How to Use a Barrel Wood Stove

Or at least, how I used it ! I learned a lot during the 5 months of use. It worked better and better as I made various improvements. Its inexpensive, very efficient, and I'd recommend it to anyone who needs to heat a greenhouse, shop, garage, or other structure, ...or even heat a house or cabin.

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[llewej7]

Nice setup, thanks for sharing and keep up the good work. I wanted to mention to anyone who might do this... DO NOT FOR ANY REASON burn so much as one stick of CCA pressure treated lumber in this or any other wood stove. It is tempting to burn the scraps but the ash that remains (and escapes through small cracks into the inside of the greenhouse) is EXTREMLY poisonous! No Joke here.

[mhpgardener]

@llewej7 Thx...I've heard similar about treated wood. All my scraps go to the dump, no need taking chances.

[MrRedNeckParadise]

Ya got some firebrick in the bottom of that bottom barrel? Mebbe a layer of sand under the firebrick? The barrel will last a bit longer if ys just used the firebrick. Might hold the heat a bit longer, too. Overall, it's a nice set up, imo.

[mhpgardener]

@MrRedNeckParadise At the time of this video, I didn't have any. But I bought some for this season, and I just put some in the stove that I built for my new greenhouse. Thanks.

[DesertDigger1]

Good ol American ingenuity...Good job Bobby!

[mhpgardener]

@DesertDigger1 Thank you much !

[soggybuilders]

@thinkyourright How do you know what people want ? Do you have ESP ? If you dont like the vid dont watch it , always some one bitchin about someone else , hell you dont even know that rebar is soft ,besides that rebar dont weld good ,Damn keep it to youself .

[gabigowriel]

the ash can be used for soil and plants, the creosote can be almost eliminated by a "U" shaped steel pipe pre-heated by the bead of the fire with small holes on top of the "U" pipe through wich air is sucked in by the vacuum the fire creates and thus you create a SECOND COMBUSTION CHAMBER wich burns the gases from the wood and the creosote wich would otherwise get on the chimney or , barel!Also,the barel needs a firebrick liner to keep the heat of the bedfire and burn efficiently(high temp)

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[nephilim2006edge]

Have you considered running your water system through copper pipe on the outside of this system?

EG having the copper wrapped around the barrels and it heats up the water for your heating system / shower system.

Just a thought and you could save on your heating bills :)

[BigPecan2010]

Great job. I was thinking, you could build a connected chamber adjacent to the greenhouse or so, and allow the heat to be gently blown throughout the greenhouse via fans. Then you could reclaim yer space, and control the heat source better while distributing it from one end to the other by pipes. I wish I could draw a picture fer what I'm meaning. lol.

[RDLONG30]

@thinkyourright == IF YOU HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS WHAT THE H-LL ARE YOU WATCHING THIS FOR.

JUST SO YOU CAN B-TCH.

DON'T LIKE IT. DON'T WATCH.

I HAVE A COMPLETE UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT.

AND I ENJOY HIM TAKING THE TIME TO GIVE COMPLETE AND THOROUGH EXPLANATIONS TO THOSE WHOM MIGHT NEED IT AND ADMIRE HIS DEDICATION TO DO SO.