Slightly OT, making new wooden wheels A nice photo essay about how Coker is making new wooden wheels:
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Re: Slightly OT, making new wooden wheels Great looking wheels. A true craftsman.
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Re: Slightly OT, making new wooden wheels Thanks for the link. mot too many people making wood wheels these days. I was lucky and found a guy 90 miles from Cheyenne who built a set for my 1910 Overland a few years ago.
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It was curious to see the men using a bumper jack to spread the wood felloe halves apart so that they could hammer in the hub assembly with spokes attached. Henry Ford assembled the spokes into the two wood felloe halves first, then proceeded with the rest, the hubs and steel rims. No spreading of the felloe was needed by Ford. The Ford way is the same way that I have built my wheels.
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Re: Slightly OT, making new wooden wheels There is an Armish guy that does a fantastic job on wooden wheels. Drop over to the MTFCA site and someone can lead you to him.
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Re: Slightly OT, making new wooden wheels Chief said folks with wooden wheels would take every opportunity to drive into/across a creek, in the HOT summertime.
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Re: Slightly OT, making new wooden wheels sure looks like beautiful work. Its deffinately a lost/dying art but glad to see young people in the video doing it! Dont even wanna begin to guess on a price...
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Re: Slightly OT, making new wooden wheels d.j. mordigians' Mother lived next door to me, I ACTUALLY drove her HUGE '26 Studebaker around the block, on HUGE wooden wheels!!! From the FACTORY, "ASTHMA" only had 2 wheel BRAKES & lots of other UNUSUAL features! It even had an ODD, 6 cylinder, firing order! AND, its' OIL pump was driven off the rear of the GENERATOR!
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Re: Slightly OT, making new wooden wheels SS your Kissel is a beauty!
thanks for sharing the photo. always wanted to own a brass car with over 40hp. |
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