Uncle Kenny's Backyard Forge

[have_blue]

Re: Uncle Kenny\'s Backyard Forge

Leaf blowers are great for blowing fires. I once melted a stump down to nothing with one... and you know how hard it is to burn stumps.

 

[Henro]

Re: Uncle Kenny\'s Backyard Forge

Nice thread and pictures, B7510.

Funny, I still have my little homebrew charcoal fired furnace around, that I used to melt aluminum in for casting, but the thought of using the same method for heating steel never occured to me!

Thanks for the idea! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[bobodu]

Re: Uncle Kenny\'s Backyard Forge

I had a homemade forge when I was a teen ( 30 odd years ago).Everybody else would get off the bus and play...I'd go out back and ring steel.Back then,I belonged to a group called The Society for Creative Anacronism.This was not some CIA monitored (I think) terrorist group.We tried to recreate the middle ages,much like Civil War folks do.There are still many groups in college towns.I built up a box outta fire brick and used a blower off one of the first microwave ovens in town.There was a railroad track half a mile across the fields.That track was a never ending supply of clean coke.I guess it fell off the cars on it's way up to Gary,In. for the steel mills.I could put a couple railroad spikes in the fire and in a minute or two they would be white hot.Knock em on the anvil,sprinkle on a little 20 Mule Team Borax and whack em a couple of times with a two pound hammer.Two Oliver tractors couldn't pull em apart.You can make a decent forge out of a semi truck wheel and there are free plans for a propane fired forge here.Gonna try this when I get time...yeah right!!
http://home.flash.net/~dwwilson/forge/fgpl.html

 

[SPIKER]

Re: Uncle Kenny\'s Backyard Forge

here is a good link for ya

http://www.backyardmetalcasting.com/

metal casting also shows how to make sacrificial stuff and the forges...

Mark M /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[B7510]

Re: Uncle Kenny\'s Backyard Forge

Spiker,

Thanks for th great link. A great site for anybody wanting to go beyond the ususal bending, cutting and welding.

That guy seems like the type that will end up building his own nuclear reactor in his basement, just so he can power his homemade electrolitic refinery with an improved zooba schnagle.

 

[SPIKER]

Re: Uncle Kenny\'s Backyard Forge

7510:

ya I have lots of links like that to odd off the wall stuff. same goes for the rust removal using soda ask/soap and dc voltages... lots of links for tree stuff, electrical/electronic, applainces, home hobbie repairs, water wells cistern stuff and car items too. usually you can get some sort of info that is hard to find if ya ask! lol

anyhow now the problem is remembering what all thos dang links are for when I need them and remembering I have them ! lol /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Mark M

 

[higgy]

Re: Uncle Kenny\'s Backyard Forge

Good old yankee intuition, don't see it as much as we used to. Great idea and links.

It is nice to see someone still doing the hard way.

Dane

 

[polecat]

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not only that but trtyin to memba which one was where and who had what on it!!!!!........I WENT TO THE OTHER END OF THE SHOP BUT ....I JIST CANT SEEM TO MEMBA Y...OR WHERE OR WHEN I PUT WUT WHERE ....AS A MATTER OF FACT!!!!WHERE THE HECK AM i!!!!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[SPIKER]

Re: Uncle Kenny\'s Backyard Forge

I think I'm getting OLDTIMERS desise like regan had... he was a good pres as far as I can remember! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

and I have no short term memory left now that I mention it I don't think I ever had any LONG term memory to start with cause I can't remember that far back! lol /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Mark M