working a bloom of steel

[Lon Humphrey]

at the local hammer in we made a small bloom of steel here are some pics of me working it under my 150 ton press

 

[Lon Humphrey]

here are a few shots of us doing the smelt

 

[Karl B. Andersen]

Awesome fun right there.
Might be something you could do as a demo at the Ohio Show in Oct.

 

[ScottRoush]

so what was your ore, how much of it and how much charcoal?

How does that bloom spark??

 

[Lon Humphrey]

Karl we fired this thing for almost 6 hours if i were going to demo this at the Ohio Classic Knife Show i wouldn't be able to sell any knives but maybe its something we could do at one of the hammer ins in Troy


the ore is metallurgical iron its 68 % iron and the remainder is oxygen

we were adding about 1.5 pounds of ore to a 3 gal bucket of charcoal every 7 min give or take...when the time increased it was time to tap a hole for slag

it really had a good shower of sparks

as i work the bar ill put up more pics to this thread...