"Fire the Pit" Charcoal making in Pennsylvania Part 2 of 4

Making charcoal in Pennsylvania. Charcoal was the fuel in many iron furnaces until the conversion to coal. By Van Wagner 2008.

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[morav]

What if you sprayed the outside with water? Would that slow down the burning?

[vanwags]

@morav Traditionally they used dry soil to put out fires. coal had to be bone dry of the furnaces couldn't use it. I imagine you could experiment with using water and all will be fine but if you want to go 100% traditional, only soil.

[citys4]

you just got a new subscriber

[drannard123]

very nice idea thank you but i need to watch the part1 first,,,,thank you

[bigjunior2]

can you charcoal big round logs about a feet and a half thick/wide?

[irkone]

I think it was a great move posting this video where there were some problems, and being able to walk the viewer through the process. Very instructive, thanks!

[jcornelius215]

Thanks so much for this information!! I,m not sure if i will try this but i have a gasification unit that does the same thing in less quanitities.

[007001113]

lol chicken runs buy heh heh

[viper8red]

I love watching your kids shovel. Haha.. you'd be there all day with those two. This must make an impressive amount of charcoal. Wish I had a ton of land to do this kinda thing. This is NOT your average suburbs project.