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