>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
Author: Graham H Miller
>Charcoal II
>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
>Making Charcoal I
>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
>It’s been a while
>I’ve been a victim of low resources – money, time and health. On the money front I’ve been scanning Freecycle pretty much every day I’ve been around to collect stuff and that’s starting to pay off. I now have an old metal wheelbarrow and a load of wood, mostly an old bed and shelving unit.… Continue reading >It’s been a while
>Quality counts!
>Well, I used up three different bags of old charcoal and nothing dripped out of the bottom of the furnace. It took nearly two hours to start burning properly as well. I’m guessing now that it’s right on the edge of developing the 660 degrees centigrade that I need. Which does make sense as last… Continue reading >Quality counts!