This is my first post so be gentle. ;-) I'm a recently retired old man looking for something to get into. I'm looking to build my first forge and hammer some iron since the late 70's, early 80's. I did a lot of "flat" shoeing in those days and pulled a few clips and hammered out a few heels on my mentor's portable forge and anvil back then. I still have my 150# Trenton that I bought off an old fellow 40 years ago. I have since added a 30 kg double horn Peddinghaus that we take along on trail rides and to horse shows, easier to load, at my age, than the Trenton, a 70# near mint Fisher with a mold date of 1889 that I put up for the kids and a 25# Vulcan that I bought xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Supposedly the Champion 400 blower that I purchased off of "Flea bay" was shipped today. So that that leaves, as a major issue, putting together, and firing, a forge. I'm leaning toward a heavy duty firepot fron Centaur Forge, probably "overkill" for my level of experience, but 'what the hey." I want to use home brewed charcoal, eventually, since that fits with my other interests of using traditional English and European arborist practices of coppicing/pollarding of trees to fill heating and structural needs. I haven't been able to source, locally, any bitumenous coal so far, but I can get 40 # bagged anthracite "nut" coal for about $275.00 per "short ton" with a 40 mi. turnaround. "Coke" is about 90 miles away but I haven't been able to establish a price yet. Any critique, comments, or suggestions for this "newbie" are welcome.