New house for kiln...

I'm building a house for my wood fired kiln (Steve Mills helped me greatly with the kiln) and posted some pics of it's early stages on my site. More to come later.

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jabba
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I will let everyone know how it goes if you are interested. There are some photos on this site at the bottom if you just scroll down.

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Xtra News

There's just something about a wood fired kiln. Brings one close to the ways of our ancestors. When I see on digs that the pottery they find in the ruins are still good, many intact, after thousands of years, they must have done something right. Besides, there's something manly about burning down a forest one stick at a time. The crane looks like it can be converted to a catapult which answers the question of what to do with damaged pots... FLING!!!

~Kroozr

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the ''Kroozr''

Hey :o) theres woman potters too.

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Xtra News

Well of course there's women potters, its the burning down a forest part that, I guess "was" a manly art. But by all means, I would gladly sit back and watch a woman split and stack wood and then have at it with a rip roaring fire, heck yeah, light it up! I'm not looking to "ignite" a battle of the sexes. Some things are manly and some things are feminine, I don't consider them as opposing forces, I think they compliment each other. Ying and Yang.

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the ''Kroozr''

nahh.... us women folk also enjoy the glory of the flame (even us radical environmentalist). I'm a real pyromaniac which I passed on to my sons and that my husband completely lacks a feel for. I suppose though that we can say that 'manly' means 'strong', 'powerful', etc. (though I haven't a clue where you would then put 'birthing' - is it manly or womanly?). Freud had it all wrong you know - it isn't penus envy - it is upper body strength envy. :)

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DKat

but there's just something about a woman and an axe.... (tee Hee) Hugs Eddie

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Eddie Daughton

You know maybe this is why my husband so objected to us getting a woodchipper. Of course this was after the pilot in Connecticut was suspected of murdering his wife when they found a finger with wedding ring in the chip pile.... :)

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DKat

Lol you get no arguement from me, there is the feminine and the masculine but I have split enough wood in my time. :o)

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Xtra News

Beautiful kiln! Now if only I could be as good a potter as a builder.

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jabba

Thanks due to Steve Mills again I use broken down shipping pallets. I was given 100's that were going to the landfill.

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jabba

About burning pallets for fuel... yup, free is affodable, that's a plus, but how about the BTU's? I heat with wood at my shop location. I found pallets don't have enough heat when they burn and have stopped using them. Pallets are also heavy in kreosote deposits in the chimney and require a constant cleaning of the flu. This brings me to another question as they are chemically treated wood, do the chemicals effect the final product? For myself, I found that oak and hickory gives off the sort of heat I'm looking for. I am also particularly fond of "free" and so I go to the sites where they are cutting wood for timber. They use the trunk and leave the tops. They'll either chip the tops or burn them right on the site as they really have no interest in the wood. I've yet to be turned down when I ask for the tops. This allows me to cut the wood to lengths that I like to use. The small stuff is great kindling and the larger stuff is a perfect size that I rarely need to split the wood. I get so much that I'm able to season (dry) the wood for a year. A good rule of thumb to check if the wood is dry enough to burn is to bang two pieces together. If you hear a ringing sound, its dry, if you hear a thud, its wet, if you hear a loud scream, you've probably caught your finger between the two and should consider wearing gloves. Another good source of free hardwoods is the sawmills. They dispose of the ends that they trim off as well as the outer wood with the bark. Then there's the whiskey distilleries that use charcoal. Their discarded used charcoal is mostly oak and has a great smell when it burns. Again, a freebie.

~Kroozr

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the ''Kroozr''

All of this talk of wood fired kilns, Oh if only, what bliss. Stuck in a large city the chances for pyromaniac outings are rare but I'm hoping soon to join a group of potters at Rufford (Nott's UK) who work in shifts to fire a large wood fuelld kiln. Just a quick word on hardwood burning (I'll bet the hickory smells fantastic); some hardwoods don't burn well at all e.g Pear, which was often used by glass workers as a former on their tools. Oh how I miss the burning of paper kilns and smoke firings!

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plodder

My little Kiln burns pallet wood and other waste timber and I get plus

1300oC out of the beast. I burn scrap hardwood in my workshop stove, it's no good in the kiln.

Steve Bath UK

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Steve Mills

I'm very inexperienced so I can't tell you if the chemicals effect anything however I have no reason to believe any of these pallets are treated. I in fact have never seen a chemically treated pallet. Most pallets aren't made for a long life so I can't see it as economical to treat them. Furthermore treating usually turns the wood green and that would be easy to spot.

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jabba

ALL pallets are treated but not for rot, for pests. They are either heat treated, chemically treated or fumigated. The green wood is pressure treated lumber which uses copper and borax which is meant to prevent rot, this wood is too costly for pallets and is used for anything that comes in ground contact or is exposed to weather, such a playground equipment and picnic tables. Pallet wood is a grade 3 lumber that is used in global, country to country, as in Europe and state to state, as in the US, shipping and transport. Pests infest the wood and have spread through the use of pallets so they are all treated. The US uses all 3 while countries like Germany will not accept chemically treated pallets.

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~Kroozr

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the ''Kroozr''

Yes, but hardwood pallets are only heat treated, not chemically since they don't absorb enough of anything to do any good.

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hseaver

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