Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Cleaning up
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Drawknife in use shaping
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Welding the tyre
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Hammering the tyre into place
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Adzes awaiting handles
An example of the wheelwrights art
A few finishing taps
The first stage in shaping
Applying a hot tyre
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Welding a tyre
Fitting the felloes together
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Boring a hub the traditional way
Cleaning up the felloes
Shaping an adze handle
Clamped in place for tyring
Cleaning up the tyre
Tail vice and dog
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Welding a hub band
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Drawknife in use
Welding the tyre joint
Cooling down
Drawknife in use again.
A pile of iron hubs
Initial shaping
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Letting off steam
Second tyre being hammered into place
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Field gun wheels
Drawknife in use
Close up of the hub
Using a rasp
Wheel awaiting a tyre
Detail of the wheel
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Using a press on the tyre
Welding a hub band
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Second tyre nearly in place
A 12 spoked wheel
Cleaning up the tyre
Cleaning up the weld
A wheel in need of repair
Fitting the hot tyre
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Close up of the clamping
Checking the tyre circumference
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
Wheel in position for the tyre
Cooling the hot tyre
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
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