European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Cleaning up the weld
Sawing off the spoke ends
Letting off steam
A wheel in need of repair
Welding a hub band
Dampening the flames
Detail of the wheel
An example of wheel making in the past
Field gun wheels
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Close up of the clamping
Initial shaping
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Clamping the wheel down
The second tyre being hammered in place
Cleaning up the felloes
A few finishing taps
Field gun wheels
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Trimming the felloes
Using a press on the tyre
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Spot welding
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Sawing off the spoke ends
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Using a rasp
Welding the tyre joint
Welding a tyre
Using a chipping hammer
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
The first stage in shaping
Close up of the hub
Checking the tyre circumference
Second tyre nearly in place
Using a press on the tyre join
Drawknife in use
Applying a hot tyre
Fitting the felloes together
Cooling the hot tyre
Shaping with a drawknife
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Shaping with a rasp
Fitting the hot tyre
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Cooling the tyre down
Drawknife in use shaping
Welding the tyre
Shaped handles just made.
Trimming with a drawknife
Hammering the tyre into place
Cleaning up the tyre
Marking out a felloe
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Welding a hub band
Welding the tyre
A taper auger
Boring a hub with a taper auger
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Drawknife in use again.
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Drawknife in use
Tail vice and dog
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Wheel awaiting a tyre
An example of the wheelwrights art
Still cooling off.
Cleaning up
Cooling down
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Welding the tyre
Welding
An interesting wheel!
Second tyre being hammered into place
A 12 spoked wheel
Adzes awaiting handles
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Cleaning up the tyre
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
A pile of iron hubs
Tyre nearly in place
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