55 Gallon Barrel wood Stove Maintenance, Cleaning. Extend The Life Of Your Wood Burning Stove
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Spring is in the air and it's time to do some maintenance
on the 55 gallon drum wood stove. upkeep on your stove is important
to extend the life of your stove. I hope the helps and your stove lasts a long time. Thanks for watching.
If you are planning to build your own barrel stove, try to find one of the barrels with the removable lids. They are alot thicker so your stove will last longer. It also makes it much easier to build to get at the leg and flue bolts, and it's easier to remove the front to clean the ashes out and put the grate in and out.
Nice tips, I did this to mine except an old timer showed me that if you swab the inside of the stove with a cheap mop and some used motor oil it will keep the moisture from accumulating and rusting during the summer months
Thanks for the tip.
Use sand on the bottom of your stove..works great!
Great idea thank you and thanks for watching.
See if you can find a wire brush made to clean stove pipe. They make them to thread to fiberglass poles, but they also (at least used to) make them with loops at each end to tie a rope. Back when I had a barrel stove, I had a 6" diameter one that had a loop on each end where I tied an old ski rope to each end. I threw one rope down the pipe (may need some kind of weight tied to it), started the brush in the upper end, went down and pulled it down the pipe with the rope and then back up again. Gets all the creosote out. Nowadays I keep a cast aluminum chimenea on my patio that I put two sections of 6" stove pipe in its chimney to get the smoke up and away. I added a 6" damper too, to keep it from eating so much wood. I never bothered to clean the built-up creosote out and one night that creosote started up and it was like a blow torch out of the top. Very scary for a minute or two. That turned out to be an effective way of cleaning out the creosote, but you would not want that happening inside your structure.😆
Thank you so much for the advice.👍
I just picked up a double barrel stove for $10 at a barn sale , excited to clean it up and really hope it'll be a good stove
awesome.
The fire bricks are a great idea, but as the gill is resting on the bricks , what use do they have?
The ash would fall right through the grills and sit on the bottom of the barrel causing it to deteriorate faster. Thanks for watching.
In my perfect world the barrel would rotate to where you could bring in fresh air from outside right under your door going back. And another on ceiling as not to be drawing any cold air into my well insulated but not perfect shop and greenhouse mines a double barrel bottom I want to wrap. Copper pipe around entire barrel and incorporate radiant heating in green house under planters which is 3 feet on other side of wall is my green house and hoping enough left to heat an ibc for poor man’s hot tub and with a miracle maybe an old cast iron radiator then lining top barrel with metal fence post tightly around and a couple or more fans for circulation and using it for a winter so much waste going up the flew I did nothing but have 2 small heat propelled fans do some but not much 55 to 95 f in an hour 22 x45 ft shop spray foam insulated fairly well but not quite by my standards as fare would have it but got another shed roof thrown in so give and take I think or rather know it’s possible but need to figure out safe way for radiator and like wise was toying with idea of incorporating tractor trailer radiator perhaps just need to learn more o and make my flew pipe as long as possible perhaps wrapping it with copper as well I started with open air carport and tool room in back enclosed it and built bigger shop attached to side with exterior L shaped greenhouse 8x35 feet the green house and I truly believe if I can harvest %75 around that it will be achieved as it was crazy hot the new additions 1and 5/8 thick4x23 sheets of foam board insulation used for chicken houses tongue and groove caulked twice every seem and the other hundred thousand cracks with so many cases of caulk but I’m wanting to control when where and if I let air in and that’s less than 5 percent of what I need to get done asap nothing like job security nice to have the freedom to do it right have to wait on deals for materials here and again but np im already too busy so it will pop up and ill jump and get at least%50 off now if only i had 3 sons lmao no I love my daughters who along with wife have zero interest besides a meal or a drink which I certainly do appreciate
Love it, how many years do you expect to get out of this design? I think the motor oil tip above is a wise way to lengthen the lifetime.
I've never burned through a barrel. The secret is to NEVER clean the bottom 2-3 inches of ash out, and keep the coals on top of that and spread the ash as you need as high as gravity will allow around the barrel, dig out as needed. I use no racks, no flue gas trap or burners,no nonsense but cured, dry, and hot, clean burning wood with external air. Remove all ash and cap the pipes separate from the stove for summer storage to keep moisture out, air moisture and condensation need to be controlled as well. I also run a double barrel setup. My barrels are from 1996. 4-6 months a year of running, in a high humidity environment during spring and summer. I do paint them with stove paint. I coat the inside after winter use with a mix of vegetable oil and bacon fat with a brush, much like curing a grill. My shop stove is from 2008, it looks the same as it did the day I made it. The stove is my only way to heat the house or water, off grid and no power. Fire is my TV unless I'm here at the shop, then it's watching hilarious videos on RUclips. Quality of metal due to bad trade practices has also affected a lot. My barrels were drums for heavy weight gear oil, just cheap old vogelzang kits with all-thread tying the legs together safely.
Use ATF instead of used oil, the used oil has acids in it that will slowly eat away your barrel. You never see a rusty transmission on the inside. For the price of automatic transmission fluid it is worth it. Buy a good spray bottle or use a bbq basting mop , anything that can reach to the back end. This will help the barrel last a lot longer. 👍 👍 🇨🇦
How can you stove pipe only be that high? Does it work, get enough draft, not to code for sure, and doesn't it make a mess on the shop from the smoke.
def not to code but vents well.
couple bags of crushed granite as a bed to put your fire bricks on
Life of this product ..?
if well maintained, 25 years.
How much square feet does it heat
my barn is 40 by 60. 2,400 ft. heats it no problem. it is well insulated.
@@thebackfortylodge thanks