I love the fact that you're stick welding!! I have a hatred of MIG welding. I know, it's faster, but stick is old school and I love it!! I actually weld with TIG about 99% of the time because I usually am working with stainless or occasionally clean mild steel, but I appreciate using an old rusty PC of mild. Nice job!!!
You continue to inspire me with more than your welding skills, so much so that I am building my version of the rocket stove. Always enjoy and appreciate your work/life. 🙏🏻
My son left medical school for welding school and hasn't been happier. He made the decision on his own and decided to chase his own dream instead of the one we placed on him. Welding in a dying art and I am very proud of him for walking his own road. Great video on taking what could have been considered nothing and seeing the potential life in it.
@@therealfinn1839 It sure does seem to be in my neck of the woods. Most trade skills have turned into liberal art degrees. My hat is off to anyone who can still fix or make something "real" anymore,
I would love to have a tiny Rocket Stove. As small as possible but still big enough to heat a tiny house….. and think if you could make the exhaust in the dimension of an of-the-shelf chimney it would be great. You could expand your business to sell plans for your builds. Living on the opposite side of the world shipping is killing engagement….. Love your work and cool approach to RU-vid.
Good luck with this new business. I am 70 and thinking on starting me a small craftey business. But any way God's speed on this adventure keep me in touch
That looks really impressive. Really impressed that it leaves almost zero scrap, the offcuts getting used again. I had already picked up some heavy 150 tube, and planed to do something similar, but glad I did not progress yet, as your design is much better than I was planning,
Nice to see what your ideas are. I made a rocket stove this spring, and cooked twice a delicious goulash soup in a cast iron cauldron. Hungarian bograch soups. Perfect. Twigs in the amount of a bicycle basket will be enough for about 2 hours of cooking. Greetings from the EU.
Good speach man! So nice of you to carry on the family tradition. Doing the thing you like for a living, it's huge. Keep up the good work. All the best!!!
Congratulations on completing your apprenticeship - fitter & turner is also my "mother trade". Although I later qualified as an engineer, I've never been sorry about my time on the tools, and now enjoy my workshop in my retirement. I'm a long-term subscriber, looking forward to Part 2!
Hey Russell, do you mind me asking what engineering discipline you entered and how you started after already having a career? In terms of affording the schooling for engineering, and the time needed while working? At least in my case I have considered the military for these benefits, and just curious how you made it. Thanks.
@@579Jacob Hi Jacob, I was fortunate to serve my apprenticeship as a fitter and turner with a South African mining company who supported anyone who applied themselves in their technical college studies. I was able to complete 4 block release study courses (equivalent to an engineering diploma in mechanical engineering) before passing my practical trade test. While working as an artisan and later as a technician, subsequent further studies through night classes at my own cost gave me entrance to write the examinations by which I qualified as a mechanical engineer at the age of 30. My wife and I agreed to hold off on starting our family until I qualified as an engineer - we were married for 7 years before my daughter was born. The South African system then allows one to study specific subjects in the electrical engineering field and thereby obtain certification as an electrical engineer. Certainly a career in the military would offer similar opportunities for advancement if you showed the necessary application in your studies. Good luck!
I'm a boilermaker that's been in the trade for over 30 years all I'm going to say is this guy is pretty bloody good I honestly think you are not dual trade you are triple trade add boilermaker as well mate .Thats some of the best plasma cutting if ever seen free hand with massive thick chalk lines and your welding is pretty good as well.So Can This Guy Weld Yes
Oh wow, glad your back mate... when I lite up my rocket stove.... Hope all are well including your wonderful family.... Cheers! So glad to hear of your inspiration... such a good thing.
Congrats on striking off on your own. Customers are more of a headache than bosses, but you can wake up and decide not to be paid any day of the week you want. With a family in the US, insurance is the biggest headache/cost for going it alone. I always cheated and had a wife that worked.
No its not rediculous, It's just another masterpiece, ( from a fellow victorian aussie, ) I'm gonna have to get me one of those plasma cutters, such a time saver. - Thank you for the video.
Love the rocket stove, built one out of cinder blocks in order to burn up a lot of old broken pallets on my property without a lot of smoke, worked wonderfully. That hand soap reminds me of Lava here in the USA, might even be better, who knows? God bless!
Perfect timing for selling your own solid bar sand soap. Solvol have stopped making it recently and they only do the liquid soap. I prefer the bar soap as you can use the bar to scrub at tough spots.
I really didn't think that the draft from the flue would be that good, but I was pleasantly surprised. I guess that you could pipe the exhaust outside without any problems as well.
As usual, a nicely put together video. Nice to see you can wield that old buzz-box welder with your usual skill. Interesting design too. I have been hoping you would have another go at your water heater system. Any chance it is in the pipeline? I built a wood burner water heater system which I use to pipe hot water into a radiator in my workshop. Next step is I am collecting materials and chewing over ideas for a home heating system with a rocket stove heart. Hopefully I can pinch some more good ideas from you in the future! Keep up the good work!
Wow. That looks like a keeper. Inspiring. Perhaps a sauna stove if I can keep the water out. Keep up your good work and congratulations on freedom however terrifying it may be at times.
Great video as usual- good luck on your new life direction 👍you’ve taken the jump and I’m sure your gonna land on both feet - cheers and keep ‘em coming 😁
I can relate I'm a 70 year old Fitter and Turner I have a small shop and I still love it , I like your heater I mite make one I didn't get what the pipe with the hols is for ( air flow ? ) , I'm in Qld and yes it dose get Cold here as I wright this I'm cold .
Could you please tell me your logic in the shape of the rocket stove ??? How about the heat output ??? What is the percentage more of a standard 4 by 4 inch stove ??? Nice work and thanks.
I neglected to go into that. I have found that when the burn tube is 90° to the riser the air flow doesn't always start off in the right direction. Adding the 15 degrees slope to the burn tube has given the hot air a head start in the right direction. It also stops ash from working it's way into the bottom of the riser. The tube in the bottom of the riser was intended to be air intake for secondary burn. It's value is yet to be seen. The slot behind the hopper is for air, when there is too much fuel in the hopper, this slot should still allow enough air into the burn tube for a clean combustion. I will cover the rest in the second video 🙂 Heat output was great 🎉 warm up time was a bit long but once running it was really good.
@@LittleAussieRockets Thanks for the pertinent information requested. Look forward to see the second video and congratulations for bringing life into this world. Peace and good luck too. vf
Plasma cutters are available for sale at Aldi this week in Melbourne Australia. Good to see you back on RU-vid. Don't know why I didn't get the notification until I scrolled over your video today, 4 weeks late? You think that your the boss, when it is really the wife! Mark from Melbourne Australia
Have you seen Lawrence Harrops rocket shop heater? His channel is Loz Harrop from the U.K. Very happy to hear you're doing it all on your own now. Cheers Mate.
There so many videos out there with cr%^ music and the same music competing with the voice over which I cant tolerate. But whether it be bluegrass or jazz or whatever else, you always have easy listening, well timed and relaxing music. May I complement you on this, there are so many youtubers out there that have NO IDEA how to put a video together.
Very interested in your work. Thinking about alternative ways to heat the chill Pommie home I was wondering if anyone had ever to reproduce the simplistic method used by the Swedish Admiralty in the 19th century? They had a furnace to heat cannonballs and red hot cannonballs were carried around the admiralty building and positioned in holders to provide heat in the various offices. It occurs to me that a system like that with an efficient rocket stove at the core could avoid the issues with in-house installation and flues etc. Yes cannonballs are hard to come by these days... but a foot length of railway track might be a handy alternative. There could be one in the stove and one in the house, swapping them over then it cools.
That's is an interesting history lesson. I have been toying with the idea of using a hot air engine to pump water heated through a rocket stove. Lot more work in the setup but not as hazardous as handling hot balls.
Congratulations on your new employment position and the opportunities waiting for you to discover them. Which of your daughters will follow in your family tradition.? At some convenient, future time can you discuss your choices of cutting metals with torch vs plasma vs grinder cutting wheels. What you demonstrated in today’s video is an interesting example. The plasma cutting is significantly faster and exponentially more expensive than slower cutting wheels and drilling. Wishing you and your family a blessed week, a gentle harvest season and a profitable journey. Peace brother
Nice build.... But to me, there's something missing. Nearly every rocket stove I've seen built has a fundamental flaw, not in the design of the body of the stove or the build, they're all great. It's a misunderstanding of the principal of how a rocket stove operates and the benefits of a correctly operating one. The concept of a 'J' tube was to cut down on smoke when cooking using wood as a fuel. Rural Indian households would traditionally use an open fire for cooking, the smoke issued led to high levels of lung disease. Using a J tube led to better combustion and cut down on smoke. The rocket stove advanced this idea so that the exhaust gases would have almost no particulates. This is achieved by extremely high combustion temps. To achieve this, maximum draw is used, the combustion chamber is insulated and the first part of the stack is lagged. This is to retain as much heat in the combustion chamber and stack to achieve fast and total combustion of the fuel. The exhaust gas is what is used for heating, rather than the body of the stove. Hence the sound of the running stove and the adoption of the word 'rocket'. Designs for space heating sometimes incorporate a barrel that sits over the body of the stove and stack, the exhaust outlet can exit the side horizontally because the draw for the combustion is created by the extremely hot stack inside. The best rocket stoves have a ceramic chamber a thin walled insulated ceramic stack because this part needs to heat quickly for ease of starting the combustion and achieving a draw quickly. If the stack is simply vented normally without the barrel chamber, the draw will tend to happen naturally, but if covered by a barrel as used in a mass heater, then the draw needs to develop quickly. Hope this is useful 👍
For your fans in the USA and abroad, will you eventually make your designs for sale or some of your stoves flat packed for shipment overseas? I’d love to help support your new endeavors!
Bussiness ideas. Reduce how much you need to do. I.e. only build hard bits the rest can be assembled. Small assembly means lower freight cost. Also reduce cost of materials used. If people buy more of the cheap stuf and are just as happy. Raise the price of the good stuff. Your value is in your skill. If it's crappy repetitive work. Look at robotics or offer it to the customer to diy.. in bussiness time is money. Your time is valuable and should be reserved for complex or creative tasks. Also make sure the people around you are growing.. look for fundamental equations in your bussiness, I.e. how your trying to change stoves. Perhaps it's performance to weight. Or cost to weight ratio. Automate as much as possible.. Hope this helps
Hi, bought plans for the stove, missing size of the hole between burner and riser, also diamension for the pipe welded to the bottom of the riser. Look like something missing in the plans.
Great video! You have superb skills and excellent camera sense. How you have succeeded while being left-handed is remarkable! Do you weld mower decks? Thanks for sharing!
So do we! Good luck & stay safe. To save a bit of water, shower with a friend. I did that during one of our droughts, then the Wife found out, oops. 👋👋👋
I noticed you left a front and back gap on the magazine feed tube, assuming for draft air compensation. Have you found those gaps improve the draft and does it allow heavier loading of the mag tube with wood (like closer to 100% full)?? Thanks for your reply
The gaps allowed me to put a door on the hopper. I wanted to direct more airflow up through the grate into the coal bed to get a more complete combustion. From my testing on other stoves where I haven't had the gaps, these extra holes helped in getting a more complete combustion, not having as much charcoal left unburned.
Hi this is Raymond from Scotland. Can I pick your brains. I am building a stove same as your shop heater and can only get 4” box section do I use the same sizes for the Venturi vortex or do I take a third of your sizes as mines is only 4 inch box. Keep up the great videos Regards Raymond
It introduced air to help with the secondary burn. It really comes into play when the system is clogged up with Ash and isn't getting enough air through the normal means in the burn chamber.
