EVENT Date 19-Oct-24
Description Artfire One
Goal test of local ore
Team George Caroll lead
George extract
Darrell Markewitz assist
Darrell measures
Todd Patton ore
Stephanie Logan build
Darrell records
Darrell / George photos
FURNACE Type medium shaft on plinth 
Material manure cobb / block
Walls (base / top) 5
OD (base / top) 39
ID (base / top) 29
at tuyere 29
Height 86
Stack (tuyere to top) 43
Base 12
Plinth concrete block 18
Packing small charcoal Y
Tuyere tapered 6 mm copper
ID NR
Mounted (type) insert
Angle 22.5
Distance (gap / proud)  5
Air System electric 'bouncy castle'
Extraction bottom
MATERIALS Ore 1 artisian well seep (bog ore?) (% Fe) ??
Charcoal unknown (oak) pine for rough 1.73
CLOCK ELAPSED BURN EVENT AIR CHARCOAL ORE
min/kg UNIT COUNT TOTAL Unit TOTAL
pressure LpM bucket kg kg kg
psi ?? 1.73
time distorted, real start about 11 AM
1600 start wood splints pre-heat
1730 set tuyere
1800 first rough pine / gentle air
1805 fill with rough pine 6 6 ?
1820 first graded / oak 1 7 1.73
1832 12 7 probed to settle 2 9 3.46
1857 25 14 1 10 5.19
1902 5 3 probed to settle 1 11 6.92
1923 19 11 1 12 8.65
1930 air increase
1938 15 9 1 13 10.38
1945 17 10 1 14 12.11
1950 first ore addition
1958 13 8 1 15 13.84 1 1
*1237* increase air (real time) 1 14 15.57 2 3
*1241* time point error 1 15 17.30 2 5
2024 return to relative time 1 16 19.03 2 7
2035 11 6 1 17 20.76 2 9
2051 16 9 1 18 22.49 2 11
2106 15 9 1 19 24.22 2 13
2121 15 9 1 20 25.95 2.5 15.5
2138 17 10 1 21 27.68 2.5 18
2212 34 20 blockages cleared at tuyere 1 22 29.41 3 21
2235 23 13 major blockage of tuyere 1 23 31.14 2 23
dropped slag bowl
2243 8 graded to cover, start burn down? 1 24 30.98
2310 stack at 40 / return to charging ore 1 25 32.55 2 25
2322 12 7 last ore addition (time error?) 1 26 34.12 2 27
possible missing addition
2353 1 27 35.69 2 29
*1647* relative time 1 28 37.26 2 31
14 start burn down, rough pine to cover
101 start extraction preparation
TOTALS
Charcoal 37 + kg
Ore 31 kg
tap slag added 0 kg
gromps added
Bloom 1.4 + kg white cast / 1.4 bloom pieces 2.8 kg
Gromps
Yield 9 %
Condition cast in lower (first) slag block
Quality bloom in upper (second) slag block
(possible 1.4 from 8 / 17.5%)