Sisu

Sisu, with a hood you will always have smoke in your shop, especially with that small flu pipe, A larger flue pipe and making it into a side draft is really simple and will insure you a smoke free shop if the top of the flue is at least 4 feet above the peak of your building. Nice setup otherwise.

This is the side draft forge I built for the Brown County Ag Museum Blacksmith shop. The smiths who have used it call it the "Super Sucker", its based on Uri Hofi's school forge flues.

museum forge construction :: Ag Museum Forge Construction slideshow by irnsrgn - Photobucket

Thank you for the info Irnsrgn! I was considering a side draft forge as an improvement to my current setup. However, I don't have access to electricity in this building (it is an old sugar shack in the woods). Would I require the use of forced air to get it to work or can it naturally draft on its own?

I was thinking of using the existing 6" black pipe and connecting it to some 8" black pipe to get a 14" diameter stove pipe. I could place the bottom of the pipe close to the firepot and have an opening cut in the stove pipe end for the smoke. Do you think that work?

This is my forge. I have to improve upon the hood to exhaust better.