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Buy_Sell

2006-01-20, 3:21 pm

I am wondering if anyone has consider the idea of building an oversized
kelly kettle for supplying hot water to their homes? This would be
ideal in remote off-the-grid locations. Just throw another log on the
fire so to speak and you will have more hot water than you know what to
do with.

http://www.tawayama.com/gear/cookin...ellykettle.html

http://gamma.nic.fi/~citybear/kelly/kelly.html

Derek Broughton

2006-01-20, 4:21 pm

Buy_Sell wrote:

> I am wondering if anyone has consider the idea of building an oversized
> kelly kettle for supplying hot water to their homes? This would be
> ideal in remote off-the-grid locations. Just throw another log on the
> fire so to speak and you will have more hot water than you know what to
> do with.
>

Certainly. I know many homes that are using a water-jacketed wood stove as
their primary heat & domestic hot-water system.
--
derek
Bughunter

2006-01-20, 6:21 pm

I use a http://www.cowboyhottubs.com/ to heat my outdoor hot tub.

It's a fair amount of work to tend the fire, but about the only practical
option for my off grid home, except for perhaps propane which would
be very expensive to operate. All my wood for the hot tub is free.

Then there is something like this
http://www.motherearthnews.com/libr...ting_Attachment
for domestic water heating inside using a woodstove.




"Buy_Sell" <werkspace@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I am wondering if anyone has consider the idea of building an oversized
> kelly kettle for supplying hot water to their homes? This would be
> ideal in remote off-the-grid locations. Just throw another log on the
> fire so to speak and you will have more hot water than you know what to
> do with.
>
> http://www.tawayama.com/gear/cookin...ellykettle.html
>
> http://gamma.nic.fi/~citybear/kelly/kelly.html
>



andre_54005@yahoo.com

2006-01-20, 8:21 pm


Buy_Sell wrote:
> I am wondering if anyone has consider the idea of building an oversized
> kelly kettle for supplying hot water to their homes? This would be
> ideal in remote off-the-grid locations. Just throw another log on the
> fire so to speak and you will have more hot water than you know what to
> do with.
>
> http://www.tawayama.com/gear/cookin...ellykettle.html
>
> http://gamma.nic.fi/~citybear/kelly/kelly.html


I got one that was sold by Sears in the early 1900's. They were made
and sold by many different companies. You can find them at farm
auctions now and then.
_____________
Andre' B.

Pal

2006-01-23, 7:21 am

Buy_Sell wrote:
> I am wondering if anyone has consider the idea of building an oversized
> kelly kettle for supplying hot water to their homes? This would be
> ideal in remote off-the-grid locations. Just throw another log on the
> fire so to speak and you will have more hot water than you know what to
> do with.
>
> http://www.tawayama.com/gear/cookin...ellykettle.html
>
> http://gamma.nic.fi/~citybear/kelly/kelly.html
>


If my recollection serves me correctly, my own Government recently
(withing the last 5 or 6 years) made these illegal, because some clown
fired one up with the isolating valves all closed, and blew the jacket,
the slow combustion stove, the chimney, and about half the house, into
the middle of next week.

Almost enough for a honourable mention in the Darwin's
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