January 3, 20242 yr Charles R. Stevens Would this work with a hand crank blower with larger pipe? Or would that be too much air when using charcoal. Was thinking of using a hair dryer for now but want to have it set up for hand crank when I can afford it Edited January 3, 20242 yr by Mod34 Removed @ tag
January 3, 20242 yr Welcome aboard, glad to have you. If you put your general location in the header you'll have a chance of meeting up with members living within visiting distance. Sure, that'll work fine. A JABOD is as simple a forge as it gets. Frosty The Lucky.
January 5, 20242 yr Got tired of my modified bottom blast 55-gallon drum forge with charcoal...it works, but it could do better. Started, and mostly finished a JABOD in about an hour and a half. Didn't have any 3/4" pipe laying around, so I'll clay it when I get back from drill next week. Similar to the original JABOD, two-foot box out of 1x8", side-blast with the tuyere about half-way up. Planning to make a tapered trench about four inches wide and seven to eight inches long, with the bottom at the deepest maybe five inches to start (with only 7.5" to the bottom, I don't want to overheat it and catch it on fire!). I had a similar forge in Georgia, but a bottom blast, sort of a duck's nest over a brake rotor, and hood from a small cut down oil drum. Worked well with coal.
January 5, 20242 yr NS, you mentioned attending "drill". Are you a member of the National Guard or Reserve?
January 5, 20242 yr I'm in the Washington Army National Guard. 9 yrs big Army, 24 years overall, about 15 full-time.
January 5, 20242 yr I did 21 years in the Wyoming Army National Guard. Never a technician, only a weekender. Where does the WANG go for annual training, Ft. Lewis?
January 6, 20242 yr Depends on the unit. There's some all over the place, but I'm at Lewis when I go.
January 6, 20242 yr I spent about 6 months at Lewis in 1970 as a Training Officer (2LT) with a Basic Trainng Company. I lived is Steilacoom and my unit was on North Fort. I drove around there about 20 years ago and all the WW2 vintange barracks and other buildings we had used were all gone. I really liked the area but I was there in the summer of a dry year. I'm not sure how much I would do in a Puget Sound winter. One of my best friends is in Port Townsend but that is in the Olympic rain shadow. What type of unit are you in? GNM
January 6, 20242 yr I'm in the two-shop for the HHC of the 56th TIOG. A super-secret squirrel type but it sounds vastly cooler than it is. They don't let me do real work anymore, these days I mostly just show up and try to herd the cats.
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