[TheForge] Phlip--using charcoal in your forge

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> Phlip, you're in Massachusetts aren't you?

Close- I'm actually in Connecticut- and I'm new to the area, so I don't know
my way around very well yet.

> Out in Morse Corner -- northeast corner of Leverett -- there used to
> be a family who ran two charcoal kilns -- brick beehive-shaped affairs
> big enough to drive a pickup into.

OK- is it just north of Rhode Island, starting out the cape? If so, that's
about an hour and a half from here. Cooleyville, according to Mapquest, is
in the other direction, between Worchester and Boston, more or less- about 2
hours. Shutesbury is close to there- where might Morse Corner be from there?

Got me all confuzzled ;-)

 They stopped burning about 30
> years ago but I think the kilns are still there.  And there's a guy
> named Jim Aaron nearby in Cooleyville -- part of Shutesbury -- with a
> sawmill who saws mostly white oak for the boat building trade.
>
> Somebody who wanted an adventure might be able to get the use of the
> kilns, get enough oak or other hardwood slab from Jim and burn enough
> charcoal to keep several smiths for a year.  I don't know if the
> family who ran the biz is still in the area but if they are, they
> might be available to give advice.
>
> - Mike

Might be worth looking into, although I might have a bit of trouble dealing
with a semi load of wood and charcoal ;-)

Phlip

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....