European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Cleaning up
Drawknife in use
Applying a hot tyre
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Using a press on the tyre
Letting off steam
An interesting wheel!
Cleaning up the tyre
Cleaning up with the drawknife
A few finishing taps
Cooling the tyre down
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Using a press on the tyre join
Welding the tyre joint
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Cleaning up the felloes
Second tyre nearly in place
Cleaning up the tyre
Shaping with a rasp
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Shaping an adze handle
Close up of the hub
Drawknife in use again.
Shaping with a rasp
Sawing off the spoke ends
Trimming the felloes
Dampening the flames
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Clamping the wheel down
Field gun wheels
A wheel in need of repair
A taper auger
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Sawing off the spoke ends
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
A pile of iron hubs
Cooling the hot tyre
Welding a hub band
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Cleaning up the weld
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