Comments on: Help wanted from NESEA community – anyone w/experience building justa stoves or composting toilets? http://www.nesea.org/nesea/help-wanted-from-nesea-community-anyone-wexperience-building-justa-stoves-or-composting-toilets/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=help-wanted-from-nesea-community-anyone-wexperience-building-justa-stoves-or-composting-toilets We Connect Sustainability Professionals to Ideas and Each Other. Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:06:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Michael Beattie http://www.nesea.org/nesea/help-wanted-from-nesea-community-anyone-wexperience-building-justa-stoves-or-composting-toilets/#comment-301 Michael Beattie Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:45:11 +0000 http://www.nesea.org/blog/?p=721#comment-301 Marc, I've built a couple over the years, loosely based on the Clivus. Big and bulky, but seem to work ok. Be happy to share the details sometime. Marc,
I’ve built a couple over the years, loosely based on the Clivus. Big and bulky, but seem to work ok. Be happy to share the details sometime.

]]> By: Liane Allen http://www.nesea.org/nesea/help-wanted-from-nesea-community-anyone-wexperience-building-justa-stoves-or-composting-toilets/#comment-300 Liane Allen Thu, 24 Mar 2011 04:08:27 +0000 http://www.nesea.org/blog/?p=721#comment-300 Try Mark Krawczyk, who teaches a class on how to build earth ovens at Yestermorrow. He may not personally have built a justa stove, but is likely to be connected to that community. Additionally, you may want to look for experienced rocket stove builders. The tech is very similar, and there are probably more rocket stove builders around here. Matthew DeLorey in Williamstown, VT might be a good person to track down. He has produced a youtube video on the topic of rocket stoves. As for the toilets - would a simpler bucket system using 5 gallon bucket (easier to carry and empty) be more acceptable to the populace? If not, the basic premise behind most composting toilets with a built-in composter is a chamber of some sort below the seat. The chamber either has a crank that turns the entire chamber (automatically closing the door through which the wastes enter the chamber, then re-opening it after a certain number of rotations) or a crank that turns a fork-like object within the chamber to turn the compost regularly. It's not really different from the bucket in a wooden box, except that you have a larger chamber, so there's room for the composting to happen in-place. Note: if this kind of composter is in a location that freezes, the consequences of using it while frozen are sufficient to make one wish for a bucket system. This is a lesson we learned the hard way. Try Mark Krawczyk, who teaches a class on how to build earth ovens at Yestermorrow. He may not personally have built a justa stove, but is likely to be connected to that community.

Additionally, you may want to look for experienced rocket stove builders. The tech is very similar, and there are probably more rocket stove builders around here. Matthew DeLorey in Williamstown, VT might be a good person to track down. He has produced a youtube video on the topic of rocket stoves.

As for the toilets – would a simpler bucket system using 5 gallon bucket (easier to carry and empty) be more acceptable to the populace? If not, the basic premise behind most composting toilets with a built-in composter is a chamber of some sort below the seat. The chamber either has a crank that turns the entire chamber (automatically closing the door through which the wastes enter the chamber, then re-opening it after a certain number of rotations) or a crank that turns a fork-like object within the chamber to turn the compost regularly. It’s not really different from the bucket in a wooden box, except that you have a larger chamber, so there’s room for the composting to happen in-place. Note: if this kind of composter is in a location that freezes, the consequences of using it while frozen are sufficient to make one wish for a bucket system. This is a lesson we learned the hard way.

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