@@louismessere6379 Slowly but surely I'm adding insulation to the interior of the shop. I get what you are saying about the minimal power loss, but why waste power if I don't have to? The way I have things working right now is that if I need AC power in either my Bushop or my camper I coordinate that with my generator usage for charging my batteries. We don't own a television, we have no "plumbing", no microwave, our kitchen sink runs off a 12V pump, and if we want music I installed a Pioneer head unit in the camper. Basically we live like we're living in an automobile, because basically we are.... For now.

@@matthewsoutdooradv Thank you! It's been a labor of love for many years now... So, I should have shot the bricks with my laser temp gun on the video, but I did do that after I uploaded it. The bricks at the top were over 90° and the lowest ones were in the mid 80's. The nice thing about that chamber is that it still allows for the forced air coming out of the CDH, but at the same time it's allowing me to store the heat as well. Eventually I plan on installing a 12V bilge fan with a thermostat so that I can pull hot air from that reservoir of heat and blow it in the back of my shop. I did something similar when I had a large wood stove for heat in there and it worked extremely well. My floors went from being below freezing to quite warm once I did that. I do still have the 6" inline fan that I was using for that purpose, but I'm really trying to get away from using an inverter for my power needs. Actually the high temp mortar was for sealing the chamber up so that I could force the hot air to only flow from the bottom of it. I probably could have used plain old silicone caulking but I had the mortar sitting around from another project. And I wanted to see how hard it is once it's had some time in some heat. That stuff is now hard as a rock!

That's awesome. I'll keep an eye out for upgrade video's..lol

​@@matthewsoutdooradvI am almost finished with my prototype HRV system for our camper. It utilizes a CDH for the main heat source, as well as a wood stove for secondary heat. If it works as I hope it will I'm going to see if I can build something similar for the Bushop. I should record more of my homestead shenanigans.... 😂

@@moo76man I'm not exactly sure what you are referring to, but this isn't a rocket stove.

@@brianh1475 Thank you! So the two pipes on the right side of the drums are the intake and exhaust from the stratification chamber. The hot flue gases flow into the chamber from the top one, and then they flow back into the body of the stove through the bottom one.

@@brianh1475 If you dig through a few of my less than professional videos there are a few changes that I made to the system to help improve the efficiency of the stove itself. There are also a few things that I would change though after building this RMH.

@@nickthomas6206 That's a question I am unfortunately unable to answer. We sold the property last year and moved off grid. I'm hoping that it is working well for the new owners, as it did for us. I'm hoping to build another one for an underground greenhouse project that I have planned for 2025. I have several changes in mind after operating that BBRMH for six months.

@@wes16b Ahhhh, sorry, we sold our house and moved off grid, so plans have changed for that particular heater. I'm working on a new design due to space constraints. It's loosely based on the Cottage Rocket designed by Uncle Mud. I'm hoping to get back into the build next month.

The duct work on the right side of the stove body is the inlet and outlet of flue gases. The upper one was feeding the hot flue gases into the stratification chamber, and the bottom one is the outlet of the flue gases back into the body of the stove where they flowed around to the other side to hit the chimney on the left side of the stove.

Diagram of build?

@@thedavesofourlives1 Would you like me to Google that for you?

​@jacobklingel1026 Make em do their own homework. You already did a the work and a nice job.

KZbin really needs a laugh react. Go understand rocket mass principles before getting sarcastic in the comments. I'm sure this guy will find ways to improve this build but he's got some really advanced and efficient features here, clearly knows what hes doing.

Thank you!

@@EvenMoreFree Peter and a bunch of other folks say that it's necessary for the best performance. I didn't want to have any steel in the system so I went with a different design and it seemed to have worked fairly well. The one problem that I ran into with my design was that I had to be careful not to block the port with wood, so I cut my wood a fuzz shorter to help alleviate the issue.

@@EvenMoreFree I also tried leaving two inches of space behind, on top and in front of my wood stack for air flow.

I was burning some leftover scraps from a small project. It's easy to stack when they are rectangular! It certainly helped with air flow into the firebox, that prototype burned HOT quickly!

@@EvenMoreFree Thank you! I designed and built the entire system based on Peter van den Berg's build protocols on batchrocket.eu .

Thanks! The results from my experiments surpassed anything I could have imagined. We had so much food coming out of the greenhouse I started giving it away to family and friends.

Thanks! I had an absolute blast building that heater, and it worked extremely well. If I was to do it over again I would definitely build it down the center, that way it would radiate heat in all directions, and it would be MUCH easier to cover the plants during those hard cold snaps.

Not too shabby of a spot to drop a Concentric Yurt eh! 😉

Thank you! It's not optimal but it has served us well over the past few years.

Great shop! What is a DSR2 ?

@@EvenMoreFree That's a double shoe box mark two. There's a new core being developed that is much more intriguing though, a shorter version as it were. It's on premise.com

@@EvenMoreFree And thank you! It's evolved many times over the years, so that's why I'm changing the design that I will be building. I added a sewing area as well as a miniature school room for my children.

I bet one could easily get steel up to forging temps inside that riser!

I use the heater for heating the stratification chamber built into the lower section of the masonry raised bed.

Thank you! We are definitely happy with how things are working out thus far.

That's what it looks like to me as well. I will let it go and see what it turns into, then decide if it can stay, that is if it plays nice with my other plants!

@@jacobklingel1026 if you get aphids again you can just let ladybugs go and they will take care of them quickly. My dad use to spray their wings with soda to keep them from flying right away. They word decimate the aphid population in our yard within a day or two. We use to get them from the greenhouse.

Yep, we've used the lady bugs before, they did a great job taking care of the aphids! Thanks for the idea of spraying them! They got pretty thick last year, but that was due to time constraints on gardening. This year will be different as I have a lot more time to devote to my gardening ideas.

Oh yes! It doesn't take much to get a good draft going. I start a small top down burn with some beetle kill spruce, and once that has burnt down a bit I add larger pieces of wood. Then once the top of the barrel sees around 400 degrees I open up the bypass to the stratification chamber and start dumping heat into the masonry.

Much appreciated brother! It has exceeded my expectations and I will definitely be building several more of them.