making a forge

**rebel** · 11-09-2009, 09:51 PM

Not to toot my own horn but, to show that a forge can be made easily and simply. Here is one I made from a cooking wok. It's still going strong. What I like about it is the light weight. http://www.wilderness-survival.net/f...ead.php?t=6973 I hope this helps.

**COWBOYSURVIVAL** · 11-09-2009, 09:57 PM

Rebel,

Yours inspired mine! Great job!

**rebel** · 11-09-2009, 10:02 PM

I was looking a craigs list the other day in eastern KY and someone had 30 tons of coal for free!

**COWBOYSURVIVAL** · 11-09-2009, 10:05 PM

We don't even know what coal is around here...

**rebel** · 11-09-2009, 10:08 PM

Originally Posted by COWBOYSURVIVAL

Rebel,

Yours inspired mine! Great job!

If I can settle down, I'll make a permanent forge like yours with a hood. I'd like a shop without electric devices. I've got a hand grinder. I'll have to find or make a bellows.

**COWBOYSURVIVAL** · 11-09-2009, 10:25 PM

Originally Posted by rebel

If I can settle down, I'll make a permanent forge like yours with a hood. I'd like a shop without electric devices. I've got a hand grinder. I'll have to find or make a bellows.

Be nice if we could both get it to that level! I'll have to take a pic of my shop for you!

**oneraindog** · 11-11-2009, 02:40 PM

all you guys make some ingenious stuff. thanks for the inspiration.

**rebel** · 11-16-2009, 05:47 PM

http://cgi.ebay.com/Blacksmith-forge...item439b5191a0

**Rick** · 11-16-2009, 06:15 PM

Here's one you can work on.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Antique-Blacksmi...d=350141478233

And I thought you just might want to dream a bit...

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**rebel** · 11-16-2009, 06:22 PM

Originally Posted by Rick

Here's one you can work on.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Antique-Blacksmi...d=350141478233

And I thought you just might want to dream a bit...

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Mmmm. I could hibernate on that.

**Rick** · 11-16-2009, 06:27 PM

I thought there was only one thing missing and that was a chair. Sometimes a man has to contemplate what it is he's working on. That usually requires something to drink (for lubricating the brain cells) and something to sit on to perform said contemplation.

**rebel** · 11-16-2009, 06:32 PM

Originally Posted by Rick

I thought there was only one thing missing and that was a chair. Sometimes a man has to contemplate what it is he's working on. That usually requires something to drink (for lubricating the brain cells) and something to sit on to perform said contemplation.

I think your right! Maybe, the folk who took the pic thought so too.

**Camp10** · 11-16-2009, 06:37 PM

This picture is probably taken from his chair..it's next to the fridge.

**COWBOYSURVIVAL** · 11-16-2009, 07:08 PM

He is probably sitting back in his chair trying to decide on which hammer to use....

**Camp10** · 11-16-2009, 07:14 PM

I pick the little giant....

**Rick** · 11-16-2009, 08:24 PM

By golly, I notice a couple of empty bottles to the right of the forge. You guys are probably right. He's sitting in that chair thinking about another bottle.

**Survival Guy 10** · 11-16-2009, 10:02 PM

hes probaly got a long reach hand made of metal to do all his work from his easy chair and plus hes probaly got a foot pump run by his dog and solar panels just sayin

**flandersander** · 11-17-2009, 09:14 PM

A forge that will suffice can be made from just about anything. I've made 2 so far. My first one was a hot water tank bottom. It had a hole in the bottom for the plumbing, so it quickly became a bottom blast forge. I haven't had a problem with ashes falling down the pipe either. That was fairly heavy, and wasn't easily moved, plus it used a lot of fuel. So i cut off the bottom of a steel bucket, and since I liked the bottom blast style i drilled a hole and inserted a steel pipe. I hooked up some heat resistant tubing up to my air matress blower upper, and lit the charcoal. Simple, a moveable forge for next to nothing.