We've spent most of the past week at the Suffolk Show, Ipswich, setting up, running our stand and packing it all away again. Plenty of enthusiastic visitors and good to see old friends. Disappointing end to the show when long traffic queues meant that it took hours (literally) to move the van on and off site.
On the Suffolk Horse Society stand there was a nice demonstration of how to tyre a wheel. In the brick circle on the left of the photograph the demonstrators had used wooden blocks - and some paraffin - to heat the metal tyre until it expanded. They carried the tyre over to the wheel and laid it round the wooden rim. They were now watering the metal to limit burning and contract the tyre to a tight fit.
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