Making a Wooden Carriage wheel Pt3
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- The last in a series of three videos showing how to make a wooden wagon wheel. In this video we show how to heat up the tyre and shrink it onto the wooden wheel
produced by www.heritagecraft.co.uk
I am delighted to people are watching and finding it interesting
Three interesting videos of an historical craft. Great stuff!
That's so interesting, I love all kinds of old style craftsmanship :) just found this channel *subscribed*
Great talent, nice nature and hope I get the chance to make a set
Hi, I am a Newfoundlander. Both my grandfather and my great grandfather were wheelwrights. They had a lot of handmade tools, but unfortunately my grandfather ended up with Alzheimers and ended up burning and destroying most of the tools. My dad has the hollow auger that you used to trim up the spokes and he also has the draw knives and the spoke shaver. He had a huge forge with a very large billows to fire the furnace. (continued in next post)
(continued) The bilows was about 12 x 20 feet. He bend up the iron rim with his bare hands and hot welded the rim to band the band. He heated up the iron band in the furnace until it was red then placed it over the wheel and poured the water on it. He used witch-hazel wood for the hub. I'm uncertain as to what type of wood he used for the spokes and the felloes (maybe birch or maple??). I found your videos very interesting. Thanks!
Thanks - very helpful.
P.S. I think there may be a wheelwright demo at this years (2013) Bodgers Ball at Wimpole Hall.
The smaller the diameter of the hoop the smaller it expands in the fire. On something that small I would only go closer to an 1/8th as you wont get much expansion. An alternative which I understand they do in australia is to cut the hoop, spot weld a nut either side of the cut with a piece of stud running between them, and then tighten it up to close the gap, which you then weld shut. Then grind off the spot welds. Not as much fun as doing it in the fire, but small hoops are always a challenge
Thank you, My family name is maker of the wheel, Charron, and I been searching for nice how to videos about it cause I would like to make a wheel in the tradition of my Family Heritage.
You are correct the once you have rolled and cut the tyre to size you weld the ends together. These days I use an arc welder, the old timers used to fire weld it
One of the most interesting videos on RUclips!
I wonder if anyone has ever fitted spoked "tyres" likes this to modern cars? I know there were some spoked wheels made for automobiles back in the early 1900s, but with the young people putting 26 inch wheels on cars, it's a wonder they don't place wooden spoked wheels like yours on them. ;) Who knows... might be a fad soon.
Check out whistlin diesel. He put buggy wheels on a dodge charger
all hand made, nice. thanks. :)
Very interesting...are ancestors worked very hard!
Hi Thanks for a great video. I have a metal hooped beetle mallet - the hoops are hand forged circa 8 inches in diameter and as I need to make a new head,I was wondering if I could shrink the hoops on in the same way. Do you think it would work if I make the diameter of the wooden head a quarter inch more than the diameter of the cold hoops? Or would you use a different method / diameter? Thanks Harry
Once you have sized the "tire", is it welded together before it gets heated?
In the early days they didn't use bearings. Nothing was going very far or very fast so didn't really need it. Now days some modern carriages are using roller bearings, but not in traditional vehicles. Thanks for watching
It depend upon how much you use them. An average wheel probably doesnt get used that much so will need a rubber tyre fitted every 10-15 years, but some last much longer. If however you are operating every day on roads then the rubber will need replacing sooner, just like on your car.
The actual structure of wheel providing its kept dry and free from woodworm will last for a very long time, I have seen some 2-300 years old, and I like to think the ones I make could potentially last that long.
You my freind, are a genious. :-)
Thanks for the vid!
Finally I have seen a tyring plate on the internet. Seems the Americans and Euros use a flattened stone area to set the tyre on the wheel.I am assuming yours is cast iron. I have 2 of these plates. 5 foot in diameter with a 2 foot hole in the middle and 2 inches thick.Both of mine were random discoveries. One at an old crossroads which was being enlarged to a super huge major intersection and the other I found half buried in an old gold mining area near Melbourne in Australia.
How did you joint the ends of the metal to make a solid band
Greasy J's Rubber Trails Arc welding
Heritage Craft How did they join the ends in the 1700s?
In the old days they forge welded the ends and then used a variety of stretching tools to get the rim the correct size. Very hard work and very skilful
tengo un museo en la patagonia y la intencion e restaurar un wagon estudebaker. me sirve el video para ver omo hacer las ruedas. gracias.
I would have liked to see a closeup of the steel tire shrinking and tightening as it was cooled.
Fair point. it was my very first video, might be time to revisit and do another one to see if I can improve on it. thanks for watching tom
I was going to try to rebuild the outer wooden pieces from my cannon wheel, but after watching your videos, I realized this is a job for an expert! Nice work.
can i order two for my honda hornet?
What is the name of the cast iron base for doing this job please?
I know it as a wheel plate, they dont come up very often and when they do there always worth grabbing. You dont need one, when I am working away from my workshop I have done it using a palette to hold the wheel flat. The best version I ever saw was a guy who had very a very substantial table with a 10mm thick metal top. It was good and solid and meant you didnt have to keep bending down, so the ideal version would be a old wheel plate but supported at about 400mm
@@heritagecraft Thanks that is great. I am writing about one being scrapped in the 1950's by a local gypsy family. The husband got the wife to 'swing the hammer' to smash it up. Sad, but that happened a lot I guess.
I think my Renault Laguna had these wheels
Ruedas para decoración, no para trabajo.