[TheForge] Coal fire blues

[Ralph E Douglass]

TOOL GYPSY wrote:
> 
> Hello Mr Smith
>         I would like to know how one should go about lighting a coal fire in
> a forge with no tuyere pot
> and the air coming up from below, with green coal ,and also what depth to
> pile the coal for the best results(non oxidizing ).All the books i read seem
> to deal with a tuyere pot and everyone also seems to have a supply of coke
> on hand to start the fire.Not me i just got the green.
>                                                      Thanks  yall
>                                                                Paddy P the

Build a small wood fire. Once it is going well slowly add green coal.
This will then start to burn/coke up. The thick greenish smoke is
flammable ( actually explosive) due to the methane and other volitles,
so use caution.


Ralph
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