cool videos for wagon fans

Mike(NEOhio)

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Newbury, Ohio
Came across this on YouTube. A whole series on building borax wagons. I remember Death Valley Days from when I was a kid. We got the plastic model from 20 Mule Team.

https://youtu.be/5JVcE8gho4k Hope the link works.
 
Hey, that's amazing. Where is Engels Coach Shop? My wife's great uncle Ike was a wagon builder. We have a child's rocker he built. It's assembled with quarter inch old-style carriage bolts with square nuts. It's built extra-strong.
Butch
 
Wikipedia has good info about the history of the 20 mule team (actually 18 mules and 2 horses), in six years of operation they hauled 20 million pounds of borax 165 miles out of Death Valley without a single construction related failure of a wagon.
Wikipedia 20 mule team
 

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