At the end of the summer I was able to gather enough fireclay for a 30 cu. ft. kiln. The deposit contains flint clay from the size of boulders down to gravel and fines. There are two deposits near the main quarry face the contain mainly gravel size particles so, as I have no crushing equipment, we took a 1/4" mesh screen with us and screened the material as we gathered it. In five hours we loaded the pick up with around 5400 lbs. of clay. I figure we probably moved almost ten tons of material total.
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This is awesome. How did you dry screen the material? Have you used the clay in a clay body yet? I'm interested to see what temperature it matures at (is non porous).
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