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Post by matthewwalker on Oct 11, 2012 10:08:56 GMT -8
I built this for an event last weekend and thought you guys might be interested in it. I brought the materials, the half barrels already cut, and a trailer full of dirt. It took about 4 hours to set up on Friday with a lot of help from one other person, and a little help from a few others throughout the weekend. I took it down Monday morning by myself in about 45 minutes. It was a great place to hang out at night, at one point I counted 14 people sitting on it! I cooked bread in the little oven and made deer stew in a dutch oven on the other cooker. It's two stoves, a little efficient one for the oven and the big windowed firepit. Donkey, I'm putting links here instead of posting the pics so your dial up doesn't freak out. I'm learning, slowly. i65.photobucket.com/albums/h228/mremine/P1030257.jpgi65.photobucket.com/albums/h228/mremine/P1030262.jpgi65.photobucket.com/albums/h228/mremine/P1030263.jpg |
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Post by kirkerik on Nov 4, 2012 11:11:32 GMT -8
As far as the stove with the door. The one in the middle. Did the 1/2 barrel bench function as a bell? The chimney drawing only the cooler gases from down low in the bench?
If not then how was the heat output at the end of the bench? Just curious for RMH progress.
Looks like fun! ;D Thanks
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Post by matthewwalker on Nov 4, 2012 11:24:48 GMT -8
Yep, you got it. The little stove with the oven on top I ran the barrels as flue pipe, with the exhaust at the end and coupled at the level of the top of the barrels. The big three window stove I put the exhaust down low, in the same half barrel as the manifold from the radiator barrel. Then the bench "T"ed off of that as a dead end bell. It was really interesting to compare the performance of them. The inline bench got hot fast and the exhaust temps were pretty warm. The bell bench heated much slower and had cool exhaust gases. It was warmer down lower in the mass, on the face and back, than the inline, but the inline had a warmer seat top.
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Post by kirkerik on Nov 4, 2012 13:02:57 GMT -8
mattew wrote: It was warmer down lower in the mass, on the face and back, than the inline, but the inline had a warmer seat top.
what do you mean? it was warmer on the sides than the top of bench (bell)? No?
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Post by kirkerik on Nov 4, 2012 13:05:52 GMT -8
it is a big bench bell to heat simply with thermal pressure (if that makes sense) may be getting some bypass of heat where rocket barrell and chimney meet. Good fun and adds to the knowledge bank  |
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Post by matthewwalker on Nov 4, 2012 13:12:47 GMT -8
mattew wrote: It was warmer down lower in the mass, on the face and back, than the inline, but the inline had a warmer seat top. what do you mean? it was warmer on the sides than the top of bench (bell)? No? No, it was warmer on top, but I meant that the bell bench was warmer down low than the inline flue bench, which was hot on top and cool down low. |
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