Well Jon, there's things I wanna do and things I need to do. I've got a bucket full of used, make that well used, railroad spikes. My "forge" is coal fired, made from a brake drum off a dump truck. Personally, I like the smell of coal fires, just not sure about my neighbors. A little smokey to start. So one of my wanna do's is a gas forge. I have a burner that I made from scrap pipe that uses forced air and propane that works well enough and an old electric kiln that the university replaced. Just a matter of adapting the burner to the kiln. It's lined with heavy firebrick, time will tell if it's enough. Next on the list is a belt grinder.
At this point, it's just a matter of gettin priorities in order. Later,c