jordan barton

Gerry Parent wrote:Hey Jordan,
Nice rebuild with all the same materials....even the mud! (reminds me too of the good ole days where local clay or even purchased was hard to find for a Canuck).
Happy to see that your still enjoying your J tube where the urge to switch (maybe later for lack of time right now?) to a different style didn't sway you.
 
Question: In one of your teardown photos, it appeared that the plunge tube in the bell was not insulated. Did you find having the exhaust absorbing the heat necessary for better draft or just didn't have enough room in your tiny home to keep it entirely out of the bell?

Well the previous one was a riserless core, and yes it could have used a bypass. ( Chimney is only 12' tall) I figured the warm air from starting the stove was necessary. In the end I am not sure if it helped. But yes its a small house. The stove is in the middle and basically I need to walk past the stove to get from one side to the other. A pipe hanging out 8 inches or so would make the passage close to 1 foot or less. I would like to do something similar to what thomas just did in his new build.

Ya I can get fireclay here. I might even get to make the more typical 1:3 ratio for the mortar mix. As I might run out of the old mortar. But really its nice to just use local soil with good properties to make the mortar. It does take time to sift it and what not. I do enjoy it however. I also live on a small island, so getting sand and really anything heavy costs $$$. One day I dream of getting a pallet of bricks like thomas. one day..

Yes lack of time.  Id need to find someone who could build the door locally. In order to make a batchbox rocket. But I have a j tube for the rocket oven and find it enjoyable enough. I like that it doesn't really require any special parts to make it work.

SO this stove is no longer. I had to move my tiny house to a new location. And basically the road out of the place was quite steep. plus Skidding a tiny house was bound to topple this stove. It was very enjoyable to take the stove apart and reminded me of how much I enjoy building/working with brick/masonry stoves. Kinda had forgotten that.

Here are some photos of me taking it apart. One thing I found interesting was the cardboard I left in the stove was still there. Only in one place had it burned out. FUn times!

You can check out the new build here!

Hey folks

Due to moving my tiny house this year. I had to take my Old masonry stove down to make transportation smoother. I will admit I enjoyed taking the stove apart and it reminded me of how much  I enjoyed building the stove. Being that it's October and we were seeing 3-4*C last week. I am quickly trying to finish off my new build
Its quite simple.

6" J tube going into a single skin bell/stratification chamber. I had a plan for a bench portion as well, but time constraints led to that being nixed this year.
I am just trying to get iPhone photos to show up on my Ubuntu laptop..... much more difficult than when I was using Apple IOS


So yes the bell is going to be close to 54" tall. Still figuring the bell chamber cap. Need to still put ceramic wool around the feed tube/burn chamber. I used hard firebrick for the feed tube. and burn tunnel, because I figured the weight of the bell on top needed to be well supported over the burn chamber. Otherwise the rest is Insulated fire bricks.

Its been real nice to just use the old mortar from the previous build. Just break it up and add water. Ill admit... I added some more sand to it which made it even nicer.

Ive got 3 more layers of red clay bricks to go( than I run out) Than I am going to switch to hard firebrick for 3 courses( laided as Shiners)

Think for simplicity's sake I'll do the hardware cloth and the 1" ceramic wool for the top cap. The span is only 12". I can always change it later on when I can gather the materials. Just need something functional now!


Just for reference it took a piece of 22 1/4 inch ceramic wool piece to make a 6 inch 5 minute riser. A figure I had to figure out. Was pretty nice making the 5 min riser

Great build tom and gerry. Its great to see what you are doing and how you are doing it! thanks for the documentation! Now drop Gerry off at my place please. I could use the help :D

Hey folks

I am needed to build a new rocket mass heater. I am moving my tiny house and really think its best to disassemble the previous stove I built a few years ago.
Due to time and energy levels... I am wanting to build something simple without requiring custom parts. Along with using stuff I already have the supplies for. The previous stove was a custom made one based off of Matt Walkers's riserless core. Link to my previous stove https://permies.com/t/tiny-house-masonry-heater

What I have in mind this time, is just a simple 6" J tube, where the feed is outside of the brick bell, while the riser is inside the brick bell. Right now I picture it being a rectangle in size, with one corner cut off for the j tube feed. About 48"(W) x 32"(L)

Anyways my question is about the area above the riser. I am thinking about a 16" feed. So the riser needs to be 48". So I think I need part of the bell to be atleast what...... 12" above the riser? Or close to 5 feet tall? I was trying to find this answer and quite frankly don't have the time to read every thread on here for it.

I am thinking of a flat top, and single skin.

Something like this

started taking the train last year. I took it to Manitoba to visit my family. VIA rail. They have sales on every once and a while where you can get up to 40% off the ticket fare. I managed to get there and back for 700 dollars(350$ each way) Comes with a bed, shower, 3 meals a day, and all the spare time for whatever meets your fancy. For me its a 3 days trip basically. I loved it. Booked my train trip 8 months in advance. So I thinks its fantastic.

Watching the landscape in the dome car, or really anywhere on the train is good. I also get to meet interesting people traveling on the train. The food was fairly good, diverse. Even had rack of lamb. First time having carrot cake and cream cheese cake in one piece. For me it was a holiday! Talk it up a lot to my friends. I hope it keeps going into the future.

I am going to read https://goodreads.com/book/show/1848.Wild_Swans_Three_Daughters_of_China

on the train.

Because I am an intermittent faster. I only eat between 12(noon) and 8 pm. So for me all I have in the morning is coffee.

What I break my fast with is usually eggs and kale in a wrap with grated cheese. Or some kinda of leftovers. Anything with too many carbs makes me somewhat lethargic as my first meal.

I know this is about baths/showers. But MY favorite way is a couple rounds in a sauna followed by a shower. Super clean after that.

We also don't always have enough hot water for a bath. Whereas a shower we usually do. But hot water isn't a given for us. and we can go 1 month+ without hot water from the tap. So there is that.

Our shower is outside. I love the shower being outside. Keeps all the moisture outside along with getting to shower in the sunshine/ under the stars

So lets see here. The flooring was finished sometime in january last year. It took lots of time/patience as.... all the wood was rough and needed to be straighten. Its a floating floor. Either way it looks nice and I like it. Next was I built a day bed for myself. Its pretty good so far. Gave me storage and a place to read/laptop. I also built a 12v LiFePO4 battery. It took some time to build the custom box for it. longer than it took to assemble the batteries. This will be updated to a 24v system in the future, I am just waiting on parts.
Last but not least the kitchen is destined to be built in the middle of January. I have most of the wood inside drying. Some of it needs to be planed and some of it needs to be ripped down. I have a buddy who is going to help with the install and more of the technical stuff, whilst I can focus on the wood prep side of the project. Otherwise it will take me forever to build the kitchen. See the Drawing for details.

I find this somewhat amusing. I didn't have a cellphone for about 7 years. Just recently got one again.

Where I live most people don't have a landline/email so texting often becomes the easiest way to communicate. If the landline goes down, we can text/phone, if the cellphone doesn't work, we can email. Luckily we only get 1 bar or so in the window at our house. If we want to make a phone call with our cellphone we need to walk for about 5 minutes to the top of a rocky bluff.

I think alot of the cellphone baggage comes down to how its used. I can easily go a day without turning the airplane mode off. I also don't carry my phone with me unless I want to take photos!

Another reason was for safety out on the boat. I can now phone/text/email people when I am out on the water. The map function is helpful as well.

So no I do not need one, but where I live, it has its advantages.