William Bronson

This video shows a seed snail used for starting cuttings!

Here's second video:

It did take some effort to find it!
Hopefully someone knows if it's still intact and operable.

Sarah Joubert wrote:

William Bronson wrote:
I wonder if it would work with winter sowing?

I successfuly used snails to grow red and green cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and leeks. They were transplanted direct from the snails into the garden. I shall take a recent picture of what they look like now.

Check out this video, Kendall combines winter sowing jugs and seed snails into "snugs"

Nathan, if I were building a rocket stove for this space I would build a bell along the north wall of the greenhouse and use the top of the bell as a place for more plants.

The energy in wood derived solid fuel is mostly proportional to its density,so if you are planning to burn cardboard I would go for a very large j-tube or batch box rocket stove that can fit a lot in at one time.
This 8 inch J-tube that Uncle Mud could be ideal.



It has 6 whole barrels end to end as as a bell, and the area above the riser is insulated, so most of the heat is directed into the bell, instead of radiating out the tops and sides of the barrel.
They built theirs outside, and covered it with a hugel mound.
If you built yours indoors you could surround it with pallets so the sides were vertical,or just put pallets along the north side, and let the south side be sloped.
A 6 barrel bench is about 18 feet long.
Sizing the j tube up to 10 or even 12" could enable an even longer bench.

If the goal is to heat aquaponics water without changing the chemistry, stainless steel coils should do the trick.
If you station the sump tank above a heated bench, a homemade heat pipe could move the heat from the bench to the water.
Heat pipe video:
Check out this video, "diy heat pipe"

I had not heard of a oil impulse driver.
Now I'm interested!
The lower vibration would be good for these old hands of mine.
The lower noise would be good letting me work later in the night and earlier in the mornings.

To me an oscillating saw is more akin to a angle grinder than it is a substitute for a sawzall.
It's about precision cuts and grinding/sanding.
A sawzall is more akin to a chainsaw.
It's about deconstruction and dismantling.

I can make fine clean cuts with a sawzall, with the right blade, enough time and some difficulty.
I have not found an oscillating saw/blade  that can cut down a tree, but I'm open to the possibility!

I started my career in the trades as an electrician, so Milwaukee Red was my preference from the beginning.
When I started buying my own tools all I could afford for home was the Red m12 platform.
They have proven to be excellent tools.
The batteries, not so much.
The same can be said for the Red m18 line.
The batteries stop taking a charge and will even  brick a charger.
I kinda blame myself.
My ADHD means even favorite expensive tools sometimes get abused.

After early bad experiences with Ryobi, I tried them again.
What spurred me was borrowing and using one of their old blue tools equipped with a brand new battery.
No one else has that kind of backwards compatibility for batteries.
Then I found out I could buy a tool plus a battery for less than the cost of a Red or Yellow tool by itself.
Then I found them in pawnshops.
Some batteries have failed me,but they seem to last as long as  the Red batteries do.
The tools deal with my ADHD induced abused pretty damn well, and I can afford to have back ups.

Cheap, durable and backwards compatible, they are now my go to for battery powered tools.

I have given my old Red m12 stuff to a young friend of mine who has no spouse or kids and lives with with their folks.
They can afford to buy new going forward, I cannot.
I'm still holding onto my Red M18 stuff, but only out of inertia, literally none of the batteries work anymore.
If I find a deal on batteries I might put them back in service, or gift them to my friend.


One more shout out , this time for Harbor Freights Bauer line.
They are competitive, and they would be my choice if Ryobi wasn't available.
I have bought some for my kid, and I will continue to buy replacement batteries for the devices, and expand  his collection of tools.

A sawdust stove is a purpose built gasifying stove that burns for hours on a single load.

Here's a link to the playlist I made while researching them:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUQMDg9HfMjh4aofzELdfkm-1__xwAivD&si=I8qggVgc-KVCRPvK

You also might want to try making the sawdust into charcoal in your wood stove.

Hers a short video on how :

I'm pretty sure the "juice box straw" design is a metal chimney in a bell.
I'm not sure if it has ever left the design stage.
I'm not sure why the part of a metal chimney inside the bell would need to be insulated.
Usually we insulate a chimney to keep it hot and thus maintain draw, but would that be a problem inside of a bell?
The top of a bell gets hella hot and is often made of special materials to deal with the heat.
Maybe we need to protect the metal chimney from   the high temperatures at the top of the bell?




Depending on the material, poking a hole for the the metal chimney to exit might be very difficult.
For example, the walker cookstoves often use the glass top from an electric stove as the top for their bell, and you can see above the masonry part of the chimney rises outside of that footprint.
That design preserves cooktop area and it means no need to cut the extremely tough Glass-Ceramic material.

So,even if if you use a metal chimney inside the bell,it might be better to have it rise to the ceiling of the bell,turn 90 °and exit the side.
A tee fitting inverted at the bottom of the chimney,with one arm poking out the side of the bell could offer the perfect place to put a clean out cap.

EDIT: A better name for this design might be a "plunger tube"
Glenn explains it in this thread: https://permies.com/t/367651/tube-RMH-barrel-stratification-bench#3733843

The insulation is there to"reduce heat leakage from the top of the bell."

I compost in a similar fashion, and it does draw critters.
The chickens, cats and dog all help by preying on them.
We had critters before the chickens and their, and we still have them.
The chicken feed is probably as big a draw as the scraps
If I were trying to control this I would keep the compost in a large container, like a storage tote or a fridge laid on its back, and close it up at night.