Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Fitting the hot tyre
Cooling the hot tyre
Tyre nearly in place
Welding a hub band
Cleaning up
Welding a tyre
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Letting off steam
Fitting the felloes together
Second tyre being hammered into place
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Trimming with a drawknife
Welding the tyre
Applying a hot tyre
Shaping with a rasp
Drawknife in use again.
Boring a hub with a taper auger
The hot tyre in place
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Spot welding
Marking out a felloe
Wheel in position for the tyre
Initial shaping
Cleaning up
Cooling the tyre down
Adzes awaiting handles
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Sawing off the spoke ends
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Preparing the wheel for tyring
A pile of iron hubs
Welding a hub band
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Shaped handles just made.
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Drawknife in use
Field gun wheels
The second tyre being hammered in place
Sawing off the spoke ends
Welding the tyre
Second tyre nearly in place
Dampening the flames
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Boring a hub the traditional way
Still cooling off.
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Shaping an adze handle
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Close up of the hub
A 12 spoked wheel
Clamping the wheel down
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
Hammering the tyre into place
Detail of the wheel
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
A few finishing taps
Field gun wheels
A taper auger
Clamped in place for tyring
Cleaning up the tyre
Welding
Trimming the felloes
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Drawknife in use
Shaping with a drawknife
An example of wheel making in the past
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Cooling down
Using a rasp
Cleaning up the tyre
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Drawknife in use shaping
Close up of the clamping
Cleaning up the felloes
Cleaning up the weld
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Using a press on the tyre join
Shaping with a rasp
Welding the tyre joint
Using a press on the tyre
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