"Tiny Yellow House" TV host Derek "Deek" Diedricksen takes you on a side journey to re-examine his vegetable oil heater/heating ideas inside his salvaged-materials cabin "The Gypsy Junker" (from Tiny Yellow House Episode #2). The design is based on sketches and plans from his book "Humble Homes, Simple Shacks...".
@pugcurles Glass jars and heat don’t go – normal glass, like jars are made from, cracks when heated unevenly.
since you do alot of work have you ever thought of using a heater called the sawdust stove (youtube it), the short version is you pack the sawdust tightly into a coffee tin with a hole in the middle and and light a small paper fire at teh bottom of the hole, then the heat deaws the air fromt eh bottom creatinga vortex which heats the room.
One other heating solution is a toilet paper roll in a coffee can soaked in rubbing alcohol, though I’ve only seen this for exterior use. FYI, love theTYH videos! Keep up the creations!
Use a small rocket stove which emits the heat outside.
You look waaaaaaaaay too much like my high school math teacher…
how long should you wait before lighting
I had to use a popcorn oil lantern once to see by while fixing a generator. The good part is that burning popcorn oil (has butter flavor) is that your space starts to smell like yummy popcorn! Is good, yes? I thank you for giving me inspiration for a greenhouse for my wife, and a hunting shack for my neighbor.
the other day my friends and I were talking about how you can use your left over bacon grease as fuel for a candle the same way you used vegetable oil as fuel. Have you ever heard of using bacon grease that way? honestly, we end up using our leftover bacon grease for other cooking but if someone ate A LOT of bacon, I guess it would feasibly be a “free” lantern fuel. ~Amanda
would baking sodabe useful for grease fire suppresion ,and would baby food ,dip,and salsa jars could be used instead of cans?
baking soda for fire suppresion
What was the easiest thing you made (house wise)
@1971mgb hit the nail on the head with the clay pot for radiation of the heat. The concept of the outside air for burning is perfect. The only thing I would do different is perhaps make an “air chamber” below the oil can so if there is a grease fire there is an air barer and also a place for any split oil to flow. Simply another coffee can with some wire screen over the top. As you said use at own risk and expand on the idea. The possibilities are endless. Great channel – found you through NPR
Hey Deek,
Don’t know if the rocket stove guy understands it but a thermal mass rocket stove is great if you have the space for the mass. Does he even see you are heating 30 sq ft? 3 foot dry saplings?
As a side note a well seasoned clay flower pot radiates the heat far better and more evenly than tin cans when building a small tea light candle or oil wick heater for use in an ultra small cabin.
Robert
thetinybungalow dotcom
I enjoy your vids and ideas Deek, and the hair thing is commendable indeed. Gonna grow it back though? The long hair was hawt :] ok, i’m done being shallow, carry on
I enjoy your vids and ideas Deek, and the hair thing is commendable indeed. Goona grow it back though? The long hair was hawt :] ok, i’m done being shallow, carry on
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.
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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.
@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)
@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!
Nice video! Good on ya for donating the hair to such a worth while cause!
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
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.
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!!
How about riveting some fins onto the outside enclosure to radiate more of the heat into the shack?