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you should use a "Tiller handle" type steering, thats how some amish buggies, and MANY late horse drawn/early automobile carts were done. Itll be 100x better
You have an immense amount of torque propelling that buggy with that gear reduction. To stop key breakage, use 4 keys going around the driveshaft to evenly distribute the load on the keys.
You should put tiller style steering on it. Simple with a tube bender hooped over from the pivot to your seating position. It's how the original buggy style cars of the early days did it. And it would leave one hand free to manage the engine
@4:20 cut the pipe you put inside into a 40cm section. Drill holes in the outer pipes and insert the cut off pipe 20cm into one pipe. weld it to the outer pipe using the drilled holes. the insert it into the second pipe and veld them together using a seam weld, and weld the inner pipe stub to the outer using plug welds in the drilled holes. That will make the axle much, MUCH stronger than just seam welding the two pipes together.
Hey Matt, old engineer mate from NZ here, good to see you remember your safety glasses 9:04 …keep safe my friend and keep creating such Divine Madness!!!🤪
Leaf-spring suspension with added rope dampening will help the ride smooth out A LOT. (Wrap rope really tightly around the entire set of leaf-springs, binding them together from end to end, on every set, after smearing thick grease all over the springs. It's an old racing trick from the early days of car racing.) You can also build a big can muffler, and mount it on the back of the buggy, down a bit low.. it'll make the engine sound more antique. Also, you can easily lower the idle to give it an even more ol' timey sound. Make a steering wheel.
When i weld pipes together i use a piece of heavy angle and clamp the pipes in to weld. tack it and roll it. Your idea of the pipe inside is good, if you luck out and find one that fits inside, Next mod could be a golf cart motor and batteries. Cool build man!
why don't you just weld the sprockets to the axles? You're never gonna put enough hours on this thing to warrant a sprocket change. You'd stop breaking keys that's for sure
I mess with horse drawn equipment those wheels most commonly have wood hubs and most likely cast iron bushings pressed into them and the axle is solid and does not turn on the frame edit nevermind i see he built a new axle
Hey Man, I think what you do is great, been a follower for a while. I ask you please be mindful of your dog, he's gonna get metal shavings in his paws.
Strongish driveshaft extension recipe: -Cut a 1 foot chunk of that inner pipe -Stagger it halfway in the joint of the 2 driveshafts -Drill holes and plug weld them together 5 inches each side of the joint -Bevel weld the joint with a half inch bevel That's how I'd do it. The fabrication skills on this channel have progressed quickly. Nice work.
This was a great build. I used to do wagons and mules a few years ago, and I always had an idea to motorize one of my horse drawn wagons just for fun. Nice to see that you took my idea and ran with it! Good luck on your future builds
It is highly recommended to wear Flip-Flops in the Shop. If you cut your toes clean off, it is easier for the ER Doctors to re-attach them than if you mash them under a crushed steel toe. 🤣
I think when they switched from horse to engine, they decided to go with a tiller, and that worked pretty well. But I like the horse drawn vibe, however, horses where quiet, so count me as another person voting for an electric conversion (but with a tiller for added safety). Keep up the good work, the channel is fun, and positive.
I would use a piece of angle iron for a jig for your axle. You should be cutting on the other side of the wheel so the sparks are coming towards you. If that blade binds the way you are cutting, it will easily explode. Awesome band saw apparatus! You can make a steering setup like the old steam tractors with chain wrapped around a pulley on the steering column.
9:56 this is basically how my motorized bicycle kits rear sprocket mounts to the wheel.. two circle plate things, some rubber spacer things and a bunch of bolts in between the spokes 😂
This is the sketchiest contraption I’ve ever seen I absolutely love it. The steering/clutch situation is insane. I bet it would be absolutely terrifying with even more traction
Buddy and I did this in the early 2000s. Was a perfect fit ontop of the lower half of quad frame we used. Funny little farm hack project. I will say ours worked a heck of alot better being essentially the entire bottom half of an 800cc 4x4 quad. Thing RIPPED on the wooden wheels and the quad wheels
My neighbors have two adorable Rottweilers. They're always standing on their back legs scratching at the fence trying to get out so they can bite me 😅 We've got a Kangal that one of the neighboring Farms gave us as a puppy. they keep them as sheep dogs to protect the herds from Leopards and Hyena
Second I guess since Matt pinned a comment 2hrs before the video aired... For the axle, you should fill all the holes in the outer layer with weld so you stick the two layers together in more places
Regarding the repetitively breaking axle key, just weld a bead line onto the axle directly and grind it into the shape of the key. That would be the strongest key possible.
One way with your police system for staring is to put 2 levers in front of you and hook those ropes up to it so it'll be like bulldozers steering since you have such a wide stance in the front and it pivots in the center instead of using Ackerman styles during
4:16 plug welds my lad, plug welds. Drill holes through the shaft, put some of the pipe you found in, and weld the three pieces together. That won't break. Given the size of the shaft, the core piece of pipe should be about ... 30 cm long, and the plug weld holes (in total) 6, 3 on one side, three on the other, with holes of about 1 cm ID. With plug welds, it won't break. edit: use a piece of angle iron to keep the halves of the shaft straight. You shim the shalft and use a straight edge to figure out how straight your work is, and use F-clamps to secure it to the angle iron.
Simplest way to ensure your axle tube is straight is to clamp a length of angle iron over the join, say 2" x 2" angle, that way you will get a perfectly straight pipe! Still room to tack it.
Truck rim, bar, concrete = mount for the pipe cutter. Add a tractor steering wheel (after you've cut out the center where the shaft goes) to the shaft coming out of the rim, and you can roll this puppy around the shop, and keep it hidden when you don't need it. Better than leg bruises or having to mount it to table space you don't have or wish to clear.
Thread lock I use red and blue for different stuff Cone thick bars to have more area for welding material and surface area Depending how thick sometimes you don’t have to cone it I would love to see more abandoned train track driving Oh Seeing the carriage do a burn out was fantastic 😂❤🏆🙏🏼 Oh and tac don’t full weld Tac and tac and tac until it’s a full weld so heat don’t warp
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The best way to stop breaking keys is to not use any and just permanently weld the sprocket to the axle
What a waste of good dirt bike should of bought used engine on buggie but gotta becareful br safe no jumping off of it while moving not safe at all
@@jessiej3991 🔴 Christians and Muslims both believe in Jesus, love him, and honor him.
🔵 They are, however, divided over the question of his divinity.
🔴 Fortunately, this difference can be resolved if we refer the question to both the Bible and the Quran, because, both the Bible and the Quran teach that Jesus is not God.
👇 The Bible Denies the Divinity of Jesus 👇
🔴 Jesus was a servant of God ⚠
{ The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus.} (Acts 3:13). 📚
now put some paddles on it and take it to the dunes
I would love to
The best way to stop breaking keys is to not use any and just permanently weld the sprocket to the axle
DUNE BUGGY!
Don't forget the Gold Wing!
@@n00bist723 Malachi? Where have you been? Have you seen my buggy?
No, Father. I have been watching Matt..Uh, reading the good book of Matthew.
I saw a few snapchats of this from Matt as it was being built. Glad to see he survived to upload the video 🤣🤣
Yoooo junkyard digs
You need to up your "sketchy" game Kevin.
Get Dalton and build a outhouse into a go kart lol
I just spotted the thumbnail and it looked cool.
you should use a "Tiller handle" type steering, thats how some amish buggies, and MANY late horse drawn/early automobile carts were done. Itll be 100x better
You have an immense amount of torque propelling that buggy with that gear reduction. To stop key breakage, use 4 keys going around the driveshaft to evenly distribute the load on the keys.
or better yet use a spline and collar
@The_Conspiracy_Analyst he's making home made keys. I doubt he'd take the time to spline it.
My favorite part is that you're showing us how to build one just in case we want to make a 450 powered amish buggy
Haha the bike falling off the stand at the start caught me off guard!
me too!
You should put tiller style steering on it. Simple with a tube bender hooped over from the pivot to your seating position. It's how the original buggy style cars of the early days did it. And it would leave one hand free to manage the engine
@4:20 cut the pipe you put inside into a 40cm section.
Drill holes in the outer pipes and insert the cut off pipe 20cm into one pipe. weld it to the outer pipe using the drilled holes. the insert it into the second pipe and veld them together using a seam weld, and weld the inner pipe stub to the outer using plug welds in the drilled holes.
That will make the axle much, MUCH stronger than just seam welding the two pipes together.
Hey Matt, old engineer mate from NZ here, good to see you remember your safety glasses 9:04 …keep safe my friend and keep creating such Divine Madness!!!🤪
Make the ears wider on the steering post, you'll get more mechanical advantage. What an epic build!
The amish gonna love this one
I hope so!
...Especially the local bishop 😜
Not!!
Nothing better than getting home from work and seeing a new video from Matt! Always a good time
Epic!!!
Thats my idea of being American, just taking on wild random projects! Sending love from Malawi, Central Africa
heck yeah!
33:50 Matt noooo, please don't put your fingers that close to the chain drive, you need those lol. Seriously though, be careful my guy
Leaf-spring suspension with added rope dampening will help the ride smooth out A LOT. (Wrap rope really tightly around the entire set of leaf-springs, binding them together from end to end, on every set, after smearing thick grease all over the springs. It's an old racing trick from the early days of car racing.)
You can also build a big can muffler, and mount it on the back of the buggy, down a bit low.. it'll make the engine sound more antique. Also, you can easily lower the idle to give it an even more ol' timey sound.
Make a steering wheel.
its always a good day when matt posts!
Glad you think so!
When i weld pipes together i use a piece of heavy angle and clamp the pipes in to weld. tack it and roll it. Your idea of the pipe inside is good, if you luck out and find one that fits inside,
Next mod could be a golf cart motor and batteries. Cool build man!
Sponsored by SimpliSafe and he puts a powerful engine in a 19th-century buggy.
Safe?
Simply dangerous.
You've got to go camping with it.. I feel a long haul adventure coming on !
This is what television promised but failed to deliver. Absolut gold content, keep it up!
why don't you just weld the sprockets to the axles? You're never gonna put enough hours on this thing to warrant a sprocket change. You'd stop breaking keys that's for sure
I mess with horse drawn equipment those wheels most commonly have wood hubs and most likely cast iron bushings pressed into them and the axle is solid and does not turn on the frame edit nevermind i see he built a new axle
looks like the carrier is aluminium.
@@weatheranddarkness then he needs a sprocket follower, a flat piece of steel welded to the shaft that passes through the sprocket.
Yessss this thing is awesome Matt love the video
Off-road V4 Ducati. Can’t wait! 😮
Hey Man, I think what you do is great, been a follower for a while. I ask you please be mindful of your dog, he's gonna get metal shavings in his paws.
You seriously have the best energy and I always walk away from your channel feeling happy.
Fun video! Love your enthusiasm and making it work with the tools you've got.
Definitely needs a wheel upgrade
You sure know how to make a UA-cam video. If your channel was a stock I would buy it. Keep on doing what you're doing.
2:51 this guys a great welder 🤯
Heellllll yes dude!! Love this 🤣🤘🏼🤘🏼
This is probably the most dangerous build I've ever seen.
You have clearly not reached the dank redneck engineering corners of UA-cam haha
Strongish driveshaft extension recipe:
-Cut a 1 foot chunk of that inner pipe
-Stagger it halfway in the joint of the 2 driveshafts
-Drill holes and plug weld them together 5 inches each side of the joint
-Bevel weld the joint with a half inch bevel
That's how I'd do it.
The fabrication skills on this channel have progressed quickly. Nice work.
Your getting nominated for master builds or juckyard .. You'll be a valuable asset to whatever crew you end up with
This was a great build. I used to do wagons and mules a few years ago, and I always had an idea to motorize one of my horse drawn wagons just for fun. Nice to see that you took my idea and ran with it! Good luck on your future builds
It is highly recommended to wear Flip-Flops in the Shop. If you cut your toes clean off, it is
easier for the ER Doctors to re-attach them than if you mash them under a crushed steel toe. 🤣
Incredible build man
I am so happy that you got a sponsor for this video.
This channel needs more subs and views
I think when they switched from horse to engine, they decided to go with a tiller, and that worked pretty well. But I like the horse drawn vibe, however, horses where quiet, so count me as another person voting for an electric conversion (but with a tiller for added safety). Keep up the good work, the channel is fun, and positive.
I would use a piece of angle iron for a jig for your axle. You should be cutting on the other side of the wheel so the sparks are coming towards you. If that blade binds the way you are cutting, it will easily explode. Awesome band saw apparatus! You can make a steering setup like the old steam tractors with chain wrapped around a pulley on the steering column.
This is what the world wanted to see from this guy not all the other stuff
Love this crazy contraption!! 🔥
Such a freaking epic video!! My favorite project you've done so far. Only getting more creative, so sick haha.
Nice, lots of fun 😀 😂😅😊
Don't let people get you down, my friend. Because the truly brilliant people don't watch UA-cam. It's all good as long as your happy.
I knew your next video would be good . But dam this is twisted . I love it . Keep them coming..
The "Shaker" Chair is a Nice Touch. 🙏
9:56 this is basically how my motorized bicycle kits rear sprocket mounts to the wheel.. two circle plate things, some rubber spacer things and a bunch of bolts in between the spokes 😂
That is a great design. It's done well. With front wheel drive cars, there's a need for rear ends, even for electric cars.
You have invented the automobile.
Watching you bail 😂
I haven’t laughed that hard all year!
Too bad he showed only a clip of it in the very beginning
It’s a few tweaks away from taking it on a winter camping trip!
Just needs a tent and diesel heater to be a full overland rig 😅
The most original content! So funny. Great engineering skills too. Nice one.
Jim. Uk 👍🏻
Everyone thinks they're cool until bad boy Matt Spears shows up after Sunday prayers at Mr Stoltzfus' farm on his horseless carriage.
America really is the land of the free and the home of the brave. That place you live looks amazing. love from AUS
Add a differential for better results
Yay! Matt's back! Glad to see a new vid!
Lil strings from the steering ropes to each hand rail, so you don't lose them when you let go.👌🤘 Awesome contraption
Dude them tig welds were NICE
Nice.
12:56
"I THINK I got the steering"
🤣🤣🤣
This is the sketchiest contraption I’ve ever seen I absolutely love it. The steering/clutch situation is insane. I bet it would be absolutely terrifying with even more traction
Simply awesome! Great fun!
Buddy and I did this in the early 2000s. Was a perfect fit ontop of the lower half of quad frame we used. Funny little farm hack project. I will say ours worked a heck of alot better being essentially the entire bottom half of an 800cc 4x4 quad. Thing RIPPED on the wooden wheels and the quad wheels
Missed your videos bro. Congrats on 85k. I hope you make it man
My neighbors have two adorable Rottweilers. They're always standing on their back legs scratching at the fence trying to get out so they can bite me 😅 We've got a Kangal that one of the neighboring Farms gave us as a puppy. they keep them as sheep dogs to protect the herds from Leopards and Hyena
@jordanmntungwa3311 errr that's great but who asked?
@@mark675 Who asked you to ask who asked?
Dude so fun to watch man
I dont know how you dont have more subs!
Second I guess since Matt pinned a comment 2hrs before the video aired... For the axle, you should fill all the holes in the outer layer with weld so you stick the two layers together in more places
You get first!!!
Dang! Your channel is becoming High quality DIY creations! Nice Job 👍
Pretty funny Matt, everyone was down there lookin at eagles w binoculars 😂😂😂😂😂😂 !!! Too bad you could’nt establish a little better steering device 🤔
totally mailed in the steering. v2 will be sick
This is incredible
This will be good for old horses that can't pull anymore
29:49 😅 that wheel ain’t right but works lol !!!!!!😂
Regarding the repetitively breaking axle key, just weld a bead line onto the axle directly and grind it into the shape of the key. That would be the strongest key possible.
Jeddidiah and Ezekiel would love it!
Beautiful North Idaho !
One way with your police system for staring is to put 2 levers in front of you and hook those ropes up to it so it'll be like bulldozers steering since you have such a wide stance in the front and it pivots in the center instead of using Ackerman styles during
4:16 plug welds my lad, plug welds. Drill holes through the shaft, put some of the pipe you found in, and weld the three pieces together. That won't break. Given the size of the shaft, the core piece of pipe should be about ... 30 cm long, and the plug weld holes (in total) 6, 3 on one side, three on the other, with holes of about 1 cm ID. With plug welds, it won't break.
edit: use a piece of angle iron to keep the halves of the shaft straight. You shim the shalft and use a straight edge to figure out how straight your work is, and use F-clamps to secure it to the angle iron.
OMG THIS WAS FUN TO WATCH
Simplest way to ensure your axle tube is straight is to clamp a length of angle iron over the join, say 2" x 2" angle, that way you will get a perfectly straight pipe! Still room to tack it.
Truck rim, bar, concrete = mount for the pipe cutter. Add a tractor steering wheel (after you've cut out the center where the shaft goes) to the shaft coming out of the rim, and you can roll this puppy around the shop, and keep it hidden when you don't need it. Better than leg bruises or having to mount it to table space you don't have or wish to clear.
Love it. Fantastic build. Steering needs like a rod system. No ropes man. That’ll kill you. Ask me!
ive just witnessed a man create the first automobile in 2024
Dude I love to see your success
Ur essentially making a first ever modern first car😮
You sir are nuts ,,,,,,,, but with out doubt a great guy to subscribe too .
You have unlocked the quadracycle 🤣 well done thats hilarious great video
37:40 oh noooo, not a trailer hitch!!😬😬🫣🫣🫢🫢
Cool little Parade Buggy.
your videos are awesome!! thank you!!
I absolutely love the way you think if you’re ever in western Colorado let’s go riding
If you add more of a lever at the front you can get better stering at low speeds 🙃🙃
Had to done! Maybe a atv suspension kit?
Well that was entertaining, liked & subscribed!
Thread lock I use red and blue for different stuff
Cone thick bars to have more area for welding material and surface area
Depending how thick sometimes you don’t have to cone it
I would love to see more abandoned train track driving
Oh
Seeing the carriage do a burn out was fantastic 😂❤🏆🙏🏼
Oh and tac don’t full weld
Tac and tac and tac until it’s a full weld so heat don’t warp
This is amazing crazy level of content for 80k subs
Incredible work
Dude your a genius