Blacksmithing for beginners: A cheap and cheerful setup 

Top job. You obviously make it look easier than it is but you have opened the door to it for so many people 👏🏻

I have not found a decent car boot sale for a long time. Most of the time it is grumpy people who don’t want to part with anything, but also too many traders selling cheap tat… I miss the proper garage sales of yore!

Visit New England. Yard sales/tags sales and barn sales are a regional institution. Sometimes you can get some really useful stuff for a song. Hard getting an anvil on the plane though...

@@viriato8566 😁 One day… (nit the anvil, but New England visit!)

Go for it. House fires are relatively rare if you have an extinguisher and a charged garden hose at hand.

Mental working!

@@willtricks9432 better…🙄

I think the idea was that it would be like a hardy hole on a proper anvil? maybe. Max did say the hole would be really useful

Maybe two heads are better than one.....

Garden's having a year off but yes, busy racking up the Kermit miles!

Great to meet you, sorry if I seemed a bit frazzled, I'd just spent 3 days in the wilderness!

It was great to get a photo with you, looking forward to the next video 😁👍🏻

Did you forge her a nice hat?

Oh yes, plenty of Kermit videos in due course!

Why not give it a whirl, you’re half way there by the sound of it!

@@NewWorldHoarder Back problems stopping me doing things involving most heavy stuff, and I haven't the tools as max showed in the vid, so aside from a nice Weber kettle barbecue and a load of charcoal, I'm actually quite behind on the process... :P

@@twocvbloke sorry to hear that! I know your pain with back issues, crippling. Weber kettles are the absolute best! I wasted countless smaller sums of money on crappy ‘oil drum’ style barbecues over the years. They’d use a tonne of charcoal and just burn the food as there was no separation between flame and food. If it rained, game over. Not to mention the fact that any charcoal left just burn off at the end of a cook session. Oh and they would fill with water over winter and become a rusty pond surrounded by spider eggs by the spring 😳🤢 Bought a Weber Master Touch GBS 57cm about 7 years ago and haven’t regretted a single penny spent! 😁 I can do fantastic pre-cook ‘bakes’ on dodgy meats like chicken and pork with the lid closed, rain or shine, and finish off with a sear over direct coal. The thing is amazing. I use my kamado for low & slow brisket, ribs, chickens etc, but never grill direct on it. The Weber is therefore more versatile in my opinion. Heat retention isn’t as great as the kamado but I can still snuff the fire with the lid and vents and save charcoal, albeit to a lesser degree than the super frugal kamado. I hope you have a wonderful summer of barbecuing and that your back doesn’t play you up too much. I too am a charcoal hoarder at end of season, but sadly since the demise of Wilko you have to be on the ball as the supermarkets clean out in a few days once reduced.

@@NewWorldHoarder Mine's just a Weber Compact 47, and it's been pretty decent, had to do a mod to it though and that was to add a thermometer to the lid so I could see how hot it was inside, but other than that, it's been a great barbecue, best thing about them is they're enamelled so they are less prone to rusting after one use like something from argos, and spare parts are plentiful too as Weber actually supports their customers, I'd love one of their 57cm ones, but haven't had the money for it, but even so the 47 does really nicely for me regardless... :)

@@twocvbloke Hey 47cm of Weber is better than a metre of B&Q garbage! 😃 Of you get a deal on a 57cm grill go for it, it’s a game changer! I can use enamelled cast iron skillets to slow cook stuff around the perimeter whilst preparing for the sear. I never fill the whole charcoal grill, I use the Weber half moon shaped charcoal pans. One of two depends on what I’m cooking. The Aldi /Lidl ones were better and smaller but rusted away. Either way, if you upgrade NEVER let go of your smaller one, you can customise your needs for each cook. As for the enamel, yes! Mine blew over in the weather modification storms some years ago. I brushed the scars up with an angle grinder and then sprayed some black stove paint onto the damaged lip. No issues since.

Yes both coke and coal can be used, although it's not easy to get hold of either anymore!