Month: September 2009

>Progress is being made. Now the thin bits that I thought of as kindling are turning to charcoal and the big lumps are becoming brown ends. So I think the next stage will be to do a proper charcoal stack with a hole in the middle made out of the thinner bits of wood. Then… Continue reading >Charcoal III

>Right so. That didn’t work then! I got maybe a handful of charcoal from the bottom and a lot of charred wood. So, I listened to what I’d been advised on Creative Living forum and made a nice neat stack of fresh wood on top of kindling… … waited til it was all nicely alight… Continue reading >Charcoal II

>Right so. The reason I’ve stopped melting things is that I couldn’t afford my charcoal habit! So after some very diligent months of reading Freeglecycle every day I have accumulated everything I need to make my own. Hopefully. Here’s a big pile of wood, chopped to size, with fire-lighting things and gloves. Here’s the fire… Continue reading >Making Charcoal I