Mateo

Thanks for the info guys, haven't been home for a few days, so nothing new. Also that's probably all the info I would ever give out, about where I live, on the internet Yes, uncle Mateo is paranoid.

No the galvanised bucket is just going to be for water, the thing that I want to use is the rusted plate shaped into a channel on top of the cart. Thanks for the warning though, kinda making me reconsider using it for even that. I had a wheel connected to the blower but I reconsider that as it was kinda hard to get it to move fast enough to even move dirt. There is an electric motor on the back but I dont think it works, I pulled the whole thing out of a scrap pile where I work. We have an old shop-vac in the garage, that might be to powerful though =) and some old hand-held car vacuums that connect to the lighter slot. As for my location the California delta area. Uncle Mateo

Been creeping in the forums for a few days now just reading posts and getting ideas. Thought I would introduce myself now and show what I've managed to scrape together for my own home made forge, and get some help with it. Its not done yet, obviously. The anvil and blower(need to make that one functional) are just temporary as my grandpa is in the antiquing business/trading and said he sees them sometimes and will keep an eye out for them. The cart is from some football team or something and had two holders for gatorade and water jugs so I kept one on there for the water bucket, got to fix the wheels too. The fire pot I don't know if it will work or melt cause I have very little experience with melting metal, it is about 1/6 inch thick iron. Oh and the little bars on top there are going to be my first project, a pair of tongs. Uncle Mateo