Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Cleaning up the tyre
Applying a hot tyre
Letting off steam
Preparing the wheel for tyring
The hot tyre in place
Drawknife in use shaping
Using a press on the tyre join
Shaping an adze handle
Second tyre being hammered into place
An interesting wheel!
Shaped handles just made.
Drawknife in use
Using a press on the tyre
Cleaning up the weld
Cooling the tyre down
Field gun wheels
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Wheel in position for the tyre
A pile of iron hubs
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Using a chipping hammer
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Welding the tyre joint
Shaping with a rasp
Tyre nearly in place
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
The second tyre being hammered in place
Hammering the tyre into place
Cooling down
Cooling the hot tyre
A 12 spoked wheel
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Sawing off the spoke ends
Close up of the clamping
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Drawknife in use
Still cooling off.
Detail of the wheel
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Shaping with a drawknife
Welding the tyre
Fitting the felloes together
Marking out a felloe
Sawing off the spoke ends
Initial shaping
Adzes awaiting handles
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
An example of the wheelwrights art
Boring a hub the traditional way
A taper auger
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Second tyre nearly in place
European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Shaping with a rasp
Welding
Welding a hub band
Welding a tyre
Spot welding
Drawknife in use
The first stage in shaping
Welding the tyre
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Checking the tyre circumference
A wheel in need of repair
Clamping the wheel down
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Trimming the felloes
Dampening the flames
Field gun wheels
Fitting the hot tyre
Cleaning up
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Cleaning up the felloes
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Tail vice and dog
Welding the tyre
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Welding a hub band
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Drawknife in use again.
Using a rasp
An example of wheel making in the past
Cleaning up the tyre
Clamped in place for tyring
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