Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Second tyre being hammered into place
Sawing off the spoke ends
Cleaning up the felloes
Tail vice and dog
Using a press on the tyre join
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Drawknife in use
A few finishing taps
Applying a hot tyre
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Cooling the hot tyre
Second tyre nearly in place
An interesting wheel!
Tyre nearly in place
Cleaning up the weld
Cooling down
Field gun wheels
Wheel in position for the tyre
Welding a hub band
A 12 spoked wheel
Cleaning up
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Close up of the hub
Welding the tyre joint
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Clamping the wheel down
Cleaning up the tyre
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Initial shaping
Welding
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Shaping with a drawknife
A taper auger
Fitting the hot tyre
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Welding the tyre
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Hammering the tyre into place
Using a rasp
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Shaping with a rasp
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Checking the tyre circumference
Trimming with a drawknife
Drawknife in use
Still cooling off.
An example of wheel making in the past
Cleaning up the tyre
Trimming the felloes
A wheel in need of repair
Welding the tyre
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Field gun wheels
Dampening the flames
The first stage in shaping
Shaping an adze handle
Marking out a felloe
Drawknife in use
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
The second tyre being hammered in place
Close up of the clamping
Drawknife in use shaping
Detail of the wheel
Cooling the tyre down
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Welding the tyre
Shaping with a rasp
Drawknife in use again.
Fitting the felloes together
European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Using a chipping hammer
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Clamped in place for tyring
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
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