Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Clamping the wheel down
Drawknife in use
Cooling the hot tyre
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Cleaning up
Trimming the felloes
Using a press on the tyre
Welding the tyre
Cleaning up the felloes
Sawing off the spoke ends
Second tyre nearly in place
Field gun wheels
Welding the tyre
Initial shaping
Using a rasp
An example of the wheelwrights art
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Tail vice and dog
Applying a hot tyre
Letting off steam
Clamped in place for tyring
Dampening the flames
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Using a chipping hammer
European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Fitting the hot tyre
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Checking the tyre circumference
Cleaning up with the drawknife
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Drawknife in use shaping
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Tyre nearly in place
Second tyre being hammered into place
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Cleaning up the weld
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Detail of the wheel
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Shaping an adze handle
The first stage in shaping
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
Close up of the hub
Using a press on the tyre join
Close up of the clamping
Cleaning up
Marking out a felloe
Spot welding
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Still cooling off.
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Welding
Wheel in position for the tyre
A wheel in need of repair
Drawknife in use
Cooling the tyre down
A taper auger
Shaping with a rasp
Shaped handles just made.
Cleaning up the tyre
Adzes awaiting handles
Drawknife in use again.
The second tyre being hammered in place
A pile of iron hubs
Fitting the felloes together
Wheel awaiting a tyre
An interesting wheel!
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Shaping with a rasp
Welding the tyre
Welding a hub band
Welding the tyre joint
Cooling down
Trimming with a drawknife
Welding a tyre
Cleaning up the tyre
Hammering the tyre into place
Welding a hub band
The hot tyre in place
Drawknife in use
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
A 12 spoked wheel
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Boring a hub the traditional way
A few finishing taps
An example of wheel making in the past
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Sawing off the spoke ends
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Shaping with a drawknife
Field gun wheels
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