Found this forge and my first post vice at a tool sale today. I can't wait!  Can't pick it up until Tue.

 

Things are going to be so much easier, with the exception of my sleeping arrangements.  :D

 

 

Excellent scores! Paint me green with envy! I have not seen anything that nice at an auction around here in years.

 

Now that cooler weather is around the corner, we expect to see more good things from you. Don't be a stranger. :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

PS: So, ya got wi-fi in that doghouse? After 30-some years of my antics, she is just down to rolling her eyes and 10 minutes of the silent treatment when I do something like that. No new sleeping arrangements. Her dogs have already claimed the couch as sleeping quarters.

Wonderful forge.  You should send it to me for proper testing, just to make sure it's safe.

 

I love that tubing from the blower to the pot.  Too many folks use that flexible stuff today and it lacks any kind of character.

Great finds!!

Excellent scores on both counts.

 

Frosty The Lucky.

Nice score! Congrats!

Greetings Dan,

 

Looks like you found some great equipment...  The firepot is a Champion whirlwind and I sure the rest is also Champion.  I have the same forge but with a power blower..  You will love the nice deep pot and clinker breaker..  Looks like a great vise too..  Now get to work and post some pictures...

 

Forge on and make beautiful things

Jim

 

One just like it for sale in Mich CL for 600

I have it home. Now I have to get it over the fence and to my anvil. I will make a trip to the scrap yard to find material for a stand for the post vice. If fortune smiles on me, I will be forging by tomorrow night! I have a tomahawk and a knife I pounded out of a large roller bearing, to thermal cycle, harden and temper. I have a ton of tools to make. 

 

I spent $600 for the forge and vice as a package deal. Hope I was in the ball park. It was worth it to me. My wife....... not so much.  :unsure:

$600 for the two of them is a very good price considering what you got!  

 

A new firepot and tuyere would have set you back $250 plus shipping, if you bought it from a retail outfit like Centaur.  The metal for the forge table, plus your time and consumables.... at least another hundred, and then you have to wonder if you could build to the same quality.  

 

The vise could probably be found for a c-note, maybe a bit less, but how much time and fuel would you have to burn up to find one that size and in that good a condition?  You certainly don't need a vise that big as a beginner smith, and you might find that you'll want a smaller one as time goes on.  But, you can bet that you won't wear that vise out, and it will sell for a hundred dollars just as soon as you list it.

 

So, yea, I'm guessing that you did alright on the price.  Of course, if you have my luck, you'll find the exact same combo in better condition a week later when you're dead broke...