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