I had 85 chickens to secure in the coupe each night. I was the tall one in photo's and two came out of the hay barn, I got the belt! I was adopted and looked nothing like my younger siblings. I stick welded all implements as they drank beer. I was 9 and 2 yrs later grew 6" ( 150mm ) and told is was adopted. I left home to earn $1hr. running tractors, grinding silage & corn, moved cattle w/horses. Welded my employer's equipment his broken equipment. Apprenticed at a two man shop for cash labor as he made money off parts. Like many, I got a torch, in 84 bought a 150Amp MIG that produced 150Amps. A foot pedal, 49pcs accessory kit, 10 Pc tungsten kit, Gloves are goatskins. But I just started shopping June 14th 2024. Has many good features, so peeling paper plates & beef pot pies are in my future. Then with calculations correct, I can buy one in 3yrs. ASE Master since 78. Pain greats me everyday, all day. 😢
A very interesting and informative video. One question regarding transferring the water to the shower/sink. If it's an open system, how do you get the water to the destination and mix it to a suitable temperature? I am thinking about doing a project like this, but my system is (electric) mains pressure, but I'm not keen on relying on my battery storage to power the HWS. I do take on board your warning about connecting this to a pressured system though. Keep up the great work!
и так. сделано аккуратно, никаких вопросов по сварке. вопрос в технологии, просто взять и выбросить 3 плоскости нагрева из 4? посмотри что такое Самовар.
I think I know the answer to this question but would like to hear your answer so I can offer a solution. Why not have everything insulated and have a recirculation pump so that you don't get a steam lock?
@@LittleAussieRockets one solution would be a peltier device. It uses heat differential to create electricity. You could use it on the side of the rocket stove and when it gets hot the pump would turn on automatically. No solar, battery required. That way you could have insolation in the unit and it would be super efficient.
Great video. I am going to build a similar water heating system and I will use sand batteries and in floor heat. I like the idea of the open system so it won’t explode. I am going to use your idea of having a tank to feed the system, and I will install a simple water float on the cool side . I want to use solar water heater panels too and heat my greenhouse and try to grow year round. I am also considering heating an area around my trees to hopefully get a little earlier start in spring with excess heat. I don’t know exactly how heating under the trees will work, but I once had a cast iron ball that I was told was used to burn under trees to prevent frost from damaging them. I have never forgotten that idea although I have never heard anyone else mention that. Anyway, I want to be able to live off grid and leave one of my nephews a place where they can live cheap and will have a well equipped shop. I almost have everything I have ever wanted, except a young healthy body to continue to be able to work. Getting old sucks.
All I can say is OUTSTANDING. Outstanding welding, outstanding explanation of what your doing and your an outstanding Aussie having a red hot go. I'm keen to see a version 3 as I can tell your not 100% happy and when you sell them put my name down (seriously). I have a little property north of Newcastle and plenty of timber lol.
Interesting that you were using kitty litter pellets for fuel. By chance was the litter used or fresh? :) Would be an interesting way to recycle materials. Wishing you and your family a blessed week filled with gentle seasonally appropriate weather and restful evenings together. Peace brother
Hi Steve Great work as always. I've learned a lot from you, you know. Since I spend loads of time on process control on machines like you build, my first thought was that a system to control (regulate) the air flow is needed. You know the fire triangle? Well, I think the air your vac delivers is cooling the burn chamber. That coupled with lack if insulation reduces the effectiveness of the setup. Especially since you designed it for a fuel with larger diameter and far higher calorific value. An ability to reduce the speed of the vac, or divert the output would allow you to tweak and optimise the burn over a range of fuels and so on. Much admiration from Auckland NZ
Yeah it could all do with a bit of a tune-up. I've left the burn chamber uninsulated to get a longer service life out of the stainless steel, I found when you insulate it you go outside of the working temperature of 304 stainless steel 865 C. I should probably make one entirely out of ceramics but for now and the things that I use it for, melting aluminium for casting and heating up the odd bit of steel so I can pound it with a hammer, it does ok but it could do better for sure. Hope you're doing well over there in New Zealand, it's not getting too cold I hope. 👍
@@LittleAussieRockets I spent some hours cutting and chopping firewood, now out for a walk in shorts and T. South Island gets the brunt of the cold. We have a standard box fire in the house. The economy here is tite, but I have a continuous feed of ad hock work and a new packaging venture in the pipeline 😁
I’m imagining a double chamber pellet feed tube, where you have sort of a gate halfway down, so you can open the top lid and add pellets, then close the lid and flip the gate to drop the new pellets down into the main feed chamber, thus eliminating the smoke and back flow of air while adding more pellets.
Here is the tour itinerary; Sunday December 8th, Cairns Community Christmas Carols. Monday December 9th, Innisfail Shire Hall. Tuesday December 10th, St James Cathedral, Townsville. Wednesday December 11th. Day Off. Townsville & Magnetic Island. Thursday December 12th. Holy Trinity Church, Bowen. Friday December 13th. Day Off and Orchestra to travel on the Spirit of Queensland. Saturday December 14th. Coolum Civic Centre, Sunshine Coast. Sunday December 15th Coffs Harbour, New South Wales. Night off! Monday December 16th. Lazenby Hall, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales. Tuesday December 17th. Visit Country Music Hall of Fame, Tamworth, NSW. Performance at Dubbo Theatre, Dubbo, NSW. Wednesday December 18th. Dubbo and overnight stay at Western Plains Zoo. 'ZooSnooze' glamping program. Thursday December 19th. Morundah Opera House (Shed). Stay overnight at Holt farm. Friday 20th. December return to MGS, Melbourne to unload equipment and return rental truck. Mark
@@LittleAussieRockets Well I thought that I would let you know because myself and one of the other Maintenance guys will be driving the Support Truck filled with the bulky equipment.
Great to see another video from you Steve! 😊 Good to see the chicken supervisor is at work and patrolling for any bugs or tasty mice in your workshop. As far as your forge is concerned, I would just stick with the 'palm' (?) nuts you were harvesting from your friend's farm. From the sounds of it they burn better and hotter and only cost you a little bit of time to source. That sounds like the best fuel of all! In fact I would suggest that you check out how well they work in your house heater so you can save time and money on fuel to heat your house this winter? The slasher skids looked a treat! 😊 Hope that you and your family are all well and your chickens are providing you with lots of eggs and entertainment! 😅 Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺 PS What part of Queensland are you in as the School Orchestra will be doing a North to South Tour in December, from Cairns down through a couple of towns with the final show in Southern New South Wales.
Thanks Mark it's always great to hear from you. Where in the Scenic Rim area inland from Brisbane, well if you drew a straight line from Brisbane to Warwick we're nearly in the middle. And I agree palm nuts are the go. They create a great coal bed and packed full of oil, nearly the perfect fuel.
I have messed with a waste oil blast furnace nozzle. It used compressed air to atomize the oil. It sounded like a jet engine and that's no exaggeration, it was nearly impossible to work around. So I never developed it any further but adding a drip feeder to this furnace would be a game changer for sure.
This is excellent. Im going to have to buy 1 of these from you. Im in Melbourne Australia. How much do you sell these for. Awesome and very clever. You've got a subscription from me. 👌👍
@@LittleAussieRockets thankyou so much. I just looked at your website and I found a stove I plan on buying when finances allow. I'm actually living off grid in a permanent camp spot so a rocket stove would be a blessing. I've been using little butane stoves too but I want something I can heat water in as well as cook. Thankyou again mate. Be in touch soon 👍
Fantastic thank you so much for the video - wonderful, we live off grid so am interested in these systems particularly if we can make it ‘multi functional’ 😊 Geoff Lawton is famous in regen ag and permaculture - this is an interesting vid maybe the information would be useful…. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1oDpmmsqHwQ.htmlsi=_3ft8H7_CHdCh0Ny
I finished my carpenter apprenticeship over 40 years ago. One instructor that was there before and long after, Toni. He reminded us that we were just beginning. That we should strive to learn every day going. forward. Words that I took to heart.
technically if you wanted to make it flat packable rather than twisting the knobs you could design it with slots for some wedges to go in and hold it tight so you could pack it up easily for camping or something but looks great
Might consider adding a magnesium or zinc sacrificial anode into the water heating area where galvanic oxidization will be accelerated....because the lesser noble metals electrons will tend to migrate toward the stainless steel. One idea is to weld a inspection cap to your water heating chamber where a replaceable HWS anode can be inserted - make sure this is electrically isolated from the metals. This might be helpful too ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7dviLIl1Z_4.html
Great video mate, I just couldn't see what you outlet was or where it was going. Is there any chance you could post a diagram of this. Thanks Mate. Cheers
Dont forget to add a sacrificial anode to the water tank, it should be installed in a way so its electrically isolated and or it cannot touch any other metals.
