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| Spurred on by the success of this first attempt an opportunity arose to have another go in May 2005. Peter, Mike and I had gone out a week earlier and formed a kiln out of a stump of macrocarpa, which is fancy way of saying that we basically hacked a few chunks out of the stump with a chain-saw – a large one for the chamber, a connected hole for the chimney and another for the spy hole. On the day we rolled it onto a bed of bricks and fibre, filled it with pots and cones and set a couple of burners up to get it going – a bit like an ice kiln really. After 3 1/2 hours we gave up trying to bend cone 8 any further and figured that somehow we’d choaked it. But it certainly produced some great flames and to unload it we turned the burners off and then tipped the kiln up on end leaving the pots glowing on the shelf and the beautiful patterns of glowing embers from the inside face. The stump would be about 3 foot long and 2 foot diameter, and the fire burnt about 1/3 to 1/2 of the wood. |  |
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