Love the old tools! I've got a forge that came out of my grandfather's shop that looks pretty much identical to the one in your pics. Mine is not in as good a shape as yours. It's on my "to be restored" list. The blower still works , but a couple of the legs have rotted off where it sat on the dirt in the back of his shop for years.

One of these days, I want to find and restore one of the hit and miss farm engines just so I can listen to it run. They are cool old pieces of history. I did find a single cylinder Maytag engine in a trash pile and dragged it home. It's under my workbench waiting to be gone through. It's not seized, so it might be salvageable. They were 2-stroke hit and miss.

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