The World's Cheapest And Easiest Forge!
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- čas přidán 8. 06. 2018
- You want it? You got it! The most basic forge you can possibly build. Great for teenagers, college folks, and the jobless!
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I'm 16 and in high school, this is exactly what I did. I used this setup, drilled holes in the pipe, sealted the other end and put a fire on top of the pipe. Then used mud and bricks to make walls to keep heat in. Works like a charm. I'm making a new one right now, legit just took a break to watch this, out of an old tire rim that I found outside of someone's trash pile
@The Youtoube boi lol yeah turned 18 in may
@@lucasmurphy5407 life’s crazy
@@lucasmurphy5407 now 19 😅
@@sameh3804 and almost 20 hahaha. Just used the make shift anvil like a week ago too
@@lucasmurphy5407 nice bro
I went to the thrift store and asked for a 2,000 year old hair dryer
They looked at me and just stared for a minute then said good luck
Because no one sells air bellows anymore but you can do one yourself
@@lordyasha5944 ...if you read his question properly he asked for a 2000 year old hair dryer ...Dah. since when were bellows a hair dryer. lmao.
@@fishmut uuuuuuh
@@fishmut I'm from the year 21 and I can confirm I used bellows as a hair dryer
@@michaelsoddy1892 same bro! Except I’m from the yr 20
I just sold some railroad track to an inspiring young man was trying to help him research a setup. This is a good video the only disclaimer I can add is make sure it is not a galvanized chunk of pipe. Fume fever is serious and I have given it to myself from working clad materials, chromed wrenches for example are clad.
This is a great hobby just be safe.
Thanks!
For forge welding the hairdryer may not cut it. I had to get a dust blower to get the volume. But other than that it is that simple. Even made a tempering oven for a machete from that setup by adding some bricks and sticking the hair dryer and pipe into the ground.
What is a dust blower? Like the small pistol that hooks to an air compressor hose? Leaf blower? I am not familiar with the term, though the name sounds simple enough that I probably should be. Thank you.
I've seen one made from a wheel rim and a hairdryer too.
my forge atm is made out of a used fire extinguisher
I also got one but im saving it to use it as melter recipient
Been forging for years now and this by far the best and easiest video to get started with I showed it to my friends just to shut them down thank you
You may also use a piece of an automobile exhaust pipe.
Wahl Jürgen I have plenty of those from the old owner of the house.
I can say with 100% confidence that it may not be the money for it but the space for it. I could buy the items you suggest however, I may not have the proper area, or space to "build a yard fire". The right space is also a huge resource needed. Living in an apartment with rules about not fires tends to put a damper on forging metal.
hey i started with a trench and a yard fire, nothing wrong with that.
How long does he stand in front of a mirror in the morning
I started with a little hole in the ground semi truck brake drum housing and a electric rubber mattress pump, 6 ft. Of scrap copper pipe, a piece of railroad tie support flipped upside down, dad's old Hammer 🔨. Man we had two and a half cord of white fir crap wood rotting. That's what hooked me, it was fun👍🍻
Thanks for posting this, man. Great video think I'm gonna go that route for my first forge
Been watching your stuff for a while. Trying something like this for myself tomorrow. Like your take on a lot of things
That is amazing. simple and sweet. I was able to build a fully functional forge for around 30 my self. Of course I have plans to take a few dollars to improve it. so there is always a next step.
may i ask how you built it and with what materials? im slowly aquiring materials and the last thing i need is a forge
The dirt box forge is awesome!
Hey purgatoryironworks, Yours was the last video, (this one to be exact), that I consumed before going out into the yard and just building the damn thing. As of yesterday, it has been a month since I built that primitive in ground forge and I have already started building another of a different design with some iron chairs, other various parts and an old sink I am clay coating. Thank you for the last motivational kick. After 32 years(probably even as a baby) of blacksmithing interest, I am now doing blacksmithing action. Thanks again my brother. I'm the one hammering, but I might have put it off for who knows how much longer, had I not been watching your video that day. Keep it up.
Finally! I've been needing something cheap and easy like this
Quick fill air mattress pumps are nice! They have a nice lifespan if you take care of em, they come with a nice hose if you want some extra wiggle room. Been using mine almost daily for a year and still has a powerful enough gust to get you to forge welding heat. I made my forge from an old raised steel fire pit. Old smoker attachments could work too it you're looking to make it propane and add burners.
Good stuff man!
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and good ideas. Love your videos. I have to take up blacksmithing.
Good advice, Slash.
My first forge was a hole dug in my yard some lump charcoal and my blower on my air compressor.
Thankyou sir fine advise,and as you said I was pondering how to get bellows haha but the hairdryer and pipe is perfect, also love the hat.
As I was watching a subversive thought wandered through my pointed head. If this is the cheapest forge, what is at the other end of the spectrum? In your workshop, what is the most technologically advanced, has every bell and whistle you can imagine, not even a dream in your younger days, forge?
OBTW, I just built a DOB forge but have not done more that give it a quick "will it actually heat metal" burn. It did.
I also proved that even when the 1/4 bar you heated has returned to it's dark, pre-heated color it is still hot enough to set your pants on fire.
The other end of the spectrum is called an induction forge. They heat metal in seconds but are staggeringly expensive and consume vast amounts of power.
Well, I build something similiar, which you can see on my channel in the knive forging video. I simply drilled some holes into such a pipe and welded a little box with fire bricks on top of it. It works just fine! The only problem is that it is a little bit difficult to control, and sometimes I overheats the material very quickly.
I have just started recently and made a forge out of mud that kind of looked like a crater with a metal dance post that came in the side but i only had raw wood which managed to get my metal bright red but one problem that i ran into was that i could not really get the middle hot so i could not draw it out which made my hot cut tool have a little belly on it that i can not really fix as of now and after i had to get rid of that i had tried using my mini metal foundry that i had gotten the idea off of the king of random but the plaster had started to crumble really bad and i also melted my female adapter so as of now i think that the dirt mound works best with the little supplies that i have access to
my first forge was a metal trash can, brake drum and blow dryer. my current one is a rectangular metal washtub and a length of 2 in pipe with an airbed inflater.
If you want to go cheap, but propane, I suggest a harbor freight (or any kind for that matter) weed burner and a few fire bricks. That's what I started on and it ran me around $40. Plus the constant need to buy more propane, but you can get around 5 hours out of one tank.
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or a firepit full of coals and a good hand fan should get it red enough to shape and forge.
Thanks for this video. Going to try this
I started with clay and a old air mattress pump
I'm I the only one thinking, 'That's an awesome hat. I should get a hat like that'?
You cam also use a blower from an old water heater, they move a lot of air and just plug into a regular outlet.
i'm building one out of a brake drum. like you said, i had all the stuff already and didnt know it. except for the hair dryer. got on facebook, found one on the marketplace for 5 bucks, had it in my hands 20 min later. easy.
Can we also melt metal in a blacksmithing forge?I mean can we use it as a smelter for foundry?
Cool video. I been thinking about starting a forge and teaching myself to blacksmith.
Go for it!
Thanks man.
Puddin’ video was the best. Glad to see you back at the camera.
I watched because I looking to setup something that will be able to allow me to melt precious metals. Ie silver, copper, gold. I know they have been melting precious metals since the dawn of time, I am in my homework phase. Thanks for posting the video!! Will be subscribing!!
Thank you.
i used a old bbq grill, a rim and a hair dryer for my first forge, worked ok to make a few knives.
Man i just love your hat 😃
Thanks!
Excellent video
I started with a hog pan wedged in top of a metal bucket and a hair dryer
Shop vac will work in place of a hair dryer.
Just turn plug the hose into the outlet vent
Sweet! This wasn’t click bait! That’s awesome!
Love the hat!
thanks!
Thank you sir
I've got an overturned flower pot and a mattress inflating air pump with a steel pipe. I fill the flower pot with sticks and logs and make a little campfire that gets hot enough to melt pennies and soda cans, which form an alloy as strong as steel.
I kid you not! Toss a bunch of pennies into a crucible and toss in 1 aluminum soda can per 20 pennies. Melt it all together and you have a rust proof alloy that's silvery and just about as strong as medium carbon steel.
Hi. You are incorrect. Please see yourself to the door.
@@purgatoryironworks have fun with your rust, then. I'm just sharing a recipe that I have seen personally works as a cheap, strong, and easier to make alternative to steel.
Such a rude way to respond, as well. All that heat must be getting to your head. Maybe try making it or something. I won't be around to watch though, so have fun with it.
While youre at it, maybe make aluminum bronze. Its gold-ish and has a really good resistance to corrosion as well, whilst retaining a high tensile strength.
Yeah, sure, steel is strong, but alloys deserve recognition for being strong too. Don't be an ass.
This is true. My first one was scrap 12" pipe for the forge body, scrap steel plate cut to fit with holes drilled into it. Scrap 2" pipe buried underground and coming up under the forge and a hair dryer for the air supply. Found elevator counter weight to beat on. Total cost $12. I see so many using the "I don't have the proper equipment" excuse. No......you don't have the proper drive. Want it bad enough, you can make it happen.
What you need is fire and air. That's pretty much it. How you contain it is up to the individual and what they happen to have on hand.
ha yes thanks dude making an anvil tomorrow from a chunk of rail and this will help maybe ill send u a vid if i get one
That description hits me hard lol
Would a leaf blower work?
My forge is legit a hole in the ground and a metal pipe hooked up to a shot vac and my anvil is a couple of bricks with rail road tie that I got from a scrap yard and I use my dads sledgehammer (it’s a one handed sledge) as my hammer and I use pliers as tings and needle nose pliers to get different kinds of bends if you buy all of this stuff it’s all less then $50
Does this work without fire
I was just wondering is a rr spike knife is actually a knife.....or is it not a knife?
This is exactly what my first forge was
im setting up a coaql forge with a elctric furnace blower and a old cast iron woodstove fingers crossed itgoes welleither way this method your showing is also ingenuis sorry for grammatical issues my keyboards failing
Yes sir I am Indian and we have forge that is made under ground and remove quickly after work is done. We just need hand mechanized blower.
same problem some others have remarked, i live in an apartment complex so i don't have a backyard and am not allowed to have open flames on my balcony
i have the money to buy/build a propane forge, but i can't figure out if i'm even allowed to store the propane tank (found some EU regulations saying propane tanks need to be stored in a room with walls that can withstand direct exposure to flames for at least 60 minutes, but that was labeled as "up to 125 litres" which i'm not sure there's a lower limit to that or if even the smallest tanks available would need to adhere to that) or if it'd be legal to use it outside of private property (i'd happily drive my car into a forest and do it on the shore of a small lake with some fireproofing, but i don't know if that's legal. they don't specify if an open, controlled gas fire is the same as an open trash burning fire and it's kinda pointless to spend like 50-60 euros on something that'll end up getting me a € 280.00 fine)
A gas forge for 60 euro? Where can you get that??
The one video that I find it hard to locate is how to properly maintain a charcoal fire without burning down your smithy as im positive that they were able to before coal became the main fuel source for blacksmithing
Would it work with coals from wood pieces that have been burned?
Oh yes!
uhhh how does this work tho? where's the heat coming from? where do you put the metal?
Did you watch the whole video? He states that you need to supply the fire. This just supplies the forced air.
Very nice
where can I get your hat
Wouldn't the air dryer melt from the heat?
My first forge was a old propane tank cut in half drilled a hole in the bottom put a peace of random medal over the hole that didn’t block the air just defused it and welded a piece of exhaust pipe over the hole. The blower was a old computer fan wired to a old transformer for a maglight.
So in other words it was free just made from random junk laying around the house.
I want your flippin hat!
Dude. Dig that hat‼️ ✌🏻🤠👍🏻
codys gunwork?
The easiest forge for those people in an apartment is a cinder block, a handheld propane torch, and 2 or 3 bricks to keep things in place and shield heat. I just used it today! I might make a video about how I did it.
i don´t hav problem with a forge or tools i have problem finde a place wher i can and are allowd to be
I think you could go a bit cheaper using a personal fan for the blower… and that it blower’s a bit more gentle might save a ton of wood,, coal , . Regulation of the draft is critical to saving fuel. Also stopping the draft when your between work.
But Trent, will it get hot enough to make H13 not suck to work with?!
First forge was a cast iron pan with bellows hooked up by a steel pipe
What if you don't have a hairdryer ? What else can you use?
Lips.
Foot pump for an air mattress
in college and cant even afford your ramen noodles. So me😂😂😂
How to we apply it to a regular pit fire?
....just stick a leaf blower to it!
Its Slash from GnR!
I didn't realise how simple it is... I've had troubles getting to a high enough temperature
Is it a certain type of metal for the pipe ?
nope, regular water pipe, black, non galvanized
purgatoryironworks thank you very much
As my granddaddy would say " What a getup"
Your chin wisdom looks cool. cool vid.
I gave you a like just because of your hat.
I got it by good authority that hairdryers aren't around for 2000 years
In the city, lorries tend to back up into undesired signposts. Possibly where it says: " Don't park here". And the pipe bends and gets thrown aside. So that's a free pipe, galvanised. But what quality is that? I have no idea. On the other hand it is free so why complain.
What if i don't have yard?
...then get a job!
Teaching how to build it might be better than saying how cheap and easy it is
Bro. That hat is crazy.
What if you live in an apartment building, don't own any land, and have no friends or close relatives with land anywhere around you. Got a way around that? Anyone can build a forge. But what about the space needed to use It?
Mike Last name Then you're gonna have to decide if you're actually serious about becoming a blacksmith.
Sounds like a personal problem.
Balcony?
Check the in heads of certain youtube commenters, seems to be plenty of empty space in there
Dylan Greene I do have a balcony, but the neighbors might complain. And I'm sure that a fire hazard.
Dangit, live off-grid with no electricity. Came to the library to watch videos. No hair dryer for me!
Hey man. Maybe sus out one of those foot pedal inflaters for an air mattress, or screw a board across 2 or 3 and pedal that sucker
That'll give you airflow
Sort of a hillbilly bellows
Dude thanks for the content. Also. I just watched your video about 9/11. I don’t get the point you are trying to make. Is it that jet fuel did burn the beams. Because it was a noodle when it was hot
Joshua Hawkins he was pointing out the stupidity of the arguments people were making about the melting point of steel and the heat of the fire fueled by jet a fuel. Some argued that the fire couldn’t have been hot enough to melt the steel, thus the building falling had to be intentional. He showed the obvious fact that steel doesn’t have to get even close to melting to lose its structural integrity.
Some people dont have a yard
Then your crap out of luck for blacksmithing unless you have somewhere else to go
electricity prices have gone up :(
watching from delhi😂
And what do you power that hair dryer with ? You run on a bicycle ?... -_- Not everyone has a garage or a garden (which are both hard to acquire, a lot harder than a genuine forge), so obviously you'd have to go in the wilderness.
How about some of that hot air you seem to have an excess of?
@@purgatoryironworks dangg son
I just dug a hole in my garden
Uh that's not a forge. That is a blower for a forge as in only one part of a forge. I get what you are saying and agree that blower wise all you need is a used hair dryer but I came here for ideas on building a forge as in a blower and hearth combined.
See our video on the Dirt box forge:
czcams.com/video/ntVrRjwpyAo/video.html
if they can't build a forge how do they think they are gonna have the skills to blacksmith