Well, I went to the Iron Pour this evening at the old Schmidt Brewery in St. Paul and it was a lot of fun. I entered a sand tile and its probably full of molten iron at the moment and cooling down.
Enough chatter-here are the photos:
It was an overcast day but by evening, the weather had cleared. Here is a photo of the sunset over the brewery:
This way to the iron pour!
Iron pours involve melting a lot of scrap iron until its liquid enough to pour into a mold. Here are two photos of the mold I created. This one is the design sketched out on the tile surface with a felt marker:
And this is what it looks like carved out:
Here is the general set up and a shot of the smelter. Its portable and its set up specifically for the pour:
And here is one of "Vulcans assistants." There are about 10 people who manage the smelter and help to set up:
Here is a photo of all the tiles and molds that will receive iron:
The iron is scrap iron-mostly broken up auto engines:
Heres more scrap to be used:
And buckets of coal that feed the smelter:
The smelter is being revved up in this photo and you can see one of the assistants in protective clothing:
These are molds that will be filled with molten iron and cooled. When the molds are removed, there will be a 3-D sculpture:
Here you can see the tiles being filled up. The B-52s song "Rock Lobster" is blasting away in the background. It really adds to the ambiance:
And here is a whole line of freshly poured tiles:
Tomorrow Ill go and pick up my tile. Ill break away the sand mold and if everything goes well, Ill have an iron tile in its place.
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