		Anagama Firing Shift Schedules May Firing 2010

updated April 23, 2010

Shift Schedules for the May 2010 firing

Please sign up for a minimum of FOUR shifts during the firing. If you can do more, we can use it! I will e-mail you to confirm your time slot.

You should arrive to the site 1/2 hour before your shift begins to watch the rhythm of the kiln. This is very important in order to maintain the cycle of stoking. Please be on time!!

Here is the list of participants. If you aren't on the list, and you think you should be, call me!

Shares in the Firing

Chris Gustin cell - 508-725-2710	Dan Molyneux*	Steve Wickland*
Don Reitz	Jeff Shapiro	John Jessiman
Martha Sears* 917-838-0787	Charlie Barmonde	Seth Rainville* 602-697-7741
Lucien Koonce* 704-467-2781	Joe McCaffery* 508-349-6308.	Steve Murphy* 617-372-6429
Tim Mitchell*	Jim Lawton 508-264-7509	Chris Singewald*
Deb Schrader*	Maureen Mills*	Frances Johnson*
Wayne Fuerst*	Umass Anagama Club	Steve Branfman

Helping out with Shifts

(* indicates that you've signed up for shifts below)

Wood Preparation Sign Ups

Please sign up for one work day to help with preparing the wood for the firing. For the UMass Anagama Club, you will need to have more than one student sign up for the session.

Please remember that these work sessions are mandatory for participating in firing of the kiln. Which means, if you don't show up, you're not in the firing.

Shift Sign Up

Sign up by e-mailing me the DAY AND TIMES of the shifts that you'd like. When I receive your shift request, I will post everyone's name on the schedule below. I check e-mail daily, so hopefully we'll be close to real time feedback. FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED!!

Because experienced wood-firers need to be on each shift, I may not be able to give everyone their first choice of time slots. I'll do everything I can to accommodate schedules.

Date	Task	12 AM-8 AM	8 AM-4 PM	4 PM-12 AM
Saturday April 24	stack wood		Begin at 9 AM Wayne Fuerst Lucien Koonce Steve Murphy Maureen Mills Martha Sears Chris Singewald Joe McCaffery Allison Glick Chris Gustin Dan Molyneux Steve Wicklund
Saturday May 8	cut side stoke prep kiln		Begin at 9 AM Frances Johnson Tim Mitchell Wayne Fuerst Lucien Koonce Steve Murphy Maureen Mills Joe McCaffery Chris Gustin Dan Molyneux Steve Wicklund

Friday May 14	LoadingBegins	X	All work must be on site, on pallets and ready to load by 9am Begin loading at 9am
Saturday May 15	Loading Anagama Salt chambers	X	Begin loading at 9am All needed
Sunday May 16	Finish Salt chambers Brick salt doors	X	Begin loading at 9am All needed
Monday May 17	Finish anagama	X	anagama grate and doors All needed	preheat overnight

DAY 1 Tuesday May 18	BEGIN SHIFTS 63	preheat overnight	FULL Maureen Mills	FULL Maureen Mills Martha Sears
DAY 2 Wednesday May 19	Begin Sidestoke on evening shift	FULL Landon Anderson Steve Wicklund	FULL Frances Johnson Tim Mitchell Joe McCaffery	FULL Martha Sears Chris Singewald Wayne Fuerst Jen Koch
DAY 3 Thursday May 20	Sidestoke	FULL Dan Molyneux Tim Mitchell Steve Wicklund Landon Anderson Deb Schrader	FULL Frances Johnson Joe McCaffery Seth Rainville Charlie Barmonde Lucien Koonce	FULL Martha Sears Chris Singewald Wayne Fuerst Jim Lawton Brenda O'Rourke
DAY 4 Friday May 21	fire off anagama PM transition to 2nd chamber 10 pm	FULL Dan Molyneux Steve Wicklund Steve Murphy Angelina Musto Lucien Koonce	FULL Charlie Barmonde Martha Sears Joe McCaffery Deb Schrader Anne Kemper Linda Bush	FULL Steve Murphy Maureen Mills Frances Johnson Wayne Fuerst Seth Rainville
DAY 5 Satuday May 22	2nd chamber	FULL Dan Molyneux Steve Wicklund Shauna Cahill Sarah Furtado Angelina Musto	FULL Steve Murphy Maureen Mills Frances Johnson Joe McCaffery Zack Shaw	FULL Chris Singewald Tim Mitchell Lucien Koonce Deb Schrader
DAY 6 Sunday May 23 End of Firing	2nd chamber fire off 3rd chamber	FULL Dan Molyneux Steve Wicklund Seth Rainville Shauna Cahill	FULL Steve Murphy Tim Mitchell Deb Schrader Allison Glick	FULL Steve Murphy Seth Rainville Wayne Fuerst Chris Singewald

Saturday, June 12th Unloading	Unloading of kiln begins at 9am		Open for Public at 8am kiln opens at 9am Everyone Welcome
TBA	9 am		Clean-up of site Grind kiln shelves