by michaelegan » Mon Feb 09, 2015 3:59 pm
Manny and Hpmr, thanks for your interest and comments. Manny, I live in Rockton, IL but in June my wife is retiring arom teaching and we will be moving to our farm north of Springfield, IL which is where I'll be continuing work on permaculture projects, including Rocket Mass Heaters, probably an outdoor oven and some kind of biochar cooker. The farm is 53 acres, over half is mature oak forest, I have a bandsaw mill and do some tree work occasionally so we end up with lots of slabs and firewood to burn. I'll be putting one RMH in the barn, another in the basement of the house and a third in a 10' x 10' strawbale shack. The ground is mostly dense brown clay which I brought up to our home in Rockton to use when I started building RMHs in 2009. We're selling our place up in Rockton. You're welcome to come over to Rockton but I plan on taking the batch heater apart in April. We'll also have plenty of room at the farm (including the strawbale shack which is isolated in the woods). That invitation extends to all of you on this forum: if you are traveling and could use a place to stop in central Illinois we'd be happy to have you. This is the best forum I have seen: very good information, good attitudes.