I might have written this before but it must feel SOOO AMAZING being able to be there! Nobody anywhere around, silence, Open land and only your imagination is your limitations!! ❤
Suggestion: For the dome consider doing it in 3rds. This'll make it more manageable as well as giving the ability open a smaller section of the top with out fully exposing the kiln.
I think you had the right idea cutting the lid in half. If you decide to remake the lid, it might be worthwhile to cut it into fourths to make the sections even easier to handle. Seems like the broken pieces stayed in place well enough just from being propped against one another. Just need to fine tune the seals.
Félicitations pour ces vidéos je m'en lasse pas...👍🏻 Si j'avais été a votre place, j'aurai remplis le four de bois en forme de pyramide pour le haut et, construit le toit du four directement sur le bois qui dépasse et qui formera l'ossature de la structure.... Ensuite, il suffira de détruire le toit pour récupérer le charbon...
All I can think of is that whacking at those scrub oak twigs must have been good therapy for venting your frustrations, lol... Also, Happy Father's Day! (Dunno how many human kids you have, but you are most definitely a dog dad!)
It's somehow doable that way, instead of two half for the Dome, make 4 quarters of that Dome, it'll be more solid and more easy to transport. And maybe (just my idea) a slightly better angle too, to have the shape of a cone.
Happy Father's Day, Chad! I couldn't help but think of a Pokeball when you cut the dome in half =). Thank you for sharing, despite the frustration of the process. The ollas seem like a great idea for the garden. I hope that they work out well.
Your dome lid will be much stronger if you had used the weaved flat basket as skeleton / structure then cover both sides with clay before you put it into the kiln OR if you don't wanna sacrifice the weaved basket, you can cut the dome lid into 4 pieces instead of 2 for easier handling.
Is there something you can make hoops from to use inside as bracing when you pack the clay? WOW those yellow flames ontop would be much hotter than the orangey red of the open kiln.
Since the lid is so large, making it in three pieces might be ideal. It seems to sit well even broken up into so many pieces. There's clearly a need for a plug for the entrance as well, i don't think stacking bricks and piling up sand will do it. It'll be necessary to plug the any gaps with mud, as even the slightest opening will allow enough oxygen in to burn the charcoal overnight. That being the case, reducing the number of cracks you need to plug is important, especially if you want to do this repeatedly. It's also important not to be too hasty. Any good work takes a long time to do right, and rushing ahead or cutting corners always leads to disaster. Living life without any regrets is hard work, but hey, you'll never regret it.
You’re right. I was hastily working on so many projects at the same time. I often don’t stop to think. I used to think too much and hardly get anything done. Now I work without thinking much and make mistakes. I think it’s better to work now and make mistakes because there is more to learn in the process than in theory. I was in such a hurry because I can’t film this at night. And I realized when the fire was ablaze that I hadn’t prepared any mud and it was too late. This experience will help me the next time.
Why don't you build a skeleton of concentric rings made with branches and then pile the clay on top of that to give additional structural strength to the dome cover?
Have you tried mixing fine wood ash (such as the result of this test) with your clay to give it more of a concrete property? You could probably remake the dome a bit thinner this way which would allow it to dry more thoroughly. However, the dome might not be needed depending on how "sticky" your mud is. You can fill the kiln with wood and then add a thick layer of mud right to the top, which will allow you to more easily fill all air gaps and not have to worry about your lid breaking. You would have to reapply this type of seal each time, but it might be more reliable.
I have added ash to clay before but I didn’t do any testing so I don’t know what the effect was. Perhaps I will try again. The reason I’d rather not cover the kiln with mud when it’s filled with branches is because the mud would get partially fired and then not be very useful. At some point I’m going to have to dig another pit and the mud is more valuable to me for making pottery and bricks for construction.
Thanks for the clarification. Resource management is definitely important, especially in the environment that you are in. Good luck, looking forward to more experiments!
There's no need for the cover to be a dome, you could make a few long thin bricks like the ones you used on your doorframe for the hut and place them next to eachother
I don't know how far that little stream is away from your hut, but have you ever thought about building a canal over to your hut, just like the old inca and romans did later with their aquaeducts?
@@ChadZuberAdventures Yeah, I suspected it, but I wasn't sure. Also, have you ever thought about building a fence around your "property"? You said you had a problem with wild animals stealing some of your food supplies. I'm sure you could weave at least a little fence around your fields/garden area.
Charcoal. You need a pot, put some wood in, turn it over, the fire is outside the pot!Charcoal. You need a pot, put some wood in, turn it over, the fire is outside the pot!
I'm so sorry that you had this failrule. I hope that you are right once, in the next episode. I thint that you shouldn't to make charcoal in the hute stove. You should making a different furnance, for example furnance to making charcoal. It must this furnance, which has a litte of oxygen and it will might smoking wood for the coal beautifully. Have a nice say Chad! Sorry, if it is already evening where you are, because in the this world are different time zones. Jakub Woźniak.
I don’t think it needs to be a dome. Just make some of your long bricks. Maybe put a stick in the middle for strength, then just place these side by side to cover the top.
Peinlich? Ney, du machst es großartig 👍 Aus Deutschland grüßt Max, mit bestem lehm und recht gutem ofen. Ich schaffe deine Qualität noch lange nicht 😅 Ich bewundere deine Erzeugnisse ❤ Egal aus welchem Bereich,essen, töpfern, Seilkunde. Mach weiter uugh, Fleisch wird kommen 🍗 Die Höhle erscheint dennoch als super ort aus meiner Sicht. Aber was gilt schon die Meinung eines Neandertaler 😂 Wir waren bessere Jäger 😂 das Ende dieser Linie, es blieb ein rest dna😂
In unele zone din Romania prietene se confectioneaza astfel de domuri din pamint ales special si din excremente de cal. Sub astfel de domuri se coace pâinea pe o vatra din caramizi. Este dintr-o singura bucata fara gaura si este ars. Ceramica.
Diaperonimo my Rez dogs gave me a heads up your comedy show was on. And you don't disappoint! You know like my rez pal says cutting your hair doesn't make you less gay, or, as another one said, it's amazing how much you can be outside and yet be in the closet at the same time. Hilarious content as always keep up the good work pretending to be someone you aren't
Hey you didn't come out of the experience empty-handed. Save those ashes. They'll work just fine for mortar or for alkalizing the environment of the soil of your plants/garden. You may not have been able to achieve what you initially set out to, but the things you did, and even the things you DIDN'T do still mattered.
My friend chad, I admire your perseverance, hard work, and exciting experiments. It seems the large kiln you built requires a suitable cover for success. The clay cover may be prone to breakage due to its wide span, so I suggest narrowing the top part of the kiln in a circular shape to reduce the opening size, then crafting a relatively small cover to fit this opening. Additionally, you can strengthen the kiln's structure by shaping it into a dome from the top using clay, then adding a circular opening in the top part of the dome. Finally, you can create a single cover that fits this opening to provide sufficient protection for the kiln. It's also important to consider that the size of the opening will determine the size of the pottery that can be placed inside the kiln for firing, so this should be taken into account when designing the cover. These steps will help improve the efficiency of the kiln and achieve the desired results successfully. I wish you the best of luck in your future experiments and hope you achieve the desired success.
Yeah that’s why I can’t reduce the opening of the kiln. I need it wide to accept large pottery pieces. But maybe just reduce it a little. That’s a really good idea that never occurred to me. Thank you very much. You’re awesome!
Your attempt at a dome cover for the primitive kiln, even if it didn't go as planned, shows your innovative spirit and determination to improve. And I am Floating Village Life, inspired by your perseverance and creativity.
Relaxing on the hammock in that beautiful place is priceless. I love how the kiln sounds like a badass rocket ship when it's fired up. That quote ❤ great video/work 😊
🔥🔥🔥Greetings, colleague. And where do you get water in the desert? Try to make a narrowing above the oven of burnt bricks. If it needs to be removable, then just smear the cracks with clay, without clay mortar between the bricks themselves. I think this design will be simpler, more durable and more functional. And if you still want to make large parts out of clay in order to increase their strength at the drying stage, you need to mix grass into the solution, since the juniper bark is more fragile and does not give proper reinforcement to clay. But in fact, the shape also matters and the applied effect on the part. In other words, the dome was not dry enough and without splitting into halves it would have been much stronger as a whole.🤝
There is water in the spring and the river. Those are good ideas. Unfriendliest unfortunately there is no grass here, or very little. Grass is not a reliable resource here. Juniper bark is abundant though and that’s why I use it. Perhaps there is a better option though. I don’t know. I have some more ideas to try with the dome. But you’re right, I don’t think it was dry enough.
@@ChadZuberAdventures The main thing is to extract the result from the experiment, then take it into account to make it better. You said it right - even failures teach us. Often, an unsuccessful experiment provides more valuable information than an easily obtained one. So, for example, when extracting fire, when it turns out the first time, we think it's easy. But then it doesn't work out 10 times in a row and we realize that when it worked out, everything was perfect. That is, we had not encountered difficulties before and thought that it was elementary, but the conditions changed slightly, for example, humidity or we were a little tired, or the shape of the parts and the type of wood was not the same, the pressing force or the intensity of friction, the time of acceleration... As a result, the result is negative. And it is he who makes us wonder why it didn't work out. We begin to study and deepen so much that our brain begins to solve a much larger number of tasks than just getting fire💫
While this failure is sad, on the bright side, once you succeed and unlock lime, you can make a primitive concrete fairly easily and that should be a good material for this. (Alternative ideas I have are using several flat river rocks, which might prove dangerous because water trapped inside could explode, and fired clay, which might take even longer than making it of mud with primitive equipment)
Aceptar el fracaso es entrar en el reino de lo humilde, excelente labor, gran aprendizaje para mi que lo observo y mas para ti que lo haces. A mi me vino a la cabeza viendo tu experiencia y la rotura de la cúpula en mas de 2 trozos como tu querías, la naturaleza te habló al dividirte en ¿4 o 6 ? la tierra te habló en el lenguaje que nos hace ser humilde y. donde duele se aprende. Gracias Chad Zuber 🤠
Actually I wondered if a quartered dome might be more useful than a whole dome lid. A steel reinforcing band around the base to retain tension might work, but primitively, making a step around the top of the kiln to keep the lid from expanding outwards might work too.
If you add a few holes here and there to your dome that will allow heat to escape better. Plus, you can barbeque over the fire. Sounds like fun! Even some cooking with a stove grate made. :)
There is a method of making very thin walled pottery. I'm thinking that the lid needs to be way lighter than that so making it thin would be ideal. I had tried to make a thick dome for my kiln like you did and it fell apart just like yours. I just never found clay that would be able to handle being thin enough. Great video.
I completely disagree that this was a failure, it wasn't. You discovered things that worked well (the fired olla you pulled out of the kiln, using juniper bark rubbed down to support your bricks internal structure and prevent cracking, using the sand to cast a mold for the Dome) and things that simply need rethinking. I think you're on the right track with division of the Dome, quarter size pieces seems to work better with the material you have to hand, and maybe you need to construct a dedicated charcoal kiln as a separate entity, that way you could seal the bricks with mud/ juniper bark mix and have your pottery kiln for doing pottery, which it does a great job of, and a charcoal kiln also. A Great effort and great success. Brilliant video 👍👋 there is no failure, there's rethinking 👋
Yeah it’s just the process. But you know how it is online. People will attack you for every little mistake you make. So it’s better to admit mistakes before hand. But you’re right, and o always say that knowing how NOT to do something is also important. I am currently rethinking this process and will make another attempt with some modifications in the future.
That's a cool idea, I really enjoyed this episode! Also, I enjoy seeing your growing collection of ollas! Possibly making the dome with three or four smaller segments might work. Though there is still the possibility of them slipping and falling in if they are too small and don't lock together well enough. I have seen someone else make charcoal in a somewhat similar way, but they piled the wood inside the kiln to where it domed out the top, then covered it with mud while leaving a hole in the top. After the mud dried, they then lit it on fire. After it was burning well they then sealed the top and bottom openings with fresh mud and left it until the next day. They were then able to open the kiln, breaking away the mud top to retrieve the charcoal. Anyway, wishing you good luck going forward! I'm always excited to see what you will be up to next!
That’s a great idea with covering the mass of sticks with mud and letting it dry. The rain I don’t want to do that is because it is a waste of the mud because it will be partially fired and then not really usable. But for just a few times that would be good.
