My friend Joel is a certified arborist. For his day job, he works for a tree care company and manages several crews. When they cut down a tree that Joel likes, he takes the wood home and makes them into really cool bowls. This gives him access to many types of woods and gives him a way to recycle. I have joined him a few times to try making a bowl myself. The past few times I have gone to his shop, he has been trying to fix the flat tire from his wheelbarrow. He has tried a handful of solutions from tire repair kits to filling the tire with foam. These solutions never worked too well, so he resorted to what he knows best: spinning wood on his lathe. He started with a very thick piece of plywood and cut it into a circle with his trusty band saw. He then put it on his lathe and lathed away.
As you can see, it always ends up with a huge pile of woodshavings. You can really see them flying off.
The wheel is almost finished. We then drilled a hole in it and put the axle back in...
and voila! The wheelbarrow is as good as new with a wheel that won't be going flat anytime soon.
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