Hot pots in the pit

[Crawforde]

I have no idea if this will work or not.
But it’s fun.

 

[HorseloverFat]

I’ve been doing this too...

Terra Cotta: My musings on...and resulting actions with.

I have been experimenting with terra cotta lately. I have performed numerous tests using varying dry/wet filtration methods relying mostly on particulate sizes and impurity concentrations of clay from different areas.

www.bonsainut.com

(They get better, kind of.. as you go... also some real knowledgeable people giving me some guiding advice.. it MAY be helpful to your endeavors.)

(you better) Keep us informed!

 

[HorseloverFat]

NIIIIIICE view.. by the way.. that looks like “won’dem fast r’vers.”

 

[Crawforde]

Lol
It’s a slow and sluggish pond.
But I like it.
Maybe because I am becoming slow and sluggish.

 

[sorce]

Are those waves Lilly pads?

Sorce

 

[HorseloverFat]

Are those waves Lilly pads?

Sorce

Ooooooooooooh!

 

[sorce]

Ooooooooooooh!

I was with you.

Sorce

 

[sorce]

Off cuz I was thinking about how Florida is too flat to have fast rivers talking about canoes with @Trenthany .

Off? Auto typo but I don't know what it was supposed to be!

Sorce

 

[sorce]

Oh odd.

Sorce

 

[MrFancyPlants]

Flórida has some nice springs for tubing or canoeing.

 

[Crawforde]

Some nice water in Florida, but that’s just my pond in the back yard.
In this heat I fill 2 watering cans up down there, three times a day. Can’t wait till the summer rains get steady, and this heat wave quits.

 

[HorseloverFat]

How’d it turn out..?

Clay Aiken? (Enthusiastically)

...or Clay Aiken? (Frustratedly)

 

[Crawforde]

Some good some bad.
My son already put a tree in one.
I’ll get some pics if the rain stops.

 

[HorseloverFat]

rain

You lucky son-of-a-biscuit.

 

[Crawforde]

Well,
I’ts cloudy.
And there is thunder.
And it’s 97 F with 375,657% humidity
But no actual rain yet.
I’ll get back to my bee hive construction, and working on the chicken coop until it does come down.

 

[HorseloverFat]

Well,
I’ts cloudy.
And there is thunder.
And it’s 97 F with 375,657% humidity
But no actual rain yet.
I’ll get back to my bee hive construction, and working on the chicken coop until it does come down.

I can’t do the humidity...it turns me into a grumpy toddler....

It’s ALWAYS pretty humid here.. but just HOT in july, pretty much...

It was 78 percent humidity and like 80 during MY last pit-fire yesterday..i did it EARLY.. as NOT to die(gotta update my thread)
And like 94 percent when I first went out the day before... uuuhg

 

[Crawforde]

Ok.
Got some pics.
The red ones are just the clay.
The white turtle was a test of another batch of clay to see if it would fire in my pit.
Also fired were some potatoes. But I ate those.
The pots with gray are the clay refired after being rubbed with a somewhat random mixture of household chemicals, egg shells, and ash.

 

[Crawforde]

 

[Crawforde]

And the last of them.
Time to start making more.
the last pic has a celebrity in the background.
A Source Pot, with a Fukien tea.

 

[sorce]

I made potatoes in my backyard woodfire kiln!

Gangster!

Sorce