Wes Turner

When you say save some mud, do you mean to use cob material in lieu of mortar?, is mud/cob mortar easier to break apart than traditional mortar?

I live in AL And I’d love to see a RMH In action prior to jumping headfirst into a build.
If your keen to bear a visitor for a short visit please reach, out.


I live in Birmingham

And I’m driving to Chattanooga and Fort Benning this month (November) for work.

Is it vital to mortar the red bricks together?

It would be great to take my stove with me when I move one day?

I’m gonna presume it’s a bad idea due to heat loss through the air, but it felt like it was worth a shot.

That was a revealing chart.

It would seem that brick is the way to go, rather than Cob, except for cost.

If one merely stacked the bricks with out mortar would it substantially diminish the thermal storage of the mass?

This is really interesting Alley!

It seems like the batch box is associated with building a really big stove, however you recent experiment seems to indicate the batch box has the most potential of known RMH designs for a micro RMH.

I’m looking into Matt walkers j-tube design, of which the mass is primarily brick.

My question is how well/ does brick perform in contrast to cob, in terms Effie irntly storeing the heat or any other criteria for that matter.

It seems the smallest practical J-tube is a 5 inch design.

Is a batch box equally limited by scaleing to a small size.

This line of questioning is inspired by: A close friend of mine installed a wood burning stove in his van (he lives in a Van in Wyoming).
It works well except his coals die a bit before he wakes up, so he’s awful cold in the morning.
It would be interesting to try and replace it with
A a particularly small RMH.

Thanks

Forbive me for such a pedestrian question.

What type of bricks are used for the 225 bricks necessary in this RMH? Firebricks?, red clay? Or something else entirely?