HOW TO START A FORGE FIRE WITH BRIAN BRAZEAL
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- Опубліковано 1 лис 2017
- Whether you are a beginner, experienced, or somewhere in between - it's always valuable to know how to start a forge fire, the correct way, and what to avoid doing.
Keywords used in video:
Clinker - Clinker is a general name given to waste from industrial processes, particularly those that involve smelting metals, burning fossil fuels.
Coke - fuel with few impurities and a high carbon content, usually made from coal.
Green coal - coal that can release thick, green smoke, when it's first added to the fire, because of it's impurities.
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Ah yes! He lives!
Discovered your channel about a year ago from your boy Alec. He's found quite a lot of success here on UA-cam.
What an awesome surprise! The Man, The Myth, The Legend! Brian Brazeal ladies and gentlemen! This community isn't the same without your input. Any chance we get to gear about your humanitarian projects? This was the best part of my day!
I start my fire with newspaper and wood the rest is the same you're explenaition is spot on B .pat from Belgium 🔪⚒️
Alex Steele brought me here... Excellent information for a new blacksmith, thank you
The legend returns.
Lots of great stuff coming!
Thank you for the video, you have been missed!
William Cunha your welcome. thank you.
Thank you for the information. I'm glad to see you back on UA-cam again.
Maaaan!! We have never met in person but YOU ARE THE MAN!!!!
Mr. Brazeal!im a big fan of yours and Alec's.im very happy to see you putting out new content.I hope there's more to come!
Wow! Great to see a new video! I literally just rewatched all your old videos this week and was thinking where you were and what you were up to. Great to see new videos coming out of your channel. Thank you for sharing with us!
Thank you for the new video. Very simple presentation. Much appreciated.
Thanks for the tutorial! Very much appreciated
So happy to see a new video! You are a true inspiration to the craft Brian. I would love for one day to be able to take on of your tool making classes. Keep up the great work and God bless.
Nice to see you back!
Great to see a new video from you. Keep em coming.
Glad to see you back making videos Brian!
I have most every video you have ever posted in a file on my computer.
Your how to forge tongs video was one if the most helpful ones I've ever watched.
Keep them coming Sir!!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge! I really hope to see more content in the future.
First time that i have seen brian in a video but i am new here so don't larth at me.
Great to see u back on camera
great to see you back.
It has been so long. Your videos helped me so much!
Thanks for the great video.
Great video!!! Thanks!!
Good to see you back Brian , are you planning any more videos ?
Awesome little tutorial. I really hope you start posting more frequently again!
Thank you so much dude that helped a lot now i know why sometimes my forge smokes like an old diesel truck :D glad to know now how to avoid it because im building an indoor forge :D
Hey I love the new vid I found your channel from a friend of mine who came and took a hammer making class with you
Hey Brian that was very informative, and so glad to see you back, and look forward to some more outstanding video's.
Lenblacksmith thanks.
This is how i also light my forge.I use some really powerful potent pine Fat light and it does the trick!
Good afternoon Sir! Really glad to see you’re starting to post videos again. I just wanted to remind you it was my great pleasure working with you and learning from you while you were with us in Louisiana. The best part was after classes, sitting with a few beers and talking about blacksmithing, talking about teaching blacksmithing, and the future of the art and trade. I miss the visits.
Take care and safe travels to Kenya. Keep in touch
Rick Chargois thanks Rick, and hopefully we'll be able to get something going here in America.
Brian Brazeal keep me apprised of when you may return and I will do as we discussed. I feel it would be a great fit so we need to make it happen. Safe travels!
Rick Chargois I don't know if I will come back unless something to do is set up back here. I'll go anywhere as long as I'm allowed to help out. I'm not too interested in just doing demos. I'm trying to set up teaching systems and enable others to do all of this. Hopefully after Africa we will have more evidence of how this is all done with the students. We will be building more stations and recording the process this time.
That's what I wanted to see I'm getting ready to set my inherited forge up as I have two 400 blowers and am anxious to get started.iwant to start with. Tools and I watch you make a rake and I was very intrigued with it. Thanks for the inspiration and knowledge
You are welcome.
Great to see you making new content . Thank you and God bless
Your clip is very good. Good
More PLEASE!
I always start my fire with kindling surrounded by coke. Then covered with more coke once its going good. It allows me to get forging quicker. I'm heating steel ten minutes after I strike the match. No waiting for the coal to coke up.
Great to see you back! Any chance you could give some pointers for anthracite? Its the only thing I can get locally. I have been using it for about a year now but I still have not been able to get it to work as well as bituminous.
Thanks for posting a new video!
Thx sir, more of that plz
Finnaly your back!!!! It's been so long
It's a good time.
Brian Brazeal yes!! Really great video, keep them coming please
I know right?
Very informative thanks!
I followed these instructions to a T (ok, I used charcoal and a wee bit of gasoline), but it worked perfectly. I was shocked. But building up a wall of coal around the charcoal, then just adding generous amounts as it caught, air blower going just the right amount... Perfect. Thanks!
Be careful with that gasoline.
@@BrianBrazealBlacksmith Yeah, not ideal. I use about a capful, maybe less. Too impatient to use kindling! 😂
That is good you now how volatile that particular petroleum distillate is.
Get these likes up
All right, all right, all right
Hi Brain great video?
Welcome back! Please get back to iforgeiron.
Very informative, thanks.
If I may ask, what was the round pick like object with a hole in it that you lot with a lighter at about the 2:30 point in the video?
Some sort of fire starter, I assume, but is there more details available?
Thanks again.
Looks like it might be a spiral of card board. You can use canning wax to hold it together. I used to make them for camping with wicks made from dryer lint.
StuInTokyo that was a Copenhagen can. They are made from cardboard and they are coated with wax.
Sir do you have any plan of coming to India
The only thing missing was a good cigar! Hope you enjoyed the cigar I gave you at Quadstate in OH. Great video
Rick Charles I did, and thanks again.
Brian Brazeal, no thank you! It was great meeting you, please keep making videos. My sons and I have learned so much from you and those you’ve taught.
Rick Charles we're going to be filming in Kenya and hopefully send the videos back here to be posted here.
Brian Brazeal cool, be safe and looking forward to the new videos. Shoot me an address and there might be some cigars waiting for you and your compadres:-)
rickcharles606@hotmail.com
Great Brian, what if you can't get coal, and all you have is charcoal and coke, would start a good fire with the kindling and then charcoal then slowly add the coke???
Lenblacksmith you just have to have enough kindling to ignite the coke. It will take more to light coke.
Ok thanks Brian, I'll get a good ol fire going and slowly add the coke.
There is literally a campfire behind you lmao grab some coals from it haha
Still tho cool bid I like it a lot thumbs up😀
Hey Brian, do you put on blacksmithing classes ?
marc Leblanc I do, but they will be here in Africa for the next 2 years.
@@BrianBrazealBlacksmith A lot of countries in the second largest continent on the planet. Where are you? I've been to west Africa lots of times. I'd love to send some friends to learn the craft.
@@StNuttall we have been in Brazil for the last 6 months and we are going back to Oklahoma next week.
So Brian Brazeal were do you get that clay I'd like to get some
Le Tisdel Google Roma Plastilina and order #2.
How did you get into blacksmithing
Russell Feller I started out as a farrier.
Good information sir, I'm interested in the size of the coal you are using. It looks like 2" to 3". I've been using coal that is about 1". Would you recommend going to a larger size? Thanks
trminer size does not matter that much, but different coal mines do grade it in different sizes that makes it easier to handle. The coal I'm using in this video comes from Oklahoma, and we grabbed big chunks of it for easier loading into the back of our pickup. This coal breaks up very easily into little crystals.
Do you find that any particular size works better in terms of having your fire "hollow out"? In other words, is there a size that makes the coke last longer?
trminer different coals coke up differently. Fire maintenance is what will keep your fire maintained. Any fire will hollow out if you don't constantly add to it. Maintain your coal banks by always adding to them, and maintain your coke bank in your pot by tamping your coal banks in where it causes the coke that forms to always go to the middle of the pot. Also rake in any of the coke that may get out of the pot from taking your piece in and out of the fire. You don't really want to add green coal to the hollowed out area unless you have let all of your coke burn out.
Good morning and thanks again. Once I have a good coke fire in the middle, I don't disturb it unless I need to clean out the clinkers. Depending on which mine the coal comes from, the formation of clinkers varies. We have three mines within a short distance from us and the characteristics of the coal differs from mine to mine. The old forge I'm using is an old Canedy-Otto. I gather from the research I've done that it is from the early part of the 20th century. At some point in the past, someone installed a grate on top of the clinker breaker, which is significantly worn. The grate burned through at some point, and I haven't replaced it. I think the better option is to dismantle the tuyere and have a new clinker breaker fabricated. But for now, I'll just try to improve my fire management skills. :)
Hey Brian, which coal do you have there? I thought I had some good stuff, but so little clinker after a half day's forging is shocking to me.
Colin Davies this coal comes from Oklahoma a little south of I 40 near Wister. It is the best coal I have ever used for forging.
Brian Brazeal where do you buy it Mr. Brazeal? I'm 14 and recently started forging, I've tried coal and hated it because of the copious amounts of yellow smoke. I prefer coke for this reason.
Are you in Robert, La still?
Scubasky nope, I'm going to Kenya tommarrow.
Brian Brazeal good deal have fun and be safe!
Is anthracite good fuel?
Bituminous coal is the best to forge with because of its coking properties.
Coal varies quite a bit depending on type and location of the deposit, so how well it performs in the forge varies accordingly.
The coal deposits in the United States are easily found with a Google search. Tapping on images will give you an idea of what I am trying to express.
Many people have asked me over the past 40 years, " Where do you get coal?". I have always responded, "at the coal mine". Since 2020 the coal mine in this area of the country has not answered their phone for the first time in over 40 years.
@@BrianBrazealBlacksmith thanks brian
@@baxteroliver3319 you're welcome.
what is Green coal?
+Konsta K hey, I’ve got some terms in the video description, which includes green coal. Check it out.
Green coal is just coal that has not been burned yet.
Is this because Alec tried to use coal again for his katana?
Armored Spartan no, not at all.
What he is saying, don't follow what everyone else does. Do it differently. Make a name for yourself.
Scott Reynolds the main thing I am trying to adress is not creating excessive smoke like seems to be common practice all across America.
Brian Brazeal right. Clean it out. Dump the clinker. But to make near zero smoke, a very small wood fire is set in bottom of pot. Then the coke is placed around the small wood fire. Almost no smoke.
But you said green coal contains the volitals, which creates all that smoke....... But you want to use green coal to start the fire.....
Did you mean to say something else? Coke has no volitals. Thus no smoke.
I agree, there are smoke shows on UA-cam. They intend to do that because they use green coal and heap it onto a small paper or or wood fire. Smothering it. Folks know better. But they need to put on a show.
Scott Reynolds it is really no different than starting a camp fire. You would never use charcoal to start your fire. You save that to cook with. Likewise with coke, you use that to heat your metal not start a fire.
Scott Reynolds, I believe you are misinterpreting what Brian is saying to some extent . If you review what was said, he is "lighting with the green coal because it has more volatiles than coke, and saving the coke to forge with." The green coal lights easier than coke because of the volatiles. As to people knowing better and doing it for show, I would have to disagree. I've seen people do it out of ignorance and without consideration for those around them. It is an easy thing to create less smoke by not covering the fire too much and supplying plenty of air. I've seen too many surprised faces from poking the fire to reduce the smoke being generated to know it was on purpose.
Brian Brazeal I understand what you are trying to do here. But the reality of it all is still reality. In other words, you cannot change fact with your opinions. Coke lights easier than green coal. It always has. It's common knowledge. It is porous carbon. Coke contains no volitals. It never has. It therefore makes no smoke. A forge fire makes coke. Yours obviously does not for some odd reason, because you are "saving it to forge with". And folks all across America are not intently building a smoke show fire. Many do. But many is not all. Some of us take great pride in properly managing a coal/Coke fire. Why can't charcoal be used to make a fire? That is quite interesting. Be it a blacksmithing forge or a BBQ, it most certainty is used to start a fire. And lastly, not all books are wrong.
Again, I understand you are attempting to change the way folks think in terms of blacksmithing , but some of us can easily recognize half-truths and opinions when we see them.