Benzine

As others have suggested, definitely make sure your clay is indeed Cone *6* not *06*.
It would be odd to have a mid fire Cone 6 clay body and then low fire glazes.
If those low fire glazes are fired up to Cone 6 they are going to run everywhere.
If the clay is indeed Cone 6, then perhaps the previous teacher  purposely underfired it, and used the low fire glazes.  I would almost guarantee this was the case based on the low fire glazes.
 
What kind of kiln controller do you have?  Is it a digital controller or a kiln sitter?  I ask, because if it is a kiln sitter you'd likely be able to see what cones the previous teacher was firing to.

Received a call today from shipper.  Kiln will be delivered tomorrow morning. Asked for it early as I have appointments (bowling) in the afternoon.
Have to have it dropped at the driveway. Luckily tomorrow is a no rain day.

Hi and  welcome to the forum! 
Studio Operations and Making Work would be a better place to ask for advice than here in the Status Updates. Link to it here, just follow the prompts and if you have any problems just pm any of the moderators for help. 

Denice,
Little to no damage to our home or garage to speak of.  We lost half of our front tree, which is our only tree, and it kind of fell on our front porch.  However, it just managed to dent part of the gutter. 
We also lost a single shingle.
This definitely gave us confidence in the strength and durability of our Century old home!

Denice,
Little to no damage to our home or garage to speak of.  We lost half of our front tree, which is our only tree, and it kind of fell on our front porch.  However, it just managed to dent part of the gutter. 
We also lost a single shingle.
This definitely gave us confidence in the strength and durability of our Century old home!

Did you have any damage to your cars or home?   We went through something like that many years ago,  we woke up to a loud roaring sound.   Our house was on a corner,  when we looked out of the window  we saw tree limbs spinning around in the middle of the corner.  We decided to go to our tornado shelter but couldn't get our doors open the air pressure was to strong.  There was really no safe place to hide so we went back to bed.  When we got up in the morning our house was covered with limbs.   My husband managed to get enough limbs out of the way so we could go to work.   When we got home that evening all of the tree limbs were gone,  the yard was spotless.   We still had most of a huge tree on our roof but someone came by later and manage to remove it,  he wanted the wood.   The weather man said there was no tornado just really strong straight line winds.    There was damage for many miles and many people who had damage thought it was a tornado.  We were also without power for a couple of weeks.  I am glad you are alright,  when we went back to bed we thought we might die that night.   Denice

I also struggle to get the right look and fit to the hand when I make handles.   Once they are glazed and fired I realize that they are just what I was trying to do.  Denice

Welcome to the Forums.  
There is a wealth of information here.
One suggestion, it's best to do a search, before you start any new topics, as there are many questions that have come up numerous times, over the years.  So there will be threads, with those questions that have a lot of replies.

So it would seem that you have the answers to both QOTWs on the board today...

Thats 48 boxes per pallet always from Laguna when ordered in bulk(over a ton )-all 10 tons is special order soft.12 boxes per layer 4 layers high per pallet.One pallet will be a mix of clays.
I have them trucked to a nearby lumber yard as its about 12 hour drive to LA one way-11 pallets are mine on the 15 pallets coming on my order.$ pallets for two other potters.
I will have them power loaded (forklift) at lumber yard 2 per trip in my pickup.I have to then handunload into my clay shed(I have a hired helper for part of this job,The 10 tons of clay fits into my shed and the 1 ton of glaze fits in two loctions where I store glazee materials-all of it come off the pallets and get hand move once. The clay is backed up to shed and taken off truck with about 6 feet of max movement-stacked 9 boxes high.
about 500#s gets mixed into my peter pugger for an 84 year old potter friend who I mix and deliver her clay to her as a friend. She can only handle 25# bags

Congratulations!

Yes! I single-fire a good bit of work. Sometimes I bisque and sometimes I single fire it just depends. It would have been fine if I had turned on my preheat. Haha.

Single firing, I take it? 
I have neither the skill nor disposition to attempt that...  I have had some of my students, make that decision for me though.  Thus far, it has been on wares, that I didn't stack...

I NEVER count  pots-If I did I would have gone crazy years ago. What I can say is I count tons of clay used per year-Its been about 10 the past few years  . This year  its about 7.5 for 2018 . Have not counted exactly  yet but thats my guess.I'm slowing down fast now but that said my guess is a few thousand spoon rests and the same with sponge holders.The rest I do not want to know.

When you are dealing with temperatures around 2000 F, for a ceramic firing, you are ready for anything.
A couple hundred degrees, in the kitchen, autopilot is engaged...

It ends my drying time outside as the sun has lost its power to dry my pots outside . That means I have the heater going in studio and its hot in there and you learn to work in the heat.T -shirt weather always until x-mas production is done.Shop was over 80 yesterday to dry pots before todays bisque load.
 

Careful, Raku is addictive...
It's the gateway to other alternative firing methods.

Careful, Raku is addictive...
It's the gateway to other alternative firing methods.

Here's to a quick recovery Mark!
I know, that scaling back on work, might not be the norm for you, but healing is something that you want to get right.
Hurt by an apple tree.  Now I have images of those tree from the Wizard of Oz, throwing apples at Dorthy and crew.

Update to the update.  Yesterday relentless rain resulted in water in the basement  and under the kiln.....not too much though.  We caught it just in time.  Best news is we found the source of the leak.  Patched a little after we sucked up the water...  Looks dry this morning.    I am relieved!!!!

My  extension to old wooden kiln shed weill have all metal clear story with windows and exhaust fans 2 barn doors and 14 ft ceiling slanting down to10 or 12'. I already have 4 kilns to go inside. My tiny demo kiln I built for taping my online courses. I have a sawed -ed oil drum with the tope third removed, a 2' high x 2'wide chamber to sit on brick plus my large pulley or topcoat kiln. Very excite to be able to fire in winter. BUT I do regret not being able to fire much this summer.
 

maybe we should have a raku fest at my place before my husband retires and comes home permanently!
 

I like to just look at it....but it's gotta get dirty sometime.  Test firing tomorrow.
Sewer stack?  Now that would be not good.

Awesome Marcia!
You are accumulating, quite the collection of kilns!
Indoor Raku firing.  That sounds like a great idea, especially with your Winters.
It seems, that every time I do one, either with students, or at home, it's either too hot or too cold.  Though mid-Fall tends to be just right, where I live.
I have fired my Raku kiln, in my garage, when it was cooler out, and I was having issues, with a form continually cracking.  It's not something I've ever done again, and my garage has high ceilings, so it was safe.

i had 2 rolls from Texas and didn't bring my old pulley kiln from Texas. A few years before  I left Texas I built 2 new oil drum kilns, one for me and one for a friend. That is still in good shape. And my little demo 19 lb kiln that I built for my online course to demo firings is still fine. I used that in the park in July to demo Obvara. 
I needed to build a new pulley (top hat) kiln to fire larger saggers and horse slabs. After all the snow last Fall, Winter and Spring, I decided to build an indoor raku facility. While building the top hat, I figured there was enough left over fencing for a frame for a cylinder kiln a little larger than an oil drum diameter plus just enough fiber. I ended up using all but 2 feet of the 2 12.5 ft. rolls and about 3 ft of fencing now around a tomato plant protecting it from deer and magpies. I now have 4 raku kilns and 3 electrics that will be housed in my new kiln shed extension. The 3 electrics are in the wooden part, the extension will be all steel with 2 barn doors, clear story windows and exhaust fans.
I may start offering workshops!!! The top hat is upside down in this photo and the cylinder is sitting on cinder blocks. I will permanently locate them in the shed on fire brick bases.My oil drum kiln I bought from Texas is under the bucket in one photo and under plastic behind the new cylinder kiln below.. I fired it yesterday and will fire more today.