[TheForge] Re: Fuel selection

[Mike Spencer]

> Folks can anyone suggest the way to select fuel for a forge?
>
> I have read various trade and brand names but none of those that I
> have read are available in the UK...

How about this?

    http://www.jharrison-fuel.co.uk/breeze.htm

That what I think we'd call  "pea coke" on this side of the pond.
Clean and hot.  Surely you can find it on your side of the Irish Sea,
though.  Check with BABA.  AFAIK, anything sold in the UK as "breeze"
will be unifiormly small bits of coke made from coal.

> Is it worth making your own coke?

By the ton?  I truly doubt it.  As you work while burning coal?
That's how you do it.

Charcoal is another matter.  If you have a large, free supply of wood,
the patience to build and debug the kiln and a real need for charcoal
-- say, for forging copper -- then yes.

- Mike

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