Pompeii Oven in Switzerland: the Saga Continues...

[jamison_tilne]

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Your bread looks wonderful, I am especially fond of the dinner rolls in the background of the photo.

[carioca]

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This is a picture of what I'm going to stick on the top of my oven!

<SNIP>

Attached is a snap of what I WAS going to put on top of my oven - but have since decided against it on technical grounds (fibreglassing the support plate onto the dome apex mightn't withstand the occasional gale force winds here) and esthetical grounds (it just wouldn't look right next to the stainless steel chimney)...

So for the moment it is sitting attached to a tree stump next to the Forno del Gallo oven - I'll probably incorporate it into the landscaping/seating arrangements somehow :-)

Have a good one!

LMH

[Frances]

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Thank you for all the nice comments about the weather vane - I just love those things, yours too carioca!

Hooray, for the time being it looks as if spring is here!!! A bit early maybe, but I'm not grumbling.

So I finally go back out there and slapped the last bit of the first coat of the stucco/mortar layer on the oven. More wire and rebar next, then more mortar. And with oven work resumed I thought I needed to start singing again... you all know the song by Gloria Gaynar

So now I'm back
from in the warm,
I am glad to see the winter
did not do my oven harm

I should have cut that stupid brick
I should have let that joint there be
but you know just at the moment
there's nothing can bother me

Hmm, needs some work maybe, but I've got a bit rusty over the winter...

The pics aren't very exciting, but so what?!! I'm back in business!!! (for now anyway........) The last pic is for Sarah. And I hope that Spring will come to Canada soon, too

[asudavew]

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I'm happy for you Frances.

Beautiful flower!
I don't recognize it... what would it's name be?

Nice of you to think of Sarah, maybe she will see flowers soon!

[brokencookie]

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[QUOTE=asudavew;25065]I'm happy for you Frances.

Beautiful flower!
I don't recognize it... what would it's name be?

QUOTE]

That looks suspiciously like a crocus. I have them as my "first sign of spring" alarm in my yard. They pop up for a nice spot of color for a few weeks and then disappear for another year.

[RCLake]

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So you are back in the saddle again, another song for you as you start your springwork. By the way, how tall is your chimney and are you happy with its draw.
Lovely flower, I noticed one wildflower blooming this weekend. I post pictures of bluebonnets in a couple of months.

[Frances]

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Yep, its a crocus. Harbringours of Spring. Every spring I think I should plant more of them in autumn, every november its too cold out and I have too many other things to do.

Lake, my chimney is 99 cm tall (excluding the vent, which is probably about 20 cm). Draw, well I don't know... the fires light easily, I'm pleased with the oven's performance, but I do get a deal of smoke out the front when lighting up, maybe because the outer arch is higher than the oven entrance. I don't want a higher chimney though, because the flue sections weigh a ton.

I dunno, maybe it has a really brilliant draw and I never noticed, what with this being the only oven I've ever built...

[RCLake]

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I dunno, maybe it has a really brilliant draw and I never noticed, what with this being the only oven I've ever built...

Ditto, I'm starting with one flue of 60cm (24") and see how things work. I have another one if needed, I'd add that when I do the stone work. I wouldn't want the winds to topple it, mortaring two sections together doesn't seem like a lot of area of mortar.

[gjbingham]

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Yup! Good plan RC. Test it out, deal with the results. Don't forget, you'll get a bunch more smoke with the relatively cooler curing fires. Once that oven gets blazing hot, it will draw better and produce less smoke.

Frances. I tried for an hour to paste your pic on RC's pic. That was the easy part. I couldn't upload it to the forum. I crashed Eplorer 4 times and gave up.

G.

[Frances]

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Cool!!

Well, you know what they say: try, try, try again

[RCLake]

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Frances. I tried for an hour to paste your pic on RC's pic. That was the easy part. I couldn't upload it to the forum. I crashed Eplorer 4 times and gave up.

G.

Looking forward to seeing that

[gjbingham]

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Too frustrating. Something in Corel is messing up the file so that it won't upload. It crashes Explorer and causes a 5 minute recovery every time I try to upload it. I didn't even have a good pic of Frances to use. What's up with that Francie? Best I could find was a side view.

[Frances]

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Camera shy, that's what. Don't usually like pics of me.

But here you go - and with a facefull of pizza no less.

It'll have to be reduced in size, but I'm sure a computer crack ( ) like you can manage that...

[asudavew]

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Here's a picture of a bluebonnet I took last easter.
We were camping at Hord's Creek near Coleman, Texas.

This area may get snow every other year or so... And it is usually just a light dusting.

But this storm produced 3 or 4 inches. (A blinding blizzard in West Texas! )
If it would not have been a holiday weekend. The schools and many businesses would of shut down for a few days.

And this year... huge grass fires... Over 500,000 acres burnt so far.

Anyways here is the picture.

[RCLake]

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And this year... huge grass fires... Over 500,000 acres burnt so far.

Anyways here is the picture.

We have that problem here as well and the winds haven't helped. Fires aren't as bad as during the drought period in 2006. Hope that doesn't happen again.