Wood heater/stove. What y'all think?

wanderinthru · Oct 29, 2020

Maybe I can get the pipe to use it soon. Just finished it up.

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Shorty81 · Oct 29, 2020

I'm diggin it !!

Midnightmoon · Oct 29, 2020

Very nice work. I do just enough fabrication and welding to know what I can't do. And, I know that I couldn't come close to that end product. Again, very nice work.

nabeshin · Oct 29, 2020

It looks heavy, but bullet-proof.

There is an old soapstone stove in my barn, not hooked up, was a salvage from in-laws burned down house. At any rate, it literally weighs 500 pounds.

AuroraGirl · Oct 30, 2020

nabeshin said:
It looks heavy, but bullet-proof.

There is an old soapstone stove in my barn, not hooked up, was a salvage from in-laws burned down house. At any rate, it literally weighs 500 pounds.

i have a home made wood stove sitting in my yard...(insurance agent got snippy with my gpa about it not having a serial number so he literally removed it rather than just unhook it)
The thing is as tall as me, its made to take a bunch of logs at once. Logs. Not firewood or kindling ****, take your chainsaw and cut 2 foot lengths off a tree and chuck her in (moderate girth of course)

GXPWeasel · Oct 30, 2020

Nice looking stove for sure. That going in the shop, or the house/cabin? Would make a really cool cabin piece if a guy had a lake or hunting cabin.

AuroraGirl · Oct 30, 2020

be careful with how you place it and what material you use around it. if you use too... "soak" of a stove, people burn the flooring underneath surprisingly a lot, and if you dont move enough air over it and its in a corner, you could burn a wall. if its a cement floor and wood wall, you might want to do a fire brick little enclosure on the floor, 2 sides which mate near the wall. if you knew all this i apologize some people dont think about how much heat can dwell and affect those surfaces

Charlief · Oct 30, 2020

Great looking stove. We have a wood stove that we have used to heat our home for over 20 years. WE have a gas furnace we use when we are gone and its cold out. I thought about putting one in the shop but because of the fumes I figured not I have a H/E gas furnace out there. That looks like it should last a long time.

wanderinthru · Oct 30, 2020

GXPWeasel said:
Nice looking stove for sure. That going in the shop, or the house/cabin? Would make a really cool cabin piece if a guy had a lake or hunting cabin.

Thanks, it's going in my shop, which the house is on one end. Have had that piece of pipe for several years, it as well as all the material are drops off past jobs.

wanderinthru · Oct 30, 2020

AuroraGirl said:
be careful with how you place it and what material you use around it. if you use too... "soak" of a stove, people burn the flooring underneath surprisingly a lot, and if you dont move enough air over it and its in a corner, you could burn a wall. if its a cement floor and wood wall, you might want to do a fire brick little enclosure on the floor, 2 sides which mate near the wall. if you knew all this i apologize some people dont think about how much heat can dwell and affect those surfaces

Grin, Thanks. It will be setting where the tall propane bottle in the picture is. Be 12 feet to the closest wall, and will install fans to keep the air moving around.

wanderinthru · Oct 30, 2020

Charlief said:
Great looking stove. We have a wood stove that we have used to heat our home for over 20 years. WE have a gas furnace we use when we are gone and its cold out. I thought about putting one in the shop but because of the fumes I figured not I have a H/E gas furnace out there. That looks like it should last a long time.

Thanks! Yes sir, believe I will enjoy this one. Now, I have to learn to make corn bread in a dutch oven...lol.
Will also keep a small propane heater lit for the real cold nights, and for a space heater if I need it.
Thanks again!

AuroraGirl · Oct 30, 2020

wanderinthru said:
Grin, Thanks. It will be setting where the tall propane bottle in the picture is. Be 12 feet to the closest wall, and will install fans to keep the air moving around.

in that case 12 feet should be sufficient. just to prevent cracking your floor i would just do a fire brick pad. you could elevate it to height where you dont hvae to bend over to throw wood in if you really wanted lol.

wanderinthru · Oct 30, 2020

AuroraGirl said:
in that case 12 feet should be sufficient. just to prevent cracking your floor i would just do a fire brick pad. you could elevate it to height where you dont hvae to bend over to throw wood in if you really wanted lol.

Yes Ma'am. Though heat rises, kind of why it's built at the height it is..... Grin....
May go ahead and do it before I hook it up, but have thought about an ash tray/ heat shield slid between the stove and floor...why the front and back legs aren't tied together...go ahead and let it move through the heat cycles....Which may make me regret welding it out with 6010, though I doubt it? It is all regular old 1018 mild, low carbon steel so, I'm sure it has plenty of give to compensate where the welds do not? It was fun to do, haven't finished welded anything with them in a very long time......

Paladin · Oct 30, 2020

Nice looking work and very useful in the shop, I need to get off my ass and throw something together similar to that for my man cave. Have no type of heat in there at the moment. Thanks for the inspiration! :cheers:

wanderinthru · Oct 30, 2020

Paladin said:
Nice looking work and very useful in the shop, I need to get off my ass and throw something together similar to that for my man cave. Have no type of heat in there at the moment. Thanks for the inspiration!

Thanks Mike! Figured I might have got a tongue lashing from you about my choice of welding rod, lol. It is going to be nice, though may slow down productivity, something about a heater just makes a man want to stand by it???

Thanks again!

As you know this thing, like a bbq pit turns into alot of work/time! Had a bunch of people want a nice pit, till I tell them what they would cost, guess some just have no idea??

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