Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage in Rutledge MO is great fun to visit. My friends there like Natural Builders Mark and Alice are always coming up with some beautiful new thing to build like this cob garden wall with a fantastic adobe arch. Stay tuned as we visit more great people and buildings at Dancing Rabbit.
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In which we report on the latest in a long line of tiny house rocket heater experiments at Wheaton Labs. 4" is too small of an exhaust to get a rocket heater to store enough heat for overnight and still breathe right. That's the short version. The Gamera rocket heater we are installing now was designed for a 5" exhaust so we are revising the pebble bench.
Stay tuned for more.
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Rocket stoves are great, but not perfect. These painful conversations are important if they are going to live up to their potential. On my next visit the builder was kind enough to join me for a long conversation about the fire, what caused it, and how it could have been prevented. For the full conversation please click here https://youtu.be/EetONO37NEc
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Plastic buckets are so darn useful, but they're also plastic, and when they break you've just got useless chunks of plastic. Forever. But look at this! Somebody made a cool thing! Not just a cool thing, but cool thing that works really well. Made out of Junk!
The Steen family has been teaching and pioneering natural buildings as art and science and generously sharing their work with the world for over 30 years. The physical entity of the Canelo Project is their lush homestead in the desert of southern mountains of Arizona. Dozens of hand sculpted buildings and garden walls stand tribute to the thousands of students like us who have left our handprints and heartprints here. More info at https://caneloproject.com/ Tell them Uncle Mud sent you.
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The pipes going through the mass bench of a Rocket Mass Heater do accumulate ash from the fire over time so they need to be inspected and cleaned out at least once a year. I have been hired to come clean out this lovely old school Rocket Heater and figure out why it isn't drawing very well. My conclusion is that there are corners we can't reach inside the mass that are clogging with ash and we need to create additional inspection/cleanout ports to make it easier for us to take care of those trouble spots.
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