Firing a small brick mound

9 months ago
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This is a reasonably sized mound, doable with very few people.
There's not many examples of this out there so this is what I have

If you intend to to fire many bricks, you should consider building a permanent kiln
Which would basically be
- a cube with the fire-pit openings
- optionally: that lead to recessed ditches so that the fire is below ground, coverred by steel grates so that you don't have to precariously balance bricks
- fill it up with dried bricks while leaving spaces between them
- add mud on top to seal it, maybe even a layer of sand on top of that
- leave some exhaust holes and some closable peep holes maybe
- unloading is done from the top so a crane system is required unless you don't mind having a temporary wall you can destroy afterwards and rebuild at every firing

Keep the ugly bricks so you can pulverise them in small chunks and then use these for fire bricks among other things.

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