Liking this style of heater! A few suggestions that may increase your efficiency---route your exhaust through some thermal mass to help retain the heat you're currently venting to the outside. Not sure if that would fit your space....or druthers from your family members, but it'd help balance out the heat so you don't get large indoor temp variations. Also, you could try adding 3 inch ducting to one side of your feed tube to provide outside air for combustion. While it's drafting, the stove is going to pull combustion air from wherever it can. Right now, it's pulling from the interior of your house, which is going to also pull cold outside air from anywhere it can, thus making your house cooler. Of course, adding ducting to the outside may not be possible depending on where your heater is located.
Where it is sitting now... in the middle of the kitchen, those modifications are not possible. However, the plan is eventually move it to the living room, and do, exactly that!
I had a Wiseway pellet fueled Z shaped rocket stove. Gravity feed, no auger, hence no electricity required, but it can only burn pellets. I loved it, but it was temperamental. Air, pellet lots, and who's tending the fire played a role in how it worked. The first thing I did was fire it up outdoors to burn the coatings off. Once installed, it was glorious, until I got a call from home telling me the house was full of smoke. Being mechanically inclined helps with the learning curve. It heated our house like nothing else could. I cooked potatoes in the Z crotch. The hopper held a 40 lb bag of pellets, so you could walk away from it until it over heated the hopper and started to smoke out the house again. (Mine was their first model. The company changed hands and they may have solved the early glitches by now.) But now it's time to replace it, and I want the option of burning more than just pellets. I'll look into this one. If the chimney draft and air intake can be tweaked to make it work, it may be just the ticket for me.
I am by no means an expert, and still very new to the Liberator Rocket Heater. I have mostly burned pellets in it. It holds a 40lb bag and no electricity required. I like that I can send the kids through the area picking up twigs, throw them in a lowes bucket, and burn those too. I roasted some ground acorns in a cast iron skillet on top of it, and am drinking the acorns coffee now as the Rocket Heater Roars in the background. Also, it's made in the US... thats a huge selling point for me
I too had a wiseway original model. once the US stove company took it over they added latches to the pellet hopper with gaskets and the downspout shoot from the hopper so as to stop the smoking issue. it was great but you had to babysit it a lot. I work 16-19hr shifts so it could only be left on Low when I was at work. my wife hardly ever touched it. I like the idea of this liberator bc you can burn pellets when you want. or sticks and twigs. Also instead of buying full cords of fire wood. you could easily order a much cheaper dump load of slab wood. and just split it to smaller pieces that will burn in this stove. seems like a good money saver. I might put one of these in my basement when I finish it
Fingers crossed? I appreciate a man who has positive thinking. 😆 I realize because of other factors you can't build your own rocket stove using mass thermal storage but over time you'll figure out what this thing likes and its quirks. Good luck.
I just opened up the house and dis it while the kids were at school. I didnt notice any smoke come off of the unit. But I did have a fan on it blowing to the nearist open window just incase
off the wall question...i noticed your Hearth...i am looking at a few different options. Curious what you are using. I placed my order for a Liberator yesterday!
The flooring is a Imperial brand stove board. Available at Tractor supply store. Any Type 2 flooring works though. I would recommend you download the owners book. It will have the measurements of floor protection required.
It is still new, so I am just getting use to it. When I get the pellets working right, it is just pumping out heat. I'm not as confident yet on burning wood, it seems a little more tricky. I will do an update soon. However, it looks like the price has increased sense I bought mine, so I am already telling my friends to buy it now before the price increases more.
I’d love to know how it works for you guys, I got one as well and trying to work out the kinks. Mine occasionally will burp smoke out the pellet hopper, they can plug, and the tube at least for me acts like a bit of a chimney. That being said, it’s not super cold yet so I expect the draft to improve. Thing throws the heat though!!! My workaround for the clog/smoke is to cut off maybe 75% of the side intakes to force air to pull through the pellet bed for cooling. Seems totally fine in the configuration. Again, may improve when the draft does.
@@paulferris2218 this Rocket Heater isn't meant for that. It's to be used with either pellets, or trimmings. I will be making another video showing it burn some branches from my apple trees so stay tuned.
Get a Bernzomatic torch with the push button ignite and just hold torch in burn chamber for 15 sec. and you don't need to do the rolled up paper thing and you can use it to start the fire with the burn chamber door off , thats how I get mine started much easier and faster.
Since it's gravity fed......can't you use a lot longer lengths of firewood cut into narrower strips? Would it feed properly and get longer burn times? Does the lid have to be on there?
You sure can. And I do. The lid doesn't have to be on. My wife laughs at me when I bring in these long branches after trimming back the trees, or even picking up after a windstorm. I have been very busy the past few weeks, but I will be posting a video showing exactly that kind of burn. Hopefully your subscribed so you can be notified when it comes out. Thanks for watching.
@@Heckerfamilyhomestead Just subscribed and 'thumbed up'. I want to replace my catalytic wood stove downstairs with a Liberator. I have 2 wooded acres of mostly hardwood. I could almost heat forever on our deadfall alone. I'd like to see a modification that allows the pellet hopper to remain in place while also having an access to burn limbs, twigs and wood. Sort of a dual chambered feed tube. Any ideas on that?
Good to see that rocket mass heaters finally are commercially available - though I'm not sure if this is really a mass heater ... ( where is the mass? ).
May I recommend that you put (at least) two magnetic thermometers on the stove. One on your stack about a foot from top of stove and one on the barrel itself. Unless there is a "baffling"/ Russian-style "switchback" system (or other form of heatsink) inside the barrel, THAT stove, like ALL rocket stoves without some form of "mass" to STORE the heat is just wasting a HUGE amount of potential right out the chimney. The two gauges will tell you IF you are losing a significant amount of heat out the chimney. I hesitated to comment this negatively as I try NOT to "burst bubbles" generally. There ARE accessories to a chimney that CAN help you recover that heat loss IF you see that is the situation; in-line blower boxes installed in the chimney about two feet up, for example. I was looking at rocket stoves for over two years and didn't go that direction because I have no basement ... Ideally, I would put that stove in a basement, route the "environmentally cleaned", but still VERY hot, exhaust through a "cob mass" on the first floor, and then vent it out the roof. I went with a small SOAPSTONED firebox, cast stove (hate that it's a cat) and am praying/hoping I can get it to function well and long term WITHOUT multiple CAT-replacement issues. I will gladly "eat my words" at the end our "first burn season" with our two new stoves in a friendly competition. PLEASE stay in contact so we all can hear your experience as this IS the first rocket stove that I have heard of that passed FedSpecs. May Rocky burn well for you and Soapy for me.
Eventually we might move this one to the living room, where we would have room to add a mass. For now though it heats up the house really well. I will do another video showing it burn.
Hahaha.. no. It sits in the middle of the kitchen and I needed it skewed to the side for more room to passby without bumping into it. I figured, if the pipe bugs me I could move it.
It burns hot, and it burns fast. I will make a video explaining in more depth, but when I burn wood, I light it in the morning, and it lasts until I have to drive the kids to school, sometimes it goes out just before. Then at night, I leave the top off and fill up wood as I walk by it.... again, I'll just make a video it will explain it better.
Yes that's an issue that i noticed, there is no way to slow the burn down, it will burn fuel as fast as you feed it and send all that heat out the flue,like I have said in other comments and not to sound disparity but it is very crudely built, I'd love to get together with the company that built this,there are so many simple improvements that could be made, my judgement on it is this, stone age
@@paulferris2218 most people don't know how these work, They look VERY simple at first Look. Here is a great video that explains it WAY better then I could. Next video I will show you how warm the heat drum gets, and compare it to the flue pipe. Hopefully this will help illustrate how little heat is lost. Thanks so much for the idea. ruclips.net/video/fwCz8Ris79g/видео.html
@@Heckerfamilyhomestead yes I have looked at the video and very interesting but the journey i am on is a whole new level,i appreciate the reply just the same
I've never seen a rocket heater with that design before, normally they're quite simple using the 1-2-4 principle proposed by Robert Murrey Smith.........what's the big round drum at the back for?
@@Heckerfamilyhomestead I only tried it a couple of times before I hooked it up. Did pretty much the same thing you did but I didn't have a long pipe hooked up to create a draft. Got up to only about 200.
I got mine a month ago. Super frustrating lighting it. It always backsmokes into the house. Once it gets going, it is awesome, but my house is starting to smell like smoke from the back smoking. It runs around 700 degrees when going. The support from the company is awesome. Brady is awesome. But they haven't been able to offer a solution to getting it started. Super frustrating as my wife is not happy I spent 2500 on a heating source that is smoking up our house. And they don't take returns, so beware.
I was going to make another video addressing this very issue! What I have found that helps is I take a few pellets, like a handfull, light them, then push them back. Then place a few more pellets with the wood. The pellets in the drum seem to get it going to where I dont have issues. But every now and again it will smoke. The worst culprut is the door. Sometimes I will add a twig or paper and it is too close to the door and smoke comes pouring out the door. I wish there was a way to 'close the top' when lighting it. I feel like this would reduce the smoking issues.
What's the larger wood for? If you use small wood/twigs as you would with a rocket stove to cook on, how often are you feeding it to keep a fire going? I ask this because we built our own brick double burner rocket stove on the patio 2 yrs ago and it is a continuous chore of feeding small wood to keep the strong fire, but we do love it, it cooks great, better than any gas grill out there.
The larger wood is left over from a large cast iron stove that was here. Eventually I will chop those up in to smaller pieces. So far, I have been primarily using pellets. But a few times we burned some smaller branches. It heats up good for about 30-45 minutes and when I check on it, it's out. But the house is so warm I don't need to bother re-lighting it. I have a feeling during the winter it will need a reload every 30 minutes to keep it going all day when we are snowed in, but this will be my first winter so...we will see.
Yes it looks American made, crude but severable and will put some heat out, a bit like a propeller powered plane, now a jet powered plane that is something else 😳 😀
Great analogy. As someone the had the chance to fly little Cesena's when I was about 13-14, I totally get it. Propeller planes have less in them to break or fail, are easier to learn to use for the lay person, cost less, and burn less fuel. What's nice about the Rocket Heater is it's efficiency when compared with fireplaces or typical cast iron stoves. Now with a little bit of snow on the ground in the morning, we are loving having it quickly heat our downstairs. Thank you so much for your insights!
@@Heckerfamilyhomestead thanks for the reply, when I made the analogy comparing it to a propeller plane, I meant that it seamed a very basic rocket stove and I'm not trying to be disrespectful in any way, although it seems well enough built it has many basic faults that could have been designed better. Your lack of control on the air intake is one, it makes it burn with no control therefore being less efficient
I would like one in my basement don’t know if I can vent out the basement wall and use a metal window well to keep it cleared then go up with a chimney
I looked once when we were burning pellets and it was just a little bit. I haven't checked when burning wood though. Now I am curious 🤔 I will have to check!
Some people put an intake pipe to the outside. I was thinking about maybe putting one just straight down to our crawl space. But you don't have to. Should I make another video explaining this?
That would be super annoying. Rather, I get up and on a cold day I start the fire, let out the dog, make my coffee, get ready for my day. By the time I am done the house is already warmer, but if it is still cold I can throw some larger branches in. Then I feed the animals. Come back inside, and the house is warm and I can let the fire go out. Because this burns so efficiently, it only takes a short time to warm up my home. Or you can burn pellets with the attachment.
@@Heckerfamilyhomestead maybe so. Thank you for the video either way. I found it to be informative. I hope the stove serves you and you're family well! :)
@@Heckerfamilyhomestead I’m planning on buying one myself for just that reason. I have MS and I’m in my 60s. There’s a lot of “easy” things others can do that I can’t. This seems to be the best way to go for me.
Get one these dampers for the intake and a cap to the other side intake, mine was older model with just the one intake ....it works good to slow how fast the stove burns and when you don't need a lot of heat worked great on mine....was a 3 or 4 inch opening I can't remember. file:///storage/emulated/0/Download/master-flow-dampers-ild4-64_1000.jpg
No way i could live with that stovepipe standing out of plumb like that.
My ocd kicked in just watching the video. 🤣
Life is out of plum sometimes
You will be happy yo know that when our new flooring got put in, the stove pipe was straightened.
Liking this style of heater! A few suggestions that may increase your efficiency---route your exhaust through some thermal mass to help retain the heat you're currently venting to the outside. Not sure if that would fit your space....or druthers from your family members, but it'd help balance out the heat so you don't get large indoor temp variations. Also, you could try adding 3 inch ducting to one side of your feed tube to provide outside air for combustion. While it's drafting, the stove is going to pull combustion air from wherever it can. Right now, it's pulling from the interior of your house, which is going to also pull cold outside air from anywhere it can, thus making your house cooler. Of course, adding ducting to the outside may not be possible depending on where your heater is located.
Where it is sitting now... in the middle of the kitchen, those modifications are not possible. However, the plan is eventually move it to the living room, and do, exactly that!
I had a Wiseway pellet fueled Z shaped rocket stove. Gravity feed, no auger, hence no electricity required, but it can only burn pellets. I loved it, but it was temperamental. Air, pellet lots, and who's tending the fire played a role in how it worked.
The first thing I did was fire it up outdoors to burn the coatings off. Once installed, it was glorious, until I got a call from home telling me the house was full of smoke. Being mechanically inclined helps with the learning curve.
It heated our house like nothing else could. I cooked potatoes in the Z crotch. The hopper held a 40 lb bag of pellets, so you could walk away from it until it over heated the hopper and started to smoke out the house again. (Mine was their first model. The company changed hands and they may have solved the early glitches by now.)
But now it's time to replace it, and I want the option of burning more than just pellets. I'll look into this one. If the chimney draft and air intake can be tweaked to make it work, it may be just the ticket for me.
I am by no means an expert, and still very new to the Liberator Rocket Heater.
I have mostly burned pellets in it. It holds a 40lb bag and no electricity required.
I like that I can send the kids through the area picking up twigs, throw them in a lowes bucket, and burn those too.
I roasted some ground acorns in a cast iron skillet on top of it, and am drinking the acorns coffee now as the Rocket Heater Roars in the background.
Also, it's made in the US... thats a huge selling point for me
I too had a wiseway original model. once the US stove company took it over they added latches to the pellet hopper with gaskets and the downspout shoot from the hopper so as to stop the smoking issue. it was great but you had to babysit it a lot. I work 16-19hr shifts so it could only be left on Low when I was at work. my wife hardly ever touched it. I like the idea of this liberator bc you can burn pellets when you want. or sticks and twigs. Also instead of buying full cords of fire wood. you could easily order a much cheaper dump load of slab wood. and just split it to smaller pieces that will burn in this stove. seems like a good money saver. I might put one of these in my basement when I finish it
Fingers crossed? I appreciate a man who has positive thinking. 😆
I realize because of other factors you can't build your own rocket stove using mass thermal storage but over time you'll figure out what this thing likes and its quirks. Good luck.
I’m one of the first 100 subscribers!!!! Military guy here too.
Thanks for watching! I appreciate it.
I just bought one and plan on firing it this season. I am curious to know how much smoke came off when the paint cured?
I just opened up the house and dis it while the kids were at school. I didnt notice any smoke come off of the unit. But I did have a fan on it blowing to the nearist open window just incase
off the wall question...i noticed your Hearth...i am looking at a few different options. Curious what you are using. I placed my order for a Liberator yesterday!
The flooring is a Imperial brand stove board. Available at Tractor supply store. Any Type 2 flooring works though.
I would recommend you download the owners book. It will have the measurements of floor protection required.
We have one and love it
I am interested in hearing your perspective as you use it...I have a Liberator in my cart...about to purchase one myself!
It is still new, so I am just getting use to it. When I get the pellets working right, it is just pumping out heat. I'm not as confident yet on burning wood, it seems a little more tricky.
I will do an update soon. However, it looks like the price has increased sense I bought mine, so I am already telling my friends to buy it now before the price increases more.
@@Heckerfamilyhomestead I just clicked submit on my order a few minutes ago!
I’d love to know how it works for you guys, I got one as well and trying to work out the kinks. Mine occasionally will burp smoke out the pellet hopper, they can plug, and the tube at least for me acts like a bit of a chimney. That being said, it’s not super cold yet so I expect the draft to improve. Thing throws the heat though!!! My workaround for the clog/smoke is to cut off maybe 75% of the side intakes to force air to pull through the pellet bed for cooling. Seems totally fine in the configuration. Again, may improve when the draft does.
How is it working out for you?
I pulled it out and put in a traditional wood stove. With the length of my chimney, ran into issue getting a good draft. Just wasn’t a good fit.
Will it take those split logs back there ?
Looks like they would fit 👍
If I split them smaller
Yes I was going to say that very thing, like I said propeller driven,
@@paulferris2218 this Rocket Heater isn't meant for that. It's to be used with either pellets, or trimmings. I will be making another video showing it burn some branches from my apple trees so stay tuned.
Get a Bernzomatic torch with the push button ignite and just hold torch in burn chamber for 15 sec. and you don't need to do the rolled up paper thing and you can use it to start the fire with the burn chamber door off , thats how I get mine started much easier and faster.
That's exactly what I do now
Since it's gravity fed......can't you use a lot longer lengths of firewood cut into narrower strips? Would it feed properly and get longer burn times? Does the lid have to be on there?
You sure can. And I do. The lid doesn't have to be on. My wife laughs at me when I bring in these long branches after trimming back the trees, or even picking up after a windstorm. I have been very busy the past few weeks, but I will be posting a video showing exactly that kind of burn. Hopefully your subscribed so you can be notified when it comes out. Thanks for watching.
@@Heckerfamilyhomestead Just subscribed and 'thumbed up'. I want to replace my catalytic wood stove downstairs with a Liberator. I have 2 wooded acres of mostly hardwood. I could almost heat forever on our deadfall alone. I'd like to see a modification that allows the pellet hopper to remain in place while also having an access to burn limbs, twigs and wood. Sort of a dual chambered feed tube. Any ideas on that?
@@kdpjsp that's what I planned too, but burning branches is a little more hands on, then the pellet stove.
We hope it works well for you!
We are loving it!
Keep up the good work.
Very nice!
Good to see that rocket mass heaters finally are commercially available - though I'm not sure if this is really a mass heater ... ( where is the mass? ).
You have to build a mass to route the exhaust through.
May I recommend that you put (at least) two magnetic thermometers on the stove. One on your stack about a foot from top of stove and one on the barrel itself. Unless there is a "baffling"/ Russian-style "switchback" system (or other form of heatsink) inside the barrel, THAT stove, like ALL rocket stoves without some form of "mass" to STORE the heat is just wasting a HUGE amount of potential right out the chimney. The two gauges will tell you IF you are losing a significant amount of heat out the chimney. I hesitated to comment this negatively as I try NOT to "burst bubbles" generally. There ARE accessories to a chimney that CAN help you recover that heat loss IF you see that is the situation; in-line blower boxes installed in the chimney about two feet up, for example.
I was looking at rocket stoves for over two years and didn't go that direction because I have no basement ... Ideally, I would put that stove in a basement, route the "environmentally cleaned", but still VERY hot, exhaust through a "cob mass" on the first floor, and then vent it out the roof.
I went with a small SOAPSTONED firebox, cast stove (hate that it's a cat) and am praying/hoping I can get it to function well and long term WITHOUT multiple CAT-replacement issues. I will gladly "eat my words" at the end our "first burn season" with our two new stoves in a friendly competition. PLEASE stay in contact so we all can hear your experience as this IS the first rocket stove that I have heard of that passed FedSpecs.
May Rocky burn well for you and Soapy for me.
Eventually we might move this one to the living room, where we would have room to add a mass. For now though it heats up the house really well. I will do another video showing it burn.
Great stove... was your installer drunk then he hooked up that pipe?
Asking for a friend. 🤣
Hahaha.. no. It sits in the middle of the kitchen and I needed it skewed to the side for more room to passby without bumping into it. I figured, if the pipe bugs me I could move it.
Didi you get good burn time for each load of wood? It doesn't look like any way to regulate the air...
It burns hot, and it burns fast.
I will make a video explaining in more depth, but when I burn wood, I light it in the morning, and it lasts until I have to drive the kids to school, sometimes it goes out just before.
Then at night, I leave the top off and fill up wood as I walk by it.... again, I'll just make a video it will explain it better.
Yes that's an issue that i noticed, there is no way to slow the burn down, it will burn fuel as fast as you feed it and send all that heat out the flue,like I have said in other comments and not to sound disparity but it is very crudely built, I'd love to get together with the company that built this,there are so many simple improvements that could be made, my judgement on it is this, stone age
@@paulferris2218 most people don't know how these work, They look VERY simple at first Look. Here is a great video that explains it WAY better then I could. Next video I will show you how warm the heat drum gets, and compare it to the flue pipe. Hopefully this will help illustrate how little heat is lost. Thanks so much for the idea.
ruclips.net/video/fwCz8Ris79g/видео.html
@@Heckerfamilyhomestead yes I have looked at the video and very interesting but the journey i am on is a whole new level,i appreciate the reply just the same
@@paulferris2218 awesome. I would love to hear about the journey. Anyway we can improve I'm all about.
How long is the burn on 1 bag of pellets?
My stove is home and getting hooked up in a few days. I’m hoping to just burn wood from the property.
It took about a week and a half for a 40lb bag. However, this was just a few Chilli fall days. We haven't had it through a winter yet.
I've never seen a rocket heater with that design before, normally they're quite simple using the 1-2-4 principle proposed by Robert Murrey Smith.........what's the big round drum at the back for?
@@boterberg278 excellent explanation! THANK YOU
a fascinating piece of engineering
It truly is neat
Excellent
What is the diameter of the large barrel?
If you check out their website thwy have all that data: rocketheater.com/
The hopper makes it a lot easier to use and it last longer.
It really does! We have mainly been using that. Have you found any tricks on getting wood started with it?
@@Heckerfamilyhomestead I only tried it a couple of times before I hooked it up. Did pretty much the same thing you did but I didn't have a long pipe hooked up to create a draft. Got up to only about 200.
I got mine a month ago. Super frustrating lighting it. It always backsmokes into the house. Once it gets going, it is awesome, but my house is starting to smell like smoke from the back smoking. It runs around 700 degrees when going. The support from the company is awesome. Brady is awesome. But they haven't been able to offer a solution to getting it started. Super frustrating as my wife is not happy I spent 2500 on a heating source that is smoking up our house. And they don't take returns, so beware.
I was going to make another video addressing this very issue! What I have found that helps is I take a few pellets, like a handfull, light them, then push them back. Then place a few more pellets with the wood. The pellets in the drum seem to get it going to where I dont have issues. But every now and again it will smoke. The worst culprut is the door. Sometimes I will add a twig or paper and it is too close to the door and smoke comes pouring out the door.
I wish there was a way to 'close the top' when lighting it. I feel like this would reduce the smoking issues.
What's the larger wood for? If you use small wood/twigs as you would with a rocket stove to cook on, how often are you feeding it to keep a fire going? I ask this because we built our own brick double burner rocket stove on the patio 2 yrs ago and it is a continuous chore of feeding small wood to keep the strong fire, but we do love it, it cooks great, better than any gas grill out there.
The larger wood is left over from a large cast iron stove that was here. Eventually I will chop those up in to smaller pieces.
So far, I have been primarily using pellets. But a few times we burned some smaller branches. It heats up good for about 30-45 minutes and when I check on it, it's out. But the house is so warm I don't need to bother re-lighting it. I have a feeling during the winter it will need a reload every 30 minutes to keep it going all day when we are snowed in, but this will be my first winter so...we will see.
Yes it looks American made, crude but severable and will put some heat out, a bit like a propeller powered plane, now a jet powered plane that is something else 😳 😀
Great analogy. As someone the had the chance to fly little Cesena's when I was about 13-14, I totally get it. Propeller planes have less in them to break or fail, are easier to learn to use for the lay person, cost less, and burn less fuel.
What's nice about the Rocket Heater is it's efficiency when compared with fireplaces or typical cast iron stoves.
Now with a little bit of snow on the ground in the morning, we are loving having it quickly heat our downstairs.
Thank you so much for your insights!
@@Heckerfamilyhomestead thanks for the reply, when I made the analogy comparing it to a propeller plane, I meant that it seamed a very basic rocket stove and I'm not trying to be disrespectful in any way, although it seems well enough built it has many basic faults that could have been designed better. Your lack of control on the air intake is one, it makes it burn with no control therefore being less efficient
Try some fat wood for starting your stove we found it works much better than paper in our stove and it can be found very easy.
What on earth is fat wood
I would like one in my basement don’t know if I can vent out the basement wall and use a metal window well to keep it cleared then go up with a chimney
Put a little vegetable oil on the paper it'll burn longer.
You really like that shirt
How much smoke comes out chimney?
I looked once when we were burning pellets and it was just a little bit. I haven't checked when burning wood though. Now I am curious 🤔 I will have to check!
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Butane torch, you will need one anyway when you start using your pellet hopper. Screw all that paper.
Absolutely right! My other video shows me using one. I like it.
The pipe isn't straight. That would drive me insane.
I had to scoot is a tad to center it in the room, and make more room to walk around. I don't even notice it.
My issue is how to get outside air into it. Otherwise it uses your O2 and cold is sucked in.
Some people put an intake pipe to the outside. I was thinking about maybe putting one just straight down to our crawl space. But you don't have to.
Should I make another video explaining this?
@@Heckerfamilyhomestead No no. Crawl space in garage I can do. Thx.
59k views in 4 months? how?
How wants to sit by the heater 24 hours to throw twigs in REALLY
That would be super annoying.
Rather, I get up and on a cold day I start the fire, let out the dog, make my coffee, get ready for my day. By the time I am done the house is already warmer, but if it is still cold I can throw some larger branches in. Then I feed the animals. Come back inside, and the house is warm and I can let the fire go out.
Because this burns so efficiently, it only takes a short time to warm up my home.
Or you can burn pellets with the attachment.
I think you could do better if you made you're own from scratch. But you have to be careful!
Thank you for the vote of confidence, but you over estimate my building capabilities.
That does sound like a fun project though.
@@Heckerfamilyhomestead maybe so. Thank you for the video either way. I found it to be informative. I hope the stove serves you and you're family well! :)
@@Heckerfamilyhomestead I’m planning on buying one myself for just that reason. I have MS and I’m in my 60s. There’s a lot of “easy” things others can do that I can’t. This seems to be the best way to go for me.
@@Hero4Hire4 I would imagine with a pellet hopper it would be very helpful.
Get one these dampers for the intake and a cap to the other side intake, mine was older model with just the one intake ....it works good to slow how fast the stove burns and when you don't need a lot of heat worked great on mine....was a 3 or 4 inch opening I can't remember.
file:///storage/emulated/0/Download/master-flow-dampers-ild4-64_1000.jpg