Threshing set wheels replacement or repairer.

[windmiller78]

Originally Posted by 00000

Adam , what would a set of wooden wheels cost for a portable say, or a drum? Not related to this, but i've always wondered. You can PM me if you like.

depends on thickness of the rim and what you want them made in, when I did mine I used top quality air dry oak then kilned it, decent ash is hard to come by and if damp or muddy it just rots or shrinks..... at least with the oak its dry and stable (I specially selected it.... but if I had to buy the timber at commercial rates, joinery grade oak in 6" thickness to make the fellies would be around 900/ wheel kilned, I recon I could make a wheel in 3 days, dependant on the spokes, I borrowed a mates copy lathe for mine.... but still had to saw blanks out.
I know a man who had a marshall drum re wheeled in timber at a reasonably decent wheelwrights in dorset and it was over £1500/ wheel....
not many wheelwrights like doing heavy wheels, they much prefer the lighter carriage stuff.
i'd do m own wheels but tbh I've enough on with 2 waterwheels and an oak garden room to finish by next week but if some one was stuck..... and was prepared to wait....