NEMESIS (My enclosed Brake-Drum Forge)

[Avadon]

So I finally finished my forge I had been picking everyones brain about forever and ever. This is basically an enclosed brake drum forge. I live in a rural area, but it's still burbs, so I had a feeling if I really have just a big open fire going that someone at some point might come over and complain. This way it looks just like one big mean bbq of evil. lol

I decided to name her "Nemesis" after the remorseless Goddess of divine retribution.

Sometime this week I hope to light her up and test it all out.
I'll also show you the pics soon of my anvil i use outside.. it's just a giant steel brick.. hehe.. cheap, but effective. It's kind of a pet peeve of mine to have tools all over the grass as a company mows our lawn and they don't do it very regularly so if I lay things on the lawn they will get lost, thus I made sure to weld a lot of stuff on the forge to hang quenching buckets, hammer racks, tool racks, a grill pad on the right to place hot steel, and a hammer rack bottom left. The rubber mount near the hammer rack is where I push my hair dryer into it. All in all it's one very stout design. I welded much better wheels on the thing. It's quite heavy, i'd say easy 200+#'s I'm sure in using it i'll learn enough of what works and what doesn't. I'm sure this will just be one of several coal forges i'll build in my life, but this isn't bad for a mobile forge (as i'll move from here eventually) and it's also my first forge. 8)

(believe me when I say I narrowed it down to a fraction of the pics I took, so i'm hoping these load okay for everyone. If it hangs you may have to refresh, but they are all small size)

If you want to see many more pics of it look on armour archive here
NEMESIS (My enclosed Brake-Drum Forge)

[kovacija(blacksmith)]

scary! thing you got out there

[Avadon]

Yah its basically my "semi-perm" outside forge as it's heavy and really not fun to move lol I'm sure i'll make lighter more portable coal forges in the future. I may even work towards more "open" forges if the winds around here don't seem to bad, and also if neighbors don't seem to be much of a problem. The forge isn't really the problem as much as it is the hammering that attracts people attention to a forge hehe

[rmcpb]

That looks like the BBQ from xxxx!!

Good job, make sure you give us an update of how it goes.

[Blackbeard]

Nice forge looks like you put a lot of time and effort into making it, hope you have lots of fun productive forging with it! Would it be easier to move around if you put bigger wheels on it? Just a thought. It looks great!
Bb

[Avadon]

Yes bigger wheels would have been some good foresight, and they'll be on my next forge. The reason is I sorely underestimated how hard it would be to push 8" wheels over tall grass.

[jimbob]

Just think in about 50 years or so some one willl write in here wanting to know about a NEMESIS forge is ...who made it etc.

[rmcpb]

Or be trying to sell it on eBay for some amazing price

[Avadon]

Thanks guys.. you just made me grin ear-to-ear

Yah know, the first flight of fancy has all the trimmings and usual splendor, but the 3'rd try, the 5'th try and perhaps even the 10'th try have all the hindsight, streamlining, and minimalistic efficacy of a master builder. ;-)

i'll certainly give a progress report.

[tetnum]

i am just wondering why the brake drum is flush and covered with a grate it seams that might be more effective to have the brake drum rased a little and a smaller tweer

but you might be on to something you would get a fairily even burn across a large aria