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Summary
Paul talks with Matt about RMHs and Homestead Living magazine for which Paul and Beau wrote an article and they discuss this and RMH stuff in general.
Back in 2008, a friend told Paul about a wood burning contraption which Paul was convinced couldn't work. So he had to investigate - this was his first experience of the wizardry of the RMH. This was at Cobsville in Coquille, OR where Ernie and Erica Wisner, Ianto Evans et al were doing a rocket mass workshop. Paul stayed for 2 days and helped to build another RMH. It took just over a day from start to lighting the first fire.
Paul used to fill his woodshed with 4 cords of wood, and have some dead standing trees in mind to top that up to have wood through the winter every year. Now he has about 3 cords of storage from which he's heating 3 buildings and so far this year has used about half a cord.
Back to the article. Paul reads more and highlights a phrase about the RMH being thing which is better experienced first hand. He asks Matt his feeling for the article: Matt says it tells a nice story which will appeal to people.
Matt has questions:
Uncle Mud has some doubts about using wood in or near RMH-builds in case it becomes a fire risk. The concern is that the wood exposed to temperatures of 140°F or more may change in long term use and become more flammable. Paul's RMH has a wooden box containing the pebble mass but it never gets near that. This installation is now 11 years old.
Matt has book learning about RMHs and a bit of experience building but limited experience of running them. He asks about a situation where there are a lot of coals, so no space to re-load it fully. Paul would either put shorter sticks in, but you can burn cardboard which makes a lot of fast heat and burns down the coals so there's space to refill it.
Relevant Threads
A bit about Homestead Living Magazine
Homestead Living's homepage
Rocket Mass Heaters forum
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