Tim Osborn

Jerry McIntire wrote:Don't like any of  the alternatives. My suggestion: Rocket Masonry Heater. Still RMH.

If I don't get to suggest, triple burn is the only acceptable one.

I like the idea of keeping 'Rocket' in the name.

Peter van den Berg wrote:I also did the bricks inside the barrel, in fact twice, the second time two years later.

Thanks for all that insight, Peter. Much appreciated.

Can you tell me if they were fire bricks or not. The one picture I saw that gave a glimpse of the bricks they appeared to have holes in them, so that made me think they were maybe not fire bricks.

Also, it looked like the small section on the front around the wood feed, and part of the bottom of the larger barrel were filled with sand or maybe something else. What was I seeing there?

Thanks again for the info.

Thanks Stephen for your reply. The information about how the cob hat was built was very helpful.

I wish there were more pics of the minnie mouse as it was being buillt.

Thanks again!

Hi All,
I keep seeing mentions of the cob hat that was added to the minnie mouse heater in the Love Shack. I'd love to know if there are plans, even rough sketches with measurements, of the Minnie Mouse or a similar RMH.

We have a tiny house on our property that is not pleasant to live in during the winter because of the cheap little wood stove we put in it. When you start the fire, it gets too hot right away, then the fire burns out in the night and it gets cold.

So I'd love to hear from anyone that has built a Minnie Mouse or similar RMH. Any feedback or warnings would be helpful.

Also, how's the cob had holding up. Looks like it's doing a great job holding the heat. Looks like you just piled sand on top of the barrel, built the cob up on top of that and then took out the sand once the cob was dry. Anything you would do differently if you did another one?

Thanks for any feedback on this. If plans are for sale for this style heater point me to them please.

What thickness of vermiculite are you using ?

@John Mcdogoode,

I see it's been 8 years, any update on the sunhives? I'd love to hear more.

BTW, the link in your original post is dead. Here's a link that works currently: https://www.naturalbeekeepingtrust.org/sun-hive-introduction

You have me intrigued, I'm gonna go read more.

Beau Davidson wrote:
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To add context, this is not a RMH, but a cast iron pot-belly wood stove, with a brick and tile box filled with pebbles surrounding it.  The box serves a few purposes: protective perimeter for some rambunctious, cooped-up kiddos, heat shield, mitigation of too much immediate heat, and slow dispersal of accumulated heat.  

Sorry I can't answer your question, because my pebble style RMH is still in the planning stage. But I was intrigued by the mass you built around your wood stove. I'd love to see more pictures of it. I just put a small stove of a similar style into our daughter's tiny house and need a good solution to the issues you mentioned.

Thanks,
Tim

Andrés Bernal wrote:

Tim Osborn wrote:
Hi Andres,
Is the updated version available somewhere?

The latest version is 6a and you can find it attached to this thread or if you got it in the daylish download it again.

Thanks for all the new feedback received! We’re analyzing it and including more stuff. Atm I’m finishing up the last details for the rest of the Free Heat Plans and will make another update to this one soonish as soon as those are wrapped up.

Thanks for all your hard work on these! Really appreciate it.

Andrés Bernal wrote:Thanks so much to everyone whose provided feedback! We’ve made a pass to include some of the suggestions and we’ll keep working to make this plans better in future iterations.

Im trying a new compression algorithm that reduces the file size drastically  but retains quality so the new .pdf only weighs 13mgbs, any feedback on this would be lovely too.

Thanks again permies community!

Hi Andres,
Is the updated version available somewhere?

In previous movie about pebble style rmh, to keep the sides from spreading you were using plumber's hanger strap instead of the steel flat bars that are called for in the plans. I'm just wondering if the hanger strap was found to be not strong enough?