My second welding project. The first was my forge.

So here are a few snaps of me and a few fiends at work making a security gate for the first time.

This is the gate.

Doing some grinding.

Me welding.

Is this a bad position to be in or is it OK to be above the weld?

My friend acting like a caveman.

The gate is up.

Welding in the hinges.

Well this was a real learning experience for me. My biggest learning curve was to have a striking plate so as to heat up the rod before the actual weld so as not to mar the final product as well as to make a perfect weld the first time and not one of those blobby spotty ones.

Tell me what you think, any advice is welcome as I am a beginner.

And thanks for reading hope you all keep coming back. Comments welcome on any of my posts.

Vice leg support

This is another post in iforgeiron on how I made my vice and its support.

Could I sink another gum pole directly in front of my original one like this?

Like you say Im trying to use whatever I have lying around and I don't have a plate that big.

ps. What do you think of my paint skills ha ha.

Here it is!! all set up and ready to be concreted in.

This is to show the size of this vice.

And here is the plot of land I cleared out today. (My brother in the background)

Another of my brother. This is about as much work as he did the whole time he was "helping" me 

Well here is the finished product.

And here is what my shop looks like so far.

Once again I hope you enjoyed it and thanks for reading.

Case of the floating anvil

Well here is a bit of fun, I had to move all 200kg of anvil and anvil base aproximatly 10m.

Many of you will say that this is easy I do not agree, especially as my floor is dirt and the

edges of the anvil base kept digging in while I attempted to brute strength it along its path.

Many thanks though go to my genius brother who sugested the Egyptian way of doing things as seen below.

Still needed a little bit of strength but not really that much.

And now my shop is looking a bit more organised.

Tomorrow I complete my forge with my mentor and then...

Mwhua ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha the work can begin!

Sorry about the order of the posts at the moment, they were done on the site iforgeiron.com and I am transfering them to my blog. My next one is on how I did the vice support.

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed it as well.

My homemade table forge

So this is my forge that I have made. It has been made from 10mm side walls 100mm high, the base is a 5ml plate with a hole in the center, the legs are just 50x50ml square tube with end caps in them to stop the rust. I have taken a trucks brake plate as the firepot and to this I have attached a 50ml galvanised plumbing pipe leading to my waste hatch and to my valve to control the air inlet. In the background you can see my grandfathers 120amp oil cooled welder.

The only concern I have with this build is that I had to weld the brake plate to the underside of the base plate as shown here.

All I have left to do with this is to finish all the welds around the edges and connect up the blower that I have made out of a washing machine motor and a blower fan blade and Ill have my own smithy ready to fire up. What do you think?

Well here it is. ITS FINISHED! Ha ha yay. In the photo is my mentor Riaan Bredenkamp who has taught me all I know now and still is teaching me. Also Is the first firing of the forge. It works like a beauty.

YAY!!! Forge done!

Thanks For reading hope you enjoyed it.