turbo7

What about a press mate?

Even a blunt knife is handier than a broken knife. Malice if you think the knife will eventually break, DO NOT send it out my friend.

The anvil she is a funny thing Her secrets not to tell Bid you wear her out With hammer and hot steel Then you shall know her well.

Your right about the mounting holes Stan, I have a little 112lb bolted to the stump and she goes "thunk thunk thunk"

$ might be better spent on boots and long pants first TMIB ?

Have a look in the blueprints mate

Do a simple experiment: get a block of concrete, a block of wood, some steel plates clamped together, and a solid block of steel, a bag of sand,all similar size just for the sake of it, then take to each with a hammer for 10 min and the results should tell us something?

Inward swinging gates would be ok but inly if they swing to a wall, anywhere they eill be a pita one day, or look at no big gates just lift out panels.

No need to put a second strap on, forge 90 degree straps for the corners, really only need one gate, how often will you be bringing gear in and out? Gate only needs to be 10' wide. Gate will only swing out, dont want it swinging in as that takes up room if you have a truck in there ( think power hammer) I would mount the gate hinges on the outside centre of the post so it can be opened up wide.

What do I think? Nice looking smithy. You are making a lot of unnecesary work for yourselfs, put 2 gates at each end and leave 4' open for access. Make your 3'walls along the side fixed walls. Straps around the posts are better and will look better and could be forged there (nice). I'd be getting chimney's on the forges as well. Whatever you do that will be an even better looking smithy when your done.

Welcome to IFI mate. The blade looks like a good effort.

Hot steel has right of way, even if it is falling.

Looks good mate

You can stand heavy things with an A frame, chain, and a 4wd, might have to remove a sheet off the wall.

When you get to the middle you can use water to keep the end cool.

Question if I may, Frosty are do bick irons work better with a sholder to sit on or are they good to go just straight into the hardy? Thank you.

Put some bricks on the sides of your forge to help bring the heart of fire up.

How long are your tong blanks? Have a look at Brian Brazeals video on not needing tongs to make tongs. Or weld 2 blanks together, have you got pair of pliers? What fuel are you using?

Good thing about tong jaws is they can be re-shaped to fit the metal your working on. Hammer marks? I can see texturing tool.

For my part, I shall refrain from using simillar terms in future. Good on ya b4utoo.

A wiki is a collaboration of opinions. Now if enough people agree on the wrong information it becomes a wiki. This possibility, likely or unlikely, is enough for me not to consider wiki as reliable.

Just watched Brian's video on forging tongs, when Brian is talking about the anvil and the flat face of the hammer he calls them "flat die", they are flat, used to shape hot metal, flat die seems fair enough, when Brian is talking about the round face of the hammer he calls it a "round die", it's rounded, used to shape hot metal, round die seems fair enough, when Brian is talking about choking up on the hammer to hit lighter he calls it a hammer, why? Because he is talking about the hammer. A hammer usually has 2 faces, or die, you can hit with the round or flat face, or you can hit with the round or flat die, is it the same thing? I reckon it is. Look at why begginers are shown to move the stock across the anvil not shift where the hammer lands, I do it this to make moving the stock a habbit for when I advance to using a power hammer with die's. The die are shaped, used to move hot metal, the only difference is the hammer holding the die. I would like to hear Brians take on why he referes to the hammer face as "die" because I am only a begginner. With all due respect.

WOW!!

Brilliant!

No offence meant b4uto, and I am only speaking for myself, and also am not saying if wiki is right or wrong, but please do not give me that dribble, I apreciate acurate information, not a generalization of collected opinions, which is what wiki claims to be.