testimony to superb materials and craftsmanship! Those spokes were fitted to the hubs by very talented people to be so difficult to remove after weathering so long. 7:00 It was obvious the dolly casters were not hanging up on the cracked concrete- it was a bad camera angle! Great videography! Thanks for sharing.
I like what Bob Davis said down there. There are many reasons why most would not get caught bringing some of the things into the shop. You take pictures and Publish them! Great Video Dave.
Please please please show every minute of this rebuild. I’m 66 and remember my grandpa’s mule drawn hay bailer. I wasn’t old enough to understand it then but getting to see this spreader come back to life restored will be amazing for me. I would just give my heart 🥰 if I could be there to help. Hi from Texas
Who else would try to restore this pile of wood. Some might try but probably only one person could at actually accomplish it😊. Looking forward to this series.
oh that will be a hell of a project to get all the mechanics back to life again, but luckily at the times the ironwork were done almost to live like for 500 years . I still have a plow in my barn with a 2 wheel pulling cart but the wheels are missing and the wood is not in a good condition.... 😆 maybe I will start making some wheels and wood for it beside my 500 other projects🤣
Thanks, You Two!! D & D!!! Since Nature abhors a vacuum, surely something else needs to come along and fill the space where the spreader was... (not firewood!!!🤪) Always Good Fun!!!
I enjoy your calm enthusiasm before the rebuild. Watching your videos has taught me that proper preparation results in a quality outcome. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to seeing the next video. Stay safe.
I don't know why but every time i hear the phrase great western manure spreader my mind goes automatically to politicians.. but after looking them up on line its fascinating all the interesting information on these ...going to be fun watching it come back to life...
Love watching what you do, I'm restoring a 1938 railway carriage at the moment, then I have a 1920's carriage to replicate on an original chassis, there are many parallels to what we are both doing.
Here again tonight NC-usa fly to OK city OK tomorrow, drive a peterbuilt straight truck back. I like hardware that holds the manure wood belt together. Thanks D&D family
My wife saw you putting the manure spreader in your shop and said, "Just what Dave needs - more rotten wood and rusted iron in his shop." I wasn't sure where you were going to put it, but you got it in there! Good luck, Dave! Can't wait to watch you work on it!
It never gets old. I always appreciate all your content. I can always depend on you to offer a relaxing time, no matter what the weather outside is throwing up. Love your craftmanship and I always learn something new by watching you work that I can now add to my practices. Thank you Dave.
That spreader gives new meaning to basket case. Should be interesting build for sure. Start with junk and end up with something fantastic. You’re a master at what you do.
*- Getting started is good to see.* *- Was it the rust in the hub slots that make the spokes so hard to get out?* *- I so very much look forward to seeing you parading the manure spreader at town fairs.* *- What an ironic and wry laugh that will be.* *- I think you and your spreader will wind up being the star of all parades, and in demand everywhere.*
This is going to be so cool. Thanks for starting and not making us wait. I feel like a spoiled child right now but many of us would not have wanted to climb under one of those back in the day.
Glad to see you bring it in before the weather changes. That was a good idea, even if it's in the way it's still better than having to thaw it out later
Hi Dave, and Diane, It's really nice when you have other projects going on in the shop at the same time. The spreader is very different, and interesting. I forgot to mention the crate for logging wheels. Some of us thought it needed this, or that more. I didn't think of loading the crate first on the truck, and then the wheels. Great job! Keep up the great work. Thank you for sharing, and take care.
It's quite amazing how tightly those spokes were still holding in the hubs. I would have thought they'd shrink over time, but apparently not. They must have been very dry when they were first fitted.
That takes "basket case" to a whole new level. I just sold my marine service business. People would bring me old outboards in a box. I thought I did well putting them back in running order.... But that pile of boards and gears...I know it will look brand new in a year or two...so much work
I've had some difficulty removing the occasional broken handle from a hammer or hatchet. Watching you remove those broken spokes looks like the same thing times TEN! Your patience exceeds us all.
Thank you Dave for all of the series that you’ve put together over time!!! Each onyx’s very unique and awesome how you take something apart and how you use your Master Craftsmanship to recreate, restore, and rebuild living history for us!!!!
I have every confidence that you will turn that pile of old wood and iron into something pretty spectacular. But at first glance I was thinking "fire pile".
Im in Litchfield County Ct... there was the identical wagon parked along the road for 50 years. 3 years ago i stopped to take pictures, cuz i had a feeling it just wouldn't be around forever. The castings and forgings of all the gears and plates are spectacular works of art! Two weeks later I saw a guy with a flatbed. I found out he tracked down the family and bought the wagon so he could rebuild it for his farm, about ten miles away! Goodb luck Dave.
If at first you don't succeed, grab the sawzall! Must be the season, but I had to chuckle at that move. Here we see Dave in his element, doing what he does incredibly well: Taking an incredible pile of mostly unusable materials some would call it junk and (with possibly a little help from his friends) using it to build a working piece of functional, period correct machinery that many museums would be proud to own. I for one am thrilled to have a front row seat for this Winter masterclass. To Dave and Diane: I hope you and your family have a most wonderful Christmas & sincerely thank you for allowing us along on this wonderful journey. Garrett
Looking forward to this build, using the old iron. I know where one these are in a lean -to off a barn in Arkansas. Going to follow this build from start to finish ..Enjoy watching all your videos great work.
Looking forward to this rebuild a little more than all the others. I think because of all great manure spreading comments that this can generate. Thanks for sharing all you do. I find your vids very informative and most entertaining too. Enjoy the season and all the best for the new year.
This is gonna be a great project when you get it really going, all the flailer mechanisn looks almost like a clock mechanisn,That looked like some good wood inside those wheel hubs for the age, thanks for bringing us along,
As the year draws to the end I would like to thank Dave and Diane for another year full of interesting projects. For Dave it is labour, for us it is entertainment. Merry Christmas and a happy 2024 to both of you!
The western climate is more kind to wood and metal than the eastern climate is. I am on the east coast and a wagon that age would be in far worse condition.
Those gears look pretty good having been left to the elements for 100 yrs?Thanks for the video and oh yes NE Ohio woke up to 2" of that white stuff🤗😎🤗😎
Interesting to see this old machine starting to come to life. I still don't have a visual except from the online website. This one will be much more interesting and actually be able to see how it worked in the early days. Thanks.
It is amazing junk comes into the shop and goes out better than the product new. A sign of a professional. Merry Christmas Dave and Family Merry Christmas.🎄🎁
Hello Dave and Diane, good to see the work starting on The Great Western Manure Spreader by Smith's Manufacturing. It will be awesome when it's completed. We will be here to watch you do your magic on it. Stay safe around there and Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your families. Fred.
This is going to be very interesting to me, I have actually rode on one spreading manure with my dad when I was in first grade, way back in early fifties, unfortunately I can’t remember the name of the spreader. Looking forward to the restoration, thanks for the update, appreciate your efforts.
I think this may bump the Borax Wagons from the top spot on favorite projects list. I like the additional mechanical interface. Yes, I pulled a spreader behind a Farmall M growing up.
No. Lets have honorary First for spreader . Borax is the nuclear option. Even in Europe the huge Borax Trains are famous . The Atlas 5 of artisan woodwork (my opinion of course).
@@cotton-Dave Thank you. The Engels craft series is has us all impressed . More strength to their team. Folk museums world wide will appreciate what Dianne and family are recording . In my Celtic view they all should merit a State Governor's Award to culture
Well Dave you just couldn’t wait, what an exciting project, right up your street , can’t wait to see this progress. Merry Xmas to you and Dianne and all , and all the very best for 2024.
Looking forward to the day you take the spreader out for a test drive. But please, on that day don't do what one of my nephews did when moving a loaded (new) spreader from the manure tip at one end of town to the fields at the other - I don't think I need say the how and what of what happened......
It takes a true knowledgeable, intelligent, caring.professional to rebuild heritage. However, doing it so accurately and precisely is a task far beyond description.
I am sure most people would have set fire to the whole lot and picked up the iron later. Nice to see it done properly.
Good luck on" The Great Western Manure Spreader" as we all deal with the Great Eastern Manure Spreader.
Get the wheels done.. That seems to be your mantra..
@ 9:07 you read my mind. Can't wait until I see the final product.
Thank you for sharing: this is relaxing to watch. ❤😊
I'm so glad I found your channel. I've always wanted to see a wagon wheel reconstructed thank you and god bless
SOME FOLKS HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED THE SELF SATISFACTION OF DOING TASKS WELL AND ENJOYING THEIR JOBS AT THE SAME MOMENT.
Tip from an old man: when pulling a load, wrap a strap or rope around it and pull it like a horse or mule pulls a wagon. Saves the strain on your hands and fingers
Seeing you drilling and chiseling those spokes out reminded me of the time I removed a broken ax handle with a cutting torch. A couple guys were betting on how long it would take and if the ax head would be too hot to handle. As soon as the wood started to glow, I turned off the acetylene and let the oxygen burn the wood out. It was done in about 2 minutes and I picked up the ax head immediately and took it to my car. Nobody was even close on their time estimates and they were shocked that I was able to pick it up immediately even the shop teacher insisted on checking my hands for burns. Just an idea for quick removal of stubborn wood from metal parts.
Now that is a project! Most complicated jigsaw ever ❤
The hottest part of the flame is where the inner flame meets the outer flame. Anything closer wastes heat.
I can hardly wait to see the world's most beautiful horse drawn manure spreader but I'm going to love watching every detail of your work building it. Thanks Dave!
The like button is broken. No indication of liked or not .Great content. Thank you.
What a testimony to superb materials and craftsmanship! Those spokes were fitted to the hubs by very talented people to be so difficult to remove after weathering so long. 7:00 It was obvious the dolly casters were not hanging up on the cracked concrete- it was a bad camera angle! Great videography! Thanks for sharing.
I like what Bob Davis said down there. There are many reasons why most would not get caught bringing some of the things into the shop. You take pictures and Publish them! Great Video Dave.
One man’s junk…
Can’t wait to see the treasure.
Please please please show every minute of this rebuild. I’m 66 and remember my grandpa’s mule drawn hay bailer. I wasn’t old enough to understand it then but getting to see this spreader come back to life restored will be amazing for me. I would just give my heart 🥰 if I could be there to help. Hi from Texas
Very good 🎉❤😊
This would be a neat project. Lots of mechanical items to make it really interesting.
Who else would try to restore this pile of wood. Some might try but probably only one person could at actually accomplish it😊. Looking forward to this series.
Those spokes were really stubborn sons of guns!
Amazing to think that spreader may have made the food our ancestors live on.
oh that will be a hell of a project to get all the mechanics back to life again, but luckily at the times the ironwork were done almost to live like for 500 years . I still have a plow in my barn with a 2 wheel pulling cart but the wheels are missing and the wood is not in a good condition.... 😆 maybe I will start making some wheels and wood for it beside my 500 other projects🤣
Thanks, You Two!! D & D!!! Since Nature abhors a vacuum, surely something else needs to come along and fill the space where the spreader was... (not firewood!!!🤪) Always Good Fun!!!
I enjoy your calm enthusiasm before the rebuild. Watching your videos has taught me that proper preparation results in a quality outcome. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to seeing the next video. Stay safe.
I'm a retired joiner and love watching your posts
What’s a joiner?
@@garycorey7668 Carpenter who makes staircase windows doors
Thank you for all your great videos merry Christmas to you and your family ❤❤😅😅😊😊
Plan B spoke removal more interesting to watch Dave, thank you.
I don't know why but every time i hear the phrase great western manure spreader my mind goes automatically to politicians.. but after looking them up on line its fascinating all the interesting information on these ...going to be fun watching it come back to life...
Those who Are close to this Man,appreciate the time you have help him stay involved.
Love watching what you do, I'm restoring a 1938 railway carriage at the moment, then I have a 1920's carriage to replicate on an original chassis, there are many parallels to what we are both doing.
Those spokes were really in there! Looks like another big task ahead of you but I know you'll do great. Thanks.
Reminds me of the old saying (wife to husband / mother to son) "what on earth are you dragging home now!"
Once again thanks for the video.
500lbs of iron & 10lbs of dead wood, soon to be a priceless artifact. Cool!
Here again tonight NC-usa fly to OK city OK tomorrow, drive a peterbuilt straight truck back. I like hardware that holds the manure wood belt together. Thanks D&D family
Thank you for what you do! Even though it's kind of on an even plain, at least you don't do politics!
My wife saw you putting the manure spreader in your shop and said, "Just what Dave needs - more rotten wood and rusted iron in his shop."
I wasn't sure where you were going to put it, but you got it in there!
Good luck, Dave! Can't wait to watch you work on it!
The journey begins. Now the watching videos start 😀😀😀😀😀
I’m excited about this project.
It never gets old. I always appreciate all your content. I can always depend on you to offer a relaxing time, no matter what the weather outside is throwing up. Love your craftmanship and I always learn something new by watching you work that I can now add to my practices. Thank you Dave.
That spreader gives new meaning to basket case. Should be interesting build for sure. Start with junk and end up with something fantastic. You’re a master at what you do.
*- Getting started is good to see.*
*- Was it the rust in the hub slots that make the spokes so hard to get out?*
*- I so very much look forward to seeing you parading the manure spreader at town fairs.*
*- What an ironic and wry laugh that will be.*
*- I think you and your spreader will wind up being the star of all parades, and in demand everywhere.*
Dave said it looked like it was glued.
This is going to be so cool.
Thanks for starting and not making us wait.
I feel like a spoiled child right now but many of us would not have wanted to climb under one of those back in the day.
Glad to see you bring it in before the weather changes. That was a good idea, even if it's in the way it's still better than having to thaw it out later
I'm really looking forward to this project. I love the mechanical aspect being added to the woodworking
Hi Dave, and Diane, It's really nice when you have other projects going on in the shop at the same time. The spreader is very different, and interesting. I forgot to mention the crate for logging wheels. Some of us thought it needed this, or that more. I didn't think of loading the crate first on the truck, and then the wheels. Great job! Keep up the great work. Thank you for sharing, and take care.
Merry Christmas and happy new-year
Looking forward to this rebuild. The starting point was a whole new definition of: "Honey its not really a pile of junk"
It's quite amazing how tightly those spokes were still holding in the hubs. I would have thought they'd shrink over time, but apparently not. They must have been very dry when they were first fitted.
That takes "basket case" to a whole new level. I just sold my marine service business. People would bring me old outboards in a box. I thought I did well putting them back in running order....
But that pile of boards and gears...I know it will look brand new in a year or two...so much work
Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family 🎄☃❄
Amazing how tough the spoke wood is.
Off to a good start.
When the implement of destruction does not work, break out the sawzall! Stubborn little buggers! for a minute, i thought they were pinned in!
Drilling and chopping out oak spoke pieces-------whew!"
I've had some difficulty removing the occasional broken handle from a hammer or hatchet. Watching you remove those broken spokes looks like the same thing times TEN! Your patience exceeds us all.
Too similar to a hammer or hatchet.... I was wondering if there were blind wedges down in the bottom there.
Thank you Dave for all of the series that you’ve put together over time!!!
Each onyx’s very unique and awesome how you take something apart and how you use your Master Craftsmanship to recreate, restore, and rebuild living history for us!!!!
You're welcome. Thanks for watching.
I'm really excited for this spreader project. Make the videos as long and detailed as you want, I'm here for every minute of it!
I have every confidence that you will turn that pile of old wood and iron into something pretty spectacular. But at first glance I was thinking "fire pile".
Im in Litchfield County Ct... there was the identical wagon parked along the road for 50 years. 3 years ago i stopped to take pictures, cuz i had a feeling it just wouldn't be around forever. The castings and forgings of all the gears and plates are spectacular works of art! Two weeks later I saw a guy with a flatbed. I found out he tracked down the family and bought the wagon so he could rebuild it for his farm, about ten miles away! Goodb luck Dave.
Certainly not afraid to take on (another!) project definitely a bit on the “rough side!!!!
I appreciate you taking the time to film this project.
Looking forward to this build!
If at first you don't succeed, grab the sawzall! Must be the season, but I had to chuckle at that move. Here we see Dave in his element, doing what he does incredibly well: Taking an incredible pile of mostly unusable materials some would call it junk and (with possibly a little help from his friends) using it to build a working piece of functional, period correct machinery that many museums would be proud to own. I for one am thrilled to have a front row seat for this Winter masterclass. To Dave and Diane: I hope you and your family have a most wonderful Christmas & sincerely thank you for allowing us along on this wonderful journey. Garrett
Looking forward to this build, using the old iron. I know where one these are in a lean -to off a barn in Arkansas. Going to follow this build from start to finish ..Enjoy watching all your videos great work.
Perhaps you can take photos and share them with Dave?
Would be really interesting then.@@gs1100ed
What a fascinating build this is going to be!
I'm waiting for you to video a bucket of iron parts and built something from that pile of iron.
It will be great and inspiring to see this pile of rotted abandoned junk returned to a useable state. Merry Christmas Ray
Great photographer.
looks like an interesting project
Hi Dave your an amazing man you have the ability to take something that I think is fire wood and scrap iron and make something very nice.
Rich
It's not a problem, it's a challenge
Looking forward to this rebuild a little more than all the others. I think because of all great manure spreading comments that this can generate.
Thanks for sharing all you do. I find your vids very informative and most entertaining too.
Enjoy the season and all the best for the new year.
When completed, the spreader can be rented out for a political rally stage! 🙂
@@thomasbraeking6225😅
This is gonna be a great project when you get it really going, all the flailer mechanisn looks almost like a clock mechanisn,That looked like some good wood inside those wheel hubs for the age, thanks for bringing us along,
Good driving.
As the year draws to the end I would like to thank Dave and Diane for another year full of interesting projects. For Dave it is labour, for us it is entertainment. Merry Christmas and a happy 2024 to both of you!
You're welcome. Thanks for watching!
going to be an interesting build. most would look at this and throw it away. glad parts of it will see new life.
It's amazing how sound the wood still is after sitting outside for some 100 years.
The western climate is more kind to wood and metal than the eastern climate is. I am on the east coast and a wagon that age would be in far worse condition.
Thing is going to be a very interesting build, looks like lots of interacting moving parts. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Those gears look pretty good having been left to the elements for 100 yrs?Thanks for the video and oh yes NE Ohio woke up to 2" of that white stuff🤗😎🤗😎
Nice pickup of the manure spreader. Hopefully no oops. Always a pleasure to watch your videos
I live about 10 hours drive north of you and we've had next to no snow this year as well. Thanks for sharing!
Ah the Makita horizontal milling machine. Very useful tool! Another great project. Thanks for documenting it Dave.
Interesting to see this old machine starting to come to life. I still don't have a visual except from the online website. This one will be much more interesting and actually be able to see how it worked in the early days. Thanks.
It is amazing junk comes into the shop and goes out better than the product new. A sign of a professional.
Merry Christmas Dave and Family Merry Christmas.🎄🎁
Hello Dave and Diane, good to see the work starting on The Great Western Manure Spreader by Smith's Manufacturing. It will be awesome when it's completed. We will be here to watch you do your magic on it. Stay safe around there and Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your families. Fred.
This is going to be very interesting to me, I have actually rode on one spreading manure with my dad when I was in first grade, way back in early fifties, unfortunately I can’t remember the name of the spreader. Looking forward to the restoration, thanks for the update, appreciate your efforts.
I think this may bump the Borax Wagons from the top spot on favorite projects list. I like the additional mechanical interface. Yes, I pulled a spreader behind a Farmall M growing up.
No. Lets have honorary First for spreader . Borax is the nuclear option. Even in Europe the huge Borax Trains are famous . The Atlas 5 of artisan woodwork (my opinion of course).
@@causewaykayak I like your way of thinking, kayak person.
@@cotton-Dave Thank you. The Engels craft series is has us all impressed . More strength to their team. Folk museums world wide will appreciate what Dianne and family are recording . In my Celtic view they all should merit a State Governor's Award to culture
Merry Christmas!!
Can’t wait to see the final product. Bet will be fantastic like all the previous ones
I’m looking forward to this build it should prove to be a good one. Thanks Dave
I haven;t dropped in for a while, this looks like a cool project to follow along with, I am looking forward to seeing it all fixed up.
I'm looking forward to see how the transmission/gear train works.
Stay safe and we'll see you next time.
Thanks Dave I am really looking forward to this build.
Well Dave you just couldn’t wait, what an exciting project, right up your street , can’t wait to see this progress. Merry Xmas to you and Dianne and all , and all the very best for 2024.
Thanks Dave
Looking forward to the day you take the spreader out for a test drive. But please, on that day don't do what one of my nephews did when moving a loaded (new) spreader from the manure tip at one end of town to the fields at the other - I don't think I need say the how and what of what happened......