Ammo Can Wood Stove (Bath: houses, living, floor)

[ClownShoes]

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My first try at an ammo can wood stove, temps reached 600 degrees.

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[Zarathu]

You're not going to put that thing inside your house are you?

[kevin5098]

Originally Posted by Zarathu

You're not going to put that thing inside your house are you?

The previous occupant of my house in Aroostook County used a 55Gal drum as a wood furnace for years. It was enclosed in a concrete block enclosure which acted as a plenum, and fed ducts to vents in the floor. It was burned through when I bought the place. We heated with a wood stove in the living room last winter.

[Zarathu]

Originally Posted by kevin5098

The previous occupant of my house in Aroostook County used a 55Gal drum as a wood furnace for years. It was enclosed in a concrete block enclosure which acted as a plenum, and fed ducts to vents in the floor. It was burned through when I bought the place. We heated with a wood stove in the living room last winter.

It looks a little "flimsy" to be inside the house---maybe its just the photo. I bought a Riteway stove in 1979 after visiting a store in Bath, in March and seeing it heat this entire huge place. I've used it for 32 years. But it had a firebrick interior, and was constructued of welded 1/4 steel plate.

I've ordered a new Pacific Energy Summit Pedestal model which should be here soon. It has a floating firebrick firebox with EBT technology(long burn for really large stoves so they don't burn really really hot at just the beginning). But both the riteway and the PE are very very heavy units. My deceased father would have said they were built like brick sh@t houses. Apparently, you didn't want to be in the outhouse in a gale wind and have it blow over leving you sitting there exposed, so haveing a brick one was really special.

[ClownShoes]

Originally Posted by Zarathu

You're not going to put that thing inside your house are you?

Heck no!
It's a 50 cal can about 10 inches high with the legs.
It may be ok for a tent or something like that. Small kettle warmer in an emergency. That's about it I guess.

[Submariner]

Our primary heating device is a wood stove. Made from two 55-gallon drums. The cast iron kit to build it is: "Vogelzang'. They are rated at 200kBtu.

http://www.vogelzang.com/catimg/BK50ON-SMALL.JPG
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Our bottom drum is lined with refractory cement [fire-clay] about an inch thick.

Our upper drum has 50 foot of 5/8 inch copper tubing coiled inside it, this tubing heats water, which then flows through our radiant heated floor [and our towel rack].

Directly over our woodstove is a ceiling fan which pushes heat down and keeps it circulated through out our house.

We enjoy the direct radiant heat from the stove, as well as the heated air which is circulated through-out our house, plus the heated floor.

[roadrat]

That stove would work real good in an ice shack for fishing.


bill

[JViello]

Originally Posted by forest beekeeper

Our primary heating device is a wood stove. Made from two 55-gallon drums. The cast iron kit to build it is: "Vogelzang'. They are rated at 200kBtu.

http://www.vogelzang.com/catimg/BK50ON-SMALL.JPG
Barrel Stove Kits

Our bottom drum is lined with refractory cement [fire-clay] about an inch thick.

Our upper drum has 50 foot of 5/8 inch copper tubing coiled inside it, this tubing heats water, which then flows through our radiant heated floor [and our towel rack].

Directly over our woodstove is a ceiling fan which pushes heat down and keeps it circulated through out our house.

We enjoy the direct radiant heat from the stove, as well as the heated air which is circulated through-out our house, plus the heated floor.

Yep, I was just going to say the drum stoves work just fine if you prep them right. Cheap and lots of heat. The only think I add to what you did was some play sand as a base inside the stove. We heated a workshop with one for years.

I've been thinking about fabricating my own "outdoor" wood furnace that accepts 3-4 foot logs. I just can't drag myself to pay 3-5K for something I can make. Having metal fabrication skills certainly helps in times like this.

[Submariner]

Originally Posted by JViello

Yep, I was just going to say the drum stoves work just fine if you prep them right. Cheap and lots of heat. The only think I add to what you did was some play sand as a base inside the stove. We heated a workshop with one for years.

I've been thinking about fabricating my own "outdoor" wood furnace that accepts 3-4 foot logs. I just can't drag myself to pay 3-5K for something I can make. Having metal fabrication skills certainly helps in times like this.

They are super cheap.

They have the ability to throw out massive heat.

They accept un-split wood.

It is very easy to modify them to heat water.

I have seen them modified into smokers and bread ovens.

For two years I kept playing with trying to make the upper drum into a secondary combustion chamber [which doubles the heat output by burning the gasifier gases].