First firing

[OscarA]

Hi Dave, I'm lucky that my neighbors are great but I still worry and don't want to push it so I do my best to keep the smoke down. In a wet oven with less than perfectly dry wood it's not easy I have been doing what you say about keeping the wood next to the entrance to heat it up. I have also been using the residual heat in the drying process to help dry wood for the next firing. All up I'm happy with the progress. I can see how little smoke the oven will produce when fully dry and perfectly dry wood is fed into it which is a relief.
The less effect the oven has on the neighbors the more use it will get.

Thanks.. Oscar