PsiMan

Thanks for the suggestions! I decided to go with 24" x 36" (the size material available to me) with removable legs so I can store it out of my way.. I'll keep you guys posted!!!!

Thanks for all the reply's I don’t plan one doing any demo's or any thing like that. Just need to be able to wheel it out of the garage. Shop space is a premium for me, I all ready have a cnc knee mill, lathe, welding table, grinders, tool boxes, horizontal and vertical bandsaws in my 2 car garage. I would like to keep the forge small side, but still able to do general work. I may even build a wood top to uses it as a cart while not in use. I plan on building mostly tools. I want to build my own hammers, wood chisels and such. After my shop is decked out then maybe some muzzle loading rifles. But I would all so like to be able to build a few gates. So I don’t want to go too small. What ever I build, I'll probably draw it up in cad and cut it out on a cnc plasma cutter. Building tools is more my hobby than actually using them So what is the benefit to going big on the table?? Is it just extra room to store coal and a place to put hot work? I plan on building a little adjustable arm for holding up long stock like I've seen on forges here. Thanks Again!!

What size forge table do you guys suggest? I'm planning on building a forge soon and I can't decide on the overall dimensions. My experience it minimum, two 8 hour beginner classes. We used forges approximately 30in square. Is there any benefit to going bigger? I don't plan on going full time or building a ship. It seems most forges I've seen on the web are rectangular. I really don’t want to build any thing that I'm going to out grow in a few years. I'm looking for something I could get 8hrs a day a few times a month out of. Me being me I want something a little than the 55 forge. If it makes a difference I plan on building a fire pot 9” by 13”, from http://www.blksmth.com/mild_steel_firepot.htm, so I can upgrade to a Centaur Vulcan Firepot if need and I plan on it being mobile. Thanks Matt