[TheForge] Historical type Forge

Mon Apr 28 00:42:01 2003

And into which end did you insert the tuyere?

Go back out there tomorrow morning,  insert the tuyere pipe in the OTHER end
and don't give up till you have a welding heat. Use coal if you must.

Of course if you haven't pulled it off by nightfall you can give Mike's
method a try but you'll lose points on the final.

Frosty
------------------------
If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Rackers" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2003 4:57 PM
Subject: RE: [TheForge] Historical type Forge

> Frosty -
>
> That sounded just too simple, so I ran out to the backyard to try it.
>
> I lay down, put a bath towel on my stomach and blew like hell until I just
> about passed out.....
>
>
>
> I'm sticking with the hand-cranked blower.
>
> Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Jerry Frost
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 11:32 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Historical type Forge
>
>
> Ayup. That's the one I was remembering. Makes me feel good to remember
> something accurately more than a week past. <grin> Thanks Harry.
>
> I've been thinnking about portable forges as per this thread. I think the
> Mastermyr Chest is a perfect example of a portable forge. Okay, smithy.
>
> Don't see the forge? Well, that's because you don't need to pack the forge
> along with you. All a forge is is a fire place. You can make a bellows
from
> a bath towel and a stomach: goat, cow, deer, etc. works even better. The
> forge pan needs be no more complicated than a camp fire and a tuyere pipe.
I
> know this last as I've spent many a night forging found scrap on a RR rail
> anvil by a camp fire. Making charcoal is about as simple as it gets, build
a
> fire and shovel the coals out as they form and douse em.
>
> So, the ONLY thing you'd need to pack for a forge would be a reasonably
> fireproof piece of pipe a foot or so long. The section from the fire pit
to
> the bellows can be as simple as rolled birch bark.
>
> Frosty
> ------------------------
> If it ain't forged
> it ain't real.
> Wrought iron is.
> The FrostWorks
>
> Meadow Lakes, AK.
>
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