Pastured pork and beef on Vashon Island, WA.
Daniel Truax wrote:I have burned a shitton of cardboard in my RMH, it burns clean and hot, I was doing it mostly to get rid of it. The downside is that one day of burning cardboard produced as much ash as a week of burning hardwood. Glad my RMH dumps its ashes into a can in my basement!
Daniel Truax wrote:The downside is that one day of burning cardboard produced as much ash as a week of burning hardwood.
Pastured pork and beef on Vashon Island, WA.
Ivan Weiss wrote:First off, apologies if this has been discussed here. If it has, I guess I missed it. If not, I hope my experience is helpful.
I don't have a RMH. I wish I did, but I don't. My house just isn't set up for one. Maybe someday, in another building. Meanwhile, I heat with wood in a wood stove, and have been doing it for many years, the past few years exclusively. No electricity, except for an electric blanket on my bed. There's no gas line on my road, and I won't use oil. No tank anyway.
Jamie Corne wrote:I wanted to suggest sawdust to you - but you'd have to find a way to build a very slow motor (very slow) that just trickles the sawdust down into the firebox. It's extremely efficient - burns very clean - and hot.The sawdust goes into a hopper, and then via the motor - gets trickled down into a slow-spinning plate with holes on it, and as it moves...little bits of sawdust is felled into the firebox.
You've probably heard of this before - but I can attest to it's efficiency and effectiveness. Burns all night long - so when you wake up in the morning - it's nice and toasty, the same as when you went to bed (providing you don't run out of sawdust by morning!)
Pastured pork and beef on Vashon Island, WA.
Ivan Weiss wrote:
Jamie Corne wrote:I wanted to suggest sawdust to you - but you'd have to find a way to build a very slow motor (very slow) that just trickles the sawdust down into the firebox. It's extremely efficient - burns very clean - and hot.The sawdust goes into a hopper, and then via the motor - gets trickled down into a slow-spinning plate with holes on it, and as it moves...little bits of sawdust is felled into the firebox.
You've probably heard of this before - but I can attest to it's efficiency and effectiveness. Burns all night long - so when you wake up in the morning - it's nice and toasty, the same as when you went to bed (providing you don't run out of sawdust by morning!)
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Thanks Jamie. I had heard of this. Problem for me is that we have periodic power outages in my rural community, which seem to coincide with the worst and coldest weather. The plate would stop spinning, and there I'd be.
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