[TheForge] Coal fire blues

[Ralph E Douglass]

Darrell wrote:
> 
> If your forge is a flat pan with a plate with holes for the air you can
> place bricks around the air holes and back fill the rest of the pan with
> dirt and ash.
> Green coal is easier to light than coke. To light green coal, take a sheet
> of news paper and roll it into a tube and then form that into a donut. Put
> that over the air holes. Break up some of your green coal into large pea
> size and put on top of the paper. Light the paper and then give the fire a
> little air. As the fire catches, give more air.
> Even faster and easier, light a map gas torch and put the flame at the air
> holes. Pile some pea sized green coal over the flame and supply air.
> I always use a little green coal to start my coke with.
> Darrell

I disagree that green is easier to light than coke. It all depends on if
you are talking commercially made coke or if you are talking the coke
that you make in the forge. Home made coke lights quite easily. But
commercially made coke is a real bear to light.
I use 2 or 3 pieces of newspaper and a double handfull of hazelnut or
walnut shells... instant hot fire...(grin)


Ralph
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