Neon-Cat on sun 26 dec 10
From the Log Rack:
http://thelograck.com/firewood_rating_chart.html
(scroll down a couple of inches for the chart)
Don't know if this was ever posted but it's a pretty inclusive handy
guide to some basic wood facts...
Marian
(enjoying our pellet wood stove during a Texas cold snap -- mixed
hardwood -- lovely warming ambiance...)
Neon-Cat Ceramics
http://www.neon-cat.com/neon-cat_ceramics
steve graber on mon 27 dec 10
do you save your pellet ash for a glaze?=3DA0 i collect everything from my =
fi=3D
replace =3D0Awhen i use it for glazes.=3DA0 i found out by accident that to=
o mu=3D
ch ash can ruin =3D0Athe ability of tomatoes to stay on the vine until ripe=
(=3D
deletes too much calcium =3D0Afrom soils) so id doesn't go into gardens any=
mo=3D
re.=3DA0 i like the randomness of ash =3D0Aand "right" or "wrong" blends st=
ill =3D
come out fine for me.=3DA0 =3D0A=3D0A=3D0A=3D0A=3DA0Steve Graber, Graber's =
Pottery, Inc=3D
=3D0AClaremont, California USA=3D0AThe Steve Tool - for awesome texture on =
pots=3D
! =3D0Awww.graberspottery.com steve@graberspottery.com =3D0A=3D0A=3D0AOn La=
guna Cla=3D
y's website=3D0Ahttp://www.lagunaclay.com/blogs/ =3D0A=3D0A=3D0A=3D0A----- =
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=3D0A> (enjoying our pellet wood stove during a Texas cold snap -- mixed=3D=
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gary navarre on mon 27 dec 10
Hey Folks,
A while back I was searching about Firewood BTU's and came across a refere=
nce to an American bundle of wood as being 1/16th. of a cord. I'm wondering=
if that is similar to the Japanese bundle of 14 kilos. When someone says a=
kiln takes 300 bundles Japan how much U.S. wood is that?
My grand kids got me some Cabela's long johns and other clothes for Christ=
mas so I've been working outside in the cold cleaning snow off the kiln and=
wood pile so I can keep dragging the Balsam trees Zach cut down for Christ=
mas greens to the kiln site. So far I got a couple three 25-30lb. hump stra=
pped bundles of limb sticks and half a dozen 8'-10' sticks 8" and under. Lo=
ts to do while there is still light.
Remember, anyone can melt pots if they have a big enough fire. The trick i=
s to melt a bunch of pots with a small fire. Stay in there and don't it foo=
l ya eh.
Gary Navarre
Navarre Pottery
Navarre Enterprises
Norway, Michigan, USA
http://www.NavarrePottery.etsy.com
http://www.youtube.com/GindaUP
http://public.fotki.com/GindaUP/
--- On Sun, 12/26/10, Neon-Cat wrote:
> From: Neon-Cat
> Subject: [Clayart] Firewood Guide BTU Rating Chart
> To: Clayart@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
> Date: Sunday, December 26, 2010, 6:51 PM
> From the Log Rack:
>
> http://thelograck.com/firewood_rating_chart.html
> (scroll down a couple of inches for the chart)
>
> Don't know if this was ever posted but it's a pretty
> inclusive handy
> guide to some basic wood facts...
>
> Marian
> (enjoying our pellet wood stove during a Texas cold snap --
> mixed
> hardwood -- lovely warming ambiance...)
> Neon-Cat Ceramics
> http://www.neon-cat.com/neon-cat_ceramics
>
Neon-Cat on mon 27 dec 10
Hi Steve, yes I have a collection of the pellet ash (Heat Resource
brand - oak). It's grainy and black to gray-black -- lots of char, but
clean-burning in the stove. I just quick-sieved some (dry) -- about
half goes through a 20 mesh sieve, and about a quarter of that goes
through an 80 mesh, not much through a 100 mesh sieve. Last season I
ran some ash glaze comparison tests between the pellet ash and a
light, fluffy, and super-fine, silvery-gray oak ash from one of our
local BBQ places (both wet sieved to 80 in glazes -- used as not
washed ash). I liked the BBQ ash best, as did some other folks who
were given a choice of the two ashes to use in a glaze or sprinkled on
a glazed pot. My notes are rather pitiful from that time which was
also the time of brown recluse spider bites. I was thinking last night
I ought to seriously experiment with ash glazes now, using the two ash
sources just mentioned and ash from the pit firings here (a real mixed
bag, from live oak to red oak to crepe myrtle, weeds, grasses, vines,
spent flowers, and acorns plus colorants). I like a touch of random
and unpredictable, too. The pellet ash does make for a bit of texture
when added to an earthenware clay body. To adjust some of my native
clay bodies for better workability I add a little of the BBQ oak ash.
I'd be happy to send you some pellet wood ash if you want to try it.
Lucky you with the tomatoes -- it's now too shady here to plant
tomatoes -- I have all shade-loving perennial flowers and vines but no
veggies.
Marian
Neon-Cat
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:17 AM, steve graber wrote:
> do you save your pellet ash for a glaze?=3DA0 i collect everything from m=
y =3D
fireplace
> when i use it for glazes.=3DA0 i found out by accident that too much ash =
ca=3D
n ruin
> the ability of tomatoes to stay on the vine until ripe (deletes too much =
=3D
calcium
> from soils) so id doesn't go into gardens anymore.=3DA0 i like the random=
ne=3D
ss of ash
> and "right" or "wrong" blends still come out fine for me.
Joan Klotz on mon 27 dec 10
Fireplace ash makes for a very alkaline addition to your soils and in
Southern California, where you live Steve, the soil is already pretty
alkaline. I'm surprised that all of your plants didn't show distress.
Joan Klotz
At 08:17 AM 12/27/2010, steve graber wrote:
>do you save your pellet ash for a glaze? i collect everything from
>my fireplace when i use it for glazes. i found out by accident that
>too much ash can ruin the ability of tomatoes to stay on the vine
>until ripe (deletes too much calcium from soils) so id doesn't go
>into gardens anymore. i like the randomness of ash and "right" or
>"wrong" blends still come out fine for me. Steve Graber, Graber's
>Pottery, Inc Claremont, California USA The Steve Tool - for awesome
>texture on pots! www.graberspottery.com steve@graberspottery.com On
>Laguna Clay's website http://www.lagunaclay.com/blogs/ -----
>Original Message ---- > From: Neon-Cat >
>To: Clayart@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG > Sent: Sun, December 26, 2010 4:51:00
>PM > Subject: Firewood Guide BTU Rating Chart > > From the Log
>Rack: > > http://thelograck.com/firewood_rating_chart.html > (scroll
>down a couple of inches for the chart) > > Don't know if this was
>ever posted but it's a pretty inclusive handy > guide to some basic
>wood facts... > > Marian > (enjoying our pellet wood stove during a
>Texas cold snap -- mixed > hardwood -- lovely warming ambiance...) >
>Neon-Cat Ceramics > http://www.neon-cat.com/neon-cat_ceramics >
Lee Love on mon 27 dec 10
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 12:04 PM, gary navarre
wrote:
> Hey Folks,
>
> =3DA0A while back I was searching about Firewood BTU's and came across a =
re=3D
ference to an >American bundle of wood as being 1/16th. of a cord. I'm wond=
=3D
ering if that is similar to the >Japanese bundle of 14 kilos. When someone =
=3D
says a kiln takes 300 bundles Japan how >much U.S. wood is that?
I believe Mashiko bundles are smaller. I once figured that my kiln
would take 40 bundles to glaze fire or about 400kgs of wood.
--
=3DA0Lee, a Mashiko potter in Minneapolis
http://mingeisota.blogspot.com/
=3D93Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel
the artistry moving through and be silent.=3D94 --Rumi
Lee Love on mon 27 dec 10
Before the snow hit, I processed a large garbage bag of pellet ash.
It washed and I ended up with about 10gals of washed and screened ash.
It is frozen under the trash can I washed it in, in the back yard.
I need to get some dolomite. I also slaked OM4 to mix it with. I
will start my test, ladling 3 ash , 2 OM4 and 1 Dolomite.
--=3D20
--
=3DA0Lee, a Mashiko potter in Minneapolis
http://mingeisota.blogspot.com/
=3D93Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel
the artistry moving through and be silent.=3D94 --Rumi
Paul Herman on mon 27 dec 10
Hi Marian,
That's a good chart for estimating btus per cord, or other volume
measure. If you look at wood's heat value on a per pound measure you
get a very different picture. Soft resinous woods like pine are at the
top of the list (about 9000 btu per pound), and hardwoods like oak
(8000 btu per pound) are at the bottom.
Another difference that affects how wood is used in firing is that
resinous woods produce longer flames. I believe soft resinous woods
produce a more gaseous flame than hardwoods. Hardwoods produce shorter
flames and longer burning coalbeds.
For the kiln here, where there is about a 35 foot flame path inside
the kiln, long flames are good for heating the back of the setting, so
we are happy with pine. For heating the shop and house with wood
stoves, I like hardwood.
good firings,
Paul Herman
Great Basin Pottery
Doyle, California US
www.greatbasinpottery.com/
On Dec 26, 2010, at 4:51 PM, Neon-Cat wrote:
> From the Log Rack:
>
> http://thelograck.com/firewood_rating_chart.html
> (scroll down a couple of inches for the chart)
>
> Don't know if this was ever posted but it's a pretty inclusive handy
> guide to some basic wood facts...
>
> Marian
Neon-Cat on mon 27 dec 10
It=3D92s so nice to read everyone=3D92s interesting contributions to wood a=
nd
fire and flames.
Last week I spent a good deal of time with non-clay =3D93regular=3D94 folks=
=3D96
sweet and nice as can be, but it was almost a relief, sort of a
touch-stone, to have the messages on Clayart from clay workers and
potters that we did -- to come home to. This was an odd personal
revelation of sorts. One day, too, I was =3D93kidnapped=3D94 and taken to B=
est
Buy =3D96 gosh was all the techno-video stuff overwhelming! After that I
needed a clay-fix =3D96 bad!!
Anyway, thanks for being =3D93you=3D94 =3D96 all of you!
Mel, until you started promoting cones here lately, I must confess I
was =3D93saving=3D94 mine =3D96 I didn=3D92t want to be without...
Paul =3D96 I=3D92ve burned Feline Pine in the pellet stove =3D96 it=3D92s a=
cat lit=3D
ter
made from somewhat de-oiled pine and extruded like the oak pellets. I
liked them better than my oak pellets in the stove =3D96 nice bright, hot
flames, and indeed they were longer, prettier flames (but alas, Feline
Pine is not economical as a pellet source for me but will do in a
pinch).
I=3D92ve got lots of old and new pine scraps from recent repairs of the
house=3D92s west side and a window (dry rot) =3D96 it=3D92s cut-up small an=
d read=3D
y
for my next pit fire adventure. Repairs couldn=3D92t have happened on
better weather days =3D96 we had two days of 80 degree plus weather before
this recent cold snap.
Thanks for the reminder, Lee, to try the wet measure-mixing of ash
glazes. Sounds easy and less messy.
Marian
Neon-Cat
David on tue 28 dec 10
A bundle of Japanese red pine from Shigaraki weighs in at about 17 kgs. I w=
=3D
eighed a bunch of bundles during a firing one time and found that weight to=
=3D
fit well. I also did a calculation of ash to wood and found that the weigh=
=3D
t worked out on a percentage basis=3DA0 of ash weight too.
Dave
http://togeii.wordpress.com/
Lee Love on tue 28 dec 10
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 2:16 AM, David wrote:
> A bundle of Japanese red pine from Shigaraki weighs in at about 17 kgs.
When I visited Shigaraki, I was surprise to see that their bundles
were almost twice the size of Mashiko's. If I remember correctly,
in Mashiko, the price of bundles of Red Pine ranged from 225 yen to
275 yen, depending upon how small the wood was split. I was happy
not to have to pay that. My recycled wood only cost for shipping,
which the provider paid half. So a combined bisque and glaze firing
cost about $6.00 With propane going up, I had many young potters
asked me about the design of my kiln.
I hear gasoline should be going up to $5.00 a gal. here by next year
(It is $3.00 now.) So, no doubt, the other fuels will follow. I
know gasoline is already over $6.00 a gallon in Japan (133.7 per
liter.) Not necessarily a bad thing related to conservation, but
hardest on folks who can least afford it.
I remember seeing a program on T.V. in Japan about how LPG costs
were effecting businesses. They visted a hot springs resort and a
potter.
--
=3DA0Lee, a Mashiko potter in Minneapolis
http://mingeisota.blogspot.com/
=3D93Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel
the artistry moving through and be silent.=3D94 --Rumi
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