A Rugged Multi-Fuel, Multi-Use Rocket stove
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- I built this Rocket Stove from scrap metal to serve as a daily use wood stove at a training center. I wanted it to be long-lasting, efficient, and work well, and be able to use various fuels including scrounged branches, wood chips, split wood, and eventually pellets [Done - see • Pellet Burner for Rugg... ]. I loosely based it on a model made by Vendel Keresztyen seen at • rocket stove special w... . It has a gravity-feed hopper as well as the traditional horizontal feed. The pot can be placed on the insert directly over the fire, or on the grill with the hole cover either in place or removed.
You can see that it burns well and with little or no smoke. I've run it on twigs and branches, wood chips, split wood, and pellets with good results. Since branches are abundant and free at the center it will likely be run mostly on those.
The aluminum ash box holds quite a lot and is easily emptied.
Note: The wood railing next to the smoke stack in the video will be lowered for safety and to give access to the whole surface of the grill top. [Done.]
This has been a lot of work to build but a great project and very satisfying! Looking forward to integrating a Stirling engine into it some day!
the best one ever .
sent from that beautiful garden where man cannot go back .
perfect .
I've see most rocket stove design on YT and this is probably the best of them all ..
THIS IS THE BEST STOVE DESIGN I HAVE SEEN. I AM DROOLING FOR ONE. DEFINITELY THANK YOU FOR SHARING IT. I love the self feeding 45 degree / horizontal hopper. It allows for much heat control, and for adjusting how long you want to cook. and also what kind of cooking you wish to use. It is also compact in size, and it looks like it would heat a small house wonderfully.
I really love the total design. My hat is off to you, and your design.
MUDDy
Amazing build !!!
muddymuddymuddmann try using a cajun rocket pot
Woah!!! Muddy! I watched your windmill videos back in 2010. Too cool seeing you in the comments.
that has got to be the coolest looking stove i've ever seen. i would love to have one of those in my house.we have furniture factories in my area that i can and do get an endless supply of free hardwood sticks.they burn way to hot and fast in my regular stove though.great look to of your stove and so clean too.a camper sized version would be awesome too
Favorite so far. The first multifeed I've seen. I've seen about thirty of these. This one is most appealing. Very well done.
CCMPULM Thanks!
Happen to build for sale??
Sir, Thank you for helping folk in our country of New Zealand learn how to become more self-reliant. Plans would be nice.
Very well thought out design and appears to be quite stout. I love the large cooking surface and the multiple ways of using the primary cooking location. I can see that this would be ideal for stir-frying in a good sized wok. This looks like something you wouldn't have any trouble selling. Four thumbs up!
+Andrea Tatham I would buy one.
Awesome design. Very beautiful and functional. You have built a masterpiece
That looks like a brilliant base camp stove or for disaster relief. Imagine that set up in New Orleans, soup kitchen style or Africa ..........market it!! well done
Yup that's a goody i might as well attempt to make one since the whole of New Zealand is on police an military patrolled COVID-19 #Lockdown cheers thanks for a awesome build
Good luck!
Nice design, I like the choice between horizontal feed and hopper feed.
Best rocket stove I've ever seen. Very useful.
This is a beautiful design! I think there should be some kind of reward for your ingenuity! I would love to have a stove like that, as im sure, many others would like also.
Best home-made design I've seen so far.
Wow that is super functional. I will probably use my everlast welder to add rails to my rocket stove like the ones you have.
Well thought out, well built. Would like to do this in Fiji (where I live) for the villagers that are suffering from chronic smoke inhalation. The children especially are susceptible and have lived in villages where this was so very apparent.
Well designed and well executed.
I want one for my kitchen.
That's a beauty. Might have to make one for myself.
I’d pay for one of these in a heartbeat!
This. Is. THE best stove I have EVER seen. Lightweight. Easy. Neat. The +perlite insulation was the only thing I needed to know by text to know this is completely the most throughoutly thought design of a stove I have ever seen. You can even lift it off to some yurt and let it be a combined food and heating stove-stove ! Simply. Wow.
Stove!
Thank you for the nice comments, but you need to know that I am building on the shoulders of many other experimenters and makers so I can't really take that much credit for it.
Producing heat isn't hard. Producing heat that's useful can be difficult but you've hit every note in the scale...functionality, utility, efficiency, flexibility!
I am speechless. Thanks for sharing.
Need to add a hot water tank with a spigot on the side. Great stove. Thanks for the video.
Excellent design. I love it. Thanks for the video.
One of the best Rocket Stove designs I've seen, if not the best!
Been wanting to implement a similar design for a while, but never had the resources, specially the time.
Really brilliant execution. Thanks for sharing this.
Saeid
Best design I have seen, many uses...
Good job
Best one i seen on youtube!,,.
Finally someone using a pot skirt
Yes, it cuts cooking time by almost half.
approtechie and yet no one uses them. Good job
I want one, Ever think about mass production?
THE BEST for sure Well done
Very nice! Thanks for showing us this! (Sure beats the old oil-drum-with-a-door on it!)
Excellent!!!! You have covered all the bases.
Exelente gracias por compartirlo saludos desde Huanuco - Peru
Nice build!
Nice job
Nice work!
This is not a prototype anymore but fully functional and real thing. Thank you for sharing! I´ll consider something like this when renovating my next summer grill place.
Personally I really like the smooth hot plate option for grill and pancake making purposes. Two of these side by side may fulfill every need you have - one with pot holes and one with just a smooth surface.
-a pizza oven design might be also possible cause needed action is "fast and hot enough".
I can't believe that stove has been around utube for 5 YEARS and I haven't seen it!!!!!! Needless to say.... I WANT ONE TOO , JUST LIKE THE REST OF YOU !!!! I don't suppose it has ever been made commercialy available (complete or just plans) ?!
Sorry, John, no plans and I'm not building them, although I see others building lookalike versions for sale in Japan and other places. I've given the dimensions several times in the comments.
very good design, love it
I'm proud of you !
Yes, this is why I do this stuff.
Outstanding.
A working Work of Art.
That is a good sized stove man. I want to weld one of those beauties with my everlast welder. Nicely done!
I like your stove
Nice! It's an simple uncluttered design that does what its supposed to. Couldn't really ask for any more than that.
I have bought three of these wonderful stoves, one for my Amma and two for my family in Austria
edwin zappe Interesting, esp. since I don't sell them. Which ones did you buy?
Good job. Simple and perfect in everyway. Love it!
classic i would buy one period.
I like the angled feed tube. Great idea. Will keep the fuel pushed in for easy feeding, but does that effect the heat coming out the top. Seems like some heat would escape out of the feed tube instead of going out the proper way.
Супер. Именно то, что я и хотел сделать, только нижнюю часть переделаю только под регулировку подсоса воздуха и распала, а боковую подачу оставлю, но чуть длиннее сделаю.
Но ваша печь продумана и проста в повторении.
Спасибо за видео!
Возможно скоро я порадую себя таким агрегатом ))))
Excelente diseño, por lo visto es eficiente en el consumo de leña. Bonita estufa.
Best design I have seen. Love it.
Thanks for the vid this is in my top 3 rocket stoves.
A fantastic design and setup! Well done, dewd!
great fabrication
Very nice.
Very fancy I love it.
Square to round flue is nice! So is the rest !
The tubing is 4.5" square, there is about 1.25" under the grill.
Very nice, really liked it. i'm inclined to do it myself.
I realize this awesome design can cook up a meal quickly, presumably using a relatively limited supply of wood, but does it throw off a lot of heat as a radiant unit, like a wood burning stove to warm a room?
+littgaia It throws off quite a bit of heat, yes. I imagine it could be used for space heating but I've not tried it that way.
Really nice piece or work, Appro. Probably I shall be borrowing quite a few of your innovations for future stoves! :) Can I offer a few suggestions for tweaking up your Mark 2 version, based on my past experience:
1) Make all the fire-tubes in stainless steel. They seem to last for something like ever. Mild steel is fine for everything else, all that isn't directly exposed to very high temperature flue gases and superheated oxygen.
2) Make the insulation >>at least 3 inches thick, all around the entire hot parts of the stove, including the feed-tubes
I've been a Winiarski fan for years and have the publication you link to, read it several times. Stainless steel is not typically available or affordable in most places, but I've found the 3/16-1/4" thick steel to be very satisfactory. I believe the dimensions of the stove are within the general guidelines given. I used it today to boil about 8 qts. of soup in a large pot using direct flame and with the pot skirt, running on pellets. It did just fine, used one hopper load of pellets plus 4 tuna cans more along the way. I light it with a tuna can of pellets soaked with denatured alcohol placed in the hopper first, followed by more pellets until full, and it seems to reach a full burn pretty quickly. I'll post a video on the pellet burner soon.
Rhisiart Gwilym m,
Awesome stove, great design.
i like this stove, i like to built this one, i hope you can show me how to build this step by step, it's really safe for the family to cook. I watch some stove in the you tube, but this want is really different its convenient to anyone.
MMMMM. I can smell it from here. Fantastic video as always. Many thanks for sharing.
gran idea FELICITACIONES..Y MUCHAS GRACIAS POR COMPARTIR... SEGURAMENTE QUE CONSTRUIRÉ UNA MUY SIMILAR...
very well done
Awesome design.
Fabulous!!Regards from SAO PAULO-BRASIL
Beautiful result!! I love it!!
Work of art.
Thanks
blackchisel9 my7
bravo majstore.
This is similar to the Lorena stove from Latin America. It's good for when you need heat in your house overnight in a cold climate, because it has a huge thermal mass. It takes a long time to get hot but when it is you can cook lots of stuff and then it gradually gives off heat for hours after you bank the fire in it. Fiji doesn't sound like the highlands of Guatemala in terms of climate so you might still want to look into other designs. Have you see the Terra Ceta stove? It uses molds also.
very very cool
Perfect I'll take one
Respect! great design!
...Good Old American Ingenuity..... I'm hungry now.
What makes this so American is that we take ancient techniques from backward countries and improve on them! Especially backward Asian countries..
Nice work! Looks like a great design.
would love to have plans of your stove, I'm disabled and unable to carry heavy loads of wood to a stove,but this has so many advantages for someone that is disabled or handicapped. I would have to pay someone to build it for me, but I think it would be worth every penny to me.
I'll try to put some plans together, or get someone better at drawing to do it for me. Several folks have been asking for these. I'm thinking the next one I build will be a bit lower down for better access to the grill surface.
***** yes, please! You did great job improving original design. will be great if you share plans. that will simplify replicating )) Thank you
I absolutely love this! keep up the good work!
Question: would installing metal tabs in the interior of the 'grill box' induce additional vortices in the wood gas, resulting in an even more efficient combustion?
very good friend would be amazing that you could see planes contruccion in another video. thank you very much
So well done, congrats...
If you ever decided to make these to sell I'll buy one.
Gr8 idea.
Wow I love your stove the best i have come across. But the problem I have is that you have not shown us the inner lay out, it will be nice to systematically show us that please.
Most of it is shown in the photos at the end. Not much else to see.
Loved your stove and great video with pics are fantastic. Good job.
You should build by order. I will order one myself.
Pure genius!
Thanks for the great idea (in a direct, concise video) - but why two feed ports?
The upper feed port works for auto feeding but needs to be kept closed. The lower port can handle long branches and such, not needing to be closed up.
this is a good stove! I would like one of this kind!
Nice design 🖒good job.
lovely job......... Thanks for sharing
I've watched a thousand people boil water on youtube, this is the best in its class.
this is great rekon u could use this indoord
Nice build.
Thank you for your amazingly quick response! I didn't want to bother you for much more than height, length and width of your cooking surface and the the size of your sq tubing. I assumed it is 4" but you might have used 5". Trying to get a sense of scale. Thank you in advance!
Randy Simper OK, so some dimensions: cooking surface is 13.5" x 22.5" x 2" deep; all square tubing is 4.5" on a side, 3/16"-1/4" thick; 16" from the floor to the bottom of the horizontal feed port; 20.5" from bottom of grate to cooking surface; steel smoke chimney is 3" x 6" x 24" tall; ash box is 4.5" x 4.25" x 8" tall; insulating jacket is 7.5" square and 16.5" long; inclined hopper is set at 53 deg. angle, 18" from bottom of grate to top of it; cooking surface is 34.5" from the floor. There is a metal strip welded to the inside of the vertical tube to support the grate. The grate extends up the side of the vertical tube so secondary air can feed the fire in the upper burn area. Hope this helps. The dimensions were somewhat dictated by what scrap metal I found on the day I went hunting for it, so I doubt the dimensions are optimal, but the stove works great even so.
***** Thank you so much! Most gracious of you.
very nice indeed!