Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Tail vice and dog
Adzes awaiting handles
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Welding the tyre joint
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Welding the tyre
Fitting the hot tyre
Initial shaping
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
The hot tyre in place
Drawknife in use shaping
Shaping with a rasp
A pile of iron hubs
Close up of the hub
The first stage in shaping
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Clamping the wheel down
A taper auger
Cleaning up the tyre
Field gun wheels
Fitting the felloes together
Cleaning up the felloes
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Applying a hot tyre
Drawknife in use
Hammering the tyre into place
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Close up of the clamping
A wheel in need of repair
Field gun wheels
Boring a hub with a taper auger
A 12 spoked wheel
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Drawknife in use again.
A few finishing taps
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Using a press on the tyre join
Cleaning up
Wheel in position for the tyre
Wheel awaiting a tyre
Still cooling off.
The second tyre being hammered in place
Cleaning up the weld
Welding a hub band
Cooling the tyre down
European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Tyre nearly in place
Using a rasp
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
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