European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Checking the tyre circumference
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Initial shaping
Fitting the hot tyre
Welding a tyre
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
The second tyre being hammered in place
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Detail of the wheel
Spot welding
Applying a hot tyre
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Cleaning up the felloes
Sawing off the spoke ends
Fitting the felloes together
Welding
Field gun wheels
Welding the tyre joint
Welding a hub band
Sawing off the spoke ends
Cooling the hot tyre
Shaping with a drawknife
Close up of the clamping
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Cleaning up the tyre
Welding the tyre
Using a chipping hammer
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Close up of the hub
Letting off steam
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Drawknife in use again.
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Shaping an adze handle
Trimming the felloes
Cooling down
Using a press on the tyre join
Welding the tyre
Clamped in place for tyring
Hammering the tyre into place
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Second tyre being hammered into place
Drawknife in use
Using a rasp to shape a notch
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Dampening the flames
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