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