Dad bought the parts from Jay Hayes back in 2003. I found the shell and burners while cleaning out the barn. Figured it was time to finish it.

 

Made the back side as a cap to make is easier install the Kaowool and to service later.

 

 

For the doors i used a couple of cheap chipping hammers for the handles. The hinge is held with a pull pin to make for easy removal.

 

 

 

A buddy gave me a couple of K-type T/C's and a temp controller. A bit overkill but it was free.

 

 

I'm still waiting on some misc parts and fittings so started tacking together a stand/cart for it. Should be done in the next week of so. Pretty excited to fire it up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 9, 201511 yr by nortonscustom

You can buy the springs for the handle for a couple of bucks from most supplyers around here. They like them on big barbeques. Thats going to be a beast

Welcome aboard, glad to have you. If you put your general location in the header you might be surprised how many of the IFI gang live within visiting distance.

That is some piece of equipment you're building there. I'm looking forward to seeing it running. I think you'll find a slide out helper a handy addition to your forge. Basically just a bar level with the bottom of the opening on  telescoping sections so you can extend it out to rest long stock on or push it back in out of the way. I hang the tongs I'm using at the time from mine.

Nice work.

Frosty The Lucky.

Charles, the local hardware sells them here as well. I just happened to have more chipping hammers than I'll ever need so that's what I used.

 

Frosty, thanks. And yep,  I plan on putting a sliding support on the stand. Figure it can also double as a handle to help wheel it around.

Then by all means ignore my sugjestion and up cycle! Lol

Finished the stand today and the last of my parts came in as well.  Hope to begin finishing the forge tomorrow. 

 

Well I'd advise forging a basket for the handle; that way no matter where you are with it, you have something you have forged on display.  I like that cart!

Well got it done.

 

 

 

 

After exactly one minute burn time. Gets warm pretty quick. Made a false wall that I can side in when using only one or two burners, should help save on gas.

 

 

Now I need to start forging that basket.......

I GUESS that'll do. It's a thing of beauty and looks like it's screaming hot too. Well done.

A helically wound handle on the helper would serve the purpose of keeping stock where you put it too. There's sometimes the problem when other guys are using my forge at the same time of bumping other's work out of position.

Of course I suppose I could just fire off another burner and everybody could have their own section or one much larger one. Still a helper that would keep stock where you put it might be a handy thing as well as showing off your handy work.

Frosty The Lucky.

Very nice forge!

May cry myself to sleep tonight. That's beautiful. How'd the forged bits work out?

Any plans and part's list?

 

Welcome from the Ozark Mountains.

The OP hasn't logged on in a couple of years, so I doubt he will see this. You may try sending a PM.

I can't control the wind, all I can do is adjust my sail’s.~ Semper Paratus

 

 

22 hours ago, Burt19 said:

Any plans and part's list?

There’s a good article from PAABA describing Jay Hays’s forge and burners, available online at https://paaba.net/Projects/HSBurner.pdf. There’s contact info for his company, but I don’t know if he’s actually still in business. 

I haven't heard from Jay in probably 20 or more years. We exchanged burners when I introduced the T burner but it's been a long time and he didn't comment. We weren't sit and chat a spell acquaintances but used to talk occasionally on theforge. list in the day.

Might try joining "theforge.list" hosted by ABANA, maybe he or someone he knows still participates. 

Frosty The Lucky.

I like Jay's construction choice for how to mount his burner's gas tube; it is clever. However, I disagree with his reason for it.

  Aiming the gas orifice at a slight angle will promote mixing of fuel gas and inducted air within the mixing tube, just as his drawing shows; but at a cost to the mixture's flow speed down that tube. Where as, increasing the bell reducer's opening diameter enough to get a three to one constriction ratio will accomplish all necessary mixing of fuel gas and air, without sacrificing mixture flow speed.

  The faster the mixture can exit the burner's mixing tube, into the flame retention nozzle's area, the more intense the flame that can be produced.

  You can create the same effect that Jay used by holding a gas tube and orifice at the rear of a burner's mixing tube, without the bell reducer on it, and moving it around to see how it affects burner performance; that little experiment is very enlightening, and will show both the good points, and severe limitations encountered.