[TheForge] Do clinkers and coal ashes help a dirt floor?

[Andy Vida]

MRScherm@aol.com wrote:
> 
> I worked for a smith after school when I was a kid.  He had a wooden floor in
> the shop (then about 125 years old)(the shop that is, I wasn't nearly that
> old when I graduated high school),


	Wow Mike... was it that 1000 year old water driven mill
	in the ABANA tape? :) :) :)

> and over time the floor was so saturated with
> ash and cinder that you could drop a piece of hot iron right from the forge
> and it would smoke but wouldn't kindle the wood floor.  I think you are right
> about dirt floors and ash; it just depends on whether you want to track ash or
> dirt into your house at the end of the day.

	That's what removable footwear is for.  Any doubt about
	that and you may learn what rolling pins were actually
	designed for.