RMH inside Sea Container?

Curious if anyone has tried building a RMH heater inside of a sea (shipping) container? I am thinking that is might be a good place for one inside a greenhouse. The all steel container still allowing radiant heat, but the container giving the RMH protection during warmer months when the plastic is removed from a hoop style greenhouse. Any pros or cons you can think of most appreciated.

Hi Stevie;
Welcome to Permies!
So you want to put a hoop house over a conex.  
Then you want to build a RMH inside the conex to help heat the greenhouse at night?
In the summer the conex would protect the RMH from the weather?

Well I guess that would work as long as it is not too cold outside.

Here are my reservations about this.
Your conex will be sweltering hot before heat starts radiating into your hoop house.
After your fire goes out in the RMH, the attached mass will remain warm but the container (being metal) will quickly shed its extra heat.  At that point it will start absorbing the colder air from outside.

I suggest you build a RMH with a clay brick surround and vast amounts of solid rock bedded in cob inside.
This will help  your hoop house stay nice and warm.
During the summer , when you remove the plastic from your hoop house simply place it over your RMH until fall.

thomas rubino wrote:During the summer , when you remove the plastic from your hoop house simply place it over your RMH until fall.

If it was me, I'd put that plastic somewhere where it wouldn't be exposed to UV all summer so it would last longer and find a different material - like maybe old steel roofing - to protect the RMH until fall. I'm finding plastic is so short-lived, I try to save it for the most critical uses.