History of Metal Forging

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Summary: Learn the history of metal forging from an expert in this free metal working video.

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Terry Leafty Terry Leafty is a welder at BC welding in Camp Verde, Arizona specializing in fabrication and construction. read more

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History of Metal Forging

On behalf of Expert Village, I'm Terry and I'm here today to show you the workings of a forge. The purpose of a forge was invented so that we could heat iron and ores so that we could form metal, make tools, weapons, the original reason was for weapons, it was used to make swords since the beginning of time. Swords and knives, then they started using it to make hinges and you know, things for household, things for tools, rings around wagon wheels, nails, you name it, so the forge is as old as, it's been out there as long as we have known about iron ore, and metals and working with metals. The original forge was just, was just built with rocks and coal and they used to blow on it and then they would tan leather and they would build, they would build a way to pump air into the forge to keep the coals hot. This was the modern day forge although it is home built, they just took like an eighteen inch piece of pipe, cut it about three to four feet long. We have a large opening at the front that is surrounded by ceramic brick and a small opening at the back and it is completely closed off. We have a door that we can open where we can slide our rods or our metals all the way through so that we can heat the whole length of. This one, the heat is generated by propane, it runs on a propane tank and has a valve for on and off and it has two burning orifices and it will reach about three thousand, to thirty-five hundred degrees which is what we need to get the metal red hot.