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  • From: Toby Hemenway <toby@patternliteracy.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] small cooking woodstove
  • Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 21:49:57 -0700

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:

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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