tony uljee

4 pots of water on the ceramic glass boiling away ---steaming xmass puddings--yes the seasons prep has started up  ---then 2 loaves of soda bread  so as not to waste oven heat---and my welding rods warming up ---blue box on the left--
so by now it should be boringly obvious these stoves  can be used everyday ---but it can mean changing some old habits built up from years of running an old wood burn steel stove ---i will now explain  my odd back wall set up ---for someone who asked me ---and will be reading all of this later on ---i had started out planning to use my old steel wood burner ----and it would have lined up directly under neath the flue exit hole in the wall---the black sheeting wall was to be a heat shield  --was put up ---2 inchs off the floor ---and spaced 2 inches away  with copper tube spacers from the back wall---which is made up hempcrete---but by changing the stove to be a Matt Walker type----dimensions changed----and new flue path made to suit ----i could nt cut out a new exit hole as either side are large timber frameworks support poles to close spaced---and i had also already built in a wall heat protection  thimble for the flue pipe. the brick wall built around the new stove was a bit of overkill as a further heat shield---(its also spaced up off the floor pad by 3 inches---for airflow ) ---partly done as i did nt like the black sheeting ---but had to live with it now --and i planned the two concrete worktops to be incorporated into the side walls .

i watched several you tube how to make pasties , by the time i had decided which to follow and got motivated ----my wife had made them up already ---i just opened and closed the oven door  .

at 30c outside and Austin is working on the stove ---he is a better man than me ---i would be outside ---sitting on my old  garden chair ---cooking peri peri chicken on a bed of coals  ---sipping cool white wine---some olives a bit of oil dipped bread----making outrageous promises and assurances that i will get on to it soon-- very soon --any day now---and hopefully the warm weather , cool wine and tasty meal --would work its magic charm until another day---instead i must now chop kindling and bring in the evenings timber ---- soon that nice granite will be in place --well done

going over my statement that the stove does nt make hot water---well it does make very warm water ---but not very hot water ---which is what i am hoping to achieve ---its about 45 c ---and enough to wash hands through out the day ---- 2 sinks of washing dishes at night-----but not enough for a shower i dont think ---also its not the mass of the stove that makes hot water its the hot flue gas flowing over the water jacket----i start the first fire about 2 or 3 pm these days as our winter comes in , we are anything from 5 to 11 c outside lately , and very windy very very damp---and up to 3 fires done by 12pm ---we are a late house-----every evening meal gets cooked ---soup stock made ---rice cooking ---drying off the washed up dishware ---cheese/onion pasties baked---keeps the mug of coffee warm ----its multi purposed---which is why i have to wait till next summer until further work on the hot water heating coil----done some further reading up and getting closer to working out the sizing of this to the stoves output.

i admire the method because it can be a one man build with basic tools and no big workshop needed , would nt have to wait for  people to arrive ,no big machines required and build at your own pace ---yes more lumber ---but costs off set by no other payments for the above mentioned---and a very sturdy build ---yes odd size for insulation---well its not  a massive problem on a cabin build ---to use a large sharp cutting tool and cut it down to suit----great idea with the jigs and modular component ---self build yes ---build for someone else --maybe not

just some random ramblings here---with all the interest re-sparked and the haze of smoke cleared away ,stove rocket fever flared up----and i got to enjoy watching the vids of Matt Walker Stove and Paul  inviting him to  joust over the stove types,  and although i am a masonry cook stove follower-- and now more recently a batchbox convert--the cleaner lines of design and function---i still realize the rational thinking and layout  of the rocket mass heater ---then the sheer artistry of some in the final construction is to be admired --a working piece of art ---but this led me down a re-reading of some stuff and works of the Dr Larry  Winiarski -----and Paul Wheatons plan of global domination--which i support totally -----to get more rocket mass heaters built world wide---well Dr Winiarski did achieve a start towards this , but i  think  it was hijacked , ----he carried out some work in malawi to improve the tobacco  drying industry ---attached pdf ---great success ---improved the health and  safety ,yields ,quality of end product---and lessened the damage to the forests. But this attracted more ---and more ---and the side effects have not been good----i wont go into this on here--no need to --just wi ki the tabacco industry of malawi

i am sure that if you funded the purchase and delivery of the schott glass tube required for that ai drawing , there are 460mm diameter tubes available made to order ---no prices given,with larger  diameters as special order s after consultation----that Paul could assemble a team to build your dream and test it .

one finger typing expert here, and with no link savy, it was not posted as a permies question ,but spotted it here ------- "Low -Cost ,High temperature waste disposal incinerator-a prototype by semcol" was a linkdin posting

yes i only by chance spotted it , was looking up some batchbox info and onto you tube for showing a friend on a possible build start , and there he was, talking stove and fire.

yesterday Matt Walker Stoves put up an update on broaudio , good to see and hear him again