Every one who is a prepper or survivalist should know the basic’s of how to construct a rocket stove. When the natural gas stops, when you want to save your propane, a simple rocket stove will make the difference between heat and cold, cook or eat raw. Bricks, juice cans, stove pipes or cob, learn the basics now or panic later when its time to survive or die. Include the kid’s in learning how to make them, make a friendly competition on who can make the best one. Make an outdoor oven to bake bread or pizza and make a shelter over it so that you can use it when it raining and you don’t want the heat the house up. A Cob stove can heat up a house and cook meals on. Investigate!!!! people, go to Google or You tube now while you still can and make it a skill.
"We 'Prep.' to live after a downfall, Not just to survive."
Adobe clay brick mixture: 1 part water, 2 parts clay, and 6 parts sawdust by volume not weight. Mix together well and then form.
This mixture can also use straw, or shredded paper, I have even seen old rice used. Once the bricks or cob is made and fired the bio material burns off creating air pockets which make the brick light and insulating.
Check out the HOLEY briquette jet stove ( very unique ), and also how to make biomass briquettes.
"We 'Prep.' to live after a downfall, Not just to survive."
Wow. That's twice in as many days I have heard about these things. They are awesome, but I can see the coffee can ones being a bit of a pain in the backpack. Hehehe. One of the guys in our group is a fabricator and I will ask him to make one or two for our retreat.
Thanks for bringing this forward. (Is there a like button?)
Better to have it and not need it; then to need it and not have it...
I welded one up out of some scrap steel I had, havent tested it yet but it is pretty heavy, I am going to keep experimenting with these as i think they are a wonderfull idea
Here are a few links that have tons of Rocket Stoves, Hobo Stoves and the like.
For the ones who do not know;
Rocket Mass Heaters are for heating you house or trailer, can also be used to cook with
Rocket Stoves are for cooking with, they also give off heat, though the mass is normally missing
a list of lists of rocket stoves
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cheap-shelters/message/13482
http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=33879
http://zenstoves.net/LinksGeneral-DIY.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlicF0RtMLM&feature=related
http://www.ammocanstove.com/ (this one and the one before are on Ammo Box Stoves, two cause they are cool, and ammo boxes)
another good option is to use a Haybox (cooking via thermal mass heating and continual heating)
http://www.selfsufficientish.com/hayboxcooker.htm
http://thermalcooker.wordpress.com/category/thermal-cookers/haybox/
The following is a link to a very cool website, this particular link is for the one page instructable, the following is for the section that most are in. See also links to the side
http://www.instructables.com/id/Survival-Stove/
http://www.instructables.com/tag/type-id/category-outside/
and Survival site in the main site
http://www.instructables.com/tag/type-id/category-outside/channel-survival/
Ranger,
where can you get large and cheap amounts of clay? Where I am there is hardly any clay around at all?
Wilderness Return - WOW!! What a great selection of stoves ...now I don't know which one to make first!!
Russell Coight....outback legend
umm sorry,
look to Ranger's first post then and my suggestions would run to making some out of concrete blocks and the Cat Stoves, both are quick and easy then.
Rocket stoves and mass heaters are one of the basic elements of using less resources but sacrificing nothing in comfort. Great links. I made a rocket stove but man the thing weighs a TON.
One of the vids is a vermiculite rocket stove. I might just try that. 1 part cement to 5 parts vermiculite. He should have packed some reinforcing wire into it though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=28FtcxsKkzQ
I dunno about concrete blocks, anytime I've had em near fire they don't last long.
I have been trying to find some clay deposits, the last one I found without really looking was in Algonquin park on a canoe trip and I was cooking a porcupine in it. For around here I’ve spent a good hour trying to find something on Google, sorry guys, I’ve come up short on this one. Back to the juice cans and ash insulation.
"We 'Prep.' to live after a downfall, Not just to survive."
Where the escarpment comes close to Lake Ontario there is a lot of clay. Whether it's the right kind or not is a different story. Any construction site should have the tell tale red trail. There was a brick factory on the 403 between Burlington and Hamilton years ago.