Stephanie Coleman on sun 16 oct 05
hi:
someone earlier mentioned that they did woodfiring in a 55 gallon drum. i
have the drum and would like to try this process...can this group help with
info or advice on reference book, websites etc?
thanks!
Stephanie Coleman
email: sjcoleman@starband.net
Earl Brunner on sun 16 oct 05
This isn't "high firing" in a 55 gal drum, but it is a great little system. See if you can get your hands on a copy of "Alternative Kilns and Firing Techniques" by Watkins and Wandless Page 85- a downdraft, stovepipe barrel kiln....
Stephanie Coleman wrote:hi:
someone earlier mentioned that they did woodfiring in a 55 gallon drum. i
have the drum and would like to try this process...can this group help with
info or advice on reference book, websites etc?
thanks!
Stephanie Coleman
email: sjcoleman@starband.net
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Susan Nebeker on sun 16 oct 05
Stephanie-
Coincidentally, I randomly picked up an old CM last night and dog-eared an article about wood-firing to cone 10 in a 55 gallon drum.
Look for the April 2000 CM. The article is titled Horn Island Kiln, bu W. Lowell Baker.
Sounds like a fun project.
Susan Nebeker
Pollywog Pottery
Canby, Oregon
Stephanie Coleman wrote:
hi:
someone earlier mentioned that they did woodfiring in a 55 gallon drum. i
have the drum and would like to try this process...can this group help with
info or advice on reference book, websites etc?
thanks!
Stephanie Coleman
email: sjcoleman@starband.net
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Andrew Lubow on sun 16 oct 05
ALTERNATIVE KILNS & FIRING TECHNIQUES: Raku, Saggar, Pit, =
Barrel.
By J.C. Watkins & P.A. Wandless. Has a section on it.=20
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2ley on sun 16 oct 05
From: "Stephanie Coleman"
Stephanie,
There's a great website with this method detailed at
http://www.pitfire.com/pit_firing.htm . The guy's nice, and willing to give
additional information via email. I'm trying this method shortly, right
after I finish putting the shingles on my studio.
Philip
Kurt Wild on mon 17 oct 05
Check out my single and triple drum method on page 18 & 19 of Leon
Nigrosh's book Low Fire - Other Ways to Work in Clay published in 1980.
Kurt
BJ Clark | Stinking Desert Ceramics on mon 17 oct 05
Stephanie,
I do this almost monthly. If you have any specific questions, please post
them up.
A barrel (if suitable) can be converted into a kiln in about 20 minutes wit=
h
a oxy/acetylene torch.
Super easy to do.
BJ Clark
Stinking Desert Ceramics
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> From: "Stephanie Coleman"
> Stephanie,
> There's a great website with this method detailed at
> http://www.pitfire.com/pit_firing.htm . The guy's nice, and willing to
> give
> additional information via email. I'm trying this method shortly, right
> after I finish putting the shingles on my studio.
>
> Philip
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Leland Hall on tue 18 oct 05
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 10:57:29 -0400, Stephanie Coleman
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>hi:
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>someone earlier mentioned that they did woodfiring in a 55 gallon drum. i
>have the drum and would like to try this process...can this group help with
>info or advice on reference book, websites etc?
>
>thanks!
>Stephanie Coleman
>email: sjcoleman@starband.net
>
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Hi,
I don't know if this will be useful information, but maybe so--
Many years ago, I did several years of dung fireing, (sheep, llama) in a
fifty gallon drum.
I cut two six inch holes in the side of the drum at the bottom, one
directly opposed from the other, and another at the top. A six inch
stovepipe elbow was installed at the bottom, with pipe up from there to a
tee, then a stack of maybe eight or ten foot, with a basic flue damper at
eye level. A grate was placed on fire bricks six inches from the floor,
with hardware cloth on top of it. Six inches of wood shavings were placed
on the grate, then the drum was filled with the llama or sheep dung with
bisque ware dispersed.
The saw dust or shavings worked to ignite the rest of the fuel hotly and
evenly. This was done by shoving a propane weed burner torch into the
front hole at the bottom for a few minutes. Then a squirrel cage fan was
placed blowing forced air into the same hole for maybe a half hour.
This provided a long slow burn, eighteen to 24 hours. This was around I
think, twenty years ago, and at the time I had no pyrometer, so had no idea
what cone I was fireing to. Didnt matter. These were glazeless fireings,
with copper carb mixed into the clay body. We liked the results and made a
lot dough with masks, sculpture and such.
I don't know how this would work with wood as fuel. Maybe with oak chips
or some hardwood in small pieces.
I remember that the flapper type damper in the flue gave me considerably
more controll than without it.
Come to think of it, I'm glad this thread came up, I'd like to build a
larger version of this system, like the ones that my mentor and teacher
Bill Kennedy used when I started out mopping his floors way back when.
Hmm. Thanks.
Good luck and have fun!
Leland Hall
Before The Wheel Enterprises
La Pine, OR, USA
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