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