Outside heat

[BIGNASTY]

If you are looking for something to heat a space like the shop or the GREENHOUSE I built one of these for the wife's greenhouse. She had stocked it with wood and asked her sister to check it out the next day. It was still burning and putting out tons of heat but sister put in a few more chunks of wood and closed it up as before. Wife went home last nite got up this AM and checked it STILL LOT-O-HEAT Easy to build and REALLY WORKS GOOD going to build one for my shop and vent it out the side so I can close doors in winter.

 

[BGlidewell]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=eGDWzaGVkgo
I like

 

[Grizzly]

I like it, but it would take up too much space in my workshop. I use a small propane heater with a 20 gal tank. The heater is about 14" round and about 24" tall. It knocks the chill off, which is all I need.

 

[PToombs]

Big, if you put tubes thru the top barrel and a fan on the back it will transfer a lot more heat out. My buddy did that and it worked great. His other idea of putting in a hole and installing a drip oil feed to burn waste oil wasn't so bright though. :-laf

 

[BIGNASTY]

Mr. Toombs

That's a great idea will have to look into that when and if the wife needs more heat in her Greenhouse. Right now its in a room at the end of her G house and the G house has a fan at the end of it and it sucks the heat in from the room and circulates it throughout the G House. I had thought of putting the Drum heater in the center of the G house and running an exhaust tube out the end to vent it and to distribute the heat that way. But after 36 years of being married I have learn my place in our TRIBE and it's at or near the BOTTOM of the TOTEM POLE She's Happy BUT IT AINT THE DEAD OF WINTER YET!!!!!

BIG

 

[Grizzly]

I'm impressed with that huge greenhouse. Does your wife sell all the plants?

 

[BIGNASTY]

She has many flowers that she gives as gifts but mostly she grows vegetables for us to eat we kind of like knowing where our food has been and how it has been produced. It looks MUCH bigger than it really is because of the camera lens wide angles make things look different. She writes for a Vegetable growing kind of magazine and how to's for it. You think about it growing veggies at -30 sometimes in the MT winter is a pretty big achievement. Putting up with me is even a bigger one.

 

[GHarman]

PToombs



Big, if you put tubes thru the top barrel and a fan on the back it will transfer a lot more heat out. My buddy did that and it worked great. His other idea of putting in a hole and installing a drip oil feed to burn waste oil wasn't so bright though.

PToombs,

A drip fuel system works but it is really particular! To light them ya gotta start them with a little fuel soaked rag to start the draft, then drip the fuel in slowly.

We saw these in field kitchens in Vietnam. Still being used in Afghanistan!

Man they can bring to boil 55 Gallons of water, FAST!

I believe the secret to a "Dry" oil burner is a diffuser plate of heavy steel, installed directly below the distribution nozzle, to allow the oil to be broken down into smaller droplets as it strikes that hot steel plate? That way you can decrease the flow through the distribution tube? It would certainly be interesting! One of the local mechanics has a "Waste Oil Furnace" in his lift bay area! It has its own filtration system as well!

GregH



http://www.spiritburner.com/fusion/showtopic.php?tid/21614/

 

[MChrist]

I remember building these back in 6th grade!! Parents wouldn't help me, so I would scratch the old paint off the barrels and use a dull, broken hacksaw blade to cut the openings for the door and vents!!
I remember my older brother building/designing a wood stove to heat our house that used 1/4" steel cylinder, 30" diameter, 3' long wrapped with a square "shell" that we filled with water, then circulated that water into an insulated, pressure-safe water tank that probably held 100 gallons. That water was used to heat our water for our baseboard heat and showers.
We never ran out of hot water and our house was always 75-80 degrees in winter. House was roughly 6000 square feet, including heated basement. I remember hauling 600 lbs per day of wood downstairs during winter to keep it that way!!

Meeeeeemorieeeees... .

 

[BIGNASTY]

Put one of these to work for the wife in her greenhouse. She was so tickled today that SHE ATTACKED ME IN FRONT OF THE DAUGHTER

used black iron pipe and Coleman stove burners to heat the greenhouse the soil temp was 64* and the air temp inside the greenhouse was 60* and she could make it hotter if she wanted to its only been up and running for a week so she's kind of new to how it works. NOW IF SHE WOULD ONLY CLEAN THE BARN TO GET THE FUEL we made the one with the totes ours were black and didn't have to paint them thinking about getting some insulation blankets for the extra warmth they would work better when warm. FIL/BIL said leave it to BIG to figure out something useful for I TRIED TO BY-PASS THE CUSSING FILTER The good part starts at about 4min into vid. Now the barrel stove is mine for the shop works for both of us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AZv6MjZylo&feature=related

 

[GHarman]

BIG! You are the BEST I KNOW!!

Smarter than the "AVERAGE BEAR"!

Outstanding!

GregH

 

[PToombs]

Greg, he was dripping the oil directly on the wood in the stove. If it wasn't shut down enough it would leak oil all over the floor. I'm glad he quit that.