Coking fuels and sheetmetal
Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:46 am
Hello.
I have yet another question! wow, I just keep having questions don't I? Well, my forge runs on any from wood to rice to chicken feed to corn to chicken poop. The trouble is that all these fuels need to coke around the firepot, but when I place sheet on top of the firepot to burn, the flame is diverted around, or snuffed out by the big sheet sitting atop it, and instead of all the smoke being burned, most of it simply trails out from around the metal, chokes me and will probably annoy the neighbors.
I will probably end up letting a most of the fuel coke before working on sheet projects which will take some time, but I can work with barstock while it cokes. I can't install a hood, I can't get a chimney to any appreciable height, and my family would complain about it blocking their view, which is understandable.
The point of all this: How do those of you using a coal forge for sheetmetal or other coking fuel forge deal with the smoke?
Thanks,
Archie
I have yet another question! wow, I just keep having questions don't I? Well, my forge runs on any from wood to rice to chicken feed to corn to chicken poop. The trouble is that all these fuels need to coke around the firepot, but when I place sheet on top of the firepot to burn, the flame is diverted around, or snuffed out by the big sheet sitting atop it, and instead of all the smoke being burned, most of it simply trails out from around the metal, chokes me and will probably annoy the neighbors.
I will probably end up letting a most of the fuel coke before working on sheet projects which will take some time, but I can work with barstock while it cokes. I can't install a hood, I can't get a chimney to any appreciable height, and my family would complain about it blocking their view, which is understandable.
The point of all this: How do those of you using a coal forge for sheetmetal or other coking fuel forge deal with the smoke?
Thanks,
Archie