Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Welding a hub band
Field gun wheels
Welding a tyre
Fitting the felloes together
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Checking the tyre circumference
Clamped in place for tyring
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Trimming the felloes
Shaped handles just made.
Close up of the hub
Wheel awaiting a tyre
European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
A wheel in need of repair
Field gun wheels
Cleaning up
Cleaning up the tyre
Using a chipping hammer
Clamping the wheel down
Initial shaping
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Marking out a felloe
Tyre nearly in place
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Cooling the tyre down
Sawing off the spoke ends
Drawknife in use on the felloes
The first stage in shaping
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Cleaning up the felloes
Welding
Drawknife in use
Drawknife in use
Using a press on the tyre
Hammering the tyre into place
Drawknife in use again.
Still cooling off.
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Drawknife in use shaping
Letting off steam
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Welding a hub band
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Second tyre nearly in place
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Spot welding
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Using a press on the tyre join
A few finishing taps
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
An interesting wheel!
Using a rasp
Cleaning up the weld
Shaping an adze handle
Dampening the flames
Shaping with a rasp
Drawknife in use
A pile of iron hubs
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Applying a hot tyre
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