Firebrick Stove Prototype by @cahlen on 3Speak
I scoured the property for as many intact bricks as I could find and used them to construct a prototype of my fire brick stove for the dugout shelter. --- DONATE: CONTACT: SUBSCRIBE: GEAR LIST: NOT...
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Hey everyone, Callan here, and in this video I'm going to show you my fire brick stove prototype. So yesterday I spent the day scouring the whole property for the best, most intact fire bricks that are basically strewn across the entire place, and then I built this prototype. This is based on a design that I saw on... a YouTube channel, I think it's called Stove Advice or something like that. He basically just makes different types of fire brick stoves. This is a smaller version. His versions are generally designed to actually go into a house and heat an entire home. And I'm only going to be in a very small space, seven by nine, so I don't really need something that big. So anyways, I'll run you through the general design here. Okay, so the bottom layer is cinder bricks. and I have these aligned wrong because those are going to let air into the fire here, so actually they'll be turned this way when I actually set it up. And on the front is a little inlet, and there's going to be a pipe here that basically goes out the side of the hill and will let air in, and it'll be kind of right up against it, right? And then I'll be able to slide like a piece of metal up and down to let... more or less air in. I didn't want to buy a stove door because stove doors are like 50 bucks, and that's like half the cost of a, you know, if I just, I could just buy a wood stove, probably locally for 50 bucks by itself. These will be all mortared in except these two front ones here, and there will be less friction. I might just grind these down or something like that. But basically taking these two out will be the door, and so I'll put the wood in there. Sitting on top of this, of the center blocks will be a metal mesh, which we're going to cut to size. I'll show you that. So here's the metal mesh. Just cut a rectangle out of this to size. So basically, I'll put the wood in here, it'll sit on the mesh, and the ashes will fall down, and then I'll be able to pull this brick out. or even just going through that hole, though it might be a little bit small, and scoop it out to clean it with a shovel. All of these bricks will be mortared, so they'll be, I just bought a 50-pound bag of refractory mortar, which is what you use to make this type of stuff. For 50 bucks, and it's 50 pounds, and it ships for free. So it's 50-pound bag shipped for free, that's pretty crazy. On top is this metal... plate, which I will be able to cook on. Then this culvert is not actually the chimney. So the chimney is actually this thing up here. This is basically as almost like a baffle, okay, so there's going to be airspace or maybe even filled with dirt, but probably not because then I won't be able to take this off. I'll need to be able to take the chimney out in order to get down and clean the ash out of it. from the top here. So anyways, this is basically just an airbaffle so that the roof can sit around this thing without touching the super hot stove. The only concern I have about this is that these will get hot, and so this will get a little bit hot, and, you know, I'm assuming the heat will get less as it gets up here, and then it touches the roof, or is at least close to the roof, which will be plywood. and vinyl, so I'm wondering if you guys think that this up here, all the way up here, is going to be too hot. This is about four and a half feet tall. And if that, if you guys think that's going to get too hot, maybe I can get some of that, I think it's like ceramic, some sort of, like, it's like foamy type stuff, but you can have it, you know, right next to direct flames and it won't burn. and I think it insulates heat. So anyway, I'm going to take this stuff off and show you some more. Okay, this is what it looks like without the metal on it. The stove, or the chimney, goes down through this hole. I'll take these off here. So then there is a stack of bricks here. So the fire will be down lower than this, and there's a stack of bricks. a little bit hard to see, but this will force the flame to have to come up through this narrow area and then go down. So the stove, the chimney will be sitting all the way down here, and we'll have a hole cut in the front, so this flame will have to come up and down and go up through the chimney. So supposedly this helps it become more of a smokeless stove, creates turbulence, okay? So here's the front again with the doors off. We'll just get a closer look inside. So those are those bricks from the other side. And so the grate will be here. The wood will sit here. The ash will fall down there. Then for the top of the culvert, which you'll be sticking out a little bit above the chimney, we'll probably cut a circular piece of metal with a hole in the middle that... the chimney comes up out of, basically just to keep rain out of it. So that's the fireplace design that I'm thinking of using. I won't really be able to test it because there's so many chips basically in these mortar bricks that so much air would come in through the sides and everywhere that I won't really actually see how well it's going to work until I... mortar it up, so in that point is going to be permanent. So I am interested to hear your guys' feedback on whether or not you think this is going to work. You know, it doesn't have to work really, really well because it is a very small space, but if you think that there's going to be something wrong with this, where I'm going to have some serious issues, you know, maybe beyond just the fire not burning very well, but like maybe, you know. carbon monoxide getting into the structure or anything like that i'm curious to know your thoughts before i seal the deal on this thing it's going to be a couple weeks probably before the mortar gets here so i got some time to think about it and to hear your guys's thoughts so anyways thanks for watching and i'll see you guys later