[TheForge] Test

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Around here the old Spanish smiths allegedly used dried live oak bark.
It makes a nice coal and burns pretty hot..good for BBQ too.
You can fire a forge with most any sort of oil , grease or wax, if you 
feed it into a yellow hot refractory firebox with an air blast. Old 
vacuum cleaners do a good, if noisy, job blowing ...buy several..they 
burn out.  You will want to start firing with a light fuel ( 
contaminated diesel is cheap) to heat up the firebox first.
Large quantities of beeswax are marketable of course

Ben Barrett wrote:
> Beep:  a buddy brought over a small semi-portable forge with
> hand-crank blower, but this time he put some Fir bark in there, and I
> was impressed with the heat taken on small stock.  Discussion ensued
> and it was claimed that the old-growth bark (ie, not from the
> fast-growing varieties) does a much better job.  I thought maybe the
> sappy bits (not sap alone, but the light turpentine along with the
> woody fiber) might do better also; does anyone have experience to
> share about this?  It also got me wondering about bees wax (well,
> probably cooked down to clean parafin) through a preheated pressure
> nozzle, as another potential fuel from our own land.  Seems pretty out
> there :)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
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