Wood Fired Beehive in Utah

[Lancer]

Re: Wood Fired Beehive in Utah

I drink Colt 45. Here in the Philippines its still made, a strong beer that tastes really good.

[UtahBeehiver]

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What about Colt 45, that is my era. SC I will run a bead of silicon along that edge.

[Gulf]

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You can do what you want of course, but if it was me, I'd run a bead of silicon over that top seam to keep the water and snow melt out.
25 lbs of scrap copper?! I'm surprised you have cash left for beer! Wait, maybe it's Schlitz or something....

Schlitz "quinine" (what we called it then) was a dmn good beer in the early 60's. It fell off in the late 60's and early 70's. It started taisting a little skunky. Sort of like Coronas do today. We did not know then about adding lime to counter the skunk taiste, so a lot of us switched to Budweiser "skullhead" (is what we called it in those days) .

[stonecutter]

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You can do what you want of course, but if it was me, I'd run a bead of silicon over that top seam to keep the water and snow melt out.
25 lbs of scrap copper?! I'm surprised you have cash left for beer! Wait, maybe it's Schlitz or something....

[stonecutter]

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Chimney looks cool Russ, great job on all the bends too! One question though...any reason why you didn't flash the top of the arch cladding?

[Gulf]

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Russell,
I can't say more than my usual, WOW!
But, I will try...................How about exquisite, immaculate, acceptional, artistic, one of a kind, etc, etc, and so forth .

[mongota]

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That's purdy...I've worked a bit of copper over the years, I understand the amount of work that went into that. Nice.

One of my original plans was to do a copper dome, but not an overlapping shingle-style like you've done. More like a smooth copper dome. I was going to make a couple of concave and convex surfaces with the same shape as the copper sphere, form several sections, hem the edges, then flat-solder them together. In some ways it'd look "shingle style" like yours, but with soldered seams, but mine would have less texture.

But I decided to go with a stone igloo instead.

Keep the copper scrap. Now it's time for you to fabricate a copper still. lol

[Pompeii Nate]

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Russell,

I got the seeds. Thank you! I am excited to get them planted come next year.

Nate

[ATK406]

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Congratulations!
Absolutely stunning!
Bold, creative art.

It has been a joy
To watch your design unfold
Every step unique

Meticulous work
Conceived by an engineer
Completed with skill

Time to light some fires
Reflect on the work well done
Bask in the glory

Thank you for sharing
The seeds of your knowledge
and your tomatoes!

[Lancer]

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Lancer,

Don't you have something call Red Horse

Ya, its a strong beer made by San Miguel, pretty good too. You like?

[UtahBeehiver]

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Hi Dennis,

The oven part is done, no more. But the CMU base still has a stone veneer going over it. Spring of 2015 LOL.

[deejayoh]

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That's crazy good looking Russell. Is she D.O.N.E., or are you still planning a little something on the exposed firebrick?

I was trying to think what sort of tile or stone might complement the copper. You thinking about anything there?

[Lancer]

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I want one.

[UtahBeehiver]

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As requested by Collin, here is a picture of the whole oven dome and chimney. Heading to the scrap metal dealer this weekend and sell off the oops and scrap. I think I have about 15-20 lbs of scrap. Enough to buy some good micro brew..........

[Lancer]

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Wonderful Utah, extraordinary. It seems we are in the company of a gifted artist. :unworthy: