wooden wheel making .wheelwrights. 

My grandfather was a blacksmith and wheelwright in Eudunda, South Australia from 1890. My mother remembered watching him and his tradesmen making the wheels in his workshop before she went off to school in the mornings. Thank you for a wonderful insight into some of my ancestor's trade.

This video brings back fond memories, my father was the last wheelwright in our area when I was a small boy seventy five years ago. He ran a long founded family business of joiners, wheelwrights, and undertakers. Everything made was done by hand or with hand operated basic machinery, no power tools whatsoever. The local blacksmith rented his workshop from my father and the blacksmith made and fitted the metal tyres or rims to the wheels, as well as shoeing big Shire and Clydesdale cart horses. I vividly remember the smoke and smell of fitting the rims as well as the smoke and smell of the blacksmith bedding in hot shoes to the horses hooves. His rims were forge and anvil welded and riveted, not electric arc as in this video.

My Great, Great, Great Grandfather was a Wheelwright. He was also blind. Loved watching.

Nice video. I've done quite a bit of family history research. In 1836 my 4x great grandad, William Henshaw who was a blacksmith, and his brother who was a wheelwright set up the Stockport Lurry Works on Wellington Road North, Heaton Norris. They made tradesman's vehicles, and did repairs. They sold to all parts of the country, and were even known overseas too. The company was carried on by William's son, grandson, and I think great grandson too. Thank you.

Thank you much for keeping up this historical heritage.marvellous and precise job.

Настолько тонкое и точное это мастерство ! Карандашом несколько раз проводят, так как с 3-х раз будет среднеарифметический и оптимальный размер- линия спила. Всё я пропускаю через себя и восхищаюсь глубоким умением большого мастера ! Браво!

I'm in the process of making my own 2/3 scale wagon for our garden. I'm amazed at how something that looks so simple is actually quite a complex undertaking. I never would have even attempted it without the great help of RU-vid clips like this. It's much easier to do things after you've seen how a master does it. Thanks so much for taking the time and energy to share your knowledge.

Wonderful seeing the old crafts, the wheelrights were very skilful. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Bloody excellent, and never a word spoken til the very end. Beautifully filmed, too. There was a wheelwright in my village when I were a lad - you've taken me back 75 years ! What pleasure you've given to thousands.

I always thought of RU-vid as just being entertainment but after watching this Video i realized it were a lot more than that. It has effectively saved an old craft from slipping into history. There was a time when to make a wooden wheel would take a 3-4 yr apprenticeship and all of the knowledge was passed down by hands on teaching. But through videos like this these crafts will never be lost. Thankyou

Great video. True Craftsmanship.

No wonder this profession earned it's practitioners respectable last names... Wheelwright and Cartwright. Not an easy job at all! Great to see it preserved.

I am a retired Joiner but this is truly at another level, this has been an Honour to watch and I take my hat off to you. Thank you - Brian.

Back in the good ole days, all of the carriages, horse drawn, and horse lessons, all had wooden wheels, by Golly!

The very first ancestor of mine (William Goose [Ganz/Gans]) in Kentucky was Kentucky's first wheelwright. He made wagons and wheels for the pioneer families, even including cousin Daniel Boone. This is why I was grateful to see this film and understand more of the skills my ancestors had over 230+ years ago. I appreciate that this video did not have explanations because countless videos have audio or language issues. There was pure skill in the workmanship of the wheel that was made in the video. I further appreciated that we only had to see a few of the things that we know he had to repeat all of the way around. It kept the video moving forward. Thanks for sharing the valuable and historical skills. Best wishes, Brennan

Bravo à ce Monsieur qui avec des outils traditionnelle et capable de faire ce travail , tout a la main . Prenez en de la graine messieurs les ingénieurs, qui avec vos super ordinateur et vos machines numérique , vous êtes encore capable de faire des pièces défectueuses . Honte à vous ,et respect a ce Monsieur .

Great to see a REAL video to learn from. NO SYNTH & DRUM garbage music, or any music. Just what I needed to watch! There are some beautiful machines in that shop! Note, the guy still has all his fingers, there's a REAL craftsman right there.

if this is not the art of wheelmaking -- then nothing is!! thank you for the show and for the video.

Thank you for posting such a great video. I was glued to the screen. So many small marking details that are so important for the final wheel to come out perfect. A trade that is not shown enough around the world. Once again a massive thanks

Прекрасное видео я вернулся на 50 лет в прошлое, мой отец так делал колёса для колхозных телег, только разница он делал всё это вручную и из дуба. А технологические операции одни и те же.Спасибо за видео Beautiful video I went back 50 years in the past, my father made wheels for collective farm carts, only the difference is that he did it all by hand and from oak. And the technological operations are the same.Thank you for the video

Wow! This is a video to archieve safely , in a vault , so we don t forget how it s made. And the perfect sound of that well crafted wooden wheel bouncing on the ground is music to my ear! Bravo!

My grandfather made wheels back in the forties using nothing but hand tools, no electricity in rural areas of Ireland at the time. Not only did he make the wheels he made the entire cart. People using ONLY hand tools back then were the real craftsmen . Hard laborious work, good memories.

Nice work, not hurry but quality! GLORY TO WORKER'S HANDS!

Настолько тонкое и точное это мастерство ! Карандашом несколько раз проводят, так как с 3-х раз будет среднеарифметический и оптимальный размер- линия спила. Всё я пропускаю через себя и восхищаюсь глубоким умением большого мастера ! Браво! Также- инструменты и машины - всё есть. У настоящего мастера ! Thank you .

Przyjemnie zobaczyć jak to robią mistrzowie. Thank you very much !

As the gaps on the wheel were closing the gap in my mouth opened, wow good craftsmanship as well as good video editing. Brilliant work all-round and thank you for no music.

My great grandfather duplicated antique furniture in a shop with much similar equipment. As a child I played with the oak shavings from the floor. Today as I approach my retirement years I am building out my own shop and developing my own skills with craftsman and arts and crafts furniture design. We need more of this. These skills will be lost without a new generation of apprentices. The products a craftsman can produce often will last several generations providing people appreciate and care for them. Thank you for sharing your exceptional skills and craftsmanship. Thank you for the journey back down memory lane! Absolutely wonderful.

Прекрасная работа настоящего колёсного мастера и профессионала!!! Как будто окунулся в счастливое детство

The most skilfull woodwork I have ever seen some of the tools used are so traditional, the ability of the tradesman is exceptional and the confidence in his measures so exact. I have to say that this video should be put in a capsule for th future.

UN MESTER CARE LUCREAZA CU HAR DE LA DUMNEZEU MESTER FOARTE PRICEPUT SI PRETIOS.BRAVO.

Excellent Video I'am a motor engineer from a blacksmith and farrier fore fathers and used watch my father and grand father making the iron rims and fitting them to farm cart wheels. Your workshop is amazing and all the tools of the trade have not been lost. Better than the TV.

Не перевелись ещё мастера ,живо ещё доброе старое ремесло . Большое спасибо за сёмку.

A privilege to view such craftsmanship. Thank You.

Gran maestro .no existen.palabras para felicitarte .tienes un talento maravilloso ojala tus hijos y nietos sigan tu legado ,.un abrazo y agradecimiento .desde chile comuna y cuna de el folclor.san Bernardo.para tu pais

Gupta say this is a piece of art ….I to am a self thought trades person who started out building houses then on to cabinets and then stairs that I gained a lot of nuggets from other trades people ,as life went on ,then I can,t forget to mention when I would go to bed and thank God for my health and strength and for a safe day then into my sleep I would go …..a lot of my question on how to do things would come to me in my sleep 💤 but this wheel building thing has captured my eye I, am 75 years old and want to try this …way ta go guzz I,am impressed … be sure to thank God for your knowledge and keep rolling , and if you haven’t excepted him as your saviour please don’t leave it to late .. He loves you John 3 :16

My grandmother told me about my great-grandfather who was a „Stellmacher“, a wheelwright in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany. At that time all this work was done with handtools, e.g. spokeshaves and a shaving-horse. Thank you for the memories that fantastic video brought to me!

Great video. And thanks for not ruining it with obnoxious music

Charron, un des plus beaux métiers que je connaisse, travail du bois et du métal ! Et imaginez , le temps où le bois était usiné à la main, sans machine électrique, et le métal soudé à la forge... Merci Monsieur de nous avoir montré votre Savoir-faire devenu rare, tellement rare 🖐️ Joli reportage ! 🙏💐👍

Дай бог Вам здоровья, спасибо за такое видео, многие и не знают что раньше эти колеса на брички ставили. А на телегах передвигались и груз возили

I'm an amateur wood worker and I have to say this is the best and most enjoyable 35 minutes or so I've had in a long time. There's just one problem....it makes me realise just what an amateur I really am.

Уважаю таких людей, которые сами делают, на совесть на века, мужик талант

What you do is amazing, my jaw was on the ground the entire video.. Great job

My grandfather started to work in his brother's cart workshop in 1927, when he was 14. At these times they were turning the bandsaw by hand - the senior apprentice on a lower wheel, my granddad on the upper wheel and the master cutting. Later he used to turn wheelhubs on a foot-driven turning machine, like the oldstyle sewing machines. They used to joke with my Granny about him, kickin all night in his dreams. He worked as a carpenter all his life and died at 81.

Интересная технология, никогда раньше не видел. Спасибо за познавательное видео!

Thanks! Brings back lots of memories.My dad did this as an extra income on our farm. There was no electricity, and everything shown in your video had to be done by hand with handtools, which I still have most of. The metal band was bought in straight lengths, and had to be heated in a furnace section by section and formed into a hoop on the anvil and hammer. The ends were then heated to almost melting point (sparks shooting out of the ends) and then fused together by hammering into shape. Dried cowpats worked best for heating up the hoop, which was my job to go and pick up in the veld.

I used to love to go to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee to DollyWood and watch the WHEEL WRIGHTS and the GREEN-SAND CASTORS, and the BROOM MAKERS do their crafts. There's just something about watching someone do it the old way without automation! Realizing this was the way it was done all the time before machines were made to do it fast. THANK YOU FOR YOUR CRAFT and for making and posting this video. And thanks for using the actual background noises instead of music drowning it out. Folk now-a-days don't understand, that when you're watching crafts, yiu NEED to hear the sounds made doing it. That's part of it. If yiu ate chili, it catches the occasional poot, too. Folks use music instead of actual sounds and I just turn off the sound all together, so if they say something, I'll never know it.

Hi steveibean. I am from a little village in central Morocco, where a europeen do same thing in the past, infortunatly there was no relieving. for this reason I am so happy for young man in the end of video. Congratulations for this great job. Thank you very mutch for sharing your own science. God bless you !!!!!

There are no words to explain this wonderful activity. Wish this team long live!

I remember watching this being done back in the 1980's on a PBS program, but, in that program it took a team of craftsmen to make a wheel like this. I love watching this kind of project from start to finish. And I get cocky about replacing the rotted trim on my backyard shed. Oh, I'm a girl. I do all the traditional (from my era "traditional") girl stuff, sewing, cooking. But, when I was a teen, I wanted to take "shop" classes, but for girls "it just wasn't done" back then.

golden hands god bless you .thanx for this video i ve alwas wondered my self how a whhel just frow wood could travel all usa east to the far west in those western films .i had to waite 50 years to know that art .thanx master

Watched them being made several times at DOLLYWOOD. Really enjoyed the square hole being drilled in this video. A craftsman like this really helped us get out west.

Nice to see the old trades still being undertaken. My great grandfather and grandfather were wheelwrights in Salford Quays Manchester and my father described them making a wheel just as in the video. I have inherited manual skills and was the only person I know who did A level Woodwork. My Grandfather closed the business before I was an adult so I never had a chance to see it.

Apsolutely riveting viewing from start to finish, I have subscribed and going back to view all others. I’m a carpenter for the last 45 years and still love watching other trades working 👍

Смотрел на одном дыхание Дедок МАСТЕР с БОЛЬШОЙ буквы . Здорово!!!!!!!!

Great job .Love to see craftsmen like this. My Grandfather worked for Guinness in Dublin as a Cooper ( Barrel Maker ) Another dying trade.

очень хорошая работа.на каждый процесс есть приспособление , работа мастера всей жизни...

I don’t know if you might call that last step “shoeing” the wheel, but it was so satisfying to watch.

Beautiful work and amazing woodworking machines. It never fails to amaze watching a truly fine craftsman. Thanks.

Очень интересно было наблюдать за технологией изготовления колеса, видеть приспособления! Большое вам спасибо!

The mark of a master craftsman is making a difficult job look easy , & this is a perfect demonstration of this .

Craftsmanship of the highest order. Well worth a repeat viewing.

Very good video and detailed work steps. Master of the manufacturer and also good director and filmmaker. Beautifully made instructions.

BLESSED ARE THESE HANDS AND HEART - THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR KNOWLEDGE. ALL THE WAY FROM BRAZIL.

Благодарю. Веимательно просмотрел видео. Неожиданно-приятно увидеть изготовление колеса к повозке. Впервые просмотрел процесс создание исчезающей культуры старины. Здесь современные станки и задаюсь вопросом - как делали предки наши и в разных странах ? Мастерство восхищает знаниями и умением изготовления колеса. Ошеломлен тому, что знания еще есть на Земле. Знают - ли люди о производстве полностью телеги ?. Удивительные мастера и очень редкие люди Земли. Желаю счастья, рабостей, здоровья дорогим мастерам

A real pleasure to watch someone that knows what they are doing.

Beautiful! Inspiring, to think about the whole evolution of the wheel!

Absolutely fascinating to watch. I came on just to take a glimpse and was riveted to the screen to the very end. You, sir, are a master craftsman.

Wow!! Ever since as a little boy, I've always wondered how do they make the wagon wheels. Now I know. I'm sure just to make one wheel it take 100 hours or so, maybe more. But great job!! This is a dying tradition. Not many people do this anymore.

Talk about quality, newbies should learn from the masters such as this guy. Cheers!!!

Thank you for showing me how you build a cart wheel! Amazing work!

You are the man, what amazing skill and craftmanship. I loved the video especially as there was no inain background music. Thank you for sharing this with us.

WOW!!! Imagine this having to be done in the olden days with ni power tools? They STILL did it to perfection, even though it may have taken much longer, the craftsmanship was held at a much higher standard. They knew people's lives and livelyhoods were on the line and in their hands. I've always been fasinated at how thuis was done. Thank you so much for this awesome video tutorial!

I love watching videos like this because it's so much fun. High skill. Thanks for sharing this video.

ESTO ES LO QUE ME PREGUNTABA DE NIÑO,CUANDO VEÍA LOS CARROS ANDAR. MUCHAS GRACIAS GENIOS.NO OLVIDEN QUE ES EL LEGADO QUE HOY PUEDEN CONTINUAR LOS QUE AMAN LA ARTESANÍA. DIOS LOS BENDIGA!

Super robota !!! Nawet sobie człowiek nie zdaje sprawy ile to pracy trzeba poświęcić żeby takie koło zrobić!!! Super sprawa fachowiec :)

Great work you are a craftsmen in art that goes back to invention of the wheel. You must feel like a member of a special tribe with huge history. Steel pins in the felloes means it must be a strong wheel. I suppose the hub bearing is wheel specific we did not see that being fitted but customer may want bearings or plain greased shaft. We truly stand on the shoulders of giants, without wheels like this in the past we would not be watching this now. Thank You enjoyed a lot.

How those old timers did it without modern tools is anybody's guess. They must surely had lots of apprentice help, each assigned a specific task, like carving spokes, boring mortises, etc. Sharp tools would be a must have in the shop. A lathe could be powered by boys, I would think. The master would have to teach the gents exactly how to do the job. Did they have some sort of band saw to cut the wheel rim ? If I could go back to 1850, or so, my questions would be answered. What a way to make a living, but truly honest work.

Bravo à cet artisan, et j'admire encore plus les charrons qui faisaient des roues de grande taille , 2 mètres et plus, sans avoir toutes ces machines modernes. Outils à bois et forge. Chapeau !

Thank You for a fine show of true craftsmanship.. Your collection of special machinery is awesome, and your quiet competence is even more so. God Bless You.

Nice. Before this type of machineries people done this by on hand. Salute them.

Great job, love those tools !! One of my passion it's work with wood, I remember when I was kid around 8 years old an old men had his carpentry shop and I always watched him working from a window since that time I said one day I will be a carpenter and thanks to God for giving me the opportunity, I am a carpenter know and I love it, I can spend hours and hours and never get tired .... God bless the wood workers!!!

Thanks for for taking the time to video and post this. The geometry seems so simple when it's laid out by someone who understands it. I especially admired your jigs and special tools. Watching this just eased the stress of a difficult day. I also applaud the lack of background music. Thanks again.

Мастер от Бога! Смотрю на его работу и понимаю, какая теплота и доброта от его рук вкладывется в его дело. Эту работу, заставляют делать не деньги, не финасовое благополучие, - это душа мастера. Удачи ВАМ, МАСТЕР, и благополучия!!! Храни Вас Бог!!!

Wow. 30 year cabinet maker here and i now want to make a wagon wheel. Very impressive...

Żeby zobaczyć jak się robi koło z drewna to trzeba mieć nie lada szczęście.Z wielką przyjemnością oglądałem ten film.Autorowi tego filmu życzę wszystkiego najlepszego.

Merci, Monsieur pour cette magnifique video, "food for the soul".

It was such a pleasure to watch this video. Steveibean, you have gold in your hands! Making such a wheel requires so much precision, so much skill. Simply incredible. I liked it from A to Z. Only the smell of wood was missing. Thank you for those nice moments where fascination makes you forget everything. This video is an efficient médicine against nervous breakdown or burn out. Should be paid back by social insurance.

Rien de meilleur que le fait maison, plus qu'à faire les trois autres roues de la même façon Et Ça va rouler!!! bravo !!! Good job !!!👍❤🏁

I'm Blown away..This guy is awesome.. Nice work.

Супер, работа супер мастера!!! Спасибо, с превеликим удовольствием посмотрел.

Мастерская работа! Всегда хотел знать, как же делают деревянные колёса. А ведь 100 лет назад и автомобили на таких колёсах ездили, потрясающе!

Мой дед, обод колеса гнул из цельного бруса. Долго обрабатывал паром и гнул, а стык соединял стальными накладками по бокам и сверху железный обруч. Ступицу, делал полностью ручным инструментом. Станков у него не было... До сих пор хранится телега, сделанная моим дедом, в отличном состоянии!

Hi, absolutely facinating workmanship, my great grandfather was a wheelwright, I came back home after years of travelling, and I live by the stream he used, to cool the band. Thanks for sharing

That is an amazing skill. One could never imagine the amount of work and technique that goes into creating a single wagon wheel. And that's With modern machinery (i.e. plunge mortising) and arc welders etc. Nice work. Excellent Video.

уважение мастеру , крепкого здоровья, долголетия. и чтобы профессия не исчезла !

I;m fascinated at what man could do when he puts his mind to it !!!AWESOME VIDEO !!!

Absolutely fantastic. A joy to watch. There can’t be many about that can do that anymore. Thanks for that. 😊👍

Қандай шебер, тамаша! Мың жаса, көз қуанады қарап жұмысыңа

Отличная работа! Excelent work!!!

What a Skill I had the great pleasure of assisting my dad make a wheel like this nearly 70 years ago brought back great memories keep making great videos 😢🎉nc