The front section (oven mouth) is quite short as I didn't want to lose much of my driveway behind and I wanted to be able to access the front of the oven from inside of my pergola.....which would enable me to use it even on a rainy day. Its basically 2 arches where the innermost one is halved in depth about half way up. This gves me a nice slot to lead up into the flue. Yes I'm not the neatest brickie.....I call it "rustic"
After about 10 cooking fires in this thing I have refined my firing techniques. Intially it was taking me 3 hours to heat soak the dome (soot burning of whole of dome) but now I have it down to 2hours reliably. You guys that mention putting your wood on the rack are spot on. Next pic you can see the mesh grates I use under the wood.
and 3rd photo is what they look like. They come out glowing red hot.....