Month: December 2019
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Managing Hot Water
Talking with a weekend friend the other day who is starting to contemplate country life full time, she mentioned it had occurred to her in the shower the other day just how nice a hot water shower can be. In fact, she continued, she believed it to be an essential element for survival. I added…
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DSR 2019 build
Well, a new heating season is begun and with it a new iteration of the previous Rocket stove, called a Double Shoebox Rocket. The group over at the Donkey forum did some experimentation back in 2018 coming up with this concept, which was later abandoned by Peter van den Berg, the chief experimenter on the…
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DSR (Double Shoebox Rocket) revisited
So it’s getting pretty cold outside, and when I built the last version of my stove I promised a breakdown analysis after I had used it for a season and had a chance to sort out my experience. Now that I have rebuilt the beast it seems the time is here to write about it.…