500 lb Rocket Stove 

Anyone else just plainly jealous over not finding a piece of scrap like that?

3:32 I almost spit my coffee out . Definitely wasn’t expecting that 😂😂😂

Absolutely a beast! Wonderful build!

Great rustic heater for a log house on the hill. Glad to see you're still around. Cheers mate.

I had a idea which incorporates a similarly sized rocket stove, and where you put the rock wool I would replace it with wood. Turning the whole thing into a charcoal retort as well as a stove.. obviously allowing for the top to be opened to remove charcoal/replace wood. The other thing I would do is using some pipe from the wood/charcoal zone, plumb it back to the stove burner so that the wood gas helps to fuel the fire.

this is one super heavy duty stove! i would be a proud to own this!! good stuff

Watching you weld, cut and bend metal is magic mate!

Great work again happy to see the chook helping out too.

It’s a joy to watch this expert lay down such beautiful weld beads even on outside corners!

The analog sound FX were expertly done.

Nice clean work there mate. Thanks for sharing.

Build with what you have.. excellent trait 🙏🏻 Thanks for sharing

Wonderful editing! Thank you!!!

You can cut thick material with your plasma cutter if you slow your travel speed way down, and increase your air pressure to 100psi.

Fantastic Channel Mate! Keep going, you'll get there. Thanks.

Well done good fabricator and welder mig and tig interesting vid keep up the good work thanks .

Fart sound effect 1, amusing. Fart sound effect 2 - I laughed out loud. Nice piece of steel both before and after. Well done.

Fill it with sand and that would hold the heat through the night from 1 fire.

That is a beast, Nice work.

Good looking stove. That iron is going to add a lot of great thermal mass!

As gas cylinders are most often filled by exchange I don't need new cylinders, just serviceable ones so I accumulate them buying used (in the US via Facebook Marketplace, shop closing auctions etc) and it doesn't take very long to have MANY full cylinders as I immediately exchange them. I keep LP cutting tips (LP is cheaper than acetylene but uses more oxygen) too and LP has the advantage that bouncing about in a truck doesn't require settling time like acetylene. Moderns seem afraid of torch work (yet cook on grills and use gas stoves) so used quality torch and regulator outfits are easy to find.

you’ve been busy! very cool build! 😍

Very cool great video. Got a good laugh at the end he said must be moisture in that insulation though he put water in with it

My brother has something similar. Quite a bit smaller, but it didn’t need much modification. Start with a WWII US Navy Mark 9 Model 3 Depth Charge. An inert one.

I finally got me a tank with one inch wall thickness that was made in the 1940s. This will be a challenge but am willing to make it happen hopefully this year. If not the next will do Aussie Rocket Stoves. You gave me the idea fella too. Thanks vf

I have a question, since these have better draft out the exhaust could you put a Tesla turbine like halfway through the exhaust to power a generator. For like homesteading or just to charge up the battery for a small cabin.

What a beaut! I love the irony. Also, the flange, makes me wanna make things to bolt on... I wonder what of my heritage makes me love this sort of magic? Slumming it with yukky metal, I see you have the same contempt for it that I do... (tho I have tigged some too, its easier than stainless, I found), but usually migger or sticker (if I gave wire or dry sticks). I had a thought about the "Gas" as you pulled out the forgotten OA torch. Pricey stuff these days, Lucky me, I inherited a set of torches yesterday, sadly the hoses are well perished! I also found I had to change the consumables on my plasma torch after playing with more than a little bit of 12mm plate. I had a 15mm thick cylinder that I cut open (old argon bottles) but before I had plasma, and found the 1mm x 125mm disk did it. I never dared to turn the cylinder into a rocket thing, it was just waaaay too much heaviness (boot-crushing stuff) and the scrap value was fairly high 😒so it got sold, along with all the other useful bits in the yard, and sadly the liquidation came a month or so later, last week, so new vistas for me. (Luckily my personal things are all safe, horror stories abound.) Thanks for the create😎, you brightened up a dreary day!

1:58 😅 damn dude... you're good with that torch.

If you listen close at 13:12 you can hear him step on a frog.🐸 😂

Beast! If you put a shroud on the top of the stove so the heat hits the bottom of the water tank and is then forced up the sides of the tank before it exits at the top then the water should boil sooner. Just keep cross sectional area for the exhaust the same. Thanks for posting.

Little John! But don't let the name fool you in real life he's actually pretty big.... lol

Nice work

Great job

Good video, I just SUBSCRIBED. hello from Maine, USA

Nice build

Bloody genius, nothing more relaxing than watching a master craftsman create! I’m definitely getting you to build me a rocket stove shortly, thanks for all the great videos.

I'm surprised you use steel for the burn tube, ours were made with refractory cement as the temps were extraordinary! Steel would only last a couple of seasons!

Why you didn’t start with the oxy cutter had me wondering. Plasma is probably more efficient for your consumables though.

nice story of little john. ash removal looks like will be a pain?

Cool build mate i like it.

Hahahahaha! That farting noise added! I laughed my ass off for a full minute. Thanks, I needed that!

At the bottom of the oversized pan some extra metal stripes woould work as an extra heat exchanger i think.

your best welds on youtube maybe ;)

13:12 - the burp haha best sound effects. Can you make a rocket stove for indoor use. ( so the smoke must exit through a chimney in some way)

The "ultimate atomic wedgie" at 0:53 was magnificent! 👌

I'm headed to the scrap yard pronto!

"Flame cutting noises..." Lol

Someone’s about to start making moonshine. Lol

13:13 🙀💪👍😁, greetings from 🇳🇱the netherlands

The green name plate turned black?

Now i will dream over "flame cutting noices"...

Inpressive!

you should do a rocket stove but paint it to look like the apollo rocket!! that be cool lol

What a beast. No sense putting in so many pieces of wood, en entire treetrunk will suffice 🙂

As far as i can tell, the ratios are off, and its not behaving as a rocket stove... so likely it is not. However, it is a nice build and enjoyable video.

well placed fart noises lol

I just wondered why you did not use the insulation space as a water heater

(Fart noises) Me:"HA! That deserves a like!" 😂👍

yes i want to see you build your other things

look into aquiring thermal electric generators to make dc power.

Pretty sure the steam was from the water in the sodium silicate solution you poured in there.

A wooden wedge would work just as well that way when it falls in you've got plenty of others

Looking ur video, i made oil burner starting wood stoves battery fan powered stoves, just amazing results, sir.

This is Sparta😂😂😂😂

Ultra sound

I am making a furnace out of an old 500# propane tank - I went at it with the torch and it wasn't easy - about 3/8" thick and ... I'm not an expert ... what was supposed to be a square opening has no right angles or equal length sides ....

Can you explain the "glass water" bit?

13:15 Is it me or this is not, technically, a real rocket stove? I think the opening is way too wide and the air is not fast enough on the ambers.

Now weld an old turbo on the side of it and let's see what kinda pressure this puppy can really handle/make.

Little Aussie rockets Next time make yourself a thermic Lance to cut that

I'd rather see longer videos of yours. Loved the vortex stove you are awesome.

So if this was John or little John , that means there’s a place for Saturn V ????

I heat 30Lts of wash in my still and it takes 45 minutes on the Gas to start

From this build, it is not obvious that you have built rocket stoves before. The air intake is above the fire! The output is bigger than the intake, but not by much.

thats not realy a rocket stove u need to close off more of the air intake till its like a jet sucking air and lift the fire to the level of the air imput so the fuel has the air fored thru it

This is great. Now turbocharge it. Stick a turbocharger on that little jhon and it will become big bill

Huh. Everyone has their style

try the rocket stove with wood briquette and see how far you can push it :D

How can I DM you ?

LoL You had me at "Oh Nuts" lol...

Subbed coz of the fart jokes 😂

I would devise a method to regulate air intake

I guess its another good video idea to use cardboard as fuel and to see how it works instead of wood.

A build for Ned Kelly?

Darling a hole at the starting point might help you cut through.

First thought, wow, you put the Nozzle on your MIG gun finally. Second realization: you're actually welding with gas. Hurrah. Now go refill your acetylene tank.

You put water into the stove before you put the insulation in…that could be the source for the steam

13:12 😅 lol

There is no reason to insulate it just shortens the life span of the metal

Just a stove. NOT a rocket stove.

I wouldn't call that a Rocket Stove at all. I see a basic stove with a really insulated chimney.

So when does the rocket stove end & the holy $hit its a furnace from hell begin? Seriously? Why? Because you can? Dude, build a log splitter or a Lazer death machine or something.

13:11 se mandó un eructo en el video?😂😂😂

Theres a bid of video in your ad

I had a huge rocket stove in the house. I bought after 1 year i tore it out with a sledgehammer and put in a wood burning stove piece of c***

Good day Steve, With all of the interesting designs that you have shared with us, I thought you might enjoy the following video. It uses a thermal siphon action to capture heat twice and produce boiling water in addition to cooking and heating the room. (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zqvn6e-it0E.htmlsi=9_322Lcl6TpdYJsP) Enjoy the video and ponder the possibilities for heating your shop. Wishing you and your family a blessed week filled with gentle seasonally appropriate weather and restful evenings together. Peace brother.

An Aussie talking imperial?

Fart at 3 33. I fart when I lift too

500 lbs... 30 litres.. aussie accent... much confused

thats not a rocket stove