Well, my grandfather's men would toss the horse wagon wheels into the duckpond to swell the spokes into the rim and tighten everything up. Common practice in those days. We had a wheelright in the Essex village where I was born, went to school with his boy. After school we would watch him build and fix wooded wagon wheels
Marvellous to watch him fit the iron rim and I can see why it was called a spoke-shave.