david giffen

I have been trying to find the proper article (or video) of this is done but have been unsuccessful so far. But this would be for a stream or river that comes down a pretty steep hill and you are just pulling the amount of water out to fill the pipe and divert it to our water wheel so that it is not actually running in the water bed but all of the water is returned to the source once it has gone through our wheel. Oh by the way the term I was looking for earlier was a sluice way.

I saw an article sometime back about how to do something similar to what you are talking about. In the article they ran a pipe up stream a ways and brought it down to the water wheel which was near the water then when the water exits the water wheel it goes back into the stream. The water wheel is also housed in a building to keep from freezing It is a form of slew way ( I think that is what it is called) were they divert part of the water to run a water wheel and then it return back to the river.

After watching the video on why the conversions are not as efficient I am thinking that if the fire tube is insulated with perlite and then a thicker top or a fire plate above the top, the old fire box should work the same as a 55 gallon barrel does. I have built one out of 4 inch square tubing 1/4inch thick, I know over kill lol but it is some that I had laying around and then put it in an old job box that I had laying around. Still have not insulated around the burn area but so far has been working great on the test burns. Definitely very little heat from the flue pipe or in the flue pipe it self and the box it self has gotten up to 200 degrees on the top. The reason I am wanting to use the fire box as a heat collector it that it has the outside housing around it to reduce the chance of severe burns.

Thank you for your input on this. I had wondered about the heat burning out the stove, especially right above the fire tube it self. I had thought about a plate above it to deflect the main flame such as in a forced heat furnace. I had not thought about the gasses going up the flue and causing a fire though. Thank you for the suggestion of the bell use on this. I guess I will sit down and do a little more research and design modifications on this. Thanks again

I am thinking about converting a standard space heater wood stove to a rocket stove design. In doing this I am thinking about putting a false ceiling in a standard wood stove running the burn tube up through a hole near the door of the stove. I am replacing the door with a plate with the feeder tube extending through the plate. On the opposing end there will be a hole for the exhaust to flow down to the flue pipe. What I am thinking on this is it will hold the heat at the top of the stove where most of the heat comes from. This would also enable to burn pellets or small strips of wood to create a hot fire the same as large logs will do. Easier to start and using pellets I can also put in an automatic feeder to keep from getting up through out the night to refill the stove or keep the fire from going out during the day while I am at work and coming home to a cold house. Here is a rough diagram of what I am thinking. Would like some feed back on this. I am kind of doing this design off of a rocket cook stove I have seen on you tube.