Our blacksmith shop is well equipped to introduce campers to the art of working with metal. Using hand cranked forges, hammers, anvils, patience and finesse, iron can be formed into useful and beautiful objects.
The Blacksmith shop gives campers the hands-on experience of crafting everyday objects from raw materials. Heating, forming, reheating, and reforming steel is a slow process, one that requires campers to imagine and then retain in their mind the desired end result as they work slowly towards it.
Located next door to the Blacksmith Shop, the Bar 717 Ranch Welding Shop has Arc, MIG, and Oxy-Acetylene welding equipment. In the Welding Shop, we can grind, cut, drill, and stick together just about anything made out of metal.