Posts Tagged "river rocks"

The rock-bucket rocket

Posted by on Sep 10, 2012 in Blog, Our work, Videos | 8 comments

I got the idea of this stove construction reading a book on how they used to heat medival castels. Offcourse this is a radical downscale of the concept, but the function is somewhat the same. I really like the simplisity of this construction. And I like to think that the “organic” unnsymetrical channels formed by the rocks somehow works better together with the natural flow of gases than channels and chambers… This is neither a bell nor a channel system. It becomes something in between. I know that maintaining a good surfface/weight ratio is important for a good working stove. And I cant think of a more interesting way to obtain that. I rebuilded the...

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Bench finished

Posted by on Mar 5, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments

My smal 1 tonn bench project is now finished and heating well. We are extremely happy with how it works and how it looks. It is made of wood with Iranian granite tiles on top. It is filled with riverrocks and sand , but no mortar. This is because it is constructed in a rented house , and it can`t be  guarantied that the landlord wont tell us to move it later. I still think it does a pretty good job heating our buts Tha advantage by constructing it like this is that the user can move away both the flue and the stove in the warm season, and by that have only a nice bench left. The whole setup costs about 100 dollars, and will make a huge difference in wood consumption....

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