Show me your forge (solid fuel)

[Brian C.]

I didnt take your post as criticism Hollis. It was good info.

We shall endeavor to persevere.

[hammerkid]

here is my coal forge , I ain`t got to test it out yet. It only costed me $50 for the blower everthing else was "Scarp" which ain`t a word

[hammerkid]

Opps I forgot the Pictures

[Jacob]

Hammerkid,

You may want to weld a handle onto that cap for your ash dump to make it easier to remove. If you can find a pipe flange with the same thread, you can use that and make a pivoting ash dump, which is common and easy to use.

I don't know what you're using to control air volume. I've used a reostadt on a couple of forges, and I'm not generally impressed, but I think some blowers will handle it better than others. I'm going to try a gate in my new one.

Fire it up!

[hammerkid]

I making ahandle with a oinion cage twist . I`am got a gate thing

[welder19]

Home made pot in a table I found at work that was about to get tossed, it used to hold a 1000 gal oil tank, the sheetmetal was a quick and crude job I did with scrap sheetmetal I got from a HVAC guy and has just kind of become permanent.

welder19

[Frosty]

Nicely done. It's been my experience most people don't build enough table space onto their forges. I like your set up a lot.

Frosty

[welder19]

Thanks, at the time when I got the table I wasn't sure what I was going to do with it but I knew I wasn't going to let it get scraped, it's heavy, 4"x4"x1/2" angle legs and frame and 3/8" steel plate top, I just cut 12" off of the legs and a hole for my fire pot and it worked out perfect.
There are some things that I still have yet to do, like mount my vise, (note the C-clamp holding it) finish the ash dump, make a hammer and tong rack and then sometime I'll eventually make a nice hood and then paint the whole works black, I am also going to make a gas forge one of these days and I'll probably make a mount for that somewhere on the table, probably movable.
If I ever get it cleaned up I'll post some finished pics.

welder19

[hdwarner]

i built this coal forge with three legs
hard to see but i welded unistrut on both sides of forge to add accessories
like stock carriers , small quench tanks etc.
a centuar firepot with dumping ash gate
surroundings are a horse run in shed i bought with a crush and run floor

[skunkriv]

Very nice welder19. Frosty is right, nice to have a forge table at least big enough to dump a full bag or a couple buckets of coal on. You have that plus! Plenty of room to lay your fire tools (mine don't even have hooks or eyes for hanging, they always lay ready in or on top of the coal) and room to lay tongs as they cool (a good habit is to never put hot tongs back in the rack, they should be laid off to the side or put on the floor). Plenty of room to have the pieces you are ready to forge handy and to lay the things you have just forged to cool.

If this forge was mine I would be cutting a piece out there at the right end to allow long pieces to be heated in the middle for twisting, bending etc. You could weld one of the pieces you cut off the legs underneath the cutout to reinforce it. The 3/8" plate would likely never bend in use but might if you pick it up to move it.

A really nice forge!