[TheForge] Gas Forge Recommendation

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Roy:
Do i understand correctly that you are using green wood as a forging 
fuel and that it is as effective as coal? Why is poplar popular for 
this?....
I've used dry live-oak bark with some success....but green wood?  Pete F

Roy Wilson wrote:
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> ======= On 2005-07-14, at 08:02:09 Keith Holmes wrote: =======
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>>The fuel cost is something to consider but your health is another. This
>>is why I started this thread because I would like to blacksmith more
>>than every now and then but the coal smoke just kills my sinuses. So I
>>am looking for something cleaner and efficient. 
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> 	Vent your chimney as well as your shop.  I prefer coal, habit more than anything else, I *know* what the fire is doing to the steel, even when I can't see the metal.   Even a 4" muffin fan a few feet up the chimney pipe will vastly reduce smoke blowback & clouding around the fire itself.
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> 	Unseasoned (green) poplar chunks work at least as well as coal without the smoke.  You get clouds of steam instead...<G>
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> "Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris." - Xanthippos
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> Roy Wilson - rwilson9 at twcny.rr.com
> 2005-07-14
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