It works great! You don't need to to be that big, you can make it long and short. Still works great. traps the heat nice. small bits is best. No raging fires. want the warmpth out, but not torching up direct as much close to the top. Radiate the heat out. This is an old vid, but still proves for a good way to get through a cold night.
If you pulled that just outside the fire place, make a bit taller flu, put a barrel over it( with the feed door cut out & exhaust pipe too but down at ground level), then pipe to the current chimney, you'd get way better room heat... But that's great for an emergency to use less wood!
Been thinking of doing the same thing. Ever thought of a water heater threw it wi t h a water pump? Not a pressure system just a open container with water?
I am thinking of doing the same thing, but with a steel heater / stove, that I can put in place of my gas fire when needed. Thinking it should warm up the room, and cook food / boil water etc, for free. ( just a little pallet wood ). Paul UK.
Fireplaces are made for containing fires. So how is this brick stove in the fireplace any more dangerous and likely to start a chimney fire than having a normal fire in the fireplace?
@@just-a-fella3212 It would never start a chimney fire because I have a double line stainless steel liner inside my chimney that’s number one and number two I already converted it and put a stove there so no worries. I had a lot of people dislike when I did I never used it it was there for just in case. Anyway the way the world has been going I’m not too far off am I, Anyway you have yourself a great day
@@jojojeep1 Thank you for answer. I have one too that I assemble in the fireplace during summertime incase the electricity supply fails and because it contains the heat and focuses it on the cooking pot instead of heating up the room like an open fire does. It works fine. I cannot see how it can cause a chimney fire any more than would a normal open fire in wintertime. All the best.
They hit that temp inside the rocket stove and once the heated air leaves the stove it quickly cools. There simply are not enough btu's in the bits of wood used to overcome the giant heat sink of a cold fireplace chimney even if he ran it all day long.
This is an Open chimney what i seen this far. And the advantage of a rocket stove is conrolled heat with low smoke and high efficient wood burning.. plus a place to put your Pan or cooking pot on. So if you dont have a wood burning cooking oven its pretty smart to do it this way.
@@xj9779 This was a few years back, I do have a woodstove now only problem it’s made for a 7500 square-foot home and my house is only 1800 ft.² so couple logs at a time
It is not stupid, here is why: During wintertime when the open fire is alight to warm the room, then yes, cooking on the open fire is convenient because the fire both heats the room and cooks the food. But during summertime we don't want to heat the room, so I assemble a brick rocket stove in the fireplace for cooking on incase the electricity supply is interrupted. So we can then cook an evening meal without heating the room very much because it is just a small fire contained inside the brick stove and all the fire's heat is focused on the cooking pot. And as the fire's heat is all focused on the cooking pot it only requires a few handfulls of sticks to do the cooking.
