Nowadays, there are many options for how to decorate your summer cottage. One such option is wooden wheel from the cart. This element can add zest and make landscape design territory is special. This element is also great for country style. Now we will look step by step at the instructions for making this element from wood. Although the job requires certain skills and availability special tool However, if these two factors are present, you can save your money. You only have to spend money on the material.
So, to complete this element we need:
Jigsaw;
Electric planer or surface planer;
Grinder;
Milling cutter;
Screwdriver;
Scraps;
Chisel and mallet;
PVA glue, varnish, stain;
Self-tapping screws;
Drills for the self-tapping screws that you will use, as well as a 30 mm feather drill;
Ruler, square, pencil, compass, brush;
Wood (board 50 mm thick and 25 mm wide).
The first stage of work is making the pattern. It is necessary to draw in advance a drawing of the dimensions of the wheel that you plan to make. The diameter shown in the figure is 700 mm. Then four patterns are made, according to which semicircles are cut out of wood. These semicircles are cut out with a jigsaw.
When the four semicircles are ready, they need to be glued together. For this it will be better to use PVA glue. These four parts can be temporarily secured with a metal profile or beacon. While the glue dries, at this time you can work on the remaining spare parts of the wheel.
Using a compass, two identical circles with a diameter of 20–25 mm are drawn on a wooden board 30 mm thick and a block 50–60 mm thick. You can also prepare blanks for knitting needles. The length of the blanks depends on the size of your wheel. A total of 8 blanks are needed.
When the wheel is fastened and the glue has hardened, with inside wheels need to be made into 8 slots into which the spokes will subsequently be inserted. This operation is performed using a mallet and chisel. To make it easier to hollow out a tenon, you can use a feather drill or a milling cutter with a special attachment for selecting nests. The size of the sockets should correspond to the size of the knitting needles. Moreover, it will be better if the knitting needles do not fit freely into the nests, but on the contrary, they will have to be hammered in with a mallet.
Next, you need to carefully coat the nests with PVA glue and hammer wooden knitting needles into them. When the spokes are secured, we fit the wheel to the drawing in order to determine the exact middle and glue two circles on both sides. To further fasten the inner circle with the knitting needles, you can use self-tapping screws. Since gaps will form between the knitting needles, they need to be filled with wooden wedges, which can be made using a chisel or jigsaw.
To decorate the wheel and give it a little openwork look, you can use a cutter with a shaped attachment. For example, you can pay attention to the illustration, where the inner circle is processed with a figured cutter. Alternatively, the same can be done with all the knitting needles. Finally, using a screwdriver and feather drill A through hole is made 30 mm in the middle of the wheel.
Next, using a sander, all irregularities are removed from the surface of the wood. Some areas will be difficult to sand with a sander, so you will also have to use a regular one. sandpaper manually. For example, between the spokes. To facilitate this process, you can use an electric planer, thickness planer and sander in advance before fastening the parts, since the product is already sanded assembled form not very convenient. It can also be taken into account that this garden decoration, and that the wheel will be on the street. Therefore, there is no need to thoroughly polish the surface and make the product perfectly smooth.
After grinding the wheel, it must be opened with stain. You can choose the color of the stain at your discretion and taste. Some people don’t use stain at all because they like the color. natural wood, so they simply open it with varnish. However, stain serves more than just paint. She performs and protective function for wood. After you have stained the wheel, you need to varnish the product to add shine. This must be done in any case, regardless of whether you use stain or not.
You can rest assured that this element will perfectly decorate your personal plot. This highlight can bring comfort and tranquility to the landscape design of any area. A wooden wheel will look especially beautiful next to it clay pots with flowers, leaning on stone wall. This decoration goes well with natural materials.
If you want to pamper your child, the best toy for him will be a vehicle, especially if you have a boy, however, girls are also quite interested in this. The best option in this case, make a go-kart with an electric drive. In this instruction I will tell you how to make such a contraption in the easiest way.
We will use plywood as a base - this is a material accessible to many and easy to work with. And we will set the car in motion. As for wheels, wheels for garden carts and so on are quite suitable for these purposes. So, let's start manufacturing.
Materials and tools used
List of materials:
- plywood;
- 4 wheels;
- bearings;
- plexiglass;
- two bicycle sprockets and a chain;
- carriage from a bicycle wheel;
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- cable from a bicycle;
- screws with nuts and washers;
- self-tapping screws;
- dye;
- metal tubes (for steering rods);
- bolts, cogs, mounting angles and other small items.
List of tools:
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- drill;
- screwdriver;
- spanners and screwdrivers;
- drawing accessories;
- wood hacksaw;
- stationery knife and other.
Homemade manufacturing process:
Step one. We make the base and all the necessary parts
The base is made of plywood. First, the author made a mockup out of cardboard to make sure how everything would work. Then we transfer the drawing to plywood and cut it out using a jigsaw.
You will also need to cut out the pieces that will hold the wheels. The rear part is cut out in one piece, but the two front parts must be separate and each rotate on its own axis. So we will do steering. Secure these parts to the base using screws and nuts.
Step two. Steering installation
To make the steering, you will need three pipes, two of small diameter will be used as steering rods. We cut out a bracket from plywood under the “shaft” of the steering wheel; in the author’s case it has the shape of a trapezoid. We drill a hole in the part at an angle with a bat and then screw it to the base with self-tapping screws.
Next, we install a bracket on the steering shaft, to which we connect the steering rods. It is also made from plywood. The steering wheel is also cut out of plywood. What should happen in the end, look at the photo.
Step three. Let's prepare the wheels
Bearings need to be installed in the wheels, as plastic bushings will not last long. The author decided to get bearings from skateboard wheels. To make the seats, the author drove a nail into a stick, cut it to the required length and bored it seat. To carefully install the bearing in its place, use a bolt with a nut and washers. Bearings must be installed in all 4 wheels, do not forget to lubricate them.
Step four. Fastening the steering wheel
First, install a bracket made of plywood on the steering shaft. We attach it to the shaft using self-tapping screws or screws that are twisted perpendicular to the shaft. Next, we install the steering wheel on this bracket and fasten it with self-tapping screws to the bracket.
Step five. Installing the sprocket on the wheel
We take a sprocket from a bicycle and drill holes to bolt it to the wheel. We also drill holes in the wheel rim in the appropriate places. Well, now just screw the sprocket to the wheel.
Step six. Drive sprocket installation
The drive sprocket is attached to the axle from the bicycle wheel. For fastening you will need to make a special adapter; it can be made of PCB, plastic or other similar material.
Heat the fastening nut with a torch, and then press it into the plastic sheet, eventually it will melt into its seat. Draw a circle around the center and cut it out. Next, we clamp the part into the drill chuck and use files or a drill to form a circle.
Finally, we drill holes in the manufactured part and fasten the sprocket with screws and nuts.
Step seven. Final stages of assembly
Now you can install the drive wheel in place, put on the chain, and install the axle with the drive sprocket. Connect the screwdriver to the axle and try to turn it on. We attach the screwdriver using a special bracket, which is also made of plywood.
To control the kart, make a pedal out of plywood. To connect it to the “Shurik”, you will need a bicycle cable. We attach it to the screwdriver trigger with a loop that will tighten when you press the pedal.
Now all that's left is creativity, take a brush and paint the kart in any colors of your choice. When the paint dries, you can present this cool surprise to your child.
Today we will make a wooden wheel with our own hands, by the way, this wheel is quite suitable, both for the interior of a cottage or home, and for a functional wheel from a cart or horse-drawn cart, the principle of operation will be approximately the same.
Tools and material for making a wheel.
Tool:
— Screwdriver or shaped screwdriver
— Construction tape (meter)
— Circular saw, or jigsaw, or wood saw
— Construction corner 90 degrees
— Pencil or ball pen
— Protractor, regular school one
Material:
— Wooden beam
— Plywood half sheet
— White wood screws
As you probably understood in the tool you can use, ideally circular saw, if not, then a jigsaw, but if you don’t have that, then you can use a hacksaw for wood, it will take a long time, but it’s possible.
I hope you don’t have any questions based on the drawing; along the perimeter, all the bars are 37 cm, and the inner spokes of the wheel are 39 cm. During assembly, you may have to shorten the spokes a little, but this is not a fact.
Stages of making a wheel with your own hands
First stage
So, the first step will be the acquisition required timber, there are two options, either you buy a ready-made timber of the required size, or you process the timber using a circular saw. In our case, we purchased a ready-made timber measuring 3 meters long, 9 cm wide and 4.5 cm thick; this timber, if cut correctly, is enough for two wheels. 
Second phase
The second stage will be the production of blanks for the wheel body and spokes, let's start with the body, a total of 8 blanks are needed, they must be adjusted to the size - 37 cm long, 4 cm wide and 2 cm thick, Special attention pay attention to trimming (sawing) the lengths, they must be perfect, otherwise the future structure simply will not come together. 
We make knitting needles
Now we need to make knitting needles, as you already understood, there should also be 8 pieces, only the size is slightly different - 39 cm long, 2 cm wide and 2 cm thick. You can do one trick with the knitting needles, since they will close and connect into one whole, and then center themselves, then you can cut four knitting needles to 39 cm each, and the remaining four to 37 cm each. This will make it easier to connect. 
Now we need to cut off the ends of the body for further joining, be careful at this stage. Take one blank and place a mark at one end exactly 1.7 cm (17 mm.) 
Do the same procedure on the other side of the workpiece and draw a line from the mark to the corner, it should look like in the photo. 
Carefully cut the corners along the marked line, just take your time, these cuts determine how smoothly the workpieces will fit together. 
We produce fasteners
For now, we put all the processed parts aside and proceed to the manufacture of fasteners, the material in our case will be a plywood sheet, but you can also use leftovers from wooden beam. In total, you need to make 8 parts for fastening the body, 8 parts for the wheel spokes and one centering part (fasteners for the spokes in the center). Housing mounting part size - external sides 7 cm each, and the inner sides are 5 cm each, and the cutting angle is exactly 45 degrees. The size of the spoke fastening part is 8 cm long, 2.5 cm wide, look at the photo to see what you should get. 
We will do the centering for the spokes by outlining a can of putty in a circle. 
We cut it in a circle with a jigsaw and it turns out to be such a beauty. 
Assembling the body and spokes
Now we need to return to the body parts, prepare a flat surface and place all the parts next to each other, corner to corner, if you did everything correctly, then you should end up with a wheel edging like this. 
If everything fits together, then take the fastening blanks for the body and fasten them with white self-tapping screws. 
We screw it around the entire perimeter one by one, preferably clockwise, so as not to get confused. 
We divide each part of the body in half and apply it to the middle of the knitting needle, it should turn out like this. 
We fasten the knitting needles with fasteners. 
Well the finishing touch will tighten the centering to the spokes, thereby securing the entire structure as a whole. 
We hope that it was not difficult for you to make a wooden wheel with your own hands using these instructions. Handle finished surface You can use varnish, paint, stain, wax or any other method you wish.
For many summer residents, a country plot is not only a place where vegetables and fruits are grown, but also an area for recreation. Avid gardeners try in every possible way to improve it, decorate it, make it cozy and comfortable for living. That's why all sorts of things appear at dachas decorative mills, wells, carts - everything that pleases the eye and reminds of a real Russian village. Old wooden cart wheels are often used to decorate a site. They are used to make chandeliers, attached to homemade carts, or simply hung on the wall of a barn. The only negative is that a real wooden wheel is very difficult to find today. All of them had long been sold by enterprising peasants to their urban neighbors. There is nothing left to do but try to make a wooden cart wheel with your own hands. You will find out what we got out of this idea by reading this article.
We were lucky - we were able to get a real cart wheel. But one thing turned out to be not enough - the wheels fit well into the design summer cottage. Therefore, we decided to try to make another wooden wheel with our own hands. If it works out, you can then build a decorative cart and make an original chandelier.
So, we looked at the old copy and got to work.
DIY WOODEN WHEEL
Let's start with making the hub. This is the most complex element of the product. Only a very experienced master can do it at home. We took the simple route: we took wooden block measuring 10 by 10 cm, 60 cm long and went to the turner. It’s good that there are still people with this profession. From this block we machined 6 round blanks, similar to hockey pucks, with a diameter of 9.5 cm and a width of 8 cm. Inside, with a diameter of 5 cm, the hub is ready. Of course, this is just a decorative hub - in order to put it on the axle, you would have to grind out special protrusions. But there was no such goal, a wooden wheel is needed for...
On next stage we made a drawing of a wooden wheel in life size. The size of the hub was transferred to graph paper, the diameter of the product was determined to be 60 cm, the number of knitting needles was chosen to be 8. We drew everything on paper and measured the dimensions of the resulting parts.
Let's start making knitting needles. In the drawing they turned out to be equal to 19 cm. Let's take a wooden block measuring 5 by 5 cm and cut 8 pieces of 23 cm long from it. We will leave two cm on each side for dowels, with the help of which we will connect the spoke to the hub and jamb of the wheel. We process the bars with a plane, giving them a marketable appearance.
Now let's make dowels on the knitting needles. Mark 2 cm on each side of the block and use a hacksaw to make 1.5 cm cuts. With a sharp knife we will cut off the excess wood and shape the protrusions cylindrical diameter 2 cm.
To give the wooden wheel at least some design, let's process the spokes milling machine. Secure the block to the stool using a clamp and cut off the edges on four sides.
The next step is the manufacture of the so-called wooden wheel jambs. According to the drawing, we will have 8 of them. Let's take White list paper and transfer the drawing of one joint onto it. This will be the template.
Let's select a board 5 cm thick. The width of the board should be no less than the length of the jamb. We attach the sheet with the drawing to the board and trace the drawing with a pencil, applying a little force. You can use carbon paper, but in our case we did without it. Having removed the piece of paper, we trace the outline of the jamb imprinted on the board. Using a jigsaw, carefully cut out 8 pieces and sand them with a grinder.
The shoals have a complex geometric shape, the quality of their manufacture directly affects appearance wooden wheel. Ideally, all 8 pieces should be identical.
Now you need to prepare the jambs for connection with the knitting needles. To do this, in the lower plane of the product, in the center of the intersection of two diagonals, we drill a hole with a diameter of 2 cm and a depth of also 2 cm.
Using a protractor, mark the hub into 8 equal parts and also drill 8 holes with a diameter of 2 cm.
Next we try on the wooden wheel. We insert the spoke into the jamb, then into the hub and connect all the parts together. By swapping elements, you need to ensure that the product looks even and all the parts fit together. At this stage, we carry out the final fine-tuning of the elements: sharpening, filing, drilling.
After making sure that all the parts fit together, we number them so as not to confuse them, and begin assembly. We connect the elements using furniture glue.
To make the wheel strong, we secure the jambs together using furniture dowels. To do this, drill holes in the side edges, insert a dowel into them and connect the parts together.
Slowly, we assemble the wooden wheel. Unfortunately, the lack of experience affected the assembly - the jambs did not close the circle, 2 cm was not enough. Still, when cutting them out, you need to be more precise. I had to cut a wooden wedge to size and spread it furniture glue and secure with a clamp for a day.
Owners country houses and dachas strive to decorate their plot in an original way. One way is to create a rustic interior with a cart or wooden wheel at the house. Finding an original product is not so easy, so the solution will be self-production wheels.
Wheel model without hub
At the first stage of work, it is necessary to draw a drawing on graph paper future design wheels. On its basis and with the help of instructions on how to make a wooden wheel with your own hands, all manipulations should be carried out.
Making the rim
According to the drawing with a wheel diameter of 700 mm, 4 patterns should be made for subsequent turning of the rim elements. The drawing is transferred using the patterns to wooden blank and 4 arcs of a given size are cut out with a jigsaw. When these elements are ready, they must be fastened together using PVA glue. For fixation strength, use additionally metallic profile or beacons, which will then need to be removed.
Hub and spoke replacement
To reduce labor costs when making a hub, it is recommended to make two circles with a diameter of up to 100 mm:
- from wooden board 30 mm thick;
- from timber 55-60 mm thick.
When the glue on the rim is completely dry, you need to arrange sockets for the spokes on the inside. The size must match the section. In this case, it is desirable that the knitting needle is not inserted too easily, but requires blows with a mallet.
Nests are made using a mallet and chisel. Using a feather drill or a milling cutter with an attachment will make the job much easier.
Fastening parts
The manufactured seating sockets are treated with glue and the spoke strips are driven into them. When properly secured, they all converge in the center.
Gaps may appear between them due to operational errors. To eliminate them, pegs are made required sizes and are attached in the center in the spaces between the knitting needles using PVA.
In the center of the rim on both sides, previously made circles are glued to the spokes, which will imitate the hub. One of them, attached to the inside of the wheel, can be fixed to the spokes with self-tapping screws. This will ensure greater structural strength. It is advisable to make a decorative hole in the center, like in a hub.
Sanding and painting
Gives the wheel surface smoothness and eliminates imperfections using grinding machine, and in hard to reach places- sandpaper. To make work easier, some parts can be sanded before assembly, for example knitting needles.
It is advisable to treat the structure with stain, choosing the composition according to the color that suits you best. This product will serve as protection for the wood. On last stage the wheel is varnished.
Hub design
Regardless of the wheel model, you need to start working by drawing a design layout on paper and checking all the dimensions. For example, you can focus on a diameter of 600 mm.
Hub
This part can be made at lathe. To do this, prepare a workpiece with a cross-section of 100x100 mm and a length of 600 mm. It should yield 6 parts with round, similar to a puck. The diameter of such blanks is 90-95 mm. A hole with a diameter of 50 mm is drilled inside each part.
Spokes
For a wheel with a diameter of 60 mm with a given rim width, it will be necessary to make 8 spokes with a length of about 190 mm. To do this, take 50x50 mm bars with a length of 230 mm. The difference in length of 20 mm on both sides is necessary for arranging dowels that provide fastening to the hub and rim. Each part is carefully processed with a plane, as can be seen in the photo of a wooden wheel.
To decorate the dowels, you will need to mark a distance of 20 mm from the edge on both edges and cut to a depth of 15 mm. Using a knife, excess wood is removed and the dowels are given a cylindrical shape.
Having secured the knitting needles with a clamp on a workbench or stool, milling device cut off the edges of the workpiece. As a result, all eight parts become more rounded.
Making joints
To build a wheel circle, you need to cut out eight arched blanks - jambs. To do this, a paper mock-up is made according to the drawing, and then it is transferred to the workpiece. Parts are cut out according to the marks, which should be equal in shape and size. In their lower part (the inner surface of the future wheel), sockets for spokes are drilled in the center. The diameter and depth of the holes are 20 mm. The nests must be located at the intersection of the diagonals.
Similar sockets are made on the hub along the marks using a protractor. Their number must match, and the size must also be 20 mm.
Preliminary testing
The wheel structure is assembled without the use of glue. All parts are attached to each other according to the drawing. Knitting needles and jambs can be swapped, trying to achieve the greatest fit and fit of the parts.
If necessary, they can be further processed. Having achieved the desired accuracy, number the parts.
Fastening
It is recommended to connect structural parts with each other using furniture glue or PVA. For greater strength, the jambs are fastened with furniture-type dowels. They are inserted into pre-drilled holes in the sides of the jambs. Sometimes, after the assembly is completely completed, inaccuracies and gaps are revealed. They are closed using a wedge insert.
Final processing
The assembled wheel is ground and the joints are sealed with sealant. Then the surface should be treated with stain and varnished. The structure must be allowed to dry and then installed in in the right place in the territory suburban area. For decoration purposes, you can make several wheels to create a composition.
DIY photo of wooden wheels
