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At least I'll be able to say my blood sweat and tears go into every thing I forge.. haha thats a good idea I could imagine jabbing myself in the moment. Ahh I figured that looked about right, thank you. Nice looking forge by the way. Does the captured brick setup work well? I thought about incorporating something similar on mine just so the bricks can't fall over as easy.

Thank you to all of you people that helped me with this. I'm pretty happy with the outcome and I can't wait to start using it

Little bit if progress on the front platform. From what I think I understand my burner should be 2" from TDC and aimed at the nearest edge of the floor which would be like the first photo. Correct? The next thing I'm not 100% sure on is where my burner hole should be on the length of the tank.

Yes this is what I was looking for. But I'm still happy to have that info

Working on the burner hole today. In my research I've gathered the burner hole should be 2" from TDC, But I'm not sure as far as centering with a single burner.

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I found some marks after wire brushing. I can faintly see 4-0 below it, I assume that's the Weight I can't seem to get a photo of the serial because it's barely there even after wire brushing but it appears to be 21525 there might be one more digit that I can't make out.

More random photos after I moved it to my shop.

Oh wow. I've had a bunch of different farriers offer me money for it over the years. I'm guessing they had some clue Thank you for all of the info, I'm going to clean it up and post some more photos tomorrow. I'll be looking in those spots in the AM Thank you for the tips as I'm very new to a lot of this.

I got this anvil from my grandpa. at the time I had no thought of ever actually using it, but here I am moving it to my shop years later. It measures 38" to the tip of the horn & 6 1/2" wide, I can't make out much as far as markings go.

I ended up liking the tab idea better than hinging or welding it back up. I'm not sure if I'll pin or screw it. I kind of like the idea of just tacking the tabs to the body but we'll see. Found a random piece of steel in the ground for the rear table. Still trying to source something for the front My wife said it looks like a beaver..

I was already pretty set on hinging it so hearing that pretty much made up my mind. I'll be figuring that out tomorrow while I wait on the kaowool to get here. Thank you, I've been lurking for awhile and I'm happy to finally have a post started here. Shoooot.. I briefly looked for the "proper" way to make a tank safe and got a bunch of different information so I'm glad to finally know the correct way

I started this tank build a couple days ago and wanted somewhere to keep the progress, And maybe get some tips. I ordered 20lbs of kast-o-lite 30, 24x48 2400 degree kaowool, Quart fumed silica. I have an atlas 100k burner that I'm hoping to use on this. I started with an old 20lb tank that I knew was empty, then removed the valve and then filled with water + soap for the night Day 2 I cut the rough holes and then in the fire it went to burn the paint off Day 3 The remaining paint came off pretty easily I moved onto cutting the face off, I'll either hinge or weld it back up after the blanket is inside I also added some maybe? temporary legs to get it standing up by itself