I started by making a way to use a brake rotor for the fire pot. Cast works great for this because it can take the heat. By cutting the web and removing the outer brake surface the rotor can now hold the fire. A simple flange cut from some plate connects the ash drop, made from the cut off leg of a cherry picker, to the rotor. There is a slideing gate at the bottom to hold the ash thats falls through the Tyre pipe grate and can be emptied later. The design allows ash to fall past the air inlet, made from some old lally column, and air to travel up through the bottom of the fire. The air is supplied by the blower that got mounted to the side of the drum.
Then adding some steel to the opposite side of the drum from the blower, for weight balance, I mounted the post vice. A small piece of stainless for a heat shield for the vice was welded on the top and another piece of flat stock for a 2" deep wall to retain fire and coals.
Wallah! Franken forge.
I still plan on mounting some lawn mower wheels on the side under the blower. Then with a handle that can be held in the vice the whole thing can be moved around wheelbarrel style. I also still have to weld up the grate to keep the coals from falling out of the fire. All totaled there was $60 spent. The rest was scrounged material. After all, that's what blacksmiths do. Build things from other things.
I think the boys will like it.
Gobbler
