Hydrow Hatfield

Instead of the normal square tunnel or even a  round one, it would have the walls corkscrew allowing the air to twist is how I imagine it.

as far as building it, It would probably have to be made out of some home made forms in sections to deal with thermal expansion.

Just an idea but has anyone tried to make a "Cyclone" type Burn chamber? not sure if it would be good or bad but it seams to me the gasses could mix with air a little more in the chamber. what do you all think?

I have not completely decided how long it will be, I'm shooting for what i have read on here to be the max I should go for 30-40' run.

for the clean outs, where should I have clean outs? the feed tube and combustion chamber will have spots for removal for cleaning but do i need more?

I'd prefer the 6" if it works.

So I have an idea I wanted to see if it would work.

I have a drawing (not great but it may help) the piped are not connected because i cant draw them correctly.

Basically the Feed tube and the combustion chamber will be in my garage (heating my work bench area), There is already a hole that leads from he garage to the day-basement (where it is currently used to fill my oil furnace tank) in the picture you can see some 2x12 support beams that hold up the hardwood floors in my living room with a pocket measuring 9'x13'x3' of unused space with 2 crawl space vents in there and 1 outside faucet for watering my plants. I'm wanting to leave a little space on the side where the pipe is (furthest from the garage) so i can fix the pipe if something happens (like last year) and I'm not sure if i should close the vents or not, i do plan on putting in a vapor  barrier between the ground and the cob so it does not soak up the water from the ground and cause steam or other issues. and finally there is an existing chimney that is used on both floors that happens to have an unused  6" duct hole in it. now I'm not stuck to 6" of pipe i could/would use 8" if it would work better.

So if this would work, my other questions would be how deep I should have the pipe in the cob, should I keep the cob from touching the wood frame work so it does not rot it? should i just use cob to fill the area or would having too much cob make it impossible to heat?

Picture & Google Sketch-up files(remove the .txt extention to use) attached

Thanks

Just getting into RMH'ers myself and like the idea for camping and such. Just an idea, why not use water as your mass? I'm not sure how but it just seams as a nice way as you can drain the water when you want to move it and then fill it when you get it moved. it may even be used as warm shower water or something, forgive me if I'm way off on this just a thought.

So I'm trying to get my wife to let me build a version of this where our double sided open fireplace is, one thing she really like about the fireplace is being able to see the flame from her couch. is it possible to put some glass somewhere that the flame could be viewed without damaging the effectiveness too much?

FYI I will be building mine out of bricks as there's no way for me to talk her into cob lol

Thanks all