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The bark sure does tho, but usually it falls off when it's dry.

Yup, just creosote forming on the cold coils, pretty much expected unless it's had time to burn completely before it hits them. Pretty much why they used gasification for boilers, the tars are cracked into co and h2 so they burn clean.

They/ you can make them, they're called absorption chillers.

Yup, i can build a nuke but not a wood stove.

Propane torch for me :D

Yeah i was singing the osha violations song as i did it, but it worked pretty well. I would love to see how it does a full tote, that'll be the golden ticket!

Well since my life is basically a dumpster fire and I'm no where close to organized, i didn't have a bunch of seasoned firewood handy. I've been getting wood from my buddies wood pile, where he's been dumping logs for years, but that pile is pretty picked thru by now. He dropped a dead locust...

Locust doesn't pop much usually, but it does a bit sometimes, kinda depends on the log. Hedge is like a sparkler, but oh so hot, and locust can pop too if it gets a bunch of air so you kinda gotta be careful loading sometimes, a small price to pay. If I'm doing hedge or locust that wants to pop...

I'm still loving locust.

I always considered the 55 gallon drum stove to be a cheaper shop stove, but they're awesome since you are making it. With economy in mind if it's inside (which it obviously will be) you can use vegetable oil as a heat resistant paint, it'll turn black and cover the steel with a rustproof...

Do the double one to maximize the heat output, you can also run pipes thru the top one as a heat exchanger with a blower and it'll damn near run you out. I had one we built that used a horizontal one and then a vertical one saddled on in the back that worked great, we even had a waste oil drip...

I really want to add a bigger fan on mine, i did a temp check on the heated air and the temperature difference was enough that if i moved more air it would pump out even more heat.

"Bout time you fired up my heat window dad" :lol:

Fired mine up this weekend too, no sense in paying for heat!

I'm working on that.... summer project i hope to try out. I'm thinking of building a small batch torrifier, and then pressing little logs, maybe even a pelletizer or a briquetter too for some other projects. If i get it working I'll be sharing obviously, drawings and all :lol:

This is the first week we haven't been burning at least at night, it had been down in the 30s at night but now it's in the 60s. I was doing really good with pretty much zero buildup, but the damn tack welds on my chimney cap broke off and so i had to sweep it a bit more this year since i didn't...

Well i finally cleaned my chimney since using my insert for months now, and it was a waste of time. Maybe got a half gallon of crap, that's it. Good to know tho, so that's a once a year task now.

Minus the air blowing cooling the sides of the flue pipe

A "jacketed" stove pipe would be inefficient compared to one of the manufactured heat exchangers that would come with a ul listing. I don't like the idea of building this in stovepipe if that's what you were thinking, inspection and co leaking would be issues. Also you will have to watch your...

I don't always need a beer to have a good time either, but it efn helps! Hahahahaha I'm excited to use my new chipper crane when I'm splitting here, I'm like that already :lol: seriously tho, depending on what you got here hand splitting is sometimes mashing yourself against wall. I've even...