New Build Oven At Granite Falls

[man7sell]

Re: New Build Oven At Granite Falls

You are making good progress - and I see the wood is already stacked. The only wood I have around my place is stained with cement having been used for forms!

Yes, lots of wood stacked, that's just a small portion. I have at least a dozen more trees to fell, buck, cut, split, and then stack. (I call the place the Pilchuck Health Club) Most of this wood will be used in the fire pit next to the oven, then later in the main house when it is built. What I'm looking for is local people that have apple or other fruit trees that need trimming or felling. Those would make for good oven wood. Have chain saw will travel

[dvm]

Re: New Build Oven At Granite Falls

You are making good progress - and I see the wood is already stacked. The only wood I have around my place is stained with cement having been used for forms!

[man7sell]

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Checking my angles and it seams I'm right on track. I set up a flat pattern side profile to work out how each tier angle would have to be cut.....So far so good said the man falling off a cliff.

[dvm]

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Just when I had my angles and bevels figured out, the dome curved over and the angles (which had been in creasing slowly needed to decrease and the bevel which seemed like it would never change has increased rapidly and dramatically on the last few courses! Mortar saves the day.

[man7sell]

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I am with you (in Rome?) with a 42 inch diameter and 19 inch dome height (So I planned - we will see the true height soon enough). I tapered my bricks for the course front to back, and beveled the sides to minimize the "inverted V" are you also also cutting the top and bottom of the brick? If so very cool .... and you will be using a LOT of bricks.

Just the bottom of the bricks so far. Some update photos to follow from this weekend

[dvm]

Re: New Build Oven At Granite Falls

I am with you (in Rome?) with a 42 inch diameter and 19 inch dome height (So I planned - we will see the true height soon enough). I tapered my bricks for the course front to back, and beveled the sides to minimize the "inverted V" are you also also cutting the top and bottom of the brick? If so very cool .... and you will be using a LOT of bricks.

[man7sell]

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Looks like good progress. Are you planning a spherical dome or something lower?

It is a lower design half way between the Tuscan and the Neapolitan. The Naples for a 42" diameter has the roof at a low 15.5 inches while the Tuscan is 21". Mine is more a hybrid with an oven height around 19". This places my oven (per Google Earth) around about Rome. So mine would be a Romany oven?

[dvm]

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Looks like good progress. Are you planning a spherical dome or something lower?

[man7sell]

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Did you use 5000psi concrete or something equivalent? My hearth is about 3 1/2 thick. But I know very little about how much weight concrete can hold. I do have rebar in mine. Quite a bit. Your cinderblock structure looks great! I like the concrete pad underneath. Will make your area very clean looking.

No idea what the strength rating of the concrete is. Rebar should support the load.

The concrete pad underneath was the work of my next door neighbor out there. He was really good at it. Later we will add mosaic tile on it to match whatever design we come up with for the oven

[ShannonCorum]

Re: New Build Oven At Granite Falls

Did you use 5000psi concrete or something equivalent? My hearth is about 3 1/2 thick. But I know very little about how much weight concrete can hold. I do have rebar in mine. Quite a bit. Your cinderblock structure looks great! I like the concrete pad underneath. Will make your area very clean looking.

[man7sell]

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Made a version of the indispensable tool (IT) for the dome build. Used hardware from Home Depot and stuff I had laying around. Works great and is fully adjustable. Up to the third course now. At this point it is time to build the entranceway to allow the intersection of the dome to tie in with the entrance.

Each brick gets cut 3 ways to radius the dome and create to dome profile.



Here's the IT made from a castor wheel I had and a piece of threaded rod. (Never throw anything away right?).





OK, don't get a photo of me everyday, usually the one taking the photos.

[man7sell]

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Huh, must be my other computer's java is out of date. Works from my MAC Update to come.

[man7sell]

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I was trying to do an update using photobucket today but the site's not working correctly today. I will try from another computer

[dvm]

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man7sell
How goes the build?

[david s]

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Since the perimeter of the oven is the only thing that touches the hearth, it is the only place were there is ANY weight, other than the brick of the floor (and the perimeter of the hearth slab will have weight if there is an enclosure).

Yes true, I was thinking of an igloo which has very little mass outside the inner dome.