Dragon Rocket Stove
Episode 6
Dragon Head Frame
Cob Cob Cob on the Rocket Stove Mass Heater!
Continuing our work on the rocket stove, we build a frame for the dragon head and work to build up the back wall. Check out what we get done and if you'd like to support us, smack that like button :P
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Shae aka Winter_Apple
January 13, 2016
Transcript of Video
Bree: In the previous episode, we redesigned the exhaust pipe to lessen the amount of cob needed for the Dragon Rocket Stove. It's time to cob mount Dragon. And that's a lot to do. So, here we go.
Shelly: We gat a suggestion, which I thought was a really good suggestion. Instead of putting the grate here which is what we were planning, we are going to out the grate up here. And then that way we can do a tube, a pipe down here and cob it in so that the heat can also radiate into the tube and send that heat down to the basement.
Gary: We probably need to put this grate on first before I put this in. That way you can cob around the grate. So, do we have a grate around here? Tape this to the block h==just temporary enough to get the block in place. That's the air vent right there. it will draw in through here and the...
Guinee hen: Tap Tap Tap
Gary: This should do it. What I want to do.
Shae: Are you done?
Gary: I'm done.
Shae: Whoooo...
Gary: I this much better. Than just a vent right there.
Shae: Yea. Dad's master piece.I got my Panda pajamas dirty.
Bryson: the rocket stove works really well. It warms my room all the time. Very nice. One thing I think we should do is add a little more cob to it to make it a little more mass. Because I realize I lose a lot of heat out the chimney. the bottom part isn't really getting hot that much. Just some more cob up here...This will eventually burn out..add something thicker there. Cob up the pipe to, that would be phenomenal. Somehow attach it to the wall so that the wall can contain some of the heat. That would be nice too. It probably take an hour to heat.Once you ge these buildings warm, that might stay worm for about 24 hours. The distance between the top of the barrel and the riser is about 2 inches. You can picture about that much gas or heat, needs to be able to escape down the sides of it. So, an inch to an inch and a half...2 inches actually. That would be nice. And having enough pipe and enough cob to store that mass is good. we have discovered this one has 15 feet of exhaust pipe on this one here. There is about 20 on Garens. And Garen's seems to be the right size for overall length of pipe. Most of the cleaning is right below the burn chamber. Right where your fire goes. I just take a shovel and scoop it in there. This thing. I would probably clean it once a year. there will probably be a little ash in there. tThe bench will keep your coffee warm and top of the burn chamber cook bacon...as long as you do a small fire. or really charred bacon which is good.
Shelly: Yea. Bryson is back.
Bryson: Yea...
Shae: My Oso lovely brother is back.
Bryson: I've played and now Ii'm going to start working.
Shae: I'm carving a foot. We will have to see how it looks. For the Dragon head, we need something a little stronger to kind of support our cob as we are building up on the horns, the face and such. So, Dad came up with this idea to kind of a wire frame of it so we can attach our cob, maybe foam. SO, he is working hard on that to make that happen. Once that is done, we can work on the cob.
Gary: Syles of head and stuff.Hopefully we can put on.
Shae: Down there looks kind of good.
Gary the problem with down is I need to get wood in and out and I don't want to be banging on to.
Shae: ya
Gary: Shae: look at these horns, they look small.I think we ought to use these as small horn out here.
Shae: Ya Maybe.
Gary: And have the bigger horn out here
Shae: That looks kind of cool.
Shae: You see the jaw is here, so somewhere right here.And do your sockets.
Gary: Ya.
Shae: That's exactly what i'm thinking. That with a little build on it.
Gary: Eyebrow and an eye socket.
Shae: Ok Ya.
Bryson: Here comes the head.
Shae: Dad is coming in =with the Dragon head.
Gary: We are going to be adding odds here and here.
Shae: I think they are really good Dad. We will probably fill the horns and stuff with foam so it has a stiffness to it.
Gary: And it glues the rods in too.
Shae: Are thinking like spray foam?
Gary: Ya, just the insulation foam. it is really sticky stuff. lightweight.We will plenty of cob over it so it won't over heat or melt or anything like that.
Bryson: What are you doing Shae?
Shae: Right now?
Bryson: Ya.
Shae: ohhh
Bryson: Oh my gosh.
Shae: And it it's going to work for us now.
Bryson: You are going to fill that with foam?
Shae: I'm going to do my best. My very airy best.
Shae and Bryson: Ahaaa
Shae: That's not important though...so. I made a boo boo. More like 6 boo boo's.
Bryson: I think this is will all drip out the bottom and make a huge mess.
Shae: We will laugh about it.
Bryson: Our planet...We will take a razor blade and just...
Shae: Slice it up once it's done.
Bryson: Exactly.
Shelly: It's like uh...It looks like Bozo the Clown.
Shae: We will cover this with something else. This is not the finished product.
Bree: What are we going to do about these holes?
Shae: Cob will fill it. It is really sturdy actually. more than I thought it would be.
Bree: Nothing a little foam and wire can't handle. I think it looks like an old frog.
Bree: Bryson, what do you think it look like?
Bryson: It kind of looks like a dragon I guess.
Bree: It looks like a dragon? I think it look like frog. Like an Einstein frog.
Shae: It looks like a Dragon.
Bree: Are you guys just dragging this out or what?
All: Ha ha ...
Shae: You are funny my friend...
Bree: It's about time Dad. We are done now.
Shelly: Great timing there darling.
Bree: Stay tuned for next time when we will be building more on the Dragon Rocket Stove. See ya next time. Have a great week.
All: Thank you
Bree: Bryson and I got a chance to go and visit Garen for the last couple of days and stuff. That was fun. On our way home from the ski run, we saw a bunch of deer just walking by us it was really cool.
Bryson: They were just standing there looking at us. We gat a chance to up there and sit on Garen's bench.
Bree: It is cool. It's a piece art that you sit on.
Bryson: A few snow boards, metal frame and that's a seat.
Bree: it's cool looking. It's just fun to sit in.
Shae: Our family moved from the city to the country. Thanks for taking part in our adventure. We have new videos every Friday evening. If you’d like to help us out, you can like this video, share it, subscribe or support us on Patreon. See the links in the description. Please consider supporting us on Patreon.
Shelly: Can you say that again...About Work...
Bryson: I've been dying to get back working.
Shae: I find it kind of funny I find it kind of sad.
Bryson: that was cracking. And we were like.... MomMOMMOM. Your shoe!
'Shelly: Ughhh
Shae: Stop Stop. You are embarrassing me.
Bryson: Ooooo. Don't even touch that. I dare you to stick your hand in that Shae.
Bree: We will see ya next time.
Bryson: Yo Bree. Are you done Staring? DO you want to help?
Bree: Five minutes...I got to go again. Marvelous Bryson... AAA...
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