Good tip don’t use river rocks or rocks that have been in water for a long period of time because the tent to explode when they get to hot

Bro I found this video last night on Google watched it twice and made my first forge this afternoon! So incredibly simple after making a few tweaks to it I got it perfect and forged some tools to work the coals with! Thank you so much, now if my arms don’t fall off from all that hammering I think I’m gonna try to make myself a knife next.

Nice videos. Is great that you dont use music. I love to hear the tools and nature songs. Thank you!

My first forge was a hibachi BBQ with holes drilled out the bottom, sitting in a trench in the garden, with a hair blower pointing down the trench. The old codger who turned the 18 year old on to how to improvise a forge has no idea what he started. He did promise that by the time I burned the bottom out of the hibachi, I'd know what to do for a real forge. He was very right. Thanks for the memories!

I enjoy how all your stories have a start/middle/end clearly shown. It's easy to see you're enthusiastically encouraging us to experience the joy of shaping red hot metal into something useful or decorative. Thanks for the inspiration.

At first I thought you were making a spear to protect yourself from your wife when she found out that you stole the vacuum.

I really do enjoy videos like this one. No music, no talking, no show, no hectic! Just inspiration by watching the work. Thank you and greetings from Germany

it was a quick jump for me from watching sword forging videos to directly how to make a forge lol

What I take away from all your videos is a relaxed, methodical approach with no screaming or wild antics just a pleasure to watch and learn. Thank you, it is a help to all of us who make.

i actually appreciate that there is no talking or music in this video. it allowed me to focus more on what you were actually doing. i wouldnt mind some more details about the size of the box, but i think i could figure it out. great video!! this might be what gets me into simple smithing. its winter and theres a global pandemic, after all.

Can’t wait for the report on the first individual who forgets to move the vacuum hose from inlet to outlet. The video will be quite entertaining.

Man, thank you a thousand, I haven't made my forge yet, but I was going to make it out of bricks and earth, or with some cement. Thank you very much for warning us that concrete blocks explode.

That video is poetry. I love the idea of a forge in a wooden box. It has made me realise that what I want to do is achievable. Thank you.

My forge is build in the same way, but with a metal baking dish instead of the wooden pallet. And a hair drier is my bellows. That is very lightweighted, and it needs just a little charcoal to run. It is good to know that you can go as big as you need :D

Love how you get right to the point. No extra filler words. Fewer words were never spoken!!

So people CAN forge something other than a knife ! 👍😁👍

Really cool design. I would suggest to those planning to make any forge that there is no way to dispose of Coal Ash without environmental damage. It is incredibly toxic and will contaminate ground water with heavy metals. Use charcoal. It burns faster and not quite as hot as coal but much cleaner than coal. I like using black locust charcoal. It burns very hot

4:33 what a coincidence, I use coke for fuel too. Never had much luck with charcoal - clogs the nostrils right up! :D jokes aside, love your work! Keep it up!

I think it's the easiest and most efficient method I've seen so far, and it's easy to maintain after that. I thought that the biggest obstacle to making a DIY fire bed was the treatment after making it, but I was impressed that this was a temporary installation and easy to remove. It's great to use sand or gravel for insulation or to hold hot coals. Your method does a great job of using a minimal amount of charcoal to get the desired effect. As others have pointed out, practitioners should beware of explosions due to water vapor expansion when gravel is soaked with water.

That was a great show, man. Grounded and archaic... that's the way I like it. Thumbs up. Give me 5 more of these and it probably makes me start swinging the hammer... ;-)

So you broke up the terrace, ruined the umbrella stand , dug up the backyard and commandeered the vacuum cleaner. You must live alone are dont care anymore. Lol

This was a very heartwarming lesson, now I know I don’t need a considerable cash outlay to get started

I have the boys in the merit badge class build a dirt box forge in much the same way but use a hair dryer for the air source. Never thought about using fire brick, I think I will carry some next week when I set up for class

Thanks so much!!! Ive been racking my brain to try and build a forge, but I don’t have a welder nor know how to weld (at this point in my life). This is exactly what I needed.

my favorite part was when you concealed the air feed pipe, i was not expecting that and it made it look so nice

A man of few words, but a video of a thousand. It was a pleasure watching this video!

By far the best simple forge I’ve seen yet.

Well done 👍🏻 I'm looking into getting started with steel instead of silver ! This will help me develop a good coal forge ! Thank you.

Outstanding! Thank You!

Не перестаю удивляться, как люди на коленке делают шедевры. I never cease to be amazed how people "on their knees" make masterpieces.

Great demo of how to have one less excuse :)

I made one by digging a hole in the ground with a piece of iron pipe at the bottom and a Electrolux vacuum cleaner for the air supply. I used it to heat a 10ft long piece of 24 lb rail to make a turnout for a an amusement park railroad. Just heated the thing red hot and picked up the ends. It sagged sideways to the right bend. Then we set it upright and let it cool. Oh, i used anthricite coal as fuel.

Great video, this is ideal for someone that's getting into blacksmithing but doesn't need a permanent forge, someone like me for instance, these things are accessible to anyone. Thanks for the inspiration.

Once again, another epic video. I also have BOROWED the family rug sucker a few times, and now she just leaves her old hair dyers in my shop when she buys a new one.:) Then I use them at demo's when I don't want to take my big blower apart.

Finally, someone who took it upon themselves to show a classic (close to it at least) home made forge! Maybe it's cause of the wording on the search results, but I don't regularly use "DIY" that's why I hadn't found something sooner. But yeah, awesome, thank you for showing how to make one.

This is so incredibly helpful. i've always wanted to build myself a little forge, this video showed me i can get this on even tomorrow and so i will do. Thanks a lot from Germany!

When ever I'm feeling bad and thinking I'm useless I watch one of your videos and it makes me feel even worse because I can't do any of the stuff you do !

Mate finished my little coke forge like in this video, after tweaking it a bit like with some fire brick, wow it works so good, was showing a neighbour with some 16mm round in it and the fire had only been lit for about 5 min, and while I was talking, I pulled the round bar out and the end had started to melt, he was blown away...quite frankly so was I. Thanks for showing us this project, I am very thrilled with my new forge.

I want to build a simple forge and this video is the perfect primer. It contains all the basic information and answers all my questions. Thanks!

Very interesting project. I have been thinking about doing a outside forge for the summer. I have this portable coal forge, but it would be interesting to build something like this too! Great video, as always!

El mejor video ...sin cháchara, sin ruidos musicales, solo realidad de poder hacer forja con elementos fáciles de conseguir...excelente por la funcionalidad...gracias maestro...

Sir you have inspired this young soul indeed. Ive always wanted to do things like this for the longest time but never found a good source. Thank you

I can't get over how easy you make blacksmithing look. I'm a machinist and doing something like that leaf totally by hand amazes me!

This video came in very handy. I'm just getting started metalworking, and I'm trying not to spend a lot of money, but I keep finding myself needing a way to heat metal for bending and quenching and bluing. This is by far the cheapest and best solution I've run across. Thanks!

If you expected to need a forge for just a single day of work, this would be a great way to build one.

I'd avoid stone & modern regular brick due to the tendency to break or explode in the extreme heat of a forge. Local builders supply in most places will carry firebrick, and it's pretty cheap.

Love it! Also love the sound of birds and kids in the background in between forging.

Watched this a number of times as I'm considering making a side blast forge,not like this one but just seeing how simply one can be put together IS inspiring to me.Think you did a very good job of showing folks an alternate way of looking at things,thanks!

That works surprisingly well. Nice job

Wow awesome Torbjörn! i might go ahead and make myself one of this when i get sick of woodcarving:D

This is a great video lad I like it when people show just how easy it is to start from nothing and the be able to make something useful that you get to say that you made with nothing but yourself .Keep up the good videos

I'm a beginner blacksmith and this type of forge will satisfy me... Thank you.

Easiest way I've seen yet. I've got my weekend project for sure😁

Another amazing video on creating home made workshop equipment, amazing stuff, thank you so much!

My dad and I want to get into blacksmithing as a hobby, and I think we might use this video to build our forge. Thanks for sharing!

Short, sweet and to the point. Thank you for taking time to film, edit and post this video.

Muy buen vídeo como siempre! Saludos desde México!!

Only now I realised why the airflow in my Miele vacuum is like that. It never occured to me you could connect the hose to the exhaust filter!

Ha! I love it. I did the same when I was a kid, though I did it just directly in the ground! Vacuum cleaner and all!

You are an inspiring man. Thank you very much for sharing. Do not forget to show your landscape, your greenhouse. It is really nice. Greetings from Valparaíso, Chile.

Don't use stones found in a river they explode.

Like A Pimp !! Exceptional work you put out as well to equal the quality functional make shift forge !! Color me impressed sir! Thanks for sharing this information with all of us, and for also demonstrating such command of wonderful technique/skill/creativity/ingenuity and above all --- craftsmanship

Great video. I have seen other "box of dirt" style forges on other videos and they seem to work real good. This is how it was done for centuries. Don't listen to the blacksmithing snobs that say only 1000's of dollars worth of equipment will work.

This excites me. As a middle aged man I am finding more and more desire to do this.

Simplesmente incrível! Agora já sei por onde começar. Muito obrigado Mestre! Sandro Fiuza, aqui de Itapeva, estado de São Paulo, Brasil. Um abraço!

Nice video, Torbjörn. Thanks for the detailed instructions. Was interesting to see that the natural stone breaks through the heat and holds the red brick. Although, here one used to get also "burned bricks". The then have so black and / or dark blue spots, you get with a hammer, bad halved.

This is pretty similar to the forge that I made to start messing around blacksmithing. I made a more permanent construction of concrete blocks to hold the dirt instead of a wooden frame and put a 1/4" steel plate that I drilled holes in above my air tube (old car exhaust pipe). The "fire pot" is old red bricks surrounded by more rocks to hold them in place. My biggest issue right now is making sure I don't have an air leak between the tube and grate (it is an open space so ash can fall though). Otherwise it works great even using anthracite heating coal which takes constant air to keep going, I use a blow dryer I tape onto the tube instead of a vacuum.

Very useful! I have a future project to make myself a 1''/25mm mortice chisel, and a 2''/50mm firmer chisel, from an old van flat suspension spring. This is just what I'll need to take out the curve, and temper it.

The sound of this video is just amazing.

Absolutely cracking video sir. The next time someone moans about how hard it is to make a forge I know exactly where to direct them. Thank you

Wow! that was an easy forge! Thanks for sharing, I hope to give this a try someday.

Thanks! I've been feeling the itch to try some metalworking, and things like this make it seem much more attainable.

A vacuum with exhaust and rheostat is convenient, but not a requirement. A cheapo hairdryer with the heater disabled will blow MORE than sufficiently if you're following along at home. Both noisy though. Making some sort of small bellows is easy. A mere bag in its simpler form.

Good stuff! Never thought of doing it like that.

@Torbjörn Åhman I am just starting out (like just this weekend) and have been looking at ways to make a forge. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

great video. my first forge was a shopping cart, a pipe, big cooking pot,heating gun and bricks :)

Well that ain't so hard, is it? Thanks for the how to build a fridge "on the cheap". Really is a quite nice bit of kit for those of us with funding that is a bit more limited than most. Thanks

Tack Torbjörn det var ett fint tips, så enkelt kan man starta med smide.

Thank you this is such a great tutorial. I was able to finish this with stuff laying around my house.

I think you did it cheaper than anyone else! Nice, simple forge! Good job.

BRAVO OTTIMO LAVORO!

I have used red bricks like those in my first 2 forge designs and both times they have melted and covered my air pipe with obsidean glass and now use a cast iron pan and plaster as a insulator and have much better luck

Ok but your skills usually WOW me . Yes looking safe and anyone might find it useful Thanks to you again Sir

That’s actually genius, probably I will try this. Sadly most people don’t have a place to forge without disturbing neighbours, I sadly life currently in the middle of the city and don’t have a garden, I would disturb a lot of people when I’m trying to begin blacksmithing, but anything has a time we say in Germany, I am currently building a workshop in the sides of my living room in a old brewery and will come back later to blacksmithing when the time is ready.

It's best to use refractory bricks, most hardware stores sell them fairly cheaply You can also mold some plaster and sand mixture that will work just as well, a little messy though

Very nice bro, I like your practical improvising. I’m sure your boss value you. (If he is like my boss, lm Not sure about the wages).. Lol.

I just hardened a large home made anvil with a 5.5 x 12 (140x305 mm) face using this method a shop vac aluminum tubing and about 12 refractory bricks as well as soil to cover up cracks. Worked great it was 55kg of 1080 steel. Thanks for your videos now that I’ve got the anvil done I can put to use some of what I’ve learned watching.

Great video, I will keep this in the back of my mind, when I run out of woodworking projects I may just give this a try!

Who needs a fancy refractory cement when u can use what our ancestors did. Dirt and rocks.

Give a man a sand box and he'll build you a forge. Ive trying to find a place in my garden to dig a hole for a forge that wouldnt be too in the way. I never thought of filling a sandbox with dirt.

I'm going to be making this soon can't wait. As a first small forge.

I absolutely love how you showed the easy breakdown. On iforgeiron they call that a JABOD (just a box of dirt) and suggest them to all newcomers who want to get into smithing. A number of the old timers still use them for their versatility.

Now that is an idea,simple and effective.Thanks for passing the it on.

Sadly some one will say that's a lot of work, and then still think they can do blacksmithing

This is a really good starter project. I would not have contemplated making the tray out of wood.... it's always obvious afterwards! I really admire your consistent accuracy and measured weight with a hammer. Here are a couple for your Q&A video: 1) What do you use the sharp point for on the end of the horn? If you DO round it off, how blunt can you make it? 2) What do YOU do to avoid skewering your leg on it ? :-)) Good post Torbjorn, thanks.

Super simple and functional. Thanks for the great video!

With respect from Siberia. Success in work.

Torbjörn READY TO WORK

Excelente vídeo, seguiré tu ejemplo, saludos desde Colombia. ‍👍

I use a second hand hair dryer I bought at Goodwill for a dollar. It’s lasted two and a half years. Always use volcanic rock for fire pits and forges. (oops. And, of course, bricks) Great video! Thanks.