We're winding down on this Chuck Wagon build, but the owner brought up one thing he would
like to change, so I need to do that as my final project on this Chuck Wagon.
Well along the way I have shared some of these pictures of the progress to
the owner of the Chuck Wagon and he stopped and said, you know, "Is this suitable for horses?"
I thought you didn't have any horses. I thought this was going to be a four-wheeler.
Well he has a friend who has horses, so as a last minute change I need to build a full-size tongue
that'll accommodate horses for this Chuck Wagon. So if the time ever arises he can put it in a parade.
Well I do have some rough stock in tongue blanks, and they aren't really very finely
finished. Generally they're about a four by four on the butt end and they are tapered down to two
and a half square on the tip. But the finish isn't very nice, so I like to clean them up. So for about
the first two feet of this, on the butt end, I'm going to plane it down to three and a half inches
square, right in there close. And then, by using my planer, I can I can plane it square for two feet, and
then I can gradually scale up the table on this and therefore planing a taper on this tongue.
Since I already built a short stub tongue for this wagon, I have the tongue hounds already
patterned out, so I can use those same patterns to make this full-size tongue.
Well there is a little iron strap that is a wear strap, that some of you who are familiar
with wagons have brought up and questioned whether I was going to include this little
wear plate. Well inside each of the standards there should be a little wear plate and you
can see here where there was, where on the old irons of the standard irons, so I need to put
this little plate in there so as the box kind of shimmies in in the undercarriage, or on these
bolsters, while it's being driven these plates kind of help prevent gouging the box sides.
Well the final step in this whole build is to take a paintbrush and touch up all
the rivet heads, and nuts and bolt heads, and all that. Kind of do the final touch
up. So it's been a long process. I do appreciate you following along. I have intentionally tried
to show every little detail of how these go together, how you can take an old melted down
undercarriage and put it back to a wagon that is parade quality and ready to go back to use.
So once again, appreciate you following along. Thanks for watching!
On a side note, for the next couple of weeks I'm going to be out of the shop. Local farmers are
having a tough time finding drivers for harvest, and corn harvest for the silage for feedlots is
about to begin next week, so I'm going to go help out drive corn truck for this process.
So I might post some other videos. I have some that aren't really related to the shop specifically, but
there are other projects that I do out at our little piece of ground and around town here, so I
might just include some of those. I'm contemplating putting these on a second channel. I've got my kind
of my 'after work projects'. We'll see how it goes. So I appreciate you understanding. We'll
see you after I get back after corn harvest.
Once again, thanks for watching!