Charcoal Burner

Charcoal burners are specialists at using a charcoal pile or kiln. The use of charcoal is used in many different professions, such as iron smelting, working with precious metals, and glassmaking for example. They use the charcoal piles or kilns to burn up chipped wood and/or brushwood, covered in an airtight mound of moss, grass and earth. Specific vents are built in using the same materials, and this causes the wood to burn evenly at around 300 degrees to 350 degrees Celsius. The business of this is a lonely occupation as the burner has to stay near this pile to keep it burning evenly over a specified time so as not to over or under do the process. Smaller piles to 6 to 8 days, and larger piles it could take weeks. When the smoke turned pale blue it was then generally done.

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Raw Materials Gathering