European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Cooling the tyre down
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
A pile of iron hubs
The first stage in shaping
Welding a tyre
Boring a hub the traditional way
An interesting wheel!
Shaped handles just made.
Hammering the tyre into place
Using a press on the tyre join
A wheel in need of repair
Boring a hub with a taper auger
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Letting off steam
Fitting the hot tyre
Welding the tyre
Field gun wheels
Second tyre being hammered into place
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Trimming the felloes
Welding the tyre
Adzes awaiting handles
Fitting the felloes together
A taper auger
Using a chipping hammer
Clamped in place for tyring
Trimming with a drawknife
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Using a rasp
Sawing off the spoke ends
Second tyre nearly in place
Welding a hub band
Dampening the flames
Still cooling off.
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Field gun wheels
Shaping an adze handle
Sawing off the spoke ends
Cleaning up the felloes
The second tyre being hammered in place
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Drawknife in use shaping
Clamping the wheel down
Cleaning up the tyre
Cooling down
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Welding the tyre
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
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