[permaculture] small cooking woodstove

Toby Hemenway toby at patternliteracy.com
Sun Oct 7 00:49:57 EDT 2007


Scott,

Check out Ianto Evans' book, "Rocket Mass Heaters: Super-efficient 
Woodstoves You Can Build (and snuggle up to)." I've built two of them 
now, and been around several more. Much simpler than masonry, sculptable 
(since they involve cob) and unbelievably efficient--perfect for 
coppice. You can build them with a direct heat exchanger for quick heat, 
and with a cob bench or other mass storage for that great bone-warming 
radiant and conductive heat. If you don't want to tackle it from 
scratch, have Ianto come out to do a workshop or take one of his at Cob 
Cottage Company.

Toby
http://patternliteracy.com

> Scott Vlaun wrote:
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>> We have a footing under our kitchen for a masonry  
>> furnace with a small oven, but no time or funds to complete it at  
>> this point. If anyone has good plans for such a heater that will fit  
>> on a 9x3 ft footing I'd love to hear about them.
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