Comments on: Relaxshacks.com Vegetable Oil Heater for Cabins Shacks Tiny Houses-woodstove heating/camping

By: GIJoeBob

GIJoeBob — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 03:33:19 +0000

How about riveting some fins onto the outside enclosure to radiate more of the heat into the shack?

By: pfcheddar

pfcheddar — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 02:34:04 +0000

deek, how ’bout telling us the before and after temperature of the shack to get a feel for its heat. and damn boy, 1st time ever your hair is shorter than mine!!

By: MrFinger8r

MrFinger8r — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 01:45:35 +0000

I applaud your efforts but it’s really a gawmey conglomeration of poorly thought out bits. Much better to make a 6 to 16 brick (which you can make by hand out of cob) rocket stove, wrap it in cob and run a chimney outside. That way you don’t need industrial civ to provide veggie oil and instead can use small diameter sticks of wood that you can gather anywhere from the woods around you. All that cob becomes thermal mass to reradiate the heat.

By: MrFinger8r

MrFinger8r — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 01:23:05 +0000

Rocket stoves are extremely efficient and effective in heating small spaces and best of all, you can use them for cooking. Tons of models, check out the related videos:

6 brick rocket stove in Africa: /watch?v=vJ7WjwAqeX0
16 brick rocket stove: /watch?v=XSMR2ANIZ7E
nested cans and a chimney: /watch?v=Vblt_kcebdA

By: VideoGuyNC

VideoGuyNC — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 01:17:35 +0000

Nice video! Good on ya for donating the hair to such a worth while cause!

By: relaxshacksDOTcom

relaxshacksDOTcom — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:48:50 +0000

@MrFinger8r Hey, no offence taken, although you seem a little harsh. I’m not sure what you mean by “gawmey”- I don’t think that’s even a word. Anyway- very familiar with rocket stoves- the prob with burning “small sticks”- you’re feeding the fire every twenty minutes. To combat that you can build a more sizeable stove, but then it defeats this videos goal of small, salvage-junk-built stove. All in all, I self-mentioned many shortcoming of this idea, so I appreciate the input!

By: MrFinger8r

MrFinger8r — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:11:59 +0000

@relaxshacksDOTcom LOL, yeah gawmey is a local word, guess ya gotta be from Maine where everyone knows it, and I didn’t intend harsh at all, if that’s what came thru, sorry dude. It’s the inadequacy of text to convey emotion accurately. My bad.

No was just saying, clearly you spent a lot of engineering time thinking about it. And hey, the Inuit used to heat an entire igloo with a few teardrop shaped oil lamps, so there is a rich ancestry behind your idea. (cont’d)

By: MrFinger8r

MrFinger8r — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 23:42:31 +0000

one of the cool things about rocket stoves is to make the feed tube vertical so it becomes gravity fed, put 3 foot dry saplings in and they burn down over time so you’re not throwing stuff in every 15 minutes. But if you are already aware of those, then nuthin new here. Thanks for what you are doing and for sharing it.

By: legolover229

legolover229 — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 23:19:35 +0000

200 viewer

By: AReptileMan

AReptileMan — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:39:08 +0000

Have you thought about putting a sm. solar can heater on the side of the shack? You could just go with a fan less set up as not much heat needed. Keep up the good work.