[TheForge] Historical type Forge

Mon Apr 28 01:05:00 2003

Darn, Frosty

I was thinking the same thing, but I didn't feel my social credentials have
been adequately developed here enough.

ps AM is calm

Mike
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Frost" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 12:38 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Historical type Forge

> 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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