New apprentice and the new forge are both working

The new to us forge.  The blower is a smooth as butter.  It is a joy to use.  Cleaning ash and clinkers is going to be a problem, but we'll get it sorted.

We fired up the new to us champion forge this morning.  It worked just fine but with a few mods it will be even better.   This is Mr. Mike's second time at my shop.  He built his own charcoal forge and is learning the to use coal and propane at HBI.  He just started blacksmithing so he is in the process of building skills and tools of the trade.  We are needing to do some spring cleaning in the metal building so forgive the mess.  We just made a space big enough for us and the forge and anvil.

Of course I forgot to get the pics of the forge in action.