Grover Rocket Stove demonstration by David Allan

[gtrefghuk]

Wouldn't be using that galvanized bucket for cooking.

[carcano38]

the more vids I see of everyday people using rocket stoves, unlike the person who made this, I am getting very unimpressed. In another film at this site they had the starting trouble. In fact, almost all this vid was just trying to get it going. I also noted nothing was cooked, hmmmm. My plans of getting one off E-bay has been put on hold. Just from what I've seen the gas Coleman stoves are better. Would have had a meal cooked before this stove was even started !

[askaxis]

do yourself a favor and 86 that galv. bucket...toxic to cook in

[444buffo]

@theflintnsteel hey check out this video. Rocket Stove. they sell for $120-$135 i can make them for about $35. would you be interested in one.

[NocturnalBreather]

@444buffo I made a slightly smaller version of this the other day.... I used an old catering-sized tin for the outer case and two ordininary soup cans. I dug the clay my self... mixed it with some straw form my dad's allotment (he uses it for mulch) to make an insulator. And my grandad lent me his tin snips to cut the holes. The best part?

I made it entirely for free and I'm only 14. But it was not seriously rugged like the one shown here... it worked though so I'm happy. :)

[shellman1973]

I belive you might try fanning the draft tube at the bottom with a hand held fan/cardboard to induce a large amout of air/oxy. into the combustion chamber

.If you dont want to spread ashes into your cooking pot/pan you could also use a 3/8th inch dia.tube to gently blow into the bottom combustion chamber. Great video,keep up the good work!

[walkertongdee]

I made a gasifier stove but this seems more practical, thanks.

[cobyson100]

the vent is so jammed of wood you're blocking the draft....you had it right..twigs first, then build up to larger wood but you have to have some room...I use one of these in my cabin and it rocks...uses about 1/5 the wood our fireplace did and easier to monitor temp...downside is you have to keep it stoked...that means rotating firewatch.

[hanghoodiescum]

thats junk be better with a oil burner

[garybrown33]

your galvanized bucket has a lip on the bottem and at the start of th vid it was setting past the nuts flat on the lid of your stove makeing it smother out.

P>S> if you keep useing that pan your going to get Metal fume fever.

[eyechubcunt]

you can drop wood in through the top to get it going.

[Thetruthishere11]

basically it's a furnace/kiln

[poida84]

not bad mate noticed your bucket has a flange on bottom which will go over the bolts on the rocket stove not good you still need gap between bucket and top of rocket stove to keep the heat escaping through hole in top if there is no gap it will put the fire out

[Beepinsqueekin]

If you start with twigs from the ground then add a few larger ones, it'll start right up. Start small and work up big. Love this stove.

[norb1937]

Since watching my grass grow is more exciting than this video you can easily sell this video to the cable company. They would squeeze commercials between all the exciting parts.This is just the kind of stuff they buy. It would compete with other exciting stuff like Junk Yard Wars or Monster Garage.

[calionstallion]

@norb1937 After I made my first Rocket Stove I was showing it off...really proud of it.....I thought it was something unique. I showed it to an old lady friend of mine...told me she had seen one before..I had to ask where she had seen it.....She said she had seen it on the Home Shopping Network......hahaha....

Another friend is not impressed with the rocket stove. He calls it a Guinjo o ginsu.

[onthecuttingedge2005]

Hook a solar powered Blower to it!

Thanks.

[harpbloke]

heya, i turned my pile of bricks bbq into a rocket stove and its amazing.

didnt know those matches that lite on anything where still available, brilliant, just like the ol western movies.

thanks for the view into camping in your country.

white fella fire, hahaha.

and tell yer son he needs a hair cut , tis gettin a little long there !! haha

[liketadied]

yep those strike anywhere matches are hard to find!There is a super market here in the carolinas called publix they sell srike anywhere matches,I stocked up on them ,they are in the isle with charcoal and lighting fluid! Just FYI thanks!