eco redneck

Holy moly...depending on the grade you could make a mint in some areas. The house coal we get is well over $200/ton now delivered.

that coal that is $45 a ton is no good for smithing g

My fun little plumb roofing hatchet! It needs its edge fixed up a bit and i am going to polish it up to a mirror finish, hopefully can finish it tonight?! I might be too optimistic there!!!

 

The hammer is my special hammer. Have not used it yet. But I will! ( its just here because i put linseed oil on the handles after sanding them a bit)

 

I needed an adventure hatchet and i found this one in a bucket of old tools at the Elephants Trunk in New Milford CT.

 

i have the same hatchet it is so use full. i like mine for when i catch a gopher a long my trap line  also just some advise dont try using it as a throwing axe it just rips the handle off

Nice work. I like the bold pattern that can be seen from a distance. The 1095 and 15N20 give a nice contrast. Here is a double bit I did from 1095 15N20 and a piece of pure nickel. 15 pieces total. Handle of Osage Orange.

you picture of that axe left me in aaaahhh for a little bit

it is soo nice

Eco,
Does your PW have the stamped "England" on it?
There's a year when that stamp was added.
1910-1911 I think?

yes it has england on it

hello i was just wondering if there is any way to date my 67 lb petter wright anvil thanks

Lol, I would recommend sheep, they actually do eat weeds. My experience is goats like brush and trees much more. I guess depending on wear you live you may want both. Lol, I do.
I'm afraid I resemble the above remarks. Love all the stuff that falls off of flatbeds in the oil field :-D

our goat got out of his pen and ate 4 two year old apple trees that were 40 bucks  each we were so mad he ate them right t the ground

The tool pictured is not a forging tool it is used for lining up work so it can be bolted together by rail road and structural steel workers.  A blacksmiths drift is just a round or shaped pin tapered on both ends.  Handled punches are thicker and have more taper to them then handled drifts because they get hit with much more force than a handled drift.  Drift punches are also useful for driving out stuck bolts and pins. 

sorry about the picture it was the only thing tat i could find that sort a looked like a drift 

thanks they also had a

so i found out that my petter wright is 67 pounds

Amazing what one can find with the scroll bar/wheel  Welcome to the asylum :D

yep the whole world changes

no only part way through then you start from the other side

some thing like the picture but hand forged

nice i love it

hello all

ok i have a petter Wright anvil that  has the numbers i know that they are for weight but it dose not make scene to me

the numbers are

0 2 11

can some one teach me how to under stand this because i know my anvil  is not 21 lbs 

thanks

eco

hello every one

to day i started making a punch to drift holes with (the kind with a wooden handle on it 0

can some one post a picture of theirs so i can see how to finish mine 

thanks

eco

this is one of the best ideas on all of ifi

also can you post a picture of how the blower it self ie asembled thank you

eco redneck

like the title said i am not new to ifi but i dident know about this section

well to start off i am a smith with the wcbg in edmonton

(i have loved smithing from the first time i heated some steel up at the wcbg)

i live on a farm outside of millet alberta this is where i live and always plan to be

i plan to have a decent sized smithey but i want to get a good and relible forge first i have one but i want the athentic 1910-1940s era forge i do have a peter wright  anvil thought i wighted it on a scale it said it was 65lbs but i think that it was off

and also i call my self eco redneck because i like nature but there is nuthing like a good burn hole and heaps of junk

well i think that is all

thanks for reading

eco redneck

ok i am not to sure if this is where to post this but here it seams to fit fits

we have lot of scrap at home  but our  sorting/storing is not working very good for the smaller stuff

anything that is between three feet to one foot is all thrown under a section of grain bin tin.

it dose not work very good because you can only get at the stuff at the top easy

i need some storage ideas please help

thank you

Eco redneck

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Well, this is the finished product of my first solid fuel forge.  Here are a few pics and am looking for constructive criticism as I am still learning.  It seems to work great and I can heat steel very quickly when it's hot.  Want to upgrade to a real forge blower, but can't afford yet.

that is one darn good first forge mine was a brake drum on a bbq stand it worked but I wanted some thing better

very good job

forge on

tristan

Yes, what Glenn said. Also, you don't need nearly so much air grate for general work, a couple inches square or dia. is generally good unless you're forging large or heavy stock. You can make more than one air grate simply by cutting a couple few disks of plate to fit the bottom of the drum and then cutting openings and putting grates in them. Make them different sizes so you can alter the size blast for different size stock.

 

Looks like a good workable forge and a darned fine first attempt. Don't worry if you're like the rest of us you'll have made any number of solid fuel forges before finding the one you like best.

 

Frosty The Lucky.

i have made a few and still haven't  found "the one " yet

ok thank you dale

ya i just want something that i could use like a hand craned blower

that is a must you need to do that first

it will help save a lot of wasted heating time your steel and it will help save coal/charcoal

thanks for all the input every one

i understand where you are getting at Bobl with the cfm stuff i was looking at what frosty said and i think i may do that because here in Alberta it is hard to find any smithing stuff at a decent price

thanks again

tristan

I was wondering how to make a blower for my forge? would I be able to rig up a car turbo to work the same way to be like a hand crank blower? need some help

trubo.bmp

That looks pretty good! Depending on how high that lip is around the edge, you may want to cut a small trapazoidal piece out of either side to run long rods through the sweet spot of the fire. Good work! Looks to be servicable and quite excellent!

that is a must you need to do that first

clay

can you post a vid of your forge burning because i would like to make on like yours want to see how good it is

thanks

tristan