Charles R. Stevens

4-5” for a 3/4-1” ID tuyere.

Mine is fabricated from a 12”x12” 1/4” plate cut diagonally. Weld a 2” strip of 1/4” bent 90 degrees or 2 pieces forming the bottom. From the bottom corner drill a 1” hole, centered 1-1/2” up. Weld a piece of 3/4” schedule 40 black pipe at about a 5 degree angle. Sloping down into the fire pot. I welded 1” x 1/4” bar around the top to form a lip.

A bit, I was so happy to see unification.

I have seen nice armored mail boxes and street signs on pivots, with the post set off the right of way. They still meet DOT requirements for break away posts and only require periodic resets

Aschaffensburg with the first of seventh Mid to late 80’s

Grind, no. Clench, yes. rubber snake in the box time...

Welcome to IFI, I have fond memories of Germany and her people. Not to mention the food...

Wait for it... they dig a few holes and disappear again...

Sorry it has taken me so long to get back. I have been dealing with termite damage under Dad’s house. so the fire pot is made from a 12” square of 1/4” plate cut on the diagonal. Measure 1-1/2” up from the corner and drill a hole to take a piece of 3/4” schedule 40 pipe. Weld it in at a 5% angle or so. That would be sloping down to the bottom of the forge. This leaves about an inch under the tuyere and 4” above it. I made the pot 6” wide but I would have made it 4”, as I keep a fire brick in it to narrow the pot. I keep telling myself I will make a moving plate to adjust the width. I have a “T” with a gate valve on it, it is set up so there is strait shot to the vent and the tuyere is at 90 degrees. I power the forge with an electric blow up bed pump. the table is 30”x60” and made of all salvage, the top is plates from below ground transformer covers, the frame is welded up from bed frame and the wheels are salvage. I think they came from an old fire extiquiser. I melt bricks and burn steel if I am not carful. tho I usually burn charcoal, coal burns just fine and the forge handles 1” stock easily and I have worked 1-1/2”.

As a person who lives with suicidal ideations I can honestly say you are likely never to find a satisfactory answer.

I prayer can’t hurt, neither can being generally called out in public...

My forge. Side blast fire pot 6” deep with a 7/8”(3/4”schedule 40 pipe) ID tuyere out of 1/4” plate

Looks workable, tho bottom blast isn’t my first choice. I find side blast to be simpler and more versatile.

Bricks are good for adapting solid fuel forges to differ shapes and purposes. This makes your forge more efferent or versatile as the case may be. Need a large fire for a large forging? Rearrange the bricks and fill. Need a small fire for small forgings? Rearrange the bricks. Need a furnace? Well you know what to do... you can even do small melts for castings in your forge with a few bricks and a sutable crucible. Other uses for bricks is to make a fire resistant work surface or to prop up stuff. bricks will melt in direct contact with welding heat, but a good use for them is to take up space in your hearth, wile using a fill such as cat litter, mineral soil or fly ash to form the fire pot it’s self. Regular bricks and fire brick is still useful with gassforges, just not as a linner

My old friend Bob has a great method. you start out with giving them 3 reasons it would be nice for them to do their job, if that didn’t work you give them 3 reasons why it is their job to do their job, if all that failed you give them 3 reasons why your lawyer will own their backsides if they don’t do their jobs. only had to resort to level 3 once, with my child’s school. As I had a copy of the ADD compliance manual I new what they were supposed to do. When they didn’t and the superintendent started hiding from me I docked the state and fed departments of Ed on them after giving them fair warning.

Half my forging is done out of a truck, other farriers have a trailer. The other half is done out of a 3 sided shed (12x32’) built from salvaged fence panels, power polls, mobile home floor joists and trusses. The only thing besides nailes I paid $ for was the roles roofing, tar paper and drip edge. Some demo out of bakers tents. Tarps aren’t much effected buy forge fires if the tarp is hung high enough to allow a full over head swing. depending on your skills as a scrounge barn tin, old sheds, good old fashioned “tar paper” shacks, pallet sheds, etc. all can work.

Listen to the Alaskans, they actually teach chainsaw lumber milling as part of the school curriculum (and how to make a wood stove) up there! As part of the class they show how to sharpen the chain for ripping (different tooth angle and reduce the rakes, as a Chain saw is normally a cross cut saw)

Call an Uber ;-) Dad had a brain stem stroke a couple of months ago, he is about 50% back but not fast enough for him. Be patient with your self. and ask the wife to strike for you, she will buy you a hammer after that!

Try orientating your trench the other direction with the tuyere coming in from the side. For small forging 2” is deep but honestly 4” is better. Best is about 4” from the top of the tuyere to the top of the hearth with an inch under the tuyere. Then with 4” high sides to the trench to help bank fuel. The sides are not nessisary with coal as you can just mound up coal but with charcoal you just end up with all the fuel a light and not contributing to heating the stock. When I built my steel sideblast I took a 12” square plate and cut it diagonally.

Originally heal and toe calls were for traction on brick and cohoes streets. Modern folks are under the impression that pulling horses need the extra traction wile pulling. Not true in most cases. I can see that the heals are cleanly cut and the toe calk is very well made and welded. One will notice the nails are placed very close to the edge and quite small, leading one to suspect a thin hoof wall. man average riffing horse has a foot about 5” across in any direction. if I was making a WAG, I would say Percheron, as they have Arab in their background and thinner hoof walls. Tho the shape is reminiscent of a hind shoe I would further suspect a Percheron as they have a narrow pointed front foot, and hind feet tent to have two quarter clips, tho modern keg shoes have only the single toe clip. tho smiths of old were known for the machine like quality of their work I actually suspect it to be an early machine made shoe, perhaps with the toe calk skip welded on buy the farrier.

Mine is simply a solid rod treaded for pipe fittings and fitted with pipe caps, intact for the longest time one was plastic....

So I read some where many moons ago that 80% of pearls panic. This is why military, law enforcement and fire fighters go threw such repetitive training. When you panic the training takes over. I can’t swear to the validity of said statement as I appear to belong to the other 20%, as do my parents. George, I think all woman are beserkers when properly motivated buy a man ;-)

Alpine used to make smoke generators for alarms, the problem with setting off a Pepper sparky bomb is the Oliumcapstain gets on everything and being an oil... As to frosty and the bear traps, I think it more likely he just feeds the bears ...

You could have had the panels, charge controller and batteries already installed! Or just gone with a wind mill and a jack shaft...

I can vouch for the quality of Jen’s knives.