Cordwood House/Rocket Stove

[tentfire]

Cordwood House with Rocket Stove

This is just as neat as it can be! I just may have to experiment with a chicken house or goat house (eventually).

home-n-stead.com/about/blog_files/category-3.html

There's some good goat pics part way down, too.

[olhillbilly]

Perty Cool!!!

[rick brumback]

Now I could live in that,dont know bout the wife,but I could.

[WVsnowflake]

That is what we are building , got most of the wood already cut and cured now have to make the floating pad this spring and start laying it up. Ours will be a whopping 24 feet octagon. for the bedroom/ bath and another made for the kitchen and the livingroom. We are even thinking of an earth bag root cellar . We are digging back into the bank and making the front of Earth Bags.

[tentfire]

COOL! But, what is a floating pad? And that Earth bag root cellar sounds like a great idea. Ever since you wrote that I have been browsing around my yard seeing if I have a tall enough slope I could try a small one.
But tell me, why do you have to peel all the bark off of the logs for the cordwood house and what is the easiest way to do it? (besides turn your goats loose with them) I would love to make a chicken house like that.

[WVsnowflake]

OK this is where I started looking into cord wood building.
www.cordwoodmasonry.com/Cordwood.html

As for the floating pad It is in the book we got called Stoneview by Rob Roy. the gist of it is lots of sand tamped down then a concrete pad poured over it. thicker at the outside for the foundation. Hubby and his friend know the specefics of it . I just watch the video ;D

As for the bark on the trees bark will leave air pockets for the germies and bugs to live and make it rot. You definately want to skin the trees in the spring when the sap is rising. and since we are using popular the bark is kinda thick , you go down the length of the trees and cut all limbs and then make a cut down the length of the tree and then use a drawl knife to shave it. What we do is get it started with the knife then we sharpen a 3 inch stick to a point and pry the bark from the tree. once we got it off we cut the pieces into 24 inch pieces and split them stack them and cover the top with a tarp.
We have about 30 more trees left that we can use and 2 more left that we didnt get cut into pieces for curing. ( hubby got to busy at work ) But now since he is taking a couple months off to go back to school we have time this spring to cut more and put them up for curing. Probably by end of march we will be heading to nebraska

Well Better scoot and make some chicken ! Check out the website and look into the libraries and see if they have any books

[olhillbilly]

Yeah, ya beat me to it bout the bark. But one word = Bugs!

And Goats do a fine job of removin it if yer not pressed for time. Course, mine will barka tree faster than me. Some folks use a spud hoe to remove bark. Like a hoe only straight and heavier.

[WVsnowflake]

Yeah we gots one but I can't use it they are afraid I will cut myself somehow LOL Humph ! so I gets to use sharp sticks LOL

[olhillbilly]

Careful, you could poke yer eye out. lol

[tentfire]

I think that is the kind of hoe I have been using for a floor scraper. I have one floor, though, that even that hasn't worked to pull the tile up with. THANKS for all the explanations, guys! Makes sense. I was guessing peeling the logs probably had something to do with bugs. These sound like great houses, but for something made off of the land, they sure sound somewhat complicated. Those heated floors I saw in the bag house link sure looked nice. Oh, would that be heaven! Bet you could do that with this kind of house, too.

[WVsnowflake]

Yup you can we have been looking into radiant floor heating. You pipe hot water through tubing and it heats from the ground up. Just wondering if you can make it outta solar? Gonna have ta look more into that one.