This spontaneous essay is a response to this great piece by Alex Chernov, as presented in the MHA News. From: Max Edleson max (at) firespeaking.com To: MHAmembers@yahoogroups.com Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 07:52:43 -0800 Subject: Re: [MHAmembers] member news Indeed, Alex, the article you have written is great and this area of research you are […]
Important note: I have preserved this post as-is for archival purposes. On-going development of the Cabin Stove is documented at The Cabin Stove Page. A good part of the month of August has been dedicated to the research, development and construction of a small multi-functional masonry heater I have been calling “The Cabin Stove”. Eva
This is a very exciting and experimental masonry heater built by many hands through a workshop at the Cob Cottage Company in southwestern Oregon. The challenge – that Ianto Evans is so consistently a champion of – was to build a masonry heater that was made of local materials and through local craftsmanship. Flemming Abrahamsson,
In our family’s effort to continue to move towards a land-based livelihood, we are fabricating metal components for masonry heaters, wood-fired ovens and joinery for custom construction in our shop at home. We are very interested in finding clients who are interested in developing custom solutions for their projects. Through the Masonry Heater Association of
This is a video summary of BioConstruyendo Patagonia 2011 – the second year of this wonderful natural building convergence that takes place in February in El Bolson, southern Argentina. Eva and I were instructors for this event last year. The location of the event is a community where Max has lived and put in a
Download and Print a Flier to post in your local Community! Cost: $1,200 Accommodations: Includes all meals, camping is available free of charge Registration, Discounts and Related Information: https://www.cobcottage.com/registration Instructors: Flemming Abrahamsson, Ianto Evans & Max Edleson Description: In Russia, Scandinavia and much of Northern Europe houses are heated by huge upright brick stoves, often
This article is flagged for needing updating soon! The purpose of this article is to share the specifics of one way to plumb a masonry heater to provide hot water for a home. In this project, a stainless steel heat coil in the firebox was connected to a well-insulated water tank above it which then
This is part of a series of articles on heating hot water with masonry heaters and other wood-fired stoves: See also Details of Plumbing for a Thermasiphon Hot Water System We are currently reading “Handmade Hot Water Systems” by Art Sussman and Richard Frazier. This book has a really down-to-earth late-70’s approach to using your
OUR INTERVIEW ABOUT MASONRY HEATERS! While working on this corner heater in Northern California, one of the neighbors we met was a woman by the name of “BR” Graham. She is a mover-and-a-shaker at the local community radio station: KMUD. She arranged to do a recorded interview for the Wednesday evening Environment Show and then
In our continual search to come up with functional, beautiful AND affordable solutions for sustainable living, we are very excited about and currently experimenting with the use of Compressed Earth Blocks (CEBs) for masonry heater construction. As natural builders, we decided that masonry heaters provide the very best solution for heating homes. It is the
This summer has been an exciting time to deepen our craft in masonry heater building. Here, Jerry Frisch of Lopez Quarries and I are standing in front of a heater that I assisted him on in a new house on the Puget Sound in the state of Washington. It is a basic Finnish contraflow design
“Take the German stove, for instance – where can you find it outside of German countries? I am sure I have never seen it where German was not the language of the region. Yet it is by long odds the best stove and the most convenient and economical that has yet been invented. To the
