ahh pittsburg. went by there all the time when I was runnin reefer. (that's a type of truck get your minds out the baggie) 

so I imagine becuase your makin stuff for a fair you do this professionally? 

Not yet lol. Workin on it. I make scrap metal sculptures and this is a good show for them. I dont have as much forged stuff as I'd like for this show but I was under the gun and I just can't keep stock on the shelves. With a full time day job and a month old baby forge time is a little tighter. 

I hear ya

so I did some more reading and googling. coal seems like the better choice for what I'm building. and the charcoal I found for before was 15 bucks for a 10 pound bag and i found coal for 25 bucks for 50 pounds. so all around better choice from what I see. anyone else confirm this? 

this is where I found the coal btw link removed

I can't rember, who said coal was the better choice? yea you told me so...

So how much is shipping for the coal? (and you are paying too much for charcoal!)

I haven't bought it yet and your correct. the shipping was more then the coal 

found a thread talkin bout tractor supply coal. and they seem to like it from what I've gathered. 6 or 7 bucks for 49 pounds? yes please. I'll be picking up a few bags Tuesday most likely. still gotta work ok the air pipeing. sense I changed the fuel from charcoal to coal the pipe I made isn't gunna work. leaky is an understatement. so I'm gunna use exhuast pipe. I'll weld a straight pipe to a y pipe. one side air other side ash dump. it'll be better this way 

and I'll put some mesh or a grate ontop of it to keep everything but ash in the rotor. the people that were talkin bout the coal I'm gunna use were kinda spit between rice size and nut size so I'll probably get a bag of each and see what I prefer. for starting it I plan to use my map gas torch. that thing is a life saver sometimes. 

46 minutes ago, boattlebot said:

6 or 7 bucks for 49 pounds?

ment 40 pounds. Won't let me edit it anymore. guesse to much time has passed or somethin

You get about an hour from the moment when you first hit “Submit Reply”.

The window for amending one's post was reduced from one hour to half an hour about 4 or 5 months ago.

SLAG.

Another good reason to make sure your spelling and grammar are correct before you post. 

What’s the fun in that?

 

Boattlebot, I start my coal forge with a mapp torch too, but I clear the grate and put a hand full of lump charcoal on it. I light the charcoal with the torch and begin to give it air then I pull in coal a little at a time until the fire reaches a good forging state. This way produced little smoke as opposed to lighting the coal directly, and in my opinion is more effective than using wood, paper, kerosene, etc.

On 6/3/2018 at 10:51 AM, Charles R. Stevens said:

What’s the fun in that?

I know right?

elements, I'll give it a shot when I go to light my first fire. hopefully should be up and running by the end of tuesday

I dun figured some of the Mods, they who must not be named, like to watch as some of us race to get our posts cleaned up before the time limit expires.  (My browser seems to have lost my labouriously annotated internal dictionary and frankly a lot of its suggested choices do not make any sense to me at all! Like confusing fear of spiders,  arachnophobia, with fear of sharp pointy things, aichmophobia. )

I didn't even know where was a sharp pointy things phobia. earn somethin new every day 

Learned that from a Science Fiction book back in the 60's?  RAH's "Glory Road"????

And I worked with a fellow that had it.  He'd pass out getting a shot from a DR.  He told of the "getting ready to ship out shots" in the service  and of passing out before he reached the head of the line and waking up to everyone steeping over him...still had to get the shots; they were not kind enough to delegate a couple of soldiers to drag him through the shot line and let him recover on the other side.

Thomas,

Thanks for the new (to me), word   'aichmophobia'.

What a wonderful find!

I have been collecting English words for most of my life. It's a cheap and fascinating hobby.

It means fear of needles but, also,  sharp instruments.

I have just discovered that it has a synonym 'beloNophobia' also spelled 'beloMophobia'. (the difference is denoted in caps).

Regards,

SLAG.

way before my time haha

getting blood tests today but it dont bother  me.

there are many phobias, even one about being watched by ducks

 

that is my favorite random fear. great at party's. "so no matter where you are, you feel like your being watched? by a duck?" 

"yes. and it petrifies me."

 

"quack"

 

"AHHHHHHH" runs away screaming

Both Merriam-Webster and the Oxford English Dictionary websites offer a "word-a-day" email subscription. The OED one in particular offers up some anachronistic gems.

This reminds me of something my Ancient Greek professor (later my advisor) said once in class (and you must imagine this with a strong Brooklyn accent): "My foist job outta college was woikin' for Merriam-Webseh, da dictionary people. One ting I loyned: NEVAH TRUST DA DICTIONARY!"

Somehow that brings to mind the famous PDQ Bach work: "Iphigenia in Brooklyn"

"And in a vision, Iphigenia saw her brother Orestes,
Who was being chaséd by the Amenities!"

Ammonites?   He really was *old*!

got the very last bag of coal that my tractor supply had. and it was ripped so she gave it to me half of. one of the stores around here has 27 pallets of the rice coal and 18 of the nut O.o