Poured a gallon of water on my forge fire like an idiot

Last Tuesday I was out in my shop in Wichita trying to get a piece of 1/2 inch round stock hot enough to do a scroll. I had a little too much coke in the fire and it was burning real smoky so without thinking I grabbed a plastic jug of water I had sitting nearby and dumped about a gallon right on the fire. Of course that shot steam and hot ash right back up at my face and I practically jumped backwards into my tool rack. The fire went totally dead and I had to pull all the wet coke out and start over from scratch. Took me a good 45 minutes to get the forge back to welding heat and I still had a red spot on my cheek the rest of the night. Has anyone else done something this boneheaded when your brain just shuts off for a second?

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grace_fox32d ago

Ain't it funny how panic mode always overrides years of common sense?

nathan2892d ago

You ever watch someone rebuild their whole life and then toss it out the window? My buddy Chris spent like three years getting clean, had a solid job, a new apartment, the whole deal. Then his ex came back for one weekend and he literally sold his car for cash to go on a bender. Three years of work gone in like 48 hours.