European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Wheel in position for the tyre
Marking out a felloe
Fitting the hot tyre
Cleaning up the tyre
Drawknife in use
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Hammering the tyre into place
Sawing off the spoke ends
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Cleaning up
A pile of iron hubs
An interesting wheel!
Initial shaping
Still cooling off.
Using a press on the tyre
Welding a tyre
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Cooling down
Applying a hot tyre
Clamping the wheel down
A taper auger
A 12 spoked wheel
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Using a rasp
Drawknife in use shaping
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Close up of the clamping
Fitting the felloes together
Cleaning up the felloes
Using a press on the tyre join
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Field gun wheels
A wheel in need of repair
Tyre nearly in place
Welding the tyre joint
Shaping with a rasp
Close up of the hub
Dampening the flames
Trimming the felloes
Second tyre being hammered into place
Cleaning up the tyre
Welding the tyre
Welding a hub band
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Welding the tyre
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Sawing off the spoke ends
Field gun wheels
Welding the tyre
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Checking the tyre circumference
Wheel awaiting a tyre
Welding a hub band
The hot tyre in place
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Second tyre nearly in place
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