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So I've been doing some blacksmithing with a homemade forge but I have run out of coal and it's too expensive to buy. How do I make it?

>> No.1513046

>>1513043
charcoal or real coal?

you do realize you can buy 2,400lbs of coal for around $350 right?

less than that if you buy a semi-load at a time and can unload it.

hell you can even order anthracite on amazon for $30/box, which will give around 24 hours of fire burn-time.

Charcoal on the other hand, you make from wood. Anthracite (makes little or no smoke, burns hotter than bituminous they use in power plants) is how you keep a fire going for 8 hours without messing with it while you go outside and work.

Charcoal you can buy at walmart in bags.

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1513049

I make it, what do you want to know?

>> No.1513074

>>1513049
Different anon, how do you make it? I have a forest on the farm that I can easily harvest for wood to make charcoal, do you have any advice on how to get started?

>> No.1513085
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>>1513074
I make it in a sheet metal bell but you can use barrels too. You fill them with wood and light a fire underneath them, circulation will pull the fire inside and will ignite the wood
When it is ignited and red hot you close it at the bottom with dirt and it will keep smoking until fire comes out, then you keep adding wood from above. When the barrel is full and all the wood is reduced to red hot embers you close the barrel with a lid and pack it with dirt so no air goes in and you wait till it gets cold. A barrel will burn 6-7 hours and cool overnight

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>>1513085
You need hardwood to make good charcoal. You will get approximately 1/10 weight

>> No.1513087

>>1513074
Don't forget the subtitles anon.
>You should be shot for asking here instead of searching for yourself.
But yeah, if this lad can do it barefoot, it must be a piece of piss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzLvqCTvOQY

>> No.1513090

>>1513087
For making small quantities there's not much to it, but when you start making huge charcoal kilns then you can make a disaster

>> No.1513098

>>1513049
I have access to 44 gallon drums, would that be suitable?

>> No.1513100

>>1513098
Yes that's what I use

>> No.1513115

>>1513046
Different country mate but thanks for helping, I didn't realise the distinction. It's a bit harder to come by here.

>> No.1513118

>>1513085
>>1513086
Thank you! I have allot of crap wood (pine and bluegum) and some slightly less bad (black wattle) that makes fairly decent coals.

Really good advice, I will see about getting into it as it costs me about $15 (converted from local currenty to dollar) a day to buy charcoal

>> No.1513120

>>1513087
Primitive tech, great channel, I have actually done a fair bit of research just curious how others have gone about it.

>> No.1513221

>>1513120
>2 days of work for 5lb.
It aint worth it unless you are into doing everything yourself

>> No.1513245

Take the diamond out of your ass and uncompress it

>> No.1513253

>>1513221

My friends 5'2" 90lbs grandmother makes about 6 cubic yards of the stuff in 4 days. Not involving log collection

>> No.1513257

TSC has 40lb bags of Anthracite for $6

https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/premium-nut-coal

>> No.1513271

>>1513257
Blacksmiths use charcoal...

>> No.1513274

>>1513271
Some use regular coal. I have. It's fine, but smells worse.

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>>1513271
okay genius

this is bituminous coal btw

>> No.1513339

>>1513043
Convert to propane.

>> No.1513340

>>1513257
Not him but ahhhhhhhhh fuck yeah. Theres a store 40 miles away

>> No.1513346

>>1513339
>Propane
>He doesn't have a magnetic induction forge
You're so quaint, grandpa.

>> No.1513355

>>1513274
>>1513276
OK genii, OP asked to make it. Tell him how to make bituminous coal, ney, show him how YOU make bituminous coal...

>> No.1513378

>>1513355
I was responding to a guy that said blacksmiths use charcoal instead of bituminous coal. I have no way of knowing if it was OP or not. If it was OP then he's a fucking idiot and doesn't deserve a response at all, kind of like you, but hey, have a free response, moron.

>> No.1513588

this board is so fucking retarded

>> No.1514267

>>1513043
its pretty easy
1.buy a Dinosaur
2.wait
3.????
4.profit

>> No.1514716

>>1513043
Just uncompress diamonds.

>> No.1514717

If I make charcoal out of wolmonozed wood will it burn in the rain and not go out?

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>>1513046
>my mailman when I order 2,400 lbs of coal for $350

>> No.1516748

>>1513046
Anthracite is much more difficult to keep lit though. Anon sounds like he's pretty new at this, so buying 2,400 lbs of it would be inadvisable

>> No.1516768

>>1513046
>>1513043
you retards realize coal and charcoal are two completely different things right?
>yuropoor education.

>> No.1517831

>>1516508
you need a truck to go pick it up from your hardware store, idiot

a trailer is a good idea too, but in 2nd gear any old POS like mine should haul it

>> No.1517893

>>1514267
>coal comes from dinosaurs
This has to be bait

>> No.1517894

>>1517831
bro why are you so angry
It's a conversation about fucking coal man it doesnt matter

>> No.1517897

>>1517894
Coal is changing the climate, it does matter.

>> No.1518052

>>1513043
You can't make it for less than it costs to mine it, unless you place no value on your time/labor and own a few square miles of timberland.

>> No.1518056

>>1517897
>Coal is changing the climate, it does matter.
>look at me, I'm a retarded sheep who is incapable of thought and blindly accepts (((artificial consensus))) and never questions methodology.
I'll give you a hint, when the data extends to a few hundred million years, and the data you're looking at has been deliberately limited to a few hundred thousand years, chances are you're being deceived.

>> No.1518094

>>1513046
can I burn coal in my wood stove? i've been struggling with keeping a fire going while i'm at work. tell me your secrets.

>> No.1518117

>>1518056
>Implying you think any of the data is believable

>> No.1518121

>>1518056
Look my Man, coal was made during the age of plants when the co2 levels made the entire planet a swampy hell. So many plants grew and died after converting the co2 into o2 that it built up layers of compost in the swamps which became lignite, then bituminous and finally anthracite.

So much carbon was removed and locked into the rock layers that it cooled the climate.

So if we have burnt most of that which took millions of years to lock away in 100 years, why is it so surprising that we are unlocking a swampy hell again?

>> No.1518125

>>1518121
Because Anon is a retarded sheep who is incapable of thought and blindly accepts (((corporate consensus))) and never questions the profit motive.

>> No.1518129

>>1518125
OP asked to make coal, which I assume he means charcoal. You know you seal heartwood tightly packed in a metal container with just a small vent and heat it.

>> No.1518131

>>1518129
Why are you talking to me? Never talk to me again or your family is forfeit.

>> No.1518149

>>1518131
Take’um fagot!