My clubs berm is basically clay, rocks and broken clay pigeons with a little dirt mixed in.
In the past I have hand picked the boolits from the berm.
Last year I built a screened sifter to try and make things quicker.
The first batch of scrap I brought home I still hand picked the boolits from.
The second batch I brought home several hundred pounds of range scrap (dirt/clay, clay pigeons with some boolits mixed in).
I washed the scrap, getting rid of most of the dirt.
I wasn't even going to try smelting it until I get a propane burner, I just didn't feel comfortable using my coleman stove any more after seeing how much the grate softens and bends under that much heat and weight, even with some reinforcement.
And I knew I needed more heat.
But spring is here, I am tired of tripping over heavy buckets of scrap and while cleaning up I moved some T-posts. Hmm, those look like they could work as a heavy duty grate.
A little while later I had 3 shortened T-post pieces sitting on my coleman stove, looking real heavy duty.
Now I can't resist trying it out, so I fill up the gas tank and the cast iron pot. Just dumped the washed range scrap mix in, almost to the top.
Too much range scrap, didn't help that it was a little windy. All I managed to do was make a smoky stuck together mess.
It took 3 sessions the next day to render that mess down into lead ingots.
Need more heat.