Derek1984

Lol, ok how would that be done? Ok it goes thud when I hit it. So iron right? I see dents also looks like the search continues

Well, this is what I came up with. Not sure what it was from but this was next to my boiler when I purchased my home. My size 14 on top of it for a size comparison. It has to be over 100 lbs i haven't even tried to pick it up. leaving town for a day or so. I will get it cleaned up and sitting on a block of wood in the next couple days. I gathered some steel last night to make a blower stand but haven't got started yet

Now I wish I saved pins I bet I threw out a hundred of those by now.

Wow that never even crossed my mind. I am a equipment mechanic and come across this stuff all the time. I'll see what I can come up with this week. I have to open my mind up to this stuff. I am a restorer on the side and only think of the correct stuff. I may even have a old tractor wheel weight lying around.

Yes the price was right 150 for it all and the blower works great one good crank and it turns over 2 rotations on the handle by itself. Also came with a huge box of tongs and hammer heads most are junk and a lot are pretty cool looking home made ones. I thought about a jabod but still want to fix this rivet forge up. I have a thing for old iron lol. My cars are a 42 merc, 79 gmc that's my daily drivers and a project 35 ford and 46 chevy lol. I should have the last of the tin up on my shed this weekend. It seems to be extremely hard to get a anvil up in northern wi. Everyone seems to want them just collecting dust and rusting lol. But I have to just keep on looking I would love to be practicing this by the time snow hits lol. Thanks

Hi everyone! I'm from northern wisconsin and just picked up my first forge it's missing some stuff but came with a hand crank blower. I been doing metal work most of my life but never messed with a forge. Yeah I heated steel up red hot and hammered out a fire poker and twisted square Stock before but that's about it. So this forge I have has a blower on the bottom but is missing a bunch of stuff to operate it. And the other blower I have is missing a stand and I assume a tube to conect it to the forge. I am setting up a 10x10 area in my lean too as a small shop to learn this stuff In. I will try to attach some pics of what I picked up today. If anyone has a stand for this blower I would be interested in buying it. As always money is tight. So any suggestions on other ways to make this work is also appreciated. Can't wait to get started on this!