I see some people have 2 by 4 trees that are cut to length.
As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
Bob wrote a nice letter the other day, and I was thinking about it for awhile last night as there were lots of interesting things in it. So for posts whenever they publish following this one, I will be dialogue on things like vax results to my delighted choice on this shit day of 3 below zero for the high, of barrel stoves as Bob is in the process of resurrecting a Lazarus from a Chinaman smelted grave.
I have always wondered in the thousands of these kits which were sold, why on earth I never come across one in the junk or in the made stage. The problem is now that the kits are averaging 100 bucks, but shitty wood stoves are going for 2000 dollars up now, so they are putting the bite onto Americans.
Bob did find one though in the used state, and I will guess the reason his was rusted is the common cause, like on gaytube, you got allot of people with money who think they can build an idiot woodstove, put it in, and they will be warm forever. That is not how barrel stoves are. Barrel stoves are women. They want things exactly so, you either do it their way or suffer the consequences. Once you figure them out, and I will say like in nuclear warfare and bombs, I'm the last expert in that artform, that I'm the only expert on barrel stoves, as everyone with money gives up on them after using them, leaves them set and then they rust out.
I will do a bit of an add on here in what I did with mine to enhance her girlish figure.
My Grandpa had a chimney on his house. The wicked one took it down, and so he tossed the clay chimney bricks. I think it was a pregnant 30 bricks TL and I retrieved and I lined them up on the bottom in a US shape abour half way up. Nothing in the back of the barrel.
Next for 10 bucks, JYG sold me a propane grill cast iron rack. These stoves will get hot as I bowed this one in the middle. Never could bow it back in turning it over, so I must have had it hotter than hell one time.
I have this idea as down Bob's way they use coal, anthracite. Now coal stoves burn hotter than hell, and I suspect would eat a barrel stove, but my idea is to find a cast iron box to put coal in it, and contain it in that box, not dump a bag in, but this I would use for long burns on cold nights, so I could sleep all night instead of getting up to feed the stove a few times. That is untested and am thinking on it, and we do not have coal here anyway.
We built a concrete platform for the stove, well for an earth Russian stove. I put the remaining bricks under the stove, but I have not noticed it ever getting hot under the stove with the bricks there.
These stoves burn a bit better with a layer of ash in them. I can get about 3 days of constant burning before the ash gets too deep. Usually end up with a half a bucket of ash that is supposed to go on the garden rows as it is fertilizer, potash.
I am happy to see that your barrel stove is up and running. Hopefully it will be time wellspent that will pay you back with interest for years to come. your story acted as a motivation for me to get up and do something. i had been looking for several months to find a stove, but i didnt think i would find anything until spring. but as luck would have it, i found a guy whos wife buys store lockers at auction and he had one to get rid of. the barrel was rusted through but the price was right just for the hardware. found a auto guy down the road with drums for sale. so now its just working out the details
For barrels or drums, you do have to burn the paint of them or they will burn off in your house or garage. Yes these stoves are not up to code, but mine sits in a stone cellar with a dirt floor and with 20 feet of 8 inch chimney pipe, and a spark arrester, which I made, it is safer than any chimney could be.
God was good in the 20 feet as I did not have room for a second barrel on top to retain the heat. I do keep most of my heat in the house with that pipe which is the idea.
Barrel stoves like small wood until you get them up to temperature and ash on the carpet, and then they will devour good chunks of wood. 3 inch limbs and under for faster burns and I use the bigger stumps for night burns as they burn slower and I just want some heat coming out and the fire not going out.
My chimney pipe is horizontal by necessity, so to get draft I use the pilot light on a weed burner to get things warmed up. Then no smoke in the house, mostly.
These stoves do not have enough air intake to burn. I have an inch and a half hose (car wash hose) bringing outside air in, and I still have to leave the door cracked. Half inch crack for slow burn, inch for more rapid burn and 2 inches to get the blaze going. Further than that and you will get smoke coming out.
You will also get smoke from damp wood. Your girl does not like anything that is not dry as a bone. How I was Inspired to remedy that and it is not a great idea, is I stack a few pieces verticle by the door to pre dry them out. They take off like a rocket in just putting them on the embers. Sometimes though I crinkle up paper which I light up to get things going or you will get smoke until wood reaches flashpoint.
Bob is in an area of soft and hardwood. I do not have any evergreens here, but I would think that being careful with evergreen branches and needles, that you would get a flame thrower with all that fossil fuel. That would probably heat a room up fast in an hour burn.
I would never heat a home with a barrel. Too much work, too much wood burned and too uneven of heating in my below zero world. My stove works best as auxiliary. I use it so Richard and Stephanie's stove does not have to keep burning non stop with propane. That way the house is warm, we save a great deal of money in fuel is expensive and things do not wear out in the main stove.
The people with money who build barrel stoves, soon find they have to cut wood, stack wood, haul wood and deal with wood and wood smoke That is why the barrel stoves rust out as people with money pretend they are poor, but they have wifi, cameras, mics, do money rending on gaytube and chainsaws, pick ups, trailers and sheds cost allot. That again is why barrel stoves rust out and none of these lazy asses ever post videos in the nuances of these stoves as they are off turning up the electric with money to pay the bill as they milked you for monetized posts already.
I do like my girl as she is a creature. You get to know wood and wood stoves with these creations. When they are running right, they are a furnace of heat, when you got problems with the wood, you got smoke and lots of cussing. Smoke ends with crumpled newspapers on fire, raising the flashpoint of the wood. That is why I preheat, use dry wood and always pre heat my wood, even if they have started on fire a few times by the door. Which is why the door is ALWAYS braced with a rod so it never can swing open and burn things up or down.
I keep hoping like Bob to find a barrel stove made as most people get one and then go back to expensive easier stuff. We are on year two of this stove and I do not overhear her if I can help it, but with wood, you are going to get pieces like I had last night that I had to shut the door all the way to starve the fire of oxygen as holy shit the cellar was not cold then.
I have a second concern as my water pipes are over this stove. Copper absorbs heat, so I have to not get things overheated in the stove.
It all though is pretty much working out as God Inspired. We dug out the floor entry in the kitchen. Put in JYG's metal stairs from the lake, and I leave the old cellar door open which is in the bathroom and I get warm air circulating that way to the two outside rooms which makes the house warm.
Oh I try and mix my wood with softer fast burn woods and a slower hardwoods and this does work out quite well. I told you these girls have their own ideas, but when God shows you the way, things work out well.
Well that is about it for this fun time stove episode. I think that a straight pipe would help with draft, but I have to have an elbow coming out of the top of the stove. I would loose heat if that went to the chimney though so if not a double barrel, there might be a benefit of a horizontal for draft and as many feet as possible to the mason chimney in pipe to bleed that heat off.
I do know that with this barrel, that when we hit 20 degrees, it seems like we do not burn that much wood, and a few pieces at 40 degrees makes the house balmy warm. That is the temperature I like, not this damned HAARP cold and wind.
For all that global warming shit, no one ever in the green side ever bitches to their paymasters who fund them, about HAAPR causing more fuel to be burned in a cold wave than all the cars in America.
One more thing, I would like to have a ceramic glass to see if I had fire burning so I would not have to open the stove. That would end a great deal of smoke, but there is not allot of room for such a feature and I do not want to be cutting holes in the door and dinking with that.
Nuff Said
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