From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:1029tpe$1dr7m$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   On 6/9/2025 10:00 PM, Jim Wilkins wrote:   
   > ...   
      
   I decided to throw money at the problem.  Behind my shop is a 20x60   
   concrete slab.  On the edge of the slab was is where I placed the 40'   
   high cube container leaving 12 feet between the container and the   
   building.   
      
   My future plan has been to place two 20ft continers that are current at   
   my parents house on the far end of the slab facing outwards (doors will   
   open over dirt), and one I already have (currently out front) against   
   the building parallel to the 40 footer.  This leaves a 4 foot passage   
   (nominally) between the 40 foot containers and the other containers and   
   a 12 x 24 open area protected from casual view.   
      
   Its always been my plan to put a 12 x 20 shade structure for outdoor   
   work in that 12 x 24 space for blacksmithing, foundry work, etc.  The   
   little bit of blacksmithing I do now is typically done just inside the   
   south door of the shop with the overhead door standing open.  I set my   
   little blacksmith furnace on the welding table.  The light is not ideal.   
     It makes it hard to see the color of the metal with the direct   
   sunlight coming in the door.   
      
   I had planned to add the shade structure after the containers were in   
   place, but I can add it first.  I just need to be extra careful when   
   placing the parallel container so I do not damage the shade.  After the   
   containers are in place I can move any racking I buy or build inside one   
   of the containers.   
      
   I threw money at it and ordered the shade this morning.   
   --   
   Bob La Londe   
   CNC Molds N Stuff   
      
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   You are better off than I am. I can write about only what I've done or seen.   
      
   My property is almost all sloping oak forest, nowhere but the front lawn is   
   safe for a forge fire's sparks unless it's raining or snowing. I finally   
   have the anvil, tongs, hammers, forge bowl and brake drum/rotor firepots,   
   cranked and electric blowers, leg vise and plenty of charcoal from the wood   
   stove and only need a place to set them up. Maybe the bowl (water heater   
   tank end bell) could straddle the wood stove with its top plate removed, if   
   I make an effective hood. The Champion blower catalog has examples. The   
   blacksmith shop where I took lessons now charges $375 for 6 evenings. The   
   nearby Maker Space hasn't set up an indoor place for their forge yet.   
      
   https://eadn-wc03-4736907.nxedge.io/cdn/wp-content/uploads/pdfca   
   alogs/Champion_Blower_Forge.pdf   
      
   Weygers' The Complete Modern Blacksmith is great for forging tools instead   
   of artwork, but socket handle chisels etc are so easy to acquire from flea   
   markets to not be worth the trouble. I finished getting my Al2O3, SiC and   
   diamond grinders in order and with them and the surface grinder can easily   
   restore a chipped wood chisel edge like new.   
      
   Then there's the matter of what besides art and fake antiques can be forged   
   more easily than welded and machined, or bought used. After taking the   
   smithing class I concluded not much.   
      
   https://starkvillecivilwararsenal.com/the-traveling-forge/   
      
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