The riserless core works mostly because of the SOFT (reflective and more expensive) firebrick used. A regular firebrick "absorbs heat." The soft, "forge" firebricks creates intensive heat, reflecting all the heat "back," so all the smoke is used / burned up as fuel because of the extreme temperatures. I wonder how the riserless core would work with "regular" firebricks? Well... It would work of course... I mean... would there be a little smoke? I wonder if the secondary air port does very much, or is needed if enough primary air comes in the front. I would doubt that port does very much in the way of burning off smoke here. The 1,000 + F degree "core" burns it all up.
I wanted to say that I removed a dry layer of mulch from on top of those woodchips before shooting this video. Perhaps five centimeter / two inches thick.
I wish you a speedy recovery. The next time that you hire a contractor hold a detailed briefing before you start the work. Explain what the plan is, where they have to dig and put the dirt, and most importantly how the finished work must look like, and make sure that you verify that they understand and agree with your expectations before you agree to let them do the work. You literally have to instruct them to the last detail well before the work starts. And never ever assume that they think in solutions. A contractor is not a pro active worker. They do not think in terms of solutions. They think in terms of maximizing their profit with the least amount of wear and tare on their machine. If you ask them to do something that you did not talk about when you hired them they either won't do it, or they will charge you a lot more money.
Cheers. I did try to explain everything beforehand but the language barrier is significant and I don't want to involve my wife for translation all the time. It ends up being easier to be right next to them and direct them with hand signals and my limited vocabulary. In the future I hope to become an excavator driver myself, but let's see how this turns out what we have going on here.
Yes, we are about 40km from Athens and our yearly rainfall is normally around 450. This year has been a very dry year of around 150 - 250mm. Hence the big grin! 😂
Cheers! The rains came and filled up the first banana swale and then overflowed towards the food forest swale. We had two rains, the bigger was last night and I am currently uploading the video! I did an update on the first one, which is up already.
Thanks a lot! I am grateful and excited to be doing the work. We did get the rain! One smaller one the night after this video and one during the day time yesterday. The first video is up and yesterday's is uploading now.
@@futurecaredesign oh gosh, same story here (Sicily, Italy), 400/450mm normaly but this year less than 100mm till now... we have to fight anyway, regenearting the soil and regrowing old ecosystems, with oaks and bushes, will have a positive impact!
Niceeeee!!!! :D Amazing progress!! Get some rest u really need it!! Also i think your Dad is watching you from where he is and for sure is very proud of you!! No need for RU-vid! Keep up the good work and stay strong!! 💪
Hello! You mentioned a lot of plans (calculations for the swales, separation of waste for recycling and compost, chicken+duck coop, etc.) Can you let us know what you are using as reference materials/sources? What area of workable land do you have? It appears you have a house on the land already? Is the borehole quite low, and that’s why you are making the swales to refill it? My apologies for all the questions, I am just very interested in what you are doing 😊 (I also haven’t watched your other videos yet, so if some of these questions are already answered there, thank you in advance!)
Hi there MrKalle, my apologies I was not informed of your comment for some reason. We are on 3000 m2 of land or 3/4 of an acre (I think). My reference material is from a variety of sources, the Permaculture Designers Manual for one but also lots of other books/people/creators I have found online and in real life. We have a house already, it has been renovated some years back and we put in a Walker Riserless Core (If your search for that term on my channel you'll find a video). The borehole is about 30 meters down, which is not too deep. So yes, we're hoping that the water will be more available with this extra water that's being infiltrated. But also the water coming into the soil from the swale will hang out in the soil and 'feed' the food forest which we will plant there. It will travel slowly in the soil and make sure that all our fruit trees have a nice amount of water to get them through summer. In case I wasn't clear about that: Swales are an infiltration technique, they hold water for a few hours or a day and then the water has sunk into the ground.
Thanks for the video. I know many Dutch people are a touch dismissive about this, but you are another fine example of how successful your school system is at teaching kids English...and oh how terrible so many other countries are at it.
I am grateful for the fact my parents used English like a secret language. It made me motivated to learn when I was really young. I read Lord of the Rings when I was 14 or so 🤣
The purpose of the machine is the remove the cap (<) from the acorn. Actually removing the shell (the hard outer layer) is done manually after drying. If you are interested to find out how this whole process works check out this youtube channel: www.youtube.com/@lifeingreece
I am convinced this is one of the best Permaculture trees for the mediterranean. It has SOOOO many applications! I found someone who showed me a Carob hedge in Australia!
This is called the 'Walker Riserless Core', its an early version of the tiny cook stove and uses insulated firebricks. You can find the plans here: walkerstoves.com/product/full-masonry-cook-stove-complete-plans/ And the original website for it here: web.archive.org/web/20200213075233/walkerstoves.com/walker-riser-less-combustion-core.html
I assume you would describe what I built an L-shaped firebox? The big difference is that this firebox is not as high. Another way to say that is 'the whole stove is lower'. For me this is positive for two main reasons: - It's allowing me to raise it off the ground, enabling us to see the fire from our couch. - It enables us to cook on it comfortably (its the right height and it has different heat 'settings', dependent on where you place the pot)
Beautiful oven. Do you know how warm the gasses are when they leave the flue after passing through the bench? What I'm wondering if there's a potential to extract more heat if you built a stove like this but with a larger bench.
Cheers. I haven't measured the exit flue but I imagine it isn't too warm. The single walled flue hasn't started giving off those rainbow colors if you know what I mean. Generally when a flue heats up too much and glows for a while it can really impact the stainless steel pipes. But that hasn't happened. It seems like youtube cut off your comment though, I can't read everything you wrote.
When the bell is larger than recommended you risk reducing the draft too much. In that case the bypass needs to be opened. Matt has done a video on this but I don't recall the name.
