For those that may not know, one thing to note: rocks that are able absorb water and retain it are possibly a very dangerous thing when heated. That’s because when water turns to steam it has a MASSIVE expansion volume compared to its liquid form. Roughly 1,600x when turned to steam. Heating the rock up blocks the steam to a degree and when that pressure becomes more than the binding forces of the rock, the rock has to give and the pressure tends to rip the rock apart causing fragmentary pieces to shoot off. Not saying that each piece will have extreme velocity, but the fragments are still rock and are very tough for their size.
In this case the rock was so weak and brittle that it came apart easily but stronger rocks can be extremely dangerous. This is why one must be very cautious when picking stones for fire pits! I'm not super confident on all the rules of thumb but I know it's best to avoid river stones or any stone that is generally water permeable.
They were definitely playing you 😂 that thing had just enough iron to make it look like metal but the rest is just rock. You should try doing one of those experiments making iron from ore though. That would be epic
I would suggest throwing it into a crucible and trying to make a steel/iron puck out of it, but I don't know if there is even enough iron in it to do that.
That looks like slag from an iron melt, yeah, so mostly it's just silica with traces of minerals and ore. I've done a couple and that's the stuff the flows off or is left in the bloomery after you've taken the bloom (iron) out.
I used to see those on the job lying on the ground all the time, and when ye picked it up I thought, “Oh no, I certainly don’t think so?!?” 😆 Yeah, they were gettin’ ye, I suspect!!!
I noticed there was a cut out for a window. I don't remember the cut out being made when you installed the vertical interior sheeting. How did the window install go?
I'd say you're very lucky it didn't blow up in your face, especially after seeing moisture weeping from the inside of it. Had it had more moisture content, then trapped inside the fractures of the rock will suoer heat quickly into steam, and once it reaches that point. It comes apart at every fracture in the rock, very much like concrete does it you heat it up while cutting steel directly on the surface if it, especially if the molten slag builds up in a concentrated area. That and the direct heat from the touch head blasting on it causes expansion at a rate it can't spread equally over the entire surface, and it explodes outward at very high rate of speed. Being as the fragments are jagged, and have sharp edges some larger than others they'll all penatrate flesh and clothes easily enough that some will go much deeper than others, but given how thin eye lids are even if you managed to close your eyes, the eye itself hasn't enough resilience to stop even the smallest of pieces, and considering the shear numbers flying every which way odds aren't in your favor, are anyone else who may be close enough to be pelted with who knows how many pieces flying every direction of open space around it.
I am no expert but it looks like obsidian, which is a kind of vulcanic glass. Very hard and brittle, shards are super sharp and dangerous. Could possibly be just slag, but still sadly useless for forging :( Great try however, You are making great content!
unless he actually puts it in something to melt it. then he can alloy it. act like obsidian... so melt it and mold it... sharpen it. itll be one of the sharpest blades you have until it breaks... but thats ok just remelt it. alloys may be possible but it may not blend well... would need a lot of processing to give it maliability
Hey Brother, Sorry it didn't work out, but I gotta say that I still loved watching it!!! As a major rock hound, when I saw the moisture, I figured that you were going to have some troubles. I was worried that it was going to explode! I'm really glad it didn't, and you are still with us! Thanks for sharing, and God bless you! 😎👍🏻🔨🔥🔪
I’d have to agree, that’s gotta be just a wad of slag that ran off of whatever they were trying to do. I’d be curious to see the project that led up to that 👍
That’s definitely a early April fools joke 😢 I’ve got to two billets yet to get forge welded Damascus steel here in Ireland 🇮🇪 if you have any experience in forge welding steel?
it is exactly 2 days closer to LAST April 1st (182 days) than it is to NEXT April 1st (184 days) as of today, September 30th So make it a LATE April Fools' Day joke
😮. 🤔. Can't wait to see more updates an projects and many more videos soon my friend. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Forge On. Fab On. Weld On. Keep Forge lit. Keep Making. God bless.
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For those that may not know, one thing to note: rocks that are able absorb water and retain it are possibly a very dangerous thing when heated. That’s because when water turns to steam it has a MASSIVE expansion volume compared to its liquid form. Roughly 1,600x when turned to steam. Heating the rock up blocks the steam to a degree and when that pressure becomes more than the binding forces of the rock, the rock has to give and the pressure tends to rip the rock apart causing fragmentary pieces to shoot off. Not saying that each piece will have extreme velocity, but the fragments are still rock and are very tough for their size.
In this case the rock was so weak and brittle that it came apart easily but stronger rocks can be extremely dangerous. This is why one must be very cautious when picking stones for fire pits! I'm not super confident on all the rules of thumb but I know it's best to avoid river stones or any stone that is generally water permeable.
You didn’t think about putting a magnet on it to start with?
They were definitely playing you 😂 that thing had just enough iron to make it look like metal but the rest is just rock. You should try doing one of those experiments making iron from ore though. That would be epic
Looks like some good old Sudbury slag there Tim!
There's tons of that material laying around on the ground. It has a little iron in it but it would never forge.
I would suggest throwing it into a crucible and trying to make a steel/iron puck out of it, but I don't know if there is even enough iron in it to do that.
That looks like slag from an iron melt, yeah, so mostly it's just silica with traces of minerals and ore. I've done a couple and that's the stuff the flows off or is left in the bloomery after you've taken the bloom (iron) out.
Hey Tim, wacha get for Christmas? Tim: I got a rock. LOL ⭐🙂👍
You should try making wrought iron from either iron ore or scrap iron in a bloomery furnace.
Forge is Lit
Great video 👍👍
I know this must have been very disappointing for you, but this was very entertaining for us to watch.
did you check it with a magnet ?
Slag? That shiny bit looked like obsidian. Volcanic lava?
I used to see those on the job lying on the ground all the time, and when ye picked it up I thought, “Oh no, I certainly don’t think so?!?” 😆 Yeah, they were gettin’ ye, I suspect!!!
Almost like throwing river rocks into a campfire
I noticed there was a cut out for a window. I don't remember the cut out being made when you installed the vertical interior sheeting.
How did the window install go?
I'd say you're very lucky it didn't blow up in your face, especially after seeing moisture weeping from the inside of it.
Had it had more moisture content, then trapped inside the fractures of the rock will suoer heat quickly into steam, and once it reaches that point.
It comes apart at every fracture in the rock, very much like concrete does it you heat it up while cutting steel directly on the surface if it, especially if the molten slag builds up in a concentrated area.
That and the direct heat from the touch head blasting on it causes expansion at a rate it can't spread equally over the entire surface, and it explodes outward at very high rate of speed.
Being as the fragments are jagged, and have sharp edges some larger than others they'll all penatrate flesh and clothes easily enough that some will go much deeper than others, but given how thin eye lids are even if you managed to close your eyes, the eye itself hasn't enough resilience to stop even the smallest of pieces, and considering the shear numbers flying every which way odds aren't in your favor, are anyone else who may be close enough to be pelted with who knows how many pieces flying every direction of open space around it.
I am no expert but it looks like obsidian, which is a kind of vulcanic glass. Very hard and brittle, shards are super sharp and dangerous. Could possibly be just slag, but still sadly useless for forging :( Great try however, You are making great content!
unless he actually puts it in something to melt it. then he can alloy it.
act like obsidian... so melt it and mold it... sharpen it. itll be one of the sharpest blades you have until it breaks... but thats ok just remelt it.
alloys may be possible but it may not blend well... would need a lot of processing to give it maliability
I watched the your chain mail v car I’d say I’m safe with not doing anything you wouldn’t do😂
You couldn't tell it was slag by looking at it?
Is it just a piece of slag?
4:57 ok. Just slag.
It looks like minning slag???
Looks like obsidian to me.
Same here, definitely looks like obsidian when it split from the vice
If they were really making steel, it's probably a bunch of molten and cooled slag, which is quite similar to glass or obsidian
Looks like He got ya mate .😅🤣😂🤠
Lmao i liked this
Hey I enjoyed this lol
looks like ferrosilicon to me
Funny video :=)
hi
Slag
Magnet...
Next time...grab a magnet😂
Hey Brother, Sorry it didn't work out, but I gotta say that I still loved watching it!!! As a major rock hound, when I saw the moisture, I figured that you were going to have some troubles. I was worried that it was going to explode! I'm really glad it didn't, and you are still with us! Thanks for sharing, and God bless you! 😎👍🏻🔨🔥🔪
I’d have to agree, that’s gotta be just a wad of slag that ran off of whatever they were trying to do. I’d be curious to see the project that led up to that 👍
At no point in this video was I optimistic it would work out. After you showed the moisture pocket I was worried it was going to explode, though.
I thought it might have been some sort of volcanic expulsion.
Joe Dirt movie said it best “That’s not a meteorite, that’s a big ol’ chunk of poopy!”
Did i just watch a dude put an obviuos rock in a forge just to be able to tell me about a sponsor?
Slag off the top of a melted batch of steel sitting in a crucible.
That’s definitely a early April fools joke 😢 I’ve got to two billets yet to get forge welded Damascus steel here in Ireland 🇮🇪 if you have any experience in forge welding steel?
it is exactly 2 days closer to LAST April 1st (182 days) than it is to NEXT April 1st (184 days) as of today, September 30th
So make it a LATE April Fools' Day joke
I’ve actually become quite the fan of this channel! I normally don’t watch maker channels, but this channel has it all!
Sorry it didn't work. I thought it could have been a meteorite or something. I'm not a geologist or anything.
Me too!!
There's a tree stump in my back yard. I think we should give it a go and see if that'll forge.
Your obviously not a canuck,you keep your stick on the ice the puck is.... well a puck
The rock may not have forged, but it was still a cool video! Thanks for sharing, even though it didn't work out.
You still made it entertaining. I l prefer going on the adventure with you rather then just seeing all winning.
Why didn't you test it with a magnet first? If it had enough iron in it you would know right away.
It's obviously ore slag
Which you already knew.
You make the best blacksmithing content on RUclips
This looks close to opsidian
2cool Tim ✌from New Zealand ❤
Did you try cold forging
its ceramic lol
looks to be a whole lotta dross.
Slag for sure
Looks like slag to me.
slag.
Slag
😮. 🤔. Can't wait to see more updates an projects and many more videos soon my friend. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Forge On. Fab On. Weld On. Keep Forge lit. Keep Making. God bless.
You really steped up a notch in your on stage performance hehe! I've been hitting likes from the begining... keep it lit! ;-)
Danger Will Robinson
I miss the longer videos where you actually make something.
You say that like he didn’t post one last week. And the week before…