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I don't mean to spam this website, but there is another really great deal that I think is à propos to this thread. You can get 45 ... yes 45 prepper/survival books for just $18 over at Humble Bundle.
Some examples of titles included:
... And More!™ BTW, you can pay as little as ONE DOLLAR and get ten titles. Ten dollars gets you 20, fifteen dollars and you get 31. Eighteen dollars (or more, if you like) gets you all 45 titles. The default charity benefiting from this sale is the "Book Industry Charitable Foundation". |
Stumbled over this reader'S comment and found it interesting to know, I did not know the inherent trickeries of prepping for a Diesel generator. But one should know them.
------------ " And since I work professionally with emergency power systems, here are a few more tips on diesel fuel. The diesel commercially available in Germany is known to contain up to 7% biodiesel. This "bio" portion prevents the unlimited shelf life, since biodiesel is hydroscopic in contrast to normal diesel and draws water over time. This then leads to contamination, the so-called diesel plague. Please google it yourself. In fuel tanks for emergency systems, the fuel is turned over and replaced frequently , or measures are taken to prevent contamination. This is done through drainage or disinfection systems, through the addition of substances that inhibit bacterial growth or, best of all, through the use of fuel without bio components. Large customers can buy this fuel if they are tax-exempt or tax-privileged At the refineries it is called "low-sulfur heating oil according to DIN EN 590". This is practically diesel fuel as it used to be common, but which you cannot actually buy privately. The use of normal heating oil is no longer possible nowadays, as heating oil there is no red-colored diesel fuel! Heating oil does not have to comply with fuel standards, which is why cheap additives are added to heating oil today. The quality varies greatly. Above all, commercially available heating oil today usually does not meet the requirements relating to the minimum cetane number (ignitability). Modern diesel engines do not start with commercial heating oil, or only start with a delay and when they run, then not on all cylinders. They produce very white smoking exhaust gases (unburned fuel in the exhaust gas). Modern diesel engines only run reasonably with heating oil when they are preheated to operating temperature. So if you want to use heating oil or bio-oil, you should get an antechamber engine that is as old as possible. If you have a new unit, you need suitable fuel." LINK |
I made a nice deal, a household clearance, they sold it as "new but unused", and it indeed even was factory-sealed. They found it in the garage of the person that had deceased. The rocket stove I already had, but the cast iron pot is the item I talk of, a "Dutch oven". In that size and of that weight it usually costs 70-100 taler, depending on the brand - I got it for 30. :) I almost had bought one of these some years ago, by Petromax, and if I would have done that, I would have paid three times as much.
https://i.postimg.cc/jd878VsX/20211012-144316.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/gJYcFJs6/20211012-144426.jpg That oven, btw, is great, it burns not only wood and bio mass, but charcoal and brickets as well. I have used it for fun severla times in the past two years, with a wok pan or a swedish cast iron pan. Who knows, this winter with all the electricty instability and gas reserves empty... I have enough wood and coal for 6 weeks of hot meals. Then, if not collecting wood in the "wild", i would switch to gas cookers and other alternatives I have. These stoves are great, they are just fun to handle, and open fire always is great. |
I confirm everything he says, this model works great.
Rocket stoves produce not even half as much smoke thna open fires, they burn hotter than open fire if sticks are small in diameter, and you need two thirds less burning material than for an open fire. Most rocket oven like this are models meant to burn biomass and wood exclusively, only designs like this one (two doors) are good for burnign charcoal and brickets as well - and they do no compromise there. Great stuff! Ooops, you need to watch it directly on Youtube. Click the link in the banner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfdHr-1JnaI Why do you want one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFzueCHVfDU |
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Are these intended for outdoor use only Sky?
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Yeah, I didn't mean to imply these are new tech, but in conjunction with the dutch oven and the casters, it's a pretty neat set up. :shucks:
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"Rocket oven" not so much means a new gadget, but a principle of maintaining a cooking fire in the open, and efficiently. You find a comparable principle in socalled Dakota fire-holes. It means in general that fresh air gets to the fire from a separate second air intake, instead of just through the "chimney" opening where the cooking pot of meat or pan is placed. That way, more air gets delivered to the fire, you reach higher burning temperature, less smoke, less use of fuel. The thick isolaiton also focusses the heat on where it is wanted, instead of radiating at all directions.
I have build similiar constructions by use of brickstones and wild debris/stones. "New", or modern, is that these specific types of ovens have been produced in huge quantities for delivery to households in the third world where they have no access to gas, coal and so forth. For campers it is interesting that the fire is strictly controlled, the danger to set a forest ablaze by flying sparks is very small with these items. Jim, always use these outdoors. If you fire these well and maybe use a ventilator, the flames can shoot like a rocket fire 30-50cm out of the chimney, I have seen that in real life. These ovens then even hiss (fauchen). Impressive. Usually not needed. I will try some pulled pork in the Dutch oven sometime in the future. Good brickets on the rocket oven and on the pot's lid. I mean I cannot make an open camp fire on my balcony... :D |
BTW, I red on the website of the manufacturer of the Ecozoom why they raised their prices from 120 to 170 coins, and have problems to deliver. Its because of shipping containers. Usually, half a container, they write, costs 500 coins. Currently, at the time they posted it on their website, half a container costs 9500 coins... :o :doh:
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There is nothing better than New England Baked Beans, especially when cooked outdoors in an authentic bean hole. :Kaleun_Salivating: |
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Oh yeah. Lotsa molasses and brown sugar. Served with home baked corn bread. :up: |
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