European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Welding
Using a press on the tyre
Field gun wheels
Shaping an adze handle
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Letting off steam
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Drawknife in use again.
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Using a chipping hammer
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Initial shaping
Wheel in position for the tyre
Second tyre being hammered into place
Marking out a felloe
The hot tyre in place
Trimming the felloes
Sawing off the spoke ends
A pile of iron hubs
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Trimming with a drawknife
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
A wheel in need of repair
An interesting wheel!
Cleaning up
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Welding a hub band
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