| EVENT | Date | October (11) 2020 | |||||||
| Description | Icelandic stone block | ||||||||
| Goal | course | ||||||||
| Team | Darrell Markewitz | ||||||||
| Bram Porter | |||||||||
| records | Darrell Markewitz | ||||||||
| FURNACE | Type | Norwegian / Icelandic | |||||||
| Material | granite block, clay fill | ||||||||
| Interior | 25 | ||||||||
| Height | 100 | ||||||||
| Stack | 70 | ||||||||
| Base | 20 | ||||||||
| Packing | charcoal fines | 10 | |||||||
| Tuyere | standard copper | ||||||||
| Diameter | 2 | ||||||||
| Angle | 25 | ||||||||
| Proud | 5 | ||||||||
| Air System | standard electric blower | ||||||||
| Extraction | bottom via arch | ||||||||
| MATERIALS | Ore | DD 2 (red + 16% scale) | |||||||
| Charcoal | Oak | ||||||||
| CLOCK | ELAPSED | EVENT | AIR | CHARCOAL | ORE | ||||
| absolute | UNIT | COUNT | TOTAL | Unit | TOTAL | ||||
| pressure | LpM | bucket | kg | kg | kg | ||||
| psi | 1.8 | ||||||||
| 1035 | start wood twig pre-heat | ||||||||
| 1043 | very gentle air (green branches) | ||||||||
| 1140 | increase air | 250 | |||||||
| 1200 | T 1:25 | seal arch, charcoal to tuyere | 400 | 1 | |||||
| 1205 | main sequence start - fill with rough | 4 | 5 | 9.00 | |||||
| 1208 | air increased | 800 | |||||||
| 1223 | start graded fuel | ||||||||
| 1229 | probed to settle | 2 | 7 | 12.60 | |||||
| 1241 | 12 | 1 | 8 | 14.40 | |||||
| 1257 | 16 | 1 | 9 | 16.20 | |||||
| 1306 | 9 | 1 | 10 | 18.00 | |||||
| 1327 | 21 | 1 | 11 | 19.80 | |||||
| 1332 | 15 | air increased | 1000 | 1 | 12 | 21.60 | |||
| 1400 | 28 | add slag, air increased (possible +2?) | 1200 | 1 | 13 | 23.40 | 1 S | 1 S | |
| 1414 | 14 | 1 | 14 | 25.20 | 1 S | 2 S | |||
| 1428 | 14 | 1 | 15 | 27.00 | 1 S | 3 S | |||
| 1443 | 15 | 1 | 16 | 28.80 | 1 S | 4 S | |||
| 1457 | 14 | first ore added (4 x 250 gm) | 1 | 17 | 30.60 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 1510 | 13 | 1 | 18 | 32.40 | 1 | 2 | |||
| 1523 | 13 | 1 | 19 | 34.20 | 1 | 3 | |||
| 1537 | 14 | ore increase (3 x 500 gm) | 1 | 20 | 36.00 | 1.5 | 4.5 | ||
| 1605 | 28 | * possible two additions * | 1 | 21 | 37.80 | 1.5 | 6 | ||
| 1620 | 15 | 1 | 22 | 39.60 | 1.5 | 7.5 | |||
| 1637 | 13 | ore increase (4 x 500 gm) | 1 | 23 | 41.40 | 2 | 9.5 | ||
| 1650 | 13 | 1 | 24 | 43.20 | 2 | 11.5 | |||
| 1700 | 10 | 1 | 25 | 45.00 | 2 | 13.5 | |||
| 1718 | 18 | ore increase (3 x 1000 gm) | 1 | 26 | 46.80 | 3 | 16.5 | ||
| 1734 | 16 | ore additions alternate | 1 | 27 | 48.60 | 2 | 18.5 | ||
| 1748 | 14 | 1 | 28 | 50.40 | 3 | 21.5 | |||
| 1759 | 11 | 1 | 29 | 52.20 | 2 | 23.5 | |||
| 1816 | 17 | 1 | 30 | 54.00 | 3 | 26.5 | |||
| 1826 | 10 | last ore addition | 1 | 31 | 55.80 | 2 | 28.5 | ||
| 1836 | 10 | charcoal to cover | 1 | 32 | 57.60 | ||||
| 1846 | 10 | 1 | 33 | 59.40 | |||||
| start burn down | |||||||||
| TOTALS | |||||||||
| Charcoal | 59 | kg | |||||||
| Ore | plus 4 kg tap slag | 28.5 | kg | ||||||
| Bloom | 5.5 | kg | |||||||
| Gromps | (recovered after cutting) | 1 | kg | ||||||
| Yield | 19 | % | |||||||
| Condition | very crumbly (may be temperature) | ||||||||
| Quality | |||||||||