[Cob] C. Taylor & cobbing over stove

[Charmaine Taylor]

Yes, the  Masonry stoves are a great idea for indoors, this cheapie is 
outside in my  open (roofed over)  glass enclosed work area, and I am 
planning to burn all the bits of scrap wood his winter, and keep warm 
while making my mud pies/experiments  outside.

  Designing a circ.  baffle is prolly beyond my skill level, but I DID 
think of bending the pipe and cobbing the chimney to run along side the 
inner patio as a "radiator": to the heat just does not go UP but is 
curved to radiate at hip level.  so much ambition and so little time 
eh?

Ianto's indoor burner has a chimney running thru a cob bench to heat 
it, and tales of people not wanting to get off it to go home are 
legend..it is comfy and warm,
I saw another indoor cob bench built this way   in Grass Valley CA, 
that had the pipe cobbed in too close to the  top ( seating area), and 
it got uncomfortably hot I hear, they had to keep pillows on it.
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thanks for your comment
On Jun 29, 2004, at 11:09 AM, Mary Lou McFarland wrote:

> Charmaine,  The way you described cobbing over the wood burning stove 
> reminded me of a plan for a masonry stove/ kuchelhofen  (sp?)  Have 
> you thought about cobbing in a circulating chimney while you were at 
> it to see if it would work?  Anyway, since you can buy a firebox to 
> build your own masonry stove, I don't see why it wouldn't work.
>