Benjamindshoemaker

Moore coal and company in Bessemer Al. It is lump but I don’t mind it.

Yeah I agree. Waiting on a good deal is a great thing. The Church window anvil was worth the wait

I like the way y’all think.

Well yeah, didn’t think the baby would come out with a hammer in hand. Thanks Frosty

Thank you. Yes I am praying for a healthy baby and rest in about 10 months.

I can see the sparks are starting to fly round here

Confirmed today that my wife is pregnant with our third each. I have two with previous and she has two with previous. Hopefully it’s a boy because I am the end of the branch on this side of the family. 0 for two so far. I love my girls though.

I have not used it much but what little I did it seemed to coke up nicely and very little clinker. Once I get the big forge built I can put it to the test.

I just bought some in central Alabama for 10¢ a pound. You have to pickup. Seems to be pretty good. Smoked when I started it up but after it started burning the coke it was nice clean and hot.

Perhaps I should have said the turn of the century way. Open shop with a church window on a cedar stump, hand crank blowers standing beside a granite base holding a fire pot. No electricity or gas. Just a man learning an ancient craft.

Just called Moore coal and it is $10.50 per 100 pounds or $210 per ton

Jasper area. I am currently building the base for my forge and the shop around it as well. Hopefully going today to get a big cedar stump to bury in the ground about a foot for my anvil. I am sort of brand new, I worked in a tool shop in high school running a gas forge and a power hammer but now i want to do it the old way with a few modern tools like a hand crank blower and a post drill.

Looking for some coal around the Birmingham area. Willing to get a pickup truck load if the price isn't too bad. Would be happy to shovel it into my truck as well if I had too.

I sure have. Belong to the Tannehill forge.

Welcome. I lived not to far from Athens. About 45 northeast from there but I moved about 4 hours away in Alabama. I do visit family that still lives there from time to time.