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Her name is Wych Elm, but her friends call her Felly. She’s a wheelwright by trade, but rather than take the conventional route of simply building new wheels, she repairs broken ones for the working ponies in Manehattan. She's one of the ponies who make sure that the taxis, hansoms, omnibuses, wagons, and carts can continue on their appointed rounds after breaking a wheel in the busy streets.
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In lieu of a blog post--at least for now--here's a few tidbits.
Parts of a wagon wheel:
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The 'nave' is also called the 'hub'; the 'hoop' is also called the 'tread' or 'tire.'
More information about wheelwrighting can be found here.
Stop teaching me things in an interesting way! I can't procrastinate when you do that!
Portable while you wait repair shop. likely wont see the same until roadside repair is using replicators and high speed crypto programmers?
Swap broken with new and repair in back used to be all the hire purchase places did?
What I'm most surprised by is that this matches the tone of an old documentary almost exactly.
Very nice. Well written.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Motor_Bus
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Shining Armor is an alumni. She's a dean, so she knows these things.
Interesting reporting style, it made me thing there was a Pony camera crew following her around for the day except you would expect more interviews.
9308673
It reminds of of the old slice-of-life Disney cartoon from the sixties. Just... nice.
Nice work once again
I was expecting this to be Bicycle Repair Man with ponies.
I'd say that this was oddly satisfying, but you do things like this so consistently well it can't be "odd." Bravo!
PS Love her name! Wych Elm. That's wonderful.
So, how did she get her nickname?
9308911
It's a variation of "felloe", as one possibility.
Pick a tense, any tense. Now put it back in the deck.
How delightful! I actually had occasion to repair some wagon wheels recently - got to use my spoke shave for the nominal purpose. Hint to wagon wheel owners - if you let them sit outside resting in dirt, decay will happen - keep em dry and off the ground.
Well done! It reads very much like one of those local color stories you'd read in smaller, better-written newspapers.
9308799
Same. I was still glad I read it.
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So... she's a jolly, good, felloe?
You do slice-of-life so incredibly well
I’ve never been in a dedication before. It feels nice.
And it is pretty much exactly what I expected from you. The utterly mundane described with care and respect. Well researched and thoroughly entertaining.
The thumbs-up and favourite button are just par for the course.
Congratulations and thank you.
Boooooooooriiinnnng. Nothing happening! Terrible pacing!
You did it! 'Tis beautiful.
I'll never tire of these down to the finest detail craftspony stories.
for some of the best modern wheelwright videos go to this mans . https://youtu.be/VCi8l0B-zlo
Damn it Admiral! How do you do this?!? You write this stuff so well. If you take suggestions, maybe from a railroaders prospective? haha
9309304 There's a reason for that. Look up "Studs Terkel" and his RL works sometime.
Some people can write the entire song of a city as it plays by your little piece of the universe.
AB can manage to write an entire song out what you thought was one note.
Is it a bird?
Is it a griffon?
No, it's...
THE WAGON REPAIR MARE!
...
THANK YOU WAGON REPAIR MARE!
Bicycle Repairman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54CpPlCnM4I
Why did this come to my mind?
So work it Felly fix that wagon wheel,
work it filly any way you feel...
heeeeeyyy, Felly fix me...
... I regret this comment immensely.
9308639
Do you think I should put a warning on my stories?
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They’ve got road service for over-the-road trucks here in the US, and I’d imagine other places, too . . . a lot of places, it’s more practical to fix it by the side of the road than to tow it.
U-Haul was still doing that as of the early 2000s, when I worked there as a mechanic. They probably still are--there’s an advantage to only having a few different vehicles in your fleet. Their mobile repair trucks could carry spare wheels and tires for every vehicle they rented; we had a rack in the back with ready-to-go wheels and tires, and whenever we were slow, we’d work through the stack of tires in need of replacement.
9308673
I was trying to channel Studs Terkel and/or Paul Harvey with the tone and subject matter.
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Thank you!
9308717
Ooh, I like that poem.
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Thank you!
I was channeling the spirits of Paul Harvey and Studs Terkel . . . not the first story I’ve done that in, either.
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I don’t think that I’ve ever seen it, but it sounds like it would be worth watching.
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Thank you!
9308799
That would have been silly.
9308899
Thank you!
You wouldn’t be surprised to know that Wych Elm was a popular wood for the nave.
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9308911 nailed it; it’s another spelling of felloe.
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Correction made; thank you!
9309595
Thank you!
9309598
You deserved the dedication for putting the idea in my head.
Thank you!
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I’ve got a whole big book of forgotten arts and crafts, so there’s plenty to work with there. And I’ll never get tired of writing them; there’s something so wholesome and pleasurable to seeing a craftsman work.
Speaking of which, if you have an hour free, this is a great video:
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I think the real secret is to have a passion for researching the mundane, the things that nobody really thinks about. The writing part, that just takes practice, but if you’ve got the passion to find out about various crafts and you want to share that passion. . . .
I’ve thought about that, but thus far I haven’t really had a good story hook in mind that revolves around a locomotive engineer or firepony or brakemare or what have you. Celefin has two great stories about railroad ponies, and The Descendant has The Railway Ponies: Highball; if you haven’t read those, I’d highly recommend all of them.
I’ve got a little bit about railroads in Field Notes from Equestria (the A Trip North arc), but I didn’t really get into that much detail.
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I am now subscribed to that channel.
9310290
Aww, thanks!
9310539
I should have had her wearing a cape.
She is blue, so that’s a step in the right direction. . .
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I dunno, but you’re not the first one to make that connection.
9311490
As well you should.
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If we still had guilds that man would be a master.