FieryFurnace

Here is a diagram of my demo trailer I am fabricating. The quench tub will be removeable most likely. The anvil and vice are situated where they can stay on the trailer and spectators will still be able to see me work. The trailer may be too tall for the anvil to stay on though! Just got to wait to see how tall my axle boosts it up. If there isn't any discription writings on the picture I post then look again later. Some times it takes a while for them to appear on the picture. Don't know why!:mad: Yea, there are some labels on that picture. Give it till tomorrow (Wednesday) and they will show up. There is a lay out idea Chris! I've spent the last 2-3 months thinking how it could be laid out and work well. I think it will. Some ideas anyway!

I used that type of forge for a while before I got another. I had a clinker get stuck in those holes once and had a hard time getting it out. To prevent that just make sure you clean your fire out when you get done forging for the day. Make you a little hand tool out of 3/8" round and poke it down in the holes to clear 'em. The tray for extra coal is ideal but not a must. Once again the forge I used didn't have that tray and I used it for over a year. And I'm here to tell about it! The blower is very nice! Same stand as I got with mine but my blower is a #40. If it runs good then you got a real good deal. I paid $125 for my first one and $150 for my second one. (I did get a free fixer upper forge with the second one though!)

I love it! I'm gona have to try my hand at this one. It'll probably look horable, but who cares! What size stock did you start with?

Websites can be a slow way to start up. My recomendation is craft fair type stuff. set up, start a fire and talk to people...a lot, and sooner or later you're gona sell something!!! I do pretty good that way realy, just make sure you talk!!!

I'd like to make/save enough money to start work on a shop. I'd like to be able to arange an apprenticeship period under a smith. I'd like to learn a little about working/tempering carbon steel.

I do a sort of local craft fair round and I also do Civil War reenacting. The reenacting sells more stuff and gets more customers, but the fairs do pretty good too. We also have a website, however it hasn't been up on the web a year yet so I don't get many sales from that yet. In all I make enough to cover expenses (coal, steel, tools) and have a bit extra, to save, to build a shop. First of the year I'm going to try ebay, but I have no clue how well that will do.

I can't help with gas forge questions, but welcome to the site!

I would like to know where to get some tongs from. I was wanting to get a couple of those tongs that hold several different kinds of steel. (Aligator tongs maybe?) I want to get a one or two pair. Anyway if someone knows a good place to get those from let me know! Thanks!

Santa makes exceptions when he gets to naughty blacksmiths! You get like a bucket of water in your forge instead of coal in your stocking!!! And yes, I am a blacksmithaholic! Anyone ever wanted to rob the steel supply warehouse? (I am kidding!) Or stop on the side (Actually in the middle of a two lane) road to see if something was a piece of steel?

Here is a picture of the forge I use now! Notice the air piping under the fire pot. Not a good close up but that's all I have. The tube is the deminsions I named earlier. The ash dump is bolted on to the piping by means of a small piece welded on the tube. You can see the handle for opening and closing the dump on this side of the tube in the picture. A piece of tubing the same size as the one going up & down is welded to the side. Conected to that is a piece of tractor trailor exaust tube and finally the rubber plumbing pipe connects it to the blower. (Very authentic to my 1860 impersonation!!! Matches my hammer too!!!) Kinda pieced together I know, but it doesn't leak ANY air. Anyway, that's one example of what it's can look like!

I ain't a pro but 2" sounds small. Both my forges have 3 1/2 to 4 inch pipe. It's called a tuyere but I am not sure if that's how you spell it!:confused: The size pipe depends on the blower you use. I like my pipe to be about as big around as the mouth on the blower so it will be easy to hook up. That way you don't have to worry about reducing/increasing pipe sizes. A good connection from the blower to the air pipe is big rubber pipe, found in plumbing in Lowes/Home Depo. It's what I use! Tire tube with clamps work good too. I'm sure some other guys on here can give you better info than I, and maybe even some pixs!

I've gotten some from Buster too! That's the only on I know of from when we lived down thataway! It burns good.

looks great...uknow! For a gasser! Have fun!:D

My first forge was a break drum mounted on steel tube legs! My current forge is an old forge pan with a new firepot that's too deep. Now it has clay, fire brick, and stuck on clinkers for a lining. The next forge will be built of 1/2 of a bush hog deck with a homemade firepot in the middle! I also have one of those plow discs (or something similar) that I might eventually build one out of! To an imaginative person the possibilties are limitless. Like my sisters pocket book would make a good one. Course it would be too big to cart around so it'd have to be a stationary forge!!!:D