Forge area clean up!!

Well it’s been an interesting time since I last posted. It came to my attention that the property line location was a bit foggy. Rather than start a land war, I secured permission from the other owner and we are free and clear to move forward with construction. I met up with Andy on Memorial day and we began clearing the area and doing some preliminary placing of equipment in order to get an idea of the potential lay out.

Here is the location after some clean up.



This is a rough layout of where the actual forge table will be built. The plates on the ground will form the main work area of the forge.



This is a makeshift workbench we slapped together in order to get some perspective. It may be further assembled to become a permanent work space.



This is the inside of the Smoke house. This will likely be cleared our out and used as a non secure storage area.



Well that about covers our progress so far. The next step seems to be designing and assembling the forge table and acquiring a hand crank blower. Keep checking back for more updates as they occur.

Welcome

Welcome to the Fox River Forge Blog. My name is Chris Koterba and I will be the primary poster on this blog. Here we will be detailing the building and operation of a hobbyist forge in Southeast Wisconsin. The crew of Fox River Forge consists of Andy Cerney, Spike, and myself. We are currently gathering tooling, researching techniques and scoping out locations to build the forge. Once a location is secured we will begin construction. During construction we will update this blog with photos and video clips of the process. I look forward to sharing this experience with all those interested in it.