[TheForge] Test

[Dave Mudge]

I am told that during the depression many smiths used corn cobs as fuel for
the forge.
When LAMA first started, there was an old guy that attended regularly and he
said that
corn cobs was all that he had ever used as fuel.
dave

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer <
artgawk at thegrid.net> wrote:

> Gee, that's mighty nice of them Mike. And you deserve it too.
>
> Mike Linn wrote:
> > I guess I should feel lucky... if I run out of coal all I have to do is
> > drive out to Highway 216 and pick up the piles of coal that fall of the
> > trucks on the way to the power plants..
> >
> > wouldnt want to be the guy on the road behind them though...
> >
> > mike
> >
> >
> > Mike Spencer wrote:
> >> C
> >>
> >> One guy here ran out of coal.  For a stop-gap, he's been starting a
> >> good fire in his barrel stove, then stuffing if full of wood and
> >> bunging it up tight for the night.  The next day he has some half-fast
> >> (sp? Or is that half-baked? :-) charcoal.  Says it works pretty good
> >> in the forge.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> - Mike
> >>
> >>
> >
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