We got what we BARGAINED FOR off-grid (Rocket Mass Heater Part 5)

Charles finishes fabricating a stove door for our batch box style rocket mass heater, and we get our hands on some clay to continue building the cob bench. Plus, we deal with the gullies carved into our driveway by summer rains, and Charles executes the final step in his plan to keep the plumbing lines under the yurt from freezing this winter.
We moved to rural Vermont to experience a new kind of life, and we found it! We arrived two years ago in a travel trailer and got to work setting up our own off-grid systems. Now we’re making a home for ourselves in a 30 foot Pacific Yurt, right here on the side of a mountain. Charles plans and executes our DIY projects, and flies the drone camera. Jill is our TH-cam videographer.
Here are links to the previous episodes in this series:
Rocket Mass Heater Part 1 - introduction & batch box fire bricks
• Rocket Mass Heater Par...
Rocket Mass Heater Part 2 - mortar for the batch box core
• Rocket Mass Heater Par...
Rocket Mass Heater Part 3 - p-channel for the batch box
• Rocket Mass Heater Par...
Rocket Mass Heater Part 4 - mud for cob bench and DIY steel door for batch box stove
• Our WILDEST yurt proje...
And here are the open source plans for the general design of this batch box rocket mass heater: batchrocket.eu/en