Home made wood stove from hot water heater and 55 gallon drum for outdoor use

heres my first attempt at a wood stove for my atv shop. let me know what you guys think of it. i still got a few things to do to it but any help is appreciated

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[DanOlooney]

you might want to burn the paint off that barell

[NewportHillClimber]

@DanOlooney i burnt it all off when i did a trail run before i hooked it up to the outside of the shop. thanks for the suggestion

[thinkyourright]

Yes I'll agree with that its your 1st attempt. What a sad looking thing..

[NewportHillClimber]

@thinkyourright lol. its ugly but effective

[phillipgaley]

@winnabego Always drawing in freezing air makes for most uncomfortable nights, the cold air like a 2 foot thick blanket, spreading across the floor. The best intake runs a tube from the roof, inside the stack, and down through the stove, and out, to be regulated in intake to the burn; it burns hot enough that, there's little or no smoke, . . . and no fan, the stack suction, producing a good intake vacuum, . . .

[NewportHillClimber]

@phillipgaley thanks for the comments. i appreciate the input

[phillipgaley]

@justkeepinitrealyo The vertical designs greatly simplify ash removal; and, because they burn hotter, there's less of it. Also, because of the type of steel, and thinness of it, the barrel stoves are not at all long-lived, . . .

The old large commercial gas cook stove tops were cast iron; recently, I bought one off a junk truck, and then also, one of the newer mild-steel tops.

With enough metal mass as a heat sink, at night, you won't have to rely on choking the fire down to a low smokey burn

[phillipgaley]

@justkeepinitrealyo . . . . warmer, oven and water heater.

I have made and used single and double barrel stoves, for the same reason many do, . . . low cost and ease in construction; but if you'd like the comfort of sustained heat output, use heavy steel, and perhaps fire brick lining so that—as with the 'rocket' stoves, you can get high burn temp.

Welding must be both sides; and though rolled sections cost more, the curves disperse the stresses, reducing or entirely eliminating stress fractures

[phillipgaley]

@justkeepinitrealyo The 'rocket' stoves are vertical in burn, and some have a near vertical feed tube, which makes it even more efficient. Also, the old pot-belly railroad stoves which were bolted in the caboose and burned coal or wood were vertical in feed and burn. If you ever use a vertical stove, you'll quickly perceive of the speed and efficiency of them. The advantages in efficiency were of course, sacrificed to convenience in large cooking area with combined oven, warmer, oven and

[justkeepinitrealyo]

@phillipgaley : But doesn;t your vertical rational go against the design of virtually ALL wood stoves?

[justkeepinitrealyo]

@somtam4eva : And you have the manners of one.

[heresyournametagmark]

dry your poop on a pan on top of the stove and burn it itll save you some money

[cbryant897]

you sound hot!!!