[TheForge] fire starting

[Evelyn Hart]

philip,

You show your I Q when you have to use profanity to describe the smoke from
your fire ( or any other item).

Bobby Hart


> [Original Message]
> From: Phlip <phlip@99main.com>
> To: <theforge@mailman.qth.net>
> Date: 7/24/03 12:39:06 AM
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] fire starting
>
>
> Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
>
> > You said hard coal as in anthracite? if your using that you need to add
> > some kindling. Hard coal also takes more air to keep going which can be
a
> > problem. When your welding remember that your trying to suggest to the
> > steel that they want to get together not force them together. Hit it too
> > hard and all you do is splash out the metal that would form the weld.
>
> Calamity, Kim is someone I listen to. He's got it together, knows his
coal.
>
> But, this is about starting fires. Now, there's a lot of ways to firew up
a
> coal fire, and most of them involve wood, charcoal, charcoal lighter
fluid,
> or any combination, but I've found myself a sure-fire method, that reqires
> minimal stree, throughout your forging. Please understand, too, that I was
> trained on a coal fire, and later learned to use propane, then formed my
> preferences.
>
> Get yourself either a round firepot, or a square one that's big enough to
> build a round fire in. Build yourself the makings of a small wood fire, in
> the round, in the center. Surround it with partially burned wood, and or/
> coke, again in tepee shape. Douse it with charcoal lighter fluid, or
> kerosene, or even  non potable (fairly) pure alcohol. Nest the whole mess
> with good coal, from whatever your source. Light it off, and leave it
alone
> for a few minutes, letting the flame light up the wood and charcoal,
> cranking air to it, at need.
>
> Get rid of them goddamn smokey, stinkey coal rocks, and add good hardwood
> charcoal at need to the mess, and simplify life instead of dealing with
that
> silly modern coal- good charcoal burns nicer, cleaner, and you can even
cook
> over it, and unless you forge weld and pour lotsa borax all over
everything,
> all you need to do is dump the ashes every couple of days, rather than
> continually crapping with the fire or cleaning out the clinkers.
>
> And if you want it much easier than that, go to Ron Reil's website and
build
> yourself a good propane forge, using his instructions- but don't come
> talking to me about it- my charcoal does my jobs for me ;-)
>
> Phlip
>
> "When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
>  Blacksmith's credo.
>
>  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....
>
>
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