New Barrel for Rocket Mass Heater/Forge

I got a new barrel for my Rocket Mass Heater/Forge (RMH/F) from my neighbor. The new barrel is over 10 times bigger then the old one. This should give me a performance improvement. The current barrel is too small to work, really. There is no room for the insulated heat riser they need to work. …

Yesterday morning, I woke up to snow! I guess winter is here

I am not quite ready for it yet, but I am not in that bad of a way all things considered. I've not tried to fire up the snow blower for the year, but I do have new snow tires. The shed has a roof, but no door. I have a new barrel for the …

I tried working on the gas forge tonight

Broke lots of things and didn't get a forge that worked very well. Just not enough heat. I did run the rocket mass forge even though it's burnt out inside. Going to make a mess to clean up later in the ducts but I got the garage up to 57 again tonight. T-Shirt warm! I …

I made some pressure flaker blocks and some longer pressure flakers tonight

The long flakers are called ishi sticks, and the pads are unique in design as best as I can tell. We shall see if the work well tomorrow. I also burned out the rocket mass forge trying to finish the one bopper I made. The inner burn chamber is a puddle of melted metal on …

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