Emergency rocket stove

[The Heretic]

I have a number of ways to cook if the power goes out.

I have a woodstove for heating with a flat top. I have a multi-fuel lantern with a cook top (but no way to vent it to outside). I have a couple of backpacking stoves. I have a cast iron pot/etc. that I can use to cook over a fire. IIRC I have a Coleman multi-burner stove somewhere too.

But this looks like something I would get:

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The one thing I have is plenty of firewood.

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[d2the3]

These are cool too, and any one can make em!

 

[Joe13]

I have a number of ways to cook if the power goes out.

I have a woodstove for heating with a flat top. I have a multi-fuel lantern with a cook top (but no way to vent it to outside). I have a couple of backpacking stoves. I have a cast iron pot/etc. that I can use to cook over a fire. IIRC I have a Coleman multi-burner stove somewhere too.

But this looks like something I would get:

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The one thing I have is plenty of firewood.

If you got the cash, it looks like a nice piece of gear to have around

 

[mjbskwim]

If you can weld you can come up with tons of ideas for these. Heck check YouTube and see tons of ideas.
This one is one of the nicer looking ideas.
Now the only bad part ,unless you have lots of smaller fuel,is you would need to split you fire wood into kindling.
It's the small size of the wood that makes rocket stoves work. 2x2s is the largest you could use efficiently.
Otherwise they rock

 

[etrain16]

Cool idea, I wouldn't mind having one either - but for $5K, I don't see that happening.

 

[The Heretic]

Yeah, pretty spendy for something you have to roll outside to cook with. I would rather use the $$ to buy a Vermont soapstone stove.



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I will probably get something like that when I retire and build my next house.

 

[etrain16]

Yeah, pretty spendy for something you have to roll outside to cook with. I would rather use the $$ to buy a Vermont soapstone stove.

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I will probably get something like that when I retire and build my next house.

That's a nice option too.

 

[ChiefStealth]

I have practiced making an "emergency" rocket stove out of cinder blocks. Works Ok.

 

[HuckleberryFun]

I have a Volcano Stove that works well with either propane or wood fire. Too heavy for packing it anywhere, but great for vehicle bug outs, car camping, or for home when the power goes out.
I like it.



Yes, the grate is upside down. I pulled it out and assembled it in a hurry to snap a pic.

 

[Brutus57]

Cool idea, I wouldn't mind having one either - but for $5K, I don't see that happening.

For $5k you could buy a lot of propane, for me, probably last me the rest of my life!

A few machine screws and bolts, tin snips, an old 3-5 gallon metal can with lid and a length of stove pipe you can make a pretty skookum stove. We had one to heat he "passenger terminal" near my BIL's gold camp north of Nome, AK.

Brutus Out

 

[mjbskwim]

Cool idea, I wouldn't mind having one either - but for $5K, I don't see that happening.

For 5k I can buy a nice welder and enough material for 5 or so of those

 

[Jamie6.5]

And then where do you store that behemoth?
In that amount of space I can store a propane stove and two 10 gal bottles, along with a few pots and cooking utensils.

 

[etrain16]

For 5k I can buy a nice welder and enough material for 5 or so of those

Well, my welding skills are pretty limited, but then again, it wouldn't have to be pretty, just has to work

 

[mjbskwim]

Well, my welding skills are pretty limited, but then again, it wouldn't have to be pretty, just has to work

OK so take $1k and take a welding course then buy the rest. Besides grinders can make it look better

 

[The Heretic]

And then where do you store that behemoth?
In that amount of space I can store a propane stove and two 10 gal bottles, along with a few pots and cooking utensils.

I have a 2k SF shop which used to have a stove in it so there is even a place to put the exhaust flue.

But after thinking it over, there are better options for most people. Plus, my shop is 80 yards from my house, making it a bit inconvenient.

 

[Camelfilter]

Interesting, but not worth it IMO for the benefit.

I think there is a no power needed gravity fed pellet stove about that would provide indoor heat (24/7 with proper hopper feeding), along with simple food heating (not cooking mind).

A pellet stove is hardly the best solution, but would be great in a limited SHTF, if you had a pallet of pellets properly stored.

 

[The Heretic]

Interesting, but not worth it IMO for the benefit.

I think there is a no power needed gravity fed pellet stove about that would provide indoor heat (24/7 with proper hopper feeding), along with simple food heating (not cooking mind).

A pellet stove is hardly the best solution, but would be great in a limited SHTF, if you had a pallet of pellets properly stored.

i thought pellet stoves needed fans

 

[Camelfilter]

i thought pellet stoves needed fans

Never run one, but had thought on it a tiny bit for a house in the future. The one I'm thinking on doesn't need any electric anything. Could be mistaken though.

I'll see if I can't find a link when I get back to a PC.

 

[Camelfilter]

This is the stove I was thinking on:

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Dealer:

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Looks like there out of Grants Pass, so it'd be nice to support a local small manufacturer.

Just saw that they also have a water jacket available for the stove, so you could set up a hot water system that uses the stove. That'd probably need a small 12V pump, but someone really knowledgeable might be able to set up some type of gravity circulating system?

 

[The Heretic]

That's interesting.

Still, a person would need to stock up on a lot of pellets if they were to rely on it for more than a short term SHTF event.

The thing about a wood stove is that there is usually some tree around that a person can use for firewood. I have enough "scrap" trees (maple, alder) to last me for the rest of my life without touching the conifers which are "money trees" (I can and do sell them as timber).