[AT] Rocket stove for tractor shop

[charlie hill]

Andy,  I've studied up on rocket stoves and they seem to be very efficient
but I've never actually used one so I can't help you there.  However,  are
you aware that they make heat exchangers to take the heat out of flue
gasses and put it in your heated space?   Basically it’s a sort of a can 
that
fits crossways in the flue and has tubes through it.  The flue gas from the
wood stove flows around the horizontally mounted tubes and some of the
heat is absorbed by the tubes and goes into the heated space.  Some
of them have blowers in the tubes, some don't.  Again, it's not something 
I've
used but it seems like it would work fine.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Andy Glines
Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2013 4:23 PM
To: atis
Subject: [AT] Rocket stove for tractor shop

I've been heating my shop with a standard wood stove for a long time and it 
does a pretty good job.  The stove is equipped with a blower and a waste oil 
drip.  The only thing that I don't like is the smoke and wasted heat that 
goes out the chimney.  I was reading a forum about compact diesel tractors 
and a member there mentioned rocket stoves.   They look like a pretty neat 
idea and I have most of the material needed to build one.  Has anyone on 
this forum ever played with rocket stoves?  What are your thoughts on them?

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