Wesley mccravy

hahaha coke... Right? Bust it up and it requires lots of air... That is how it goes. Brianbrazzeal... I respect you, but i hate you so much. Burns up a firepot at $250 a piece?.... Weld them xxxxxxx up outta 3/8 steel for like $12 a piece. Keep a trapezoid template on hand for easement of cutting out the plate.... And all day every day usage they will last 4-5 months... 1/2" plate... Well Over a year. Buying anything aside from stock is just sucker stuff. Dont xxxx xxxx xxxxxxx Take a piece of 2"-3" bar stock about 2'-3' long weld 3 pieces of 1"x3/8" having lengths of like 3" at one end. Bevel those into points so it looks like 3 wedges side by side. 45°bevels is fine. Pile your huge chunks of coke up and bust the coke until you are sick of doing so. Scoop up with a square pointed shovel and pile onto a silv. I use the metal mesh housing of an air filter for a large generator which makes the wasted powder created from crushing pass through as well as anything under 1/4 in or smaller. I dump the large chunks which are about 1/2"-1" maybe a bit bigger into a bucket and it goes on the forge or into a pile next to when ive filled the table. The small xxxxxxxx and powder tailings go into 50 gallon drums and feed the bloomery furnace fun happy barbeque time i host periodically to smelt scrap drops into stupid high carbon steel and teach those that wanna come drink beers and get pulled pork drunk with me while learning how steel used to be made. Coke sucks to break into usable stuff. ... But it is WAY better to keep a blower going and bust it up than to be anywhere near the volatiles of burning green coal. May as well huff a burning tire. I used green coal for years but i never will again... For anything. Coke it clean. Clean forge welds. Clean forging. Doors shut and no smoke... Heck you dont even have to have a smoke drawing flue in the shop while using coke. You need an electric blower though... Anthracite hard to keep lit? Nah COKE is hard to keep lit. Just put any old blower or blowdryer or ANYTHING on a dimmer switch and good to go.