European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Clamped in place for tyring
Boring a hub the traditional way
Cooling the hot tyre
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Drawknife in use
Trimming the felloes
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Using a chipping hammer
Welding the tyre
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Welding the tyre
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Cleaning up
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Welding the tyre
Second tyre being hammered into place
Detail of the wheel
Fitting the hot tyre
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Welding
Letting off steam
Cleaning up the tyre
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Cleaning up
A few finishing taps
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Using a press on the tyre join
Close up of the clamping
Sawing off the spoke ends
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Drawknife in use shaping
Shaping an adze handle
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
The second tyre being hammered in place
Using a press on the tyre
Shaping with a drawknife
Cooling down
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
A wheel in need of repair
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Checking the tyre circumference
Field gun wheels
Using a rasp
Tail vice and dog
The first stage in shaping
Cleaning up the weld
Cleaning up the tyre
Shaping with a rasp
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Wheel awaiting a tyre
Cleaning up the felloes
Applying a hot tyre
Drawknife in use
Second tyre nearly in place
Wheel in position for the tyre
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Shaping with a rasp
Close up of the hub
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