[Cob] wood stove

[Raduazo at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/25/2004 11:45:31 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
dealy at deatech.com writes:
NOTE: in theory, a really tall chimney after the bench could work, but it
would need to be way to tall to be practical if any significant amount of
heat is dumped into the bench, which is the whole point.
    I am not too sure about that, consider this: Suppose you had a 
conventional stove with a conventional chimney, except you insert two T-connectors into 
the chimney at points A and B going up the chimney. Then you insert a line of 
pipes that goes from point A through a cob bench to point B by hooking in to 
the two T-s. 
    You start a fire in the conventional stove and it draws smoke up the 
chimney going through the A T-connector and the T-connector in the conventional 
way. 
    Then once the chimney is drawing well you insert a metal plate between 
points A and B completely blocking the direct path up the chimney.
    Now in order for smoke to flow from A to B it must flow out the A 
T-connector, through the bench and back into the B T-connector to get up the chimney. 
    If this was a pot belly stove or one of those stoves where the chimney 
exits from the top of the stove it would be difficult to make the connections, 
but if it is a stove where the smoke exits out the back of the stove, I think 
this would be easily doable.
Ed