81 Inch First Build (and first post)

[lwalper]

Re: 81 Inch First Build (and first post)

I was planning a trip through your area this past Memorial day, but when I called ahead to see if you'd be open I discovered you were closed on Monday. Too bad for me! Would like to have tried some of your great pizza. Wound up eating at a less than excellent pizza joint in Florence, Ky.

[felix]

Re: 81 Inch First Build (and first post)

new project underway, mobile brick oven in 48ft moving van, big event oriented. 52 inch interior diameter, 4 inch thick dome, perl-crete insulation built on a steel frame. Designed to be "modular", the oven, frame and all, can be picked up and moved out for replacement if necessary or to relocate to a fixed facility. I will start a new thread for this one...BTW, thanks for the number of views for my 81 inch oven post....at over 44,000 views...it's one of the most looked at brick oven post on the web..

Man, you don't mind tackling the big projects!! Best of luck on the new build and I will keep an eye out for the new thread.

[windage]

Re: 81 Inch First Build (and first post)

I was planning a trip through your area this past Memorial day, but when I called ahead to see if you'd be open I discovered you were closed on Monday. Too bad for me! Would like to have tried some of your great pizza. Wound up eating at a less than excellent pizza joint in Florence, Ky.

ooopppss, sorry about that guy...you can check us out and get the current seasons hours on our facebook page; Artys Wood Fired Pizza...
hope you can come back sometime !

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Artys...20079718042660

[windage]

Re: 81 Inch First Build (and first post)

just last night at the shop..small group having a hoot ! We have a garden in the yard of the shop and will top with those tomatoes...

[windage]

Re: 81 Inch First Build (and first post)

A journalist from a larger city nearby asked if he could do an article on our shop earlier this year...I was reluctant, telling him I am not really looking to be written about by somebody who doesn't "get" our approach to food. After a few conversations with him (with him buying his own pizza at each visit) I agreed to an interview and photos. Here is the article scanned and uploaded and a link to the entire publication online ;

Independent, the Magazine Autumn 2014 - Page 3

[drogers]

Re: 81 Inch First Build (and first post)

It is very rewarding to see the evolution of this dream of yours. I wish you continued good fortune.

[windage]

Re: 81 Inch First Build (and first post)

It is very rewarding to see the evolution of this dream of yours. I wish you continued good fortune.

thanks for the encouragement!

[windage]

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While the oven was so cool during our run of the mobile pizza van, I took the opportunity to rebuild the cracked brick arch on the big oven. Careless firewood "chucking" took it's toll with cracked mortar joints and smoke leaks. I dug out the original arch support template, removed and cleaned the tapers and reset them...even adding some brick to the hearth that didn't get finished at the build..

[windage]

still going strong!

[windage]

my first post since the forum hosting change..I like it..I just noticed that even after this 81 inch build, a 52 inch mobile build in the moving van, a 48 inch on a smaller trailer, several builds with friends and many tens of thousands of wood fired brick oven pies...I am still a lowly "apprentice"...funny, but goes to show it doesn't matter what you do, it's how much you talk about what you do in life that people count...ha ha

[RandyJ]

You said it. Thoes of us that hang around here and chat with or advise others have much higher ranks than you even though you have much more skill and knowledge than the likes of me. I just do my best to help out. Sounds like you have been very successful in business. I am glad to hear that. I remember your build it was very impressive. It is nice to see a small guy like me make a good go of it.

Randy

[windage]

thanks, RandyJ, but I have experienced way more failures than success. I just try to sort through the pile of failures as fast as I can to find a success.

Here is a project I started couple years ago, perhaps my biggest undertaking yet...the rebuild and refloat of a 60ft Alden Schooner...gonna be my "retirement home" a link to my page regarding that project.

http://amschooner.org/node/361

[Alomran]

Re: 81 Inch First Build (and first post)

While the oven was so cool during our run of the mobile pizza van, I took the opportunity to rebuild the cracked brick arch on the big oven. Careless firewood "chucking" took it's toll with cracked mortar joints and smoke leaks. I dug out the original arch support template, removed and cleaned the tapers and reset them...even adding some brick to the hearth that didn't get finished at the build..

Hi, Well done for the great efforts. I am building an oven about your size.
1- What can you teach us about the cracks?
2- What sort of high temperature mortar did use?
3- Do you think the mixture you have researched was not the appropriate one? did you use hydrated lime with fire clay?
4- did you get cracks inside the dome or only in the arch?
We look forward to learn more from you. thanks again

[windage]

Alomran, only cracks in the arch from being hit with firewood. Mortar recipes very early in the thread, wouldn't change it. No cracks in dome interior, baking 5 years now. Thanks for posting!

[Alomran]

How high is the 81 inch oven's dome? Did you use a particular formula, or you just found it to be a convenient height?
Thanks again for sharing your knowledge with us.