wolfshieldrx Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 12 ft x 12 ft "pole-barn" construction with metal roof and t-111 walls. Brick forge with Centaur fire-pot and Champion 400 blower. Anvil is a 100 pound Columbian (or so I am told)...post drill is a Buffalo Forge single speed model. Everything came together this past year...paid off house and son graduated from college, so I had a little more spending money. My wife insisted I splurge a little. Hope you enjoy sharing my forge as much as I enjoyed building it and, even more, working in it. bart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tech413 Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Looks great!! It's nice having a little extra to spend on yourself isn't it? Congrats on the new shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
element Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Sweet shop, same size as mine. I like that brick forge and it should serve you a long time. If smoke escapes from your flue it might be because its a tad to big versus your chimny size. Happy forging:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnr Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Looking real nice!!! Finnr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyrian Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Heh. Are you actually using the "55 LBS" ASO as a doorstop? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferrous Beuler Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Looking good! Actually looks a lot like my shop. "My wife insisted I splurge a little"... Gee, doya think maybe your wife could do lunch with my wife??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markb Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Nice set up. Enjoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKForge Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Great looking shop is that a 10" flue pipe you are running? How is your draft? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfshieldrx Posted March 5, 2009 Author Share Posted March 5, 2009 re my wife: She is the finest woman I have ever known...Christian, hard worker, goes out of her way to help others and cute as a button. She is my inspiration, my psychiatrist and my best friend. I am indeed a lucky man! re the 55 lb aso: bought it on sale at Harbor Freight when I was still outdoors with a break-drum forge. Actually, as I used it, at first it dented then seemed to work-harden. Not ideal but better than nothing...and worse than a piece of rr rail. I am thinking about grinding some shapes (depressions) in the top and using it as a poor man's swage block...whaddaya think?? re flu size: Everything I read said to use at least 10 inch pipe. The biggest I could find locally was 9 inch. Everything I read said it had to have a smoke shelf...so i put one made of sheet metal in. I used the 9 inch pipe, took the smoke shelf out because it just would not draw with it in. Now it will suck the buttons off your shirt after it is warmed up...just a wee amount of smoke when starting out. I will try to remember to get a picture or two of a fire being sucked up the chimney. thanks for the comments...bart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lysdexik Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Hi Bart Great setup, how high are your walls? I am laying the foundation of my hotshop soon, and I have asked about head height before, how high are the trusses from the floor, and what if anything would you change? I am from England originaly, so I have been used to working with rear draught forges, but other than that you basicaly built the same shop that I am building, but I am useing steel studs instead of wood. Paul...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Looking darned good Bart. I'll bet your wife is a craftsperson herself. Yes? Deb is into all sorts of making things with her hands and is generally very open to improvements in the shop. Of course she wants some bench space for herself but that's okay. The ASO may be cast steel, Horrible Fright was selling cast steel Russian anvils for a while. Anyway, making a swage block out of it should work fine, "real" swage blocks are cast iron. Frosty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfshieldrx Posted March 6, 2009 Author Share Posted March 6, 2009 re my wife...not a craftsperson, says she doesn't have the patience. Of course she does do "projects" with the children's bible class she teaches at church. re shop height..."ceiling" is just about 8 ft. I am 6'2" and this has not presented a problem so far. Of course the "attic" is open, but there is a joist just over my anvil. thanks for looking...bart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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