The Family Builds a Dragon Rocket Stove Mass Heater
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Shae aka Winter_Apple
March 29, 2016
Transcript of Video
Bree: What are we doing this week? A unique rocket stove for the MusArt Studio. Let's check in on what Dad and Shae have in mind.
Shae: The next rocket stove on our list is going in to the studio. We want it to be a little artsy considering that's going to be like the "home of art". We really want to do a dragon or lizard. This one that we are sitting on, really turned out well, but we want to keep improving it and make it better. So, tried new things, different things. With Garen's, I think works pretty well.
Garen: I love that it's sunk into the floor. That way I have a lot of room. I don't have to worry that big bench in this small of an area. It burns great, it heats great. Uses hardly any wood. It is a little low to the ground. It's not always easy to get down there and stoke it and start it. It starts nice, it's just you gotta bend down far. So, I do wish that it was a little higher. Other than that, it works, really really good.
Shae: we have a couple of issues, so, we made it even better for Bryson's. And I was...Bryson's works the best, so far. And it looks looks really good.
Bryson: I've been really satisfied with this rocket stove. It has worked really well. I mean, the only thing I would suggest is to add an air intake on the outside. Because just taking the air from inside and recycling it, isn't really that effective. Because, you start pulling air through the little creases in your house, like under the door. You start pulling the cold air in and pushing out your hot air. I look forward to using it this winter. I get to really use it. When it is actually snowing outside. I mean, the one time we get snow. Maybe. If we get snow. We sometimes don't get snow. And usually, it's just one day...yea...
Bree: I really like my little pot belly stove. But, it eats up a great deal of wood. So, I going to wait until they get the rocket stove like perfect. And then we are going to get one in here and like it is going to work awesome.
Shae: But, on this one, we got totally new ideas and we think it is going to turn out really really well.
Gary: This is the open flame area. This is the barrel, the rocket stove normally works in. Where we feed in will be the mouth. It will be a dragon and so on... And then, on a wall that's about eighteen inches thick or more, behind this, heat storage will be on the wall as apposed to inside the bench. We are going to run the pipe from the rocket stove down here where the firebox is, inside the wall the stove pipe is going to go up in a zig-zags and then out the back. And we will store all the heat in the wall. The tail will go up the wall and it will kind of go this way up into the top. It will accruals decorate the wall that's going to store the heat.
Shae: Yea, I will probably be the one to paint it. I will probably help with design. I will defiantly hug the wall when we're done afterwards.
Gary: The weight of the stove does require that there is more support. I didn't want to build up the wood floor to support the wood stove. And we have a little corner of ground that's inside that is just big enough for this to fit. What's nice is the stairs end in one area and the bottom circle ends in one area. And the outside circle leaves us a little patch of ground to actually set the stove on. We are going to be putting the rocket stove right in between these two windows. It's going to require that it be five foot to the center. We need another foot for the piping that will be going out. It will actually be coming out abut three and half feet, which is right about here. So, we chose a spot that is right between these windows. It's about ten feet right between there. We are putting in a block foundation here so that we can set the rocket stove in the air just a little bit. This particular one has to have a wood floor that will come up right to it. We will have to prepare for that. What's nice too, is that when you open the double doors to go into the studio, there's going to be that rocket stove idea right there. The first thing that you see is when you open up is art.
Shae: so, It better be pretty.
Gary: it will be nice. It will be fun.
Shae: When we were laying the foundation, I helped move those very heavy bricks.
Gary: Why are the white ones heavier?
Shae: I feel like I had an easier time carrying them than you did with all the groaning and gripping you did.
Gary: Well, there're heavy. And you're stronger than I am.
Shae: Pure muscles.
Gary: Ya, pure muscles.
Shae: Balance them. Balance three bricks with one pinky.
Gary: Thank you.
Gary: We struggled finding fire brick in the area. I would drive along ways away. We did find it in a box store so we manages to pick that up. A buck and a quarter. I thought they would be a couple of bucks, maybe two or three bucks.
Bree: To started, the guys layout the placement for the firebox.
Gary: This is not the firebox we are setting; this is the plan for when we get it up in the air. At the beginning of the project, we laid the firebox out on the ground first. Then we were able to determine where the pedestal would set.
Bryson: The dirt underneath…so that we had it nice and stable, we wet it down and tamped it, so that we don’t have to do a foundation, like a cement foundation. And then we went ahead and laid the brick on the tamped dirt.
Gary: The pedestal foundation thing, we are building that up to about here. We will have fire brick to this point across here.
Shae: now that I have to work, it appears that I have lost all strength in my arms. Noodles…
Bryson: …and then cemented it up…all the way up.
Shae: …setting on your feet.
Bryson: Because it is level.
Gary: Bingo!
Bryson: I will say one thing, it ain’t pretty, but it is going to do the work.
Gary: The foundation for the rocket stove is this pedestal. We will be setting our firebrick o top of that.
Garen: Your firebox is at this distance and your pipe comes out the side. Right?
Gary: So, the firebox is looking similar to what Bryson had. We needed room in the front of the firebox to get be able to create the mouth of our character…of our dragon here.
Shelly: Gary has always been creative and I think he is looking forward…you are looking forward to this build. His creativity kind of rubs off on all of us.
Gary: Bryson has a ton of creativity, but he shows it through his science part of things. He loves the rocket idea-concept. He is anxious to see how well this one works compared to others we have done. It is exciting to see how scientific about the whole thing.
Shae: Hello camera.
Shelly: Shae really enjoys the art part of it. So, I think when we get past this...the build and into the art, the sculpting, and the painting. I think she is really going to find herself getting engrossed in it.
Gary: Why don’t you get another one of these? The concept behind the firebox is to be able to create an area where heat is contained. So, we contain it inside firebrick. Then that will radiate to the outside area, which is cob, which will also retain heat. Essentially the firebox is just for retaining heat…containing a fire.
Bryson: If you were to use normal brick, instead of firebrick, it would crack, because firebrick can withstand higher temperatures. It also works good to fill the firebox…
Gary: We are using a six inch opening...ah...six inch exhaust that will go into the chamber and then be able to exit out.
Shae: The pipe goes here.
Gary: We are also too…This is kind of a cool thing…is that we going to be putting in an air chamber that is going to draw in air from the outside, as opposed to drawing air from the inside of warm air.
Bree: Before we begin covering the rocket stove with cob, the air inlet needs to be considered…
Gary: That’s going to be the mechanism that opens the flap inside the pipe.
So that I can regulate air coming into this inlet.
Shae: Okay.
Gary: The outside air coming in.
What’s important is this turn handle thing doesn’t get too far in our sculpture.
Shae: Dad and I have to figure out how the dragon sculpture will be formed
before he puts in the air intake pipe.
You can have it like crouched and then his tail come up.
Bryson: We’re continuing to experiment with the rocket stoves. This one we’re experimenting with the air vent.
Gary: When we need welding work, we go to Garen. And what we’ve designed here is a flapper we’ll be able to put in here that will flap open and closed. To control the airflow from outside.
Garen: Open, closed. I can flip it and make it stop.
Gary: We’re going to move our hole over.
Garen: It’s going to be nice. We’re going to be able
to test the whole thing before we do any of the artwork.
Gary: Here, the shoulders are here, right? Based on what Shae & I decide, I install the intake pipe. I’m gonna cement this little fella in. et in positioned right so we can have this air intake.
Bryson: Off, on. We want to be able to shut it off in case it doesn’t work. [laughs]
Gary: We have to regulate the air. We’ll have it wide open when the fire is burning the hottest.
That way it’s pulling as much from the outside that it can.
Bryson: This thing it like a jet engine.
When the ashes fall down, we’ll have to have a clean out down here.
This is going to be the last corner before it goes out.
So it will be a place that ashes will collect. If there are any ashes.
Gary: So there is only two places. One is the firebox and the other place is right here.
Bryson: Let’s go over to the hoop barn and cut that one piece.
Gary: Let’s do it.
Now it’s time to build the combustion chamber.
We found some old parts off of an older one we built a while back.
One of the first ones that we did.
And we are going to take the top off of that one and put it one this one.
Gary: Taking a look at this one we did, the very first one we ever did. I love the outside of it. This old rocket stove is made from an old hot water tank. Cut this off so we can get out out take. And then just leave the top like it is and use it as the top.
Then this one is already made. All we have to do is drop it down an inch
and that will be our combustion chamber on the inside.
This is a linseed can like this one over here. An old linseed oil can.
There’s a 6 inch pipe in the middle.
Bryson: Cob around the outside.
Gary: Let’s modify this right now.
Bryson: Okay. So we make sure the barrel is going to fit.
We need this thing to be a foot because this is a 6 inch pipe.
It’s the 3 to 1 ratio. Bottom of here to here needs to be 18 inches.
Bryson: That looks really pretty.
Shelly: Gorgeous.
Bryson: Muscles…
Gary: It looks good to me.
Bryson: Let’s see where we are at here. Okay, I’m happy with that.
Gary: Let’s measure up now. We have to have 2 inches clearance.
Bryson: If you measure from right here Dad, down, that will give us plenty of room.
Gary: Garen stops by to show us his Thor helmet he has been working on for Comicon.
Bryson: It’s really cool.
Gary: It is really cool.
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.
Gary: 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.
Gary: We can test it now so let’s do that.
Shae:I think Dad is a little excited to test it.
Gary: Getting warm though.
It’s too hot to the touch.
Shae: Do you hear any rocket sounds?
Gary: 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: It’s time to stretch the air intake pipe to reach outside.
Gary: We are working on driving a pilot hole. We have to cut through here and put the rest of the intake piping in
Marvin: You’re out.
Gary: We will just make quick work of this. Power tools
Marvin: I would have not thought of that.
Gary: We went out the other side.
Marvin: You know this is five inch.
Gary: You know this will fit. Let’s take it out and let’s put it together. This is my friend Marvin. He is here to help us put it together. Get the piping done today. Just like that.
Marvin: Oh Jeeze. That’s perfect!
Gary: I got it off.
Shelly: So what’s in there?
Gary: oh. it’s a mouse. We have had the rocket stove for several years. We don’t really burn it a great deal. Just during the really colder winter days. All right, let’s see what kind of dust we are really looking at. Oh look at that..A smithering of dust.
Shelly: Let’s get in there and look.
Bryson: There was spider webs in it. Which is surprising because spiderwebs melt.
Shelly: Hardly nothing huh?
Bryson: It tells us how cool those pipes actually run.
Gary: So it was good to be able to see that most of the heat has been coming off the chamber is what is really radiating into the room. And then the other heat that is coming out of the flu is really being stored in the bench. There is not really a great deal being stored in the bench. Just enough to keep it…nice and warm to sit on with a little cushion.
Bryson: Very heat efficient.
Gary: I really wanted to bring the shop vac inside but Shelly wouldn’t let that happen cause those things spread quite a lot of dust. Fortunately we had a window close by and I could put the shop vac in the window.
Shelly: This is our big cob pile…or clay pile. Are we ready?
Shae: I think so.
Shae: I Picked some weeds. So we are going to just build it up type of deal. I’m at the mental level I want to be at.
Shelly: Ha ha, Ok….
Shae: That will all be taken care of when we get this all built up.
Gary: I stick a little hole in each of the rounds. So that the next stack of cob that goes on that goes on a dryer section, plugs in like Lego’s…like building blocks.
Bryson: We only move about a foot of cob at a time due to the fact if you do too much it will start to sag and squish down. So, you can only do about a foot a day.
Bryson: We are going to cob the whole wall all the way to the ceiling.
Gary: It is perfectly water proof now and this just caps right over the top of that.
Marvin: Great.
Gary: I need to make some adjustments to our flange piece and we will be able to get that on the roof. This is where the fold is going to go. This is the top that is the pitch of the roof.
Bryson: It is pretty tough stuff.
Gary: We have left out 2 inches to make sure we have plenty of clearance. And now we are using some wet patch to seal our flange piece on top.
Bryson: Squishy…
Gary: Squish it on down. Alright. Looking great. This is coming out good.
Bryson: Because if it is coming out bad, Dad is responsible for it. No…
Shelly: I think it looks beautiful.
Gary: Ok, Go down about a foot. Keep coming. Ok, come on down.
Gary: in one way we want our cob to dry faster is I want to go ahead and put some plastic over the windows and cover our entrance. And then fire up the stove.
Gary: Your concern is that there is too much cob.
Shae: The whole wall is a bit much. If you look at the bench we already have, the heat only goes on the top of it anyway. no matter how hot you get it, the sides and the back never heat up. The heat never expands to that. It only expands up a bit. So, we need to figure out where that heat stops expanding and then put that…make that amount.
Gary: Ok. That is helpful because if we put like here and we know heat goes up, we can go thicker here.
Shae: We decided to change the layout of the piping because well… we really didn’t want to cob the whole wall.
Bryson: More Parts.
Shae: We are putting the piping a little lower and will also help keep the heat a little lower to the ground because heat rises. I’m hoping it will keep the room stay warm.
Gary: It feels so wet, like the day we put it on. Let’s start a fire Bry. I think i’m happier. Keep most of the heat down a little lower.
Bree: It's time to cob mount Dragon. And that's a lot to do. So, here we go.
Shelly: We got 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 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 rods 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 will all drip out the bottom and make a huge mess.
Shae: We will laugh about it.
Bryson: Our plan is to 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: Shae can now began the dragon sculpting.
Bryson: we are robbing in the
She: the "horacopia". Well dad, is it looking like you thought it would?
Gary: Ya, absolutely!
Bryson: man that looks cool. That looks so cool.
Gary: poking a wire in here and in here.
Bree: there's a little concerned about using the insulation foam. Shae and Bryson are going to use some safety test. It is always best for the two youngest do that.
Shae: do you want to try a smaller piece?
Both: Naw....
Shae: Huh?
Bryson: I guess it is not ....
BOOOM
Shae: If anyone asks, This was your idea.
Bryson: So we have confirmed that that it does actually ignite. The flame has to be constant. Other wise it will just burn out. So the fumes would definitely not be that good to breath in.
Shae: Smells good.
Shelly: Shae...
Shae: What?
Shelly: Don't be sniffing that. it is dangerous
Shae: I did...It smells good.
Bryson: It is not that bad. Oofda!!
Shae: Oooo. It does reak!!!!
Shelly: So What are you doing here Shae?
Shae: Do you like that with the ridges?
Shelly: I do. That's our sheet rock mud huh?
Shae:Ya.
Gary: So We are deciding what to sculp and what to build on the basic structure we have built on.
Shelly: I am ready for an extra batch my darling who can t find anything.
Shae: are you still making fun of me?
Shelly: ya. I thought i dropped a piece of cob on dad's head. but it is a scab.
Bree: That is where i dropped a can on his head.
Shae: there is funny and then there is Shae. I'm just sculpting up the dragon face right now.
Gary: I'm doing the legs that are going to be in the front like a reverse type of leg. like on an eguanna or lizards. know caps will be right about in this area. the leg will come back and then there will be foot. with claws...
Shelly: Did you see this little foot. look how cute it is...
Bree: it is adorable.
Shae: I am making art.
Shelly: i know but what is it?
She one of the things you are not suppose to do is to say to an artist..."Oh. that is so cool....what is it?
Shelly: we believe in you.
Bree: 3 on one side and 4 on the other. i'm just stating the obvious.
Shelly: Are you carving another toe?
Gary: Yes. another toe. the poor dragon only had 3 toes.
Shae: there are a few empty spaces on the rocket stove. So you have kind of the dragpn. there are two ledges, they are pretty blank. with nothing on them. I'm thinking we could put some baby dragons on them.
Gary: Does that make our dragon a female dragon?
Bree: I guess'
Shae: It could be a protective dad. So I'm going to try to build up a little something here.
Gary: it could have long eye lashes. Curly eye lashes.
Shae: it could be a protective dad....
Gary: Ya. lets not leave out the guys in this...
Shae: it is a tail and I'm about to head because that is important. so... slightly...no so much that you notice.
GAry: The scales like this here.I'm not sure how these ar made.
Shae: I have really liking what you have doing.
Shelly: We can see right through the hole.
Gary: we have some things to work on. What is going to happen around the dragon.
Bree: Dad has this great idea. to these little sphere rocky things all around the dragon guy. it is simple.there is no sculpting. it is just making little round sphere things all around. we have some issues though...we have to attach them too to the rest of it...an these keep coming back off. they took some plunges...so we had to rebuild.
Shelly: she is fixing my mess.
Bree: no problem no problem no problem. I like the look of it. It is looking good dad. good call.
Gary: when we were first looking at earth bag structures, I guy did a structure that had a complete wall made of balls that were softball size. And he had done a complete wall.
Bree: Oh...that would look really cool.
Gary: there was no design really to it. it was really cool
Bree: what i really love is curve like really defined...of the clay. you can see the nice curve, the curvature of the the earth. that is really cool.
Gary: we have the mouth to get started...and with that we have teeth some lips and stuff...nose...nostralls
Shae: Steve came over today..we were working on the wing. I was not being as gentle as needed to be... and it hadn't had time to dry...the whole thing fell off.
Steve: He lost it in the great battle. That is all i have to say.
Shae: why did that one stay so nice. Maybe i should have waited..
Steve: Maybe?...
Shae: We had to rebuild the wing. and then that fell off. so I'm redesigning it a little. to take a different shape.
Bree: Dad came up with this concept tp use a brush. And he was noticing that ...Sometimes water will take off all the silt and look ugly. with the paint brush, ir keeps the silt there. We went over the entire thing. we are doing that.
Gary: A désign for the leg ....
Bree: Im excited how it will come out.
Bree: I didn't know you were going to to do lips and teeth. Thought it was going to be just the top. whoa. I love that. when there is fire gets in there. it going to be cool.
GAry:I just ordered the eyes too...
Bree: it is going to be so cool. and bring some life to the dragon.
Bree: It's time for the finishing touches. We ordered some dragon eyes online.
Gary: We are going to dry fit this to see how it fits. It's going to get new eye balls.
Bree: Our grandma has been doing a lot of chalk work. So. it gives us an idea.
Gary: We wanted to go first with this chalk idea.
Shae: So we ended up getting a ton of those construction chalks.
Gary: in the old days, you could get red and blue. When we went to the store, they had purple and orange and black.
Shae: Red.
Gary: ...And some sidewalk chalks, paint brushes.
Shae: Anything we thought we might need for the painting of the chalk.
Gary: 2 colors. I want to take these out and test them out on the walls. let's go do that. We can't actually test on the stove itself. We had some cobbed areas in the back. We went back there and tested, dry, wet, what does it look like wet with linseed oil.
Shelly: What about we linseed it, chalk it and then linseed it again.
Gary: Look at that. see how that paints up nice?
Bree: If it stays that color with the oil, that will look really cool. that is a really nice blue. perfect.
Shae: so the first thing we need to do is linseed 3 coats.
Shelly: linseed first coat. it will soak up the most.
Bryson: alright Dad, what are you doing?
Gary: Putting the eye balls in. He has a mouth and a a nose. Oh ya...
Gary: Diesel liked to lick the linseed oil.
Shae: This time we could get him out of the building and keep him from doing that. He is teaching Max to lick the walls now. It is not even linseed oil....it is bacon grease.
Gary: you have a little dot right there. When I push it, what happens?
Shae: This is a sneak peek of the color that we are using.
Gary: Don't look...
Shelly: so that is the first layer on.
Bree: it looks so cool.
Shae: when we were doing the sculpting, it turned out the same way where Dad worked on the main dragon and i worked on the 2 side dragons. when were painting, we did the same thing.
Bryson: she has a lot thicker mixture than Dad.
GAry: I had to go in a grab my iPad and take a look at the original plan it was all blues with highlights. i looked at that and it did not seem practical.
Shae: That is the color i used on the underside of the other wing. In reverse...I'm switching it up Mom.
Shelly: You Are
Shae: Singing...Hey mister Bry.... wow dad. it is coming along.
Gary: When i first started putting the chalk on, It drys pastel. not really dark enough.
Shae: it was almost white in some areas. It was so light. so we were thinking. When we out the linseed oil on it will darken up. kind of antique it...
Shelly: i hope we get a little bit of color to come through. Let us see if any of this color comes back. Hopefully, it will be nice and dark.
We ended up taking those eyes out. We will have to put them back in.
Shae: we found after the linseed oil, you could not see it al all.
Gary: All the color was gone.
Shae: The red we used was made it look more burnt.
Gary: it was really cool. later we came back. And re assess it.
She: the chalk did not work as expected. So we moved on to oil paints.
Gary: Shelly was out scrounging around in the hoop barn and found a basket full of oil paints.
She: we started to redo it. we even used different colors this time. you can use spray paint to work as well.
Shelly: I would not recommend it using that is my kitchen dish.
Shae: was... That was your kitchen dish.
Gary: I went with green like i wanted.and that looked great.grey with the armor
Shae: I went with blue.
Gary: And she went blues.... we have a lighter blue and darker blue. one has polkadots and the other has stripes?
Shae: they have the same...
Gary: so is it like the zebra? White zebra with black stripe? or a black zebra with white stripes?
Shae: one of each...
Bryson: Mom...what's your task?
Shelly: I have a little bit of paint to touch up. when they flick...not that they ever make mistakes.
Bryson: You are using simple brown? that is hairlarios. Dad, what are you working on?
Gary: Highlights.
Shelly: wow Shae!
Bryson: (growling)
Shae: i'm excited to see what it looks like after we linseed it and make sure it does not fade to black.
Gary: the layout on the paints, the horns and this lower section were the red rock is, is all chalk paint. now we have oils based oil based paints through the body, the face and the knees and down to the feet. the pebble, the rocks, they have a touch of chalk on them. Up here we have some more oil paints. We also did a little bit more on the tail. We've got some green oil paint, Shelly came along and antiquated the little dragons.
Shelly: Make it a little more blended on the stove.
Bryson: I think it looks good right now.
Gary: i'm very happy with the way it turned out. We are done.
Shae: ya.
Gary: Let's burn some wood in it now.
Shae: start the fire. We need fire. A big fire
All: Thank-You!
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Bloopers
Bree: Bugs!! Let's check in on what Shae and Bryson or Dad. Let's check on what Shae and Dad are cooking up. And yes. That was unintentional pun. Cooking up...rocket stove. Sorry.
Bree: Bugs!! Let's check in on what Shae and Bryson or Dad. Let's check on what Shae and Dad are cooking up. And yes. That was unintentional pun. Cooking up...rocket stove. Sorry.
Garen: I need you to kinda help me out here.
Shelly: It’s pretty much an experimentation every time we do one of these, isn’t it?
Gary: Yes, it is. It really is.
Bryson: Whoosh. Whoosh. Boom!
Bryson: The USA. Wait, it’s made in the USA. How often do you see that?
Shelly: Hey, hey.
Gary: Now, it’s time to find Bryson.
Bryson: Where is he? [laughs]
Grunts
Smile!
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.
Shelly: What’s down there Max? it looks exciting. you digging a hole? He is licking your leg. Does that help?
Shae: Very encouraging. Nicely done Diesel.
Bryson: I was singing a song. Go ahead though…
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Gary and Shae: We cabbing the wall…we are robbing the wall…
Shelly: They are so noisy. You are so skinny…
Shae: Little do you know…(singing) one two three yes. Pull my neck.
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...
Bryson: Huh.
Shae: I guess it is not flaimmable.
All: Flaimmable?
Shae: laughing..
Bryson: Shae. did you draw this?
Shae: no... I'm not taking ownership for that. ...i was really board. no judging...stopp/////
Bree: Bring some live to that dragon.
GAry: They are googly eyes...that pop out on springs...
Bree: when people come over....cool. and they touch it and ...you broke it. Noo
gary: it is a good way to clear your nose
Shae: apparently you can't breath with your toung sticking out.
Bree: I'm not going to try it.
Gary: i did it.
You look like a chicken that breaths fire.
Gary: There is a picture...I fire breathing g chicken
Bree....it is a difficult decision
Gary: Shelly went "scrounging around"
Shelly: scounging?
Gary: Ya That too.
Shae: It's my bad face.
Gary: how is the sound? Professional?
Gary: We had to go in eat. because...
Shae: We need food.
Gary: food.
Shae: "I need sustenance!!!"
GAry: Thor here.Review on the rocket stove.
Shelly: That is not how Thor talks.Arnold talks that way.
Gary: Arnold was supposed to have played Thor but he was too busy being Governor.
Bryson: I'm busy watching. There should be more paint there Dad. I'm just kidding.
Shae: you started walking off...i said good bye.
Gary: Are we on?
Shae: Sneak peek on to the color that we are using.
Gary: don't look.
Bryson: You got bigger chunk on your hand. when you did that.
Gary: Don't look here.
Bryson: you've got a big chunk on your fingers.
Shae: is it just me or is that too tempting?
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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.
