tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66797911417066389982024-03-14T03:51:39.790-07:00Redbug RivieraEdmondPHilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13892282109943266417noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6679791141706638998.post-44741982928258708742015-09-20T05:44:00.002-07:002015-09-20T05:44:43.279-07:00Welding the new oven basePutting a new base under the oven presented several challenges.<br />
1) The underside of the hearth slab was cast to the top of a brick wall and had no requirement for being flat.<br />
2) The slab on which the oven sits is designed t drain water and so is not parallel with the oven slab.<br />
3) There is an I-beam which acts as center support and was cast in place. This also needed to be tight up against the hearth slab.<br />
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Our solution was a steel stand with jack screws spaced around the top (See below) This stand would then be encased in treated plywood, covered with lime stucco, and decorated with fresco designs.<br />
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Step 1 The stand:<br />
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Welded up a stand using 2x2<br />
structural tubing. There are plates tapped for 3/8 bolts spaced the upper beam. This is constructed of 4 panels which bolt to together at the corners.<br />
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Here is the stand painted and in place. We used fiber board (usually used for concrete expansion joints) under the stand to even out irregularities in the slab surface.<br />
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Jack screws under the I-beam and along one edge shown below.<br />
If you do the math the 20 jack screws in this design only need to exert 150 lb load to support the 3000 lb oven. Hence the rather skinny looking 3/8 bolts.We went around several time tightening all the crews evenly until the oven was 1/8" off the jacks and called it good.<br />
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A piece of 3/8x 1 1/2 inch steel with a 1/2 inch drill point depression to capture the end of the bolt and a piece of the fiber board used earlier seemed to make a pretty good support pad.<br />
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Next wee needed to modify the chimney. The original design used a 3x12 inch chimney which worked really well but was a pain to seal where it penetrated the roof. So, We decided to used a more conventional insulated round chimney pipe for the upper portion.<br />
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Here is the existing chimney which is formed by 2 1x4 ft x 1/8 ich plates joined by 2 pieces of 3 in channel.<br />
The plan is to cut off 1 foot to salvage material to make the modifications and then make the actual changes to the next foot.<br />
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First we grind off the welds<br />
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Then use wedges to hold the plates back to give room to cur off the channel<br />
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After cutting off the top 1 foot of plate we trim the sides to create a taper to fit the new chimney size<br />
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Next we bend one side out to accommodate the new pipe size.<br />
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Then cut one to the 12x12 plates from the top section in half diagonally.<br />
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Grind, grind, fit, fit, clamp, clamp<br />
All ready for tack and weld<br />
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The second plate salvaged from the first operation is cut to fit the top and includes a circular hole for the new chimney.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oven 2.0</span></div>
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In the event you have a large tree fall on your wood burning oven you may find this blog helpful</div>
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Being steel lined, the oven itself is virtually indestructible. The brick base on which it sits, not so much. So how to build a new base under an existing 3000 lb oven? What follows is our solution. </div>
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Here you see the basic structure. We are rebuilding the carport at the same time. Hence no roof just yet.<br />
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Next post "Welding The New Base"EdmondPHilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13892282109943266417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6679791141706638998.post-82532557631921426732014-06-17T10:54:00.000-07:002014-06-17T10:54:37.094-07:00So the lifespan of an oven is 10 monthsSo last night at 10:00 PM I here this CRASH<br />
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Yeah that's my truck under there. Oh, and the reason you can't see the brick oven is 'cause IT"S UNDER THE @#$%%^^&* TREE<br />
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The oven you might recall looked like this<br />
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The bars at the top are actually split and the triangle piece at the bottom is removable so that one can work on the mechanism if needed on the basic philosophy that you never make something you can't take apart.<br />
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The more observant of you will notice the dowel patch below my hand (in the side of the box). Yes, I'm an idiot and put the mechanism in the wrong place the first time.<br />
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EdmondPHilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13892282109943266417noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6679791141706638998.post-68637315102969586652013-10-01T13:14:00.000-07:002013-11-12T17:38:12.478-08:00Even Bella has bad daysSo yesterday afternoon I heard Bella our Weimaraner barking. She often barks at hallucinations but after several minutes I decided this was for real, so I grabbed a .22 and went to join in. We live in the sticks so armed combat with various creatures wanting the grapes, flower beds etc. is not uncommon. She had cornered a water moccasin (rather large at that ~3 ft long). When she saw me she decided that it was time to bite the snake. GUESS what happened next. Yes you got it in one. The snake bit back (on her lip).<br />
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I shoot the snake and Bella bites it a couple of times just to get even. I feed her Benadryl and we wait for the vet to open in the morning.<br />
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Here we are a week later WARNING: Not for the faint of heart<br />
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Here we are at 30 days after snake bite<br />
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I served this with a little goat cheese over the top mushroom couscous and a pork tenderloin with Caribbean spices. It was good. </div>
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My family tells me that no outdoor kitchen is complete without a grape arbor so.....</div>
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The plan is for a raised gravel bed inside a retaining wall with planters for grapes in 3 corners and a set of steps leading out to the yard with flower beds on both sides</div>
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First we put in a drain to route the water off the carport into the pond</div>
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Next we excavated a level base for the retaining wall</div>
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I dry stacked one corner to check the elevation and since it was spot on I thought I'd leave it at that</div>
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Next I stacked the wall. I made it 3 courses before I decided I needed to play World of Tanks for a while. </div>
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<b>Our goal:</b></div>
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To make first rate pizza, bread and roasted mammal components</div>
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<b> </b> Build a 36" diameter wood burning oven</div>
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1) We live in a forest</div>
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3) We had a boat load of bricks from a chimney we demolished when we remodeled the house</div>
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So I made a brick box like this</div>
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6 inch I-beam I had left over from a job Temporary supports for concrete pour</div>
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This concrete slab that holds the oven up is going to get hot and that will make the slab expand. I don't want it to push on the walls of the brick box and possibly break the box so.....</div>
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<b style="font-size: x-large;">Update </b><span style="font-size: large;">( The foam spacers came out perfectly </span>naturally...hehe<span style="font-size: large;">)</span></div>
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First I got one of these. A 37 inch tank head. Not as expensive as you might think</div>
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<br />EdmondPHilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13892282109943266417noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6679791141706638998.post-73140464343260846452013-08-09T15:04:00.000-07:002013-11-11T17:15:07.393-08:00Making a wood burning oven "Insulating the Hearth"This step is pretty simple<br />
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Use a mixture of 5 parts perlite, 1 part portland cement, 1 part water. I used a 5 gallon bucket to measure and found that using 2 1/2 buckets perlite, 1/2 bucket each water and cement was about right. Much more and it is hard to mix the stuff on the bottom. So here we go:<br />
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This was surprisingly easy. I used a mixture of masonry sand, fire clay and water to bed the bricks. The mixture is equal parts sand and clay. I used a cement mixer to mix the dry ingredients, but a stick would have worked fine too. Next I mixed 3 parts sand/clay with 1 part water in a 5 gal bucket. I found using hands to mix the water in was the easiest way to do this. Just like kneading bread dough. This stuff doesn't set up like mortar so just mix it and put a lid on the bucket. Add water or clay at any time to adjust the consistency. Here's how it went:<br />
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Here is said central area with one side complete</div>
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Set it in place and make sure it sits proud of the rest of the brick field</div>
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And about 4 hours later, there ya go</div>
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Lifted it up and put a roller under the front of the oven near the center of the dome.</div>
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Here is the oven after the first day<br />
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(I'll let you know how this works in about a week when we begin firing the oven for the first time)</div>
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We finished the roof so we could work in the shade for the rest of the project. This is Texas and shade is a big deal. Since the chimney would need to extend through the roof I made a little roof jack to keep the rain out.<br />
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I say the brick work cracks slightly as the steel shell expands, and then stays that way pretty much forever. A second school of thought is that steam builds up between the steel and masonry and sends bricks flying. A third theory holds that the bricks get moved out every time the oven gets heated up and the bricks eventually fall off. Time will tell. I invite anyone interested to place your prediction via the comments section and we will see who gets bragging rights in the end. I will be updating this over the next few days to let you know what is going on.</div>
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The play wood is 3 feet high to leave room to pour in the perlite. I decided it was cheaper to just fill the entire interior than to install walls in the corners to cut off areas which did not really need to be insulated. The upshot was that we filled the space over the oven with a little over 2.5 cubic yards of perlite. Which gives us an insulation layer of 1-2 feet depending on where you look. We will install plywood the rest of the way up and the final cover on the three sides will be sheet metal.</div>
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For those that like data we fired up the oven to ~400F and cooked a beer can chicken (more on that in a minute) after dinner I cleaned out the oven and put the inner door on. The temp was 350F at that time. Went to bed and got around to checking the oven temp again 12 hours later and it was 326F. So it seems to be losing about 2 degrees per hour in this temperature range. I don't know how that stacks up with other oven builds but I seems pretty good to me.</div>
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As for the chicken, I'll document the next one but here is the bare bones if you will. Brined the chicken in salt water for 5 hours. Grated the zest off of a lime, added olive oil, pepper, and juice of half the lime. Lifted the skin over the breast and thighs and rubbed this mixture under the skin. Smeared the rest over the outside and stuck the remaining 1/2 lime in the neck. opened a can of beer and inserted it into the chest cavity. Stood the chicken up in a cast iron skillet. The beer can and the ends of the legs make a perfect little tripod. slid him in put the inner door on and let it cook for 1 hour 15 minutes. breast temp was 160F. I left the fire in hoping to get some smoke on the chicken but it didn't seem to do much. The meat on the other hand was outstanding. I will refine this and get back to everyone.</div>
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Mix the mortar in small batches using a drywall mud tray</div>
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This brings the building phase of our oven project to a close. We will continue to update everyone with data on how the oven behaves over time but the main focus will now turn to actually using this thing and the recipes that we develop. So far we have tried pizza (duh), bread, beer can chicken, pulled pork and chocolate chip-hazelnut cookies. One of the things I was going to do is take a close look at oven management i.e.. how long to heat up vs how long to cool off to a given temp with the door on and off. One thing I have learned is that it takes a while for the floor temp to drop down to a usable temperature after the fire is removed leading to bread that is burned on the bottom before a good crust develops on the top. So more data is on the way as I get more time to look into the practical aspects of using one of these things. </div>
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