hay / buffalo chip stoves

Around here the Amish seem to have it figured out,... I see trails of the pellets on the roadside alot.

Paul

mntbugy wrote: ↑

Mon. Nov. 05, 2018 12:51 pm

Poo burns hot and long. That is how I clean my outhouse barrel. Just stand upwind a little bit.

Haha oh my. For some strange and absurd reason I would kind of like to see that MB!

Here is a link to another story about the Russian stoves, which were apparently built from designs the Mennonites brought with them from their home country which was very similar to the Nebraska landscape.

https://history.nebraska.gov/publications/prairie-stoves

Here are some more links I found of photos of stoves in different early settings. They have detailed information of the images in each link.

This image has a woman carrying a bucket in a prairie campground with a cookstove in the foreground and what appears to be a covered wagon with the wheels removed so it sets flat on the ground.
I have found that if I click on the small image it can be enlarged for a better view. Even better is if I save the image to my computer as a jpeg, then it can be enlarged as much as I want to see more details.

https://nebraskahistory.pastperfectonline.com/pho ... 6674550930

The next two appear to be photos of the same stove, I believe a baseburner, in a general store from two different angles, or maybe it's just the same brand of stove in two different stores according to the details about the photos. The chimneys are definitely different.

https://nebraskahistory.pastperfectonline.com/pho ... 0843105680

https://nebraskahistory.pastperfectonline.com/pho ... 1860727618

I like the variety of people in the last one...white, native, even a little african american boy. All staying warm by the stove in the general store.

One more, a gorgeous baseburner in a home with a baby in a carriage. Can anyone identify the stove, or even better, who's the baby?

https://nebraskahistory.pastperfectonline.com/pho ... 5431440890

Great work The last link wont open for me unless its my pute.

Sorry, I think I fixed it now. I don't know what I did wrong.

gardener wrote: ↑

Mon. Nov. 05, 2018 1:30 pm

No problem. I enjoyed it.
The description of the hay burning attachments was interesting. I imagine that lighting those was little effort.
The webpage/article did not say specifically, but I gathered that the buffalo / cow chip stove was some sort of cylinder stove.
The russian stoves read to me that it is some sort of mass heater.
The remark about the corn oil 'burned holes in the stoves'. I wonder why that was?

Thanks everyone.

Oh also, the webpage/article reads like they wrap up by listing the progression of fuels, made me think about how nowadays many pellet stoves are able to burn various types of pellet fuels. I don't think dried manure has been pelletized, but I have seen shows that talk about pelletizing just about any agriculture residue you can think of.

These two links talk about making pellets and briquettes out of animal manure and agricultural residue.

https://www.biopelletmachine.com/biopellet-making ... chine.html
... also provides a list of net caloric value of many fuels, cow dung included

http://www.gemco-energy.com/manure-pellet-machine.html

I was looking through the 1885 "The Stove Index" and saw one described as a "Hay Stove". It was on page 88, model name Hamilton Prairie, manufactured by North Western Stove Works.