mel jacobson on tue 28 jun 05
the arch goes side to side.
same for fire box.
pix next week.
the inside of the chamber is filled with anything you
have to take up space as not to have to shovel
two tons of sand.
we just pulled them out, one at a time.
wiggled them out.
35 gallon drums, scrap buckets.
of course i do not do that sort of work. (wimp)
larron and sarah shoveled out the sand.
sarah is 20 and strong and a wiggly little
girl...she loved being inside the kiln. with my
knees i would never have gotten out...i would
have been fired with the pots.
we could not have built that kiln in six days without
the dedicated hard work of some terrific young women.
sarah coffin, heidi haugen, colleen and some others.
they are working dervishes.
remember, at the farm we have a state of the art wood
working shop, metals shop, welding, forge, tractors and a
saw mill. there is nothing we cannot make. we have no
government grants or outside help...we have purchased it all.
hell, next year we are talking about a rocket to the moon.
there are three amish saw mills within 5 miles, and our friend
butch is ten miles away. hundreds of bundles of slab wood.
we used one bundle of oak, pine and cedar...and the cedar this
time was explosive.
it cost us twenty bucks to fire the wood kiln for 30 hours straight.
donovan is building an oil drip system for this kiln as well. we will
use fry oil from hamburger shops. and kurt is always working on
a new design for sawdust injectors. we do not have any problem
with using anything that burns. we will experiment with lots of
alternatives. if it is free, burns like mad and fits in the kiln...we will
burn it.
mel
from mel/minnetonka.mn.usa
website: http://www.pclink.com/melpots
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