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That's the great thing Farmall, I'm always learning something new along with others. I would love to get down to Colonial Williamsburg some time now that I'd have a new appreciation for it. I havnt been there since I was quite young on a family trip.

I would have said it looks like a tool rest for a lathe, but looks like Farmall and Alan have the right id.

If you have access to a welder the legs could be easy. Bend some thinner wire into 4 W's, and tack them to the underside. Nice work.

Nice score Chris!

That's a Very nice first hammer LBS. Keep up the great work!

I have one similar if not exact to #3 for a little deeper pot to swap in if I'll be working larger stock. I really find my 8" dia. x 2" deep rotor to be very efficient for Most everything I do. I have used mine about 3 years and it has many to go. I havnt attempted a side blast forge with a rotor.

For the time being One suggestion would be to make some kind of diverter or air gate to control the amount of the air blast.

Ok. That's pretty interesting. So is it Both hand crank and motor powered? How much air does it push when lightly hand cranked? Sorry I don't have any info on it. Just curious.

Thomas has a good point, Also what He mentioned with the blower. Here is a good place to start. The pinned post. http://www.iforgeiron.com/topic/30887-forges-and-fires/

Did you get it Out of a fallout shelter? yup looks a bit big for a brake drum forge. Dosnt mean it couldn't be used for one if you wanted to.

Welcome aboard Shovelhead. What you have going on there is too flat of a area with trying to put air to too much of that area. You want basically a fire "ball" in basically a bowl. With the setup as it is you can't concentrate the heat in one spot. It's too shallow and too spread out. Try reading through the solid fuel forge section to learn more of what will work. If it were mine, I would get a brake Rotor roughly 2"deep x 8" diameter inner opening. Cut a hole in the table and trim the tuyere pipe to meet the opening in the rotor. The rotor will sit in the table with the outer ring holding it on the table. Then weld the tuyere pipe or use a flange to attach the tuyere pipe to the rotor. Hope that is some help.

I say if it's free, and you have the time give it a shot.

Good thinking on the space to lift it. Nice job.

Hi Twandawg, welcome aboard. There are a number of people on the forum from Michigan, not exactly sure where all from. Sounds like you got a good start. 4' pipe wrench? Wow. I need to get me one of those!

Bigb, why not just weld on the rebar and make the tongs to start with. You can work on Using the tongs once you have some that work better then what you have now. If you got it, use it.

set all the chains on the chair tonight and bent the backing for the heart. off of Big Guns advice I tried a horseshoe heart that didnt pan out then went on to try to forge something that wound up to be cast iron and failed. life goes on....,move on and forward. BigGun,I'll let you know tomorrow.

JHCC, they accept pretty rough styling as long as it holds up to the tests. Doubt the printer would hold up to the time limit itself.

Nice work tdriack. I have seen the one you mention. She should love it. I'm single but I have mountains of roses to make for others others before Valentines day

Yeah Aus, I googled them and the tail is spot on. closest thing we have here in my area are salamanders but they are amphibians and pretty small so... no fun lizards here. Maybe I should introduce some shifty lizards into the wild around here.

Nice Gergely, the leaf does look better.

Yeah I have to clean mine here and there when it gets "gunked up" then it's like new again. I can usually get by killing the air and poking it around. I like mine a lot. Eventually I will build another but same thing with me, just want to keep forging.

Very cool Theo!

Many questions have been asked and answered here on IFI from people just starting out. It is better to ask before jumping into something you don't know much about. Also researching is important as well. There is A Lot to read and research just in these forums on almost any blacksmith related topic. If you have trouble with the search function here, try a search engine with iforgeiron after what you are searching for. That should bring up topics on this site. As always asking is good. Asking questions with some base knowledge behind it to fully understand the answers is better.

How does it work out for you? Looks like it has burned a bit of coal.

Others have said before on here, just because you have it dosnt mean it's the best option to use for what you want to make. There was a guy I worked with in an autobody shop who would often go around asking everyone else in the shop what the best "easiest" way to do "whatever task" was. After all the advice from other experienced techs he would still do it how He thought would be easiest, and usually needed help after he messed it up, or would take forever on something that could have been way easier. Sometimes you have to move something out of the way to access what you need to get to.