jarldagr

I just built my first forge and I sm going to try a mixture of corn with the rice coal from tractor supply. Seeing as I have seen how the corn is good to forge with but does not last as long I got an idea to buy a bag of the rice coal from tractor supply for 6.99 to mix with a 50# bag of feed corn to try and make it burn longer and not need to keep constant air to it like you do the antharcite nut coal. By itself the rice coal is no good to forge with but mixing it with the corn the sugars should bind it together and coke up with the corn and that means I would have 90# of fuel for less then a 25# bag of bituminous from Amazon.

Here is a thought on this subject I wonder if a mix of corn and wood pellets like for a pellet stive would even out the fuel consumption rate a little more?