If you’ve been to my shop, you probably remember my forge was equipped with an 8” chimney a Centaur Forge half-hood. This setup worked fine most of the time, but it did produce a bit of smoke at times and the shop did develop a fine covering of soot in places. Now I have a strait 10” chimney and in place of the hood is a strange box that looks too small to do anything, but works like magic! This is a “super sucker” style forge hood based on plans posted on anvilfire (see www.anvilfire.com For their article).

My goal was to build something to dramatically improve the air quality in my shop. But because I don’t have access to sheet metal equipment it needed to be something simple to construct. The super sucker satisfied both goals. This article presents details of that construction so that you may build your own. To read the full article, follow this link: Building a super sucker side-draft chimney