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