European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Field gun wheels
A pile of iron hubs
Using a chipping hammer
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Hammering the tyre into place
Cooling the hot tyre
Cleaning up the weld
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Sawing off the spoke ends
Applying a hot tyre
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Spot welding
Cleaning up the tyre
A 12 spoked wheel
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Adzes awaiting handles
Close up of the hub
Second tyre nearly in place
Fitting the hot tyre
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Still cooling off.
Cleaning up the felloes
Welding the tyre
Preparing the wheel for tyring
A taper auger
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
An interesting wheel!
An example of wheel making in the past
Initial shaping
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Boring a hub the traditional way
Drawknife in use
Welding the tyre
Shaping with a drawknife
Tyre nearly in place
Using a press on the tyre
Clamping the wheel down
Letting off steam
Tail vice and dog
Drawknife in use again.
Trimming with a drawknife
Second tyre being hammered into place
Drawknife in use shaping
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Fitting the felloes together
Checking the tyre circumference
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Field gun wheels
Trimming the felloes
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