Sawdust Stove
Sawdust Stove: Handmade barrel stove provides 8 hours of heating and cooking with one load of sawdust — smokeless and unattended. All gases go up the chimney. He heats over 1000 ft2 of uninsulated building. The basic idea can be scaled up to industrial sized heaters and dryers or scaled down for cooking and camping. Other materials such as rice hulls can be used instead of sawdust. could be combined with mass heating system for a great low cost winter heating system
Split upper/lower compartments. Top compartment contains 9V battery, magnesium fire starter, ferro rod w/striker, and steel wool (kept separated from the battery, obviously) Lower compartment contains matches, emery board strikers, cardboard pieces, dryer lint, cut ends from matches (to fit in the case), 3 smaller ferro rods, 2 mirrors, and pencil shavings. Two items not shown are a disposable cigarette lighter and a pencil sharpener.
Spitfires (fire starters): Made with an empty egg carton, dryer lint, and covered in wax (leftover candle wax or melted crayons work well here). Let the wax dry, break into individual cups, and light the cardboard corner to start your fire. Supposedly, dryer lint stuffed into an empty toilet/paper towel/wrapping paper roll works well also.
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