(above)animation of burn sequence from a 2X oversize fuel crib of dry softwood updated on Jan 21/09
John Gulland
John Gulland
Contraflow Heater with white oven by Marcus Flynn Contraflow heater with stucco and mosaic tile finish
Halifax, Nova Scotia . Mosaic design by Kath Rutherford click for alternate image
Check out the masonry heater article
This is a typical Estonian cookstove, with a heated wall behind
Jim Houck, Paul Tiegs, et. al.
Built by Alex Chernov and Sergei Kuznetsov of Stovemaster
Decorative Bread by Henry Ruczynski , Vancouver
Marcus Flynn documents this indirectly fired oven, in the Eastern Townships of Quebec
by Alex Batsulin, stovemaster (translated from the Russian original)
Contraflow Kachelofen by Tom Trout
Thanks to Marcus Flynn for the link
The New Yorker Support Masons on a Mission
Fairbanks Daily News Miner, Dec 17/09
Fairbanks Area Wood Smoke Local Action Coalition
Bake Oven and Grill by Pat Manley
Salt Water Farm cooking school, Maine
by Tom Stacy
by Paul Tiegs and Jim Houck, OMNI-Test Laboratories Hearth & Home Magazine , December 2009
Hearth & Home Magazine , December 2009
Brick and reclaimed sandstone
Brick Contraflow Heater by new MHA member Evan Moore US EPA Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
Video Broadcast Archives:
PM 2.5 non-attainment picture in the next 5-10 years
by Marcus Flynn
see also: 2009 Lopez rocket experiments
Book Report: "Blessed Unrest " by Paul Hawken
New York Times, Dec 6/09(your editor rates it 10/10 )
Large off grid straw bale eco-cottage , Kazabazua, Quebec
Reclaimed brick shiner facing
Top 5 MHA Page Views, November 2009: 1.)..........9543 -------MHA Home Page MHA News MHA Gallery Page 4.)..........2599 -------MHA Members Page MHA Brick Oven Page - - 96,929 Total Page Views for 2009 to date: - - - 705,620
Top 5 MHA Page Views, October 2009: 1.)..........9457 -------MHA Home Page MHA News MHA Gallery Page 4.)..........2407 -------MHA Members Page MHA Brick Oven Page - - 88,366 Total Page Views for 2009 to date: - - - 608,691
Outdoor See-Through Rumford Fireplace
by MHA member Colin Coveny Nepean Sandstone, Ottawa ON
The Guardian, Nov 5/09
Heater by MHA member Dan Pike
Local limestone, rough face and polished face.
Heater by Raivo&Kerri Koppel, Estonia Heater with Cooktop
Raivo&Kerri Koppel, Estonia
Word version
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
"Here are brief profiles of some of the activist web sites that call for bans on wood burning. The objective here is not to harass them, but to learn from their tactics and assess the quality of their arguments."
From The Woodpile , edited by John Gulland
A compilation of news and commentary gathered from maintstream media.
From The Woodpile , edited by John Gulland
Thanks to Hans Nicolaisen for the link
The low energy frontier in housing
Fairbanks Daily Newsminer, Nov 14/09
New York Times, Nov 11/09
with Eric Moshier
Feb. 25 -- March 1, 2010 North House Folk School Grand Marais, Minnesota
EPA will consider regulating masonry heaters and pizza ovens
Draft NSPS Review Document
Available in the MHA Members Lounge Note: For comment only, not for distribution
Marcus Flynn explores the masonry heaters on an abandoned collective farm
Stone For Buildings and Civil Engineering, The British Geologic Society, 1999
by Steve Bushway
Monterey Peninsula, CA Feb 20-21
Lopez Labs updated on Nov 4/09
The workshop raised $2540.00 for MHAFeedback from Chris Springer Nov 1/09: Updated with preliminary test results
Outdoor Bake Oven and Rumford Fireplace by MHA Member Colin Coveny
Ontario (Owen Sound) limestone.
MHA Publishes Draft Technical Standards
June 6/09
These standards are currently in draft form, and are open for public comment.
Unilock pavers set in thinset
Heat-Kit Corner Unit by Dan Givens and Lee Kenaston
Fairbanks, AlaskaDave Misiuk
with Alex Chernov
Heater/Fireplace Combo by Sergey Nesov
Sergey is the president of the Moscow Stove Builders Guild
with Erik NilsenYahoo Masonry Heater List
Thanks to Joel Dick for the great link
Quarrying Stone -- Oct/09
William Davenport sent this fall photo from his current job.
Cutting Stone, Pennsylvania, 1938
MHA Member William Davenport's great grandfather is in the background.Finished product at the Davenport hunt camp .
Double Bell heater in Sweden (Kuznetsov style)
built by Ekonomka
Thanks to Marcus Flynn for the photo from his recent trip to Russia
from Peter van den Berg, Netherlands
by John Fisher
For use in AfghanistanMHA Directory
by Marcus Flynn
"The potager takes its name from the word 'potage', soup, which was made on most days in homes throughout France. Until the last war, many households in France cooked upon an open fire and baked in a wood fired oven..."
Excel spreadsheet. Corrected on Oct 17/09
Updated October 14/09
Heater by James Schonauer Heater Finish by Antoine Guerlain
Core build by Steve Bushway and Antoine Guerlain Laura Lee Intscher, architect
Inventor of the Teplushka, and Double Bell masonry heater
Waclaw Micuta, 1985. 97 pages .
"Any third-rate engineer can make a machine or a process more complex; afterwards, it takes a first-rate engineer to make it simple again."
MEMD - PREEP
by Dave Misiuk, PE
by Marcus Flynn
Grate and sloped floor similar to Alex Chernov's design
by Marcus Flynn
Based on a design by Alex Chernov
detail, see link above
MEMD - PREEP
with Norbert Senf
The Last Straw , Sept 23/09
Gernot Minke - University of Kassel, Germany
by Doug Hren
National Museum of Man, 1979, Ottawa. Download as a single file (33 Mb)
Dick and I just finished this oven by his house today. The land across the lake is Ontario. Eric Moshier
2009 MHA Bake Oven Contest winner.
with Alex Chernov and Norbert SenfSept 22/09: Note: Workshop is fully booked with 12 attendees
by Norbert Senf Updated on September 30/09
Top 5 MHA Wildacres Page Views, August 2009: 1.)........2216 -------2006 Backyard Bake Oven with Peter Moore 2004 Cob Oven with Tom Trout 2007 Experimental Oven with Alex Chernov 2005 Small Commercial Pizza Oven with Pat Manley 2003 French Bake Oven with Norbert Senf
Total Page Views for August:: - - 46,898 Total Page Views for 2009 to date: - - - 449,012
Peter Reinhart LA Daily News Norbert Senf
New York Times, Sept 13/09
Build it Solar
Stove Builders at the Moscow Day Celebration
Left to Right.
Valeryi Pishulin, stove builderMarcus Flynn , stove builder (Montreal)
Berkshire Living
by William Davenport
Handbuilt contraflow heater by Marcus Flynn
Check out the blog
Danish masonry heater builder Lars Helbro visits colleagues near Vienna
" Thanks to MHA News, we have attracted aRK
"probably you can see the MHA influence..." RK note corner detail on the tile, suggesting 4" stone. -- ed
Stone Turtle Cooking School
Sept - Dec 2009 Schedule
Uses a brick Catalan vault as the main structure
Timbrel vaulting at
Cuba's art schools Time lapse movie of a vault being constructed at MIT
October 5 - 8, 2009
Contraflow plus updraft channels to the side and across the top
Last test of this series . Interesting.Independent results from Peter van den Berg, Netherlands, , updated on July 27/09Aug 15/09 update : See also: John Fisher's rocket comments from 2007
Alaska Fireplace Retrofit Project
Update from Dave Misiuk, July 9/09 preliminary particulate and efficiency results are in .Design qualifies for I.R.S. 75% efficiency definition
Jay, NY
Bill and Athena Steen's blog is well worth a visit for fans of clay. .
by Norbert Senf
by Alex Chernov
St. John's, Newfoundland. Reclaimed bricks
Bake oven vaulting crew
6'x9' commercial bake oven by William Davenport, for Elmore Mountain Bread , Vermont left to right: Carsten Homstead , Antoine Guerlain , William Davenport , Ksenia Chumakova Photo credit: William Davenport
Granite Heater by MHA member Dan Pike
Heat-Kit core. Brick backing wrapped with EIFS mesh embedded in thinset.
Jessica is a friend of MHA
Heater by Dale & Andre Demary, Saranac Lake, NY
Thermal Mass core "Gimme Shelter " Sunburst
with Alex Chernov updated on June 21/09
Portland Herald, May 20, 2009
forwarded by Tom Stroud, June 3, 2009
Five run soapstone hybrid, Wildacres 2009
Contraflow Heater with White Oven by Antoine Guerlain
American Clay plaster finishMHA Plans Portfolio heater (modified)
Heater by MHA member Joel Dick
DAC International pre-engineered super low energy houseFirst fire.
A Huge Success.
The auction raised $23,464.00 - - - a new record. Donor list - - - - Particular thanks to Tulikivi for the top donation, which raised $6,000.00
Sweden
by Alexander Batsulin
by Igor Kuznetsov
by William Davenport
Contraflow Kachelofen
by Tom Trout
Double Bell Heater Core - 11 ft. tall
by Carsten Homstead Design based on Igor Kuznetsov's system
by William Davenport and Antoine Guerlain Design consulting by Alex Chernov and Igor Kuznetsov
by Marcus Flynn
New York Times , Feb 6/09
Heater design proposal by MHA Member John Fisher , Sweden
Cob plaster with soapstone trim
Section Drawing by John Fisher
by John Gulland
Toronto, December 2008
Double Bell Heater by MHA Member Carsten Homstead
Design based on Igor Kuznetsov's system
St. John's, Newfoundland
Check it out
(Compare with: 1930's-1950's Finnish commercial oven design ..... ed .)
Room heater by Antoine Guerlain
Handbuilt core, shiner facing , American Clay plaster finish
by Alex Chernov
Custom Rough Face Tulikivi , Tetonia, Idaho by Ron Pihl
Developed by Richard Jussel and fellow members of the Austrian Tile Stove Association
by Hikari Fukazawa
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