Cob: RE: earthen oven in Guatemala type house.

[Arlie Haig]

Here is the aprovecho link http://www.efn.org/~apro/attitlepage.html

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shannon C. Dealy" <dealy at deatech.com>
To: "Patrick Newberry" <PNewberry at HFHI.org>
Cc: <coblist at deatech.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 9:42 AM
Subject: Re: Cob: RE: earthen oven in Guatemala type house.


> On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Patrick Newberry wrote:
>
> [snip]
> > build with thin walls and so I let it go. Now a new opportunity has
> > arrived. There is a Guatemalan house in the village and they want to
> > build an earth type oven in the house. I have been ask to help. Does any
> > one have any idea of what type of earthen oven would be an authentic
> > earthen oven that I can build inside this house. I have a Dec 10 th
> > dead line to do this so any info etc would be good / helpful.
> >
> > Either a set of plans, a simple write up, or photos etc would be of
> > use. I have build one earthen fireplace in a school bus before so I have
> > some experience, but I'd like some authenticity. Please help with your
> > ideas so that we can show these dang stick builders just what all can be
> > done with earth / cob.
> [snip]
>
> Actually, based on the picture in your other email, what you are
> probably looking for is plans for a "Lorena stove".  The originals were
> built with an earthen cob-like mixture (possibly with some cement mixed
> in, I just don't remember the details), which might be what was used for
> the stove in the picture, though I can't tell.  Other more recent
> rocket type stove designs are probably much more efficient, though the
> Lorena is much better than the traditional approaches used at the time in
> Guatemala (the Lorena stove design was created and introduced to Guatemala
> about 25 years ago).  I believe there was a USAID publication on how to
> make them, and there are probably others as well from Aprovecho and
> possibly other sources.  Of course being a fairly recent introduction, I'm
> not sure that this really qualifies as traditional.
>
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