| 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 | ||||||||