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