Dragon Rocket Stove
Episode 4
Exhaust Pipe and Test Run
Climbing Exhaust Piping and Testing of our Mus-Art Rocket Mass Heater
The climbing exhaust pipe has been installed and we got to test it out!
Last Episode
http://mylittlehomestead.com/ep3-dragon-rocket-stove-foundation-air-intake-combustion-chamber.html
http://mylittlehomestead.com/ep5-dragon-rocket-stove-mechanical-complete.html
Shae aka Winter_Apple
November 18, 2016
Transcript of Video
Bree: Last time we built the air intake & found the parts needed for the combustion chamber on our Dragon Rocket Stove.
Bree: Before the Combustion Chamber is cemented in, the guys need to install the smoke exhaust pipe.
Bryson: That’s going to be pretty tough to get in there, huh Dad.
Gary: It will be tough to get it down.
The exhaust pretty much is just heat, steam and a little bit of smoke.
Everything else combusts in here.
Ash and creosote that builds up in a typical fire place flue is really non-existent here.
You don’t get that amount because it’s all re-burned in the combustion chamber.
The main heat is right here, honestly and our combustion chamber is all steel.
Everything after this is not hot enough to do anything.
So bonus.
We’re at the point now that we would like to set the combustion chamber.
We’re kind of excited. It’s the first part of plumbing this thing.
That’s it.
We’re putting in some additional foundation pieces here so we can support this wall of cob that will be going up here.
Get up to the height that where need to start the cob.
Let me ask you about the clean out.
Shae, do you want something that looks like that?
Because we will be mudding around it and we need it accessible to pull this cap off.
Shae: Yeah, I think that looks fine.
I need a fairly sharp turn so I can get…
What do you need to end up?
We need to go out up there.
But eventually it needs to go this way, goes out there, zig zags this way and then up.
That’s the plan.
Okay.
Shae: We ran out of corners so I guess we are done for the day.
We have a vent right here that is suppose to vent the subfloor.
Underneath the floor that we are going to be putting here.
Since we have dirt down here, it’s nice to have a little bit of airflow in the subfloor to the outside.
The height of the steps is the top of the floor that will be put in.
You can see there’s a difference 18 inches, maybe a little less.
The floors going to set at that height. It’s going to be right about here.
So the floor will be setting at this point. That continues all the way around the building.
The vent needs to be below the grade of the floor. That’s how the vent ties in.
We’re not professionals at rocket stove installing and all that.
We’re just like everyone else. None of have a degree at the university in rocket stove technology.
We learn as we go.
We got our corners now so we can finish her up.
Garen: 8 inch for a 6 inch pipe.
Gary: Huh! These are a 7. We just got back from the store we got the wrong elbows.
If it fits on your head, it’s too big.
If you have the right size pipe, it will be too small. [mumbles] It does not fit.
Hand me nail, hammer.
Shae: The big one or the small one?
The one I can use.
[whispers] He wants the big one.
And I can only hope that I am taping on the right seam.
We can test it now so let’s do that.
I think Dad is a little excited to test it.
Getting warm though.
It’s too hot to the touch.
Do you hear any rocket sounds?
The heat is radiating off the combustion chamber.
By the time it gets to the very top we’ve captured most of the heat out of that wall.
And then we’ll be exiting very little heat, just a little steam and a little bit of smoke.
An easy way to load it too from the front.
And we’ll just keep testing it.
Here’s the intake pipe. We’re going to do a quick test to see the inflow.
A little piece of the super adobe bags.
It sucks it right in.
So far, so good.
Rocket stoves are not like a traditional fireplace. It burns a small amount of wood.
We use a little chuck of wood that we got from building the earth bag bedrooms.
There’s a lot of heat right in this area but right up here on the stove, that’s like a dryer vent.
All the heat is going into the bench itself.
I guess it burns slowly but it retains the heat.
Bree: That wraps up the update on the rocket stove. Stay tuned for next time when we progress more on it! We will be posting our thanksgiving musical special on or before Thanksgiving as a follow up to the Halloween Special and then, of course, a regular weekly peek next Friday. So, if we don’t see u before then…
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Shelly: Wow, are you going to live? That’s pretty bad.
Shae: It’s a lot of blood loss but who knows. I might live.
Shelly: You might?
Now we can say we put our blood, sweat and tears into this building.
You can tell by the way it fits snugly on my head.
Shae: Calling all aliens.
Bryson's Rocket Stove
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We moved from the city to the country in 2005. Since then, we have been building structures, raising livestock and growing some of our own foods. We are crazy about family, nutrition and want the best for our growing family.
