EVENT Date October (29) 2016
Description Icelandic Turf - Hals
Goal full size build test
Team Richard Schwitzer
Neil Peterson
Darrell Markewitz
records Vandy Simpson ?
photos Richard Schwitzer / Darrell ?
FURNACE Type boxed turf with clay liner
Material dug sod, ball clay (+ ?)
Interior irregular oval tear drop 33 x 26
Height additional 18 flared top 57
Wall (photo estimate = 5 cm) 3
Stack 37
Base 17.5 at start, later 11
Packing wood ash 14
Tuyere standard copper
Diameter 2
Angle -25
Proud 4
Air System standard electric blower
Extraction bottom via arch 
MATERIALS Ore DD 1 (NR)
Charcoal Maple
CLOCK ELAPSED EVENT AIR CHARCOAL ORE
UNIT COUNT TOTAL Unit TOTAL
note - notes quite irregular pressure LpM bucket kg kg kg
psi 1.97
NR E
1200 start wood splints pre-heat
1255 55 add rough charcoal to fill
1300 increase air 1200+
wood ash at tuyere level 7 13.8
1317 openned tap arch to clear out clay  1 8 15.8
spalled from walls, replaced charcoal
1330 2 10 19.7
1340 second open / clear clay
1342 previously removed charcoal, cleaned 3 13 25.6
1400 Temperatures :  top = 450C 1 11 21.7
"30 cm from top" = 700 C
"15 cm above tuyere" = 1150 C
1402 switch to graded charcoal 1 12 23.6
1410 8 1 13 23.6
1417 7 first additions of ore 1 14 27.6
1434 17 1 15 29.6 1 1
1450 16 1 16 31.5 1 2
1459 9 1 17 33.5 1 3
1510 11 1 18 35.5 1 4
1517 7 1 19 37.4 1 5
1529 12 1 20 39.4 1 6
1540 11 1 21 41.4 1 7
1557 14 1 22 43.3 1 8
1605 7 ore increase starts 1 23 45.3 1.5 9.5
1615 slag bubbling at tuyere, tapped
1623 18 1 24 47.3 1.5 11
1638 15 ore increase starts 1 25 49.3 2 13
1653 15 1 26 51.2 2 15
1707 14 1 27 53.2 2 17
1718 11 1 28 55.2 1 18
1733 15 ore increase starts 1 29 57.1 2 20
1747 14 1 30 59.1 3 23
1759 12 end of ore additions 1 31 61.1 2 25
1814 15 start burn down 1 32 63.0
1850 36 start extraction
TOTALS
Charcoal 63 kg
Ore plus 2.8 kg tap slag 25 kg
Bloom (reported 3.2 includes gromps 2.53 kg
Gromps 0.67
Yield 10 %
Condition NR
Quality NR