SanJacintoSteel

Ok so I reshaped the surface and made my fire pot wider and shallow as advised and I'm about to lite'er off again and I learned last nite that a little light helps prevent first-aid circumstances

Wow guys, thanks for all of the advice. Here's a couple of pics after first burn and my fire is definitely too deep. Looks like most of my heat was being used to turn my bricks into extremely hard red glass. But once I got it rolling I could shove my rebar in turn around and play with my kiddos a minute or two, come back and my metal would be burning so ide cut it off and go again. So at this point I've chipped away as much ode the glass as I could and now I'm going to work on making a bowl rather than a 8" deep rectangular hole.

Sorry not much to show already lit'er off. The brass is about 1 1/2" under sand, was hopeing that would insulate it enough to work And pardon my ignorance but what is a clinker? I've read clinker a couple dozen times on here probably but have seen no explanation as to what it is.

Wow, thanks for the quick replies guys, Daswulf, I have a 1/4" thick round brass plate to cover the center hub hole and reduce it down to 1 1/2" with a piece of 1 1/2"x12" pipe dropped in it with a cap with 7 3/8" holes drilled in the top. As far as being interesting, it's all I had to work with and I got the bug to get forging and first forge was just short of a complete failure so I knew I wanted a bigger bottom blast. I thought about a truck rim but tractor rims are bigger Charles, thanks. I guess tomorrow evening I'll tear it apart and make it wider across and I'm guessing I'm some where around 7" deep, is that too much? Oh and my blower is a hair dryer for now.

Hi everybody,This is my first post here on IFI,been reading a lot but just made my account. So, just finished up my forge and filled the fire pot with some cedar. After that burnt down to coals I filled my pot with nut coal I bought from my local feed and farrier supply, as it cokes up its like it melts and plugs up my air flow to my fire pot. I'm going on about 2 hrs and my fire is just now getting to where I might think about sticking some iron in it. Any tips and advice. Here she is before I packed her with sand to fill all the voids. Old tractor rim off my ol' international packed with clay brick and sand.