[Stoves] The Art of Using Grass Bundles in TLUD Stoves

[Boll, Martin Dr.]

Julien,

	Your fast-packed straw reminds me to the typical saw-dust stoves, which were dense-packed/ stamped with a central hole,  -- which was formed by inserting a stick during packing, and drawn out before burning-.
I saw that short after WW II, when the drums (with bottom-hole, to fit the "loading-stick" and totally open on top) were filled with saw-dust. One of those drums was inserted into the stove-body, and lit from bottom.
At the backside of the stove, there were two flue-outlets, one near the top, and one (as I remember right) at the middle, or possibly lower.
When the stove was burning well, the upper flue-pipe outlet was closed.  So there was a burning-gas circulation at the outside of the loaded drum.
Take care! If you make experiments with such types of stoves,  there was sometimes a puff caused by sudden ignition of unburnt smoke, with the result that the top-lit flew away.

Some years ago the daughter of A.D. Karve has developed a saw-dust-stove, which is close to the working-mode of the ancient model I saw.

I can imagine that the stove from India possibly has had already test-runs with pressed straw.

Happy stoving, without puffs!

Martin

P.S. Sorry this mail mail went yesterday to the stoves request address