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[randy_1]

So my 15 year old step son just came home to inform me he found an anvil for sale as well as many old old metal working tools he wants to buy. My response was wth do you want with that stuff??? His response was " well we have a forge duh" ..... Thanks slim.... For giving a kid an idea of how to make use of the gasification chamber this winter. Now it seams he's going to be a blacksmith....

[farmboythegreat]

good for him   

[slimjim]

Thats awesome Randy, please buy it for him, I'll stop up the next time I'm in the area and work with him a bit, just make sure he stays safe, it is a lot of fun and can certainly be very useful!

[slimjim]

Did you get any Jigs with it? I'll try to go through some of my scrap iron and bring some with me. Are you coming down to the Waterford fair this coming weekend, Going to be lots of good music on stage, I'll have a 250 running and I'll bring my little Anvil to play with, my wife wants some more flower pot hangers and maybe a towel rack, OH and by the way have you seen Danny and my newest invention, we'll be selling these at our boot to go with the hammers!

[randy_1]

No I guess I hadn't seen that one before... Lol.. Wth is it? I won't be coming to this fair but we are planning on giving you a hand at the common ground fair if you still need it..

[slimjim]

Absolutely, I'll save up some scrap to forge, The picture is our brand new (Gag)  Electric Toilet plunger, we already have an electric hammer, next is pulp hooks and pee vee's

[mlappin]

Had a bed stabilizer on a grain truck we bought that was froze up, couldn't even begin to get enough heat on it with both torches and the rosebuds so I built a forge.

Took the bottom 1/3 of a 55 gallon drum, cut several 3/4" holes in the bottom in a row, then tacked a small piece of pipe to the bottom of the drum with 1/16" holes drilled in it to line up with the 3/4" holes. Sat the drum on several bricks. Set old bricks inside on opposite sides as the piece I needed to heat was 4 inches wide but just sat in the drum hanging from the loader, dumped one small bag of charcoal in the bottom and lit, once it was going I dumped another one in then sat the stabilizer in the drum, and filled around it with charcoal then put about 30 pounds of compressed air on the pipe with the holes, redneck forge. Worked very well actually for using nothing but scrap and having a tops of 20 minutes in throwing it together.

[randy_1]

Very cool you need to attach a picture or two

[mlappin]

I can do better than that, actually have a video of it, if I can find it. Might have to dig out the old PC and see if it's still on the HDD.