This guy is awesome!

"The longer the pipe, the more the heat will transfer into the room"

Oh my.

if that guy just bought a new stove he wouldnt need all that crap where u find that video

He has learned how to efficiently make creosote. Honestly, why doesn't he just get a modern stove. I'm sure that old beast churns through wood.

Clearly what I need is more pipe.

tsquini said:

He has learned how to efficiently make creosote. Honestly, why doesn't he just get a modern stove. I'm sure that old beast churns through wood.

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Modern stoves? That's just big business trying to scam you out of your money...

im just gonna have the guys come back and fit my pipe to just loop around the room and ill be golden although on down side will take me three days for a chimney sweep lol

BrowningBAR said:

Clearly what I need is more pipe.

Modern stoves? That's just big business trying to scam you out of your money...

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My bad, you are right. The last thing we need is the man keeping us down. We are survivers.

We have a flow through system on our sauna stove in the upper peninsula that is attached right to the stove with 2" steel pipe going through the stove wall at the bottom and out again at the top. Both welded to a steel storage tank. The tank is wide open at the top with a garbage can lid just set on there to keep crud and bugs out. Fill that, start the stove and in a couple hours you can take a hot shower by mixing the hot water with cool water from a 5 gallon pail. Works sweet at deer camp but I would never want it in my house!

So, what's the problem?

that sounds like a cool system for a roughing it weekend but like u said not gonna happen it the house

BrowningBAR said:

Clearly what I need is more pipe.

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Clearly, this gentleman has had too much from the pipe. I'm all for keeping as much heat in the home, but not at the expense of clogging the pipe with creosote. Not worth it.

EatenByLimestone said:

His crimps are going the wrong way too.

I liked the Magic Heat after the 20 feet of pipe.

Matt

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All I can think of is... POOK!

"Y is higher than W, so I must be high as a f'ing kite".

I have that stove in my cabin up north, they burn good but you have to refill them every 2 hrs. The white on the stove is just how they get for some reason. I don't think his stupid springs are transferring any heat. I dont see how he gets a decent draft with that long length of sideways stove pipe, thats crazy.

KindredSpiritzz said:

The white on the stove is just how they get for some reason.

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They get that way from over-firing the stove.

KindredSpiritzz said:

I have that stove in my cabin up north, they burn good but you have to refill them every 2 hrs. The white on the stove is just how they get for some reason. I don't think his stupid springs are transferring any heat. I dont see how he gets a decent draft with that long length of sideways stove pipe, thats crazy.

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The "long internal stovepipe" is not new with this guy. If you look at the first stove installs back in the early 1800's this was a common approach. Of course this was before advances in stove (i.e. they didn't have anything near an airtight stove - more like a metal box to burn the fire in) I'm not sure they even had any air controls... I imagine a LOT of heat went up those pipes and likely this was actually a reasonable idea for that time.

With the more efficient stoves available today I don't see why this approach would have any need/merit now. But I bet it is fun to tinker with these things for those who have the time.

Wait until my next video. I figured out a way to get the fire hotter even quicker! I hook up my leaf blower to the air inlet and supercharge the coals! Part 2 of the video will be how to hook a propane tank up to the air inlet for extra combustion efficiency.

I plan to make the video tonight, I just need to pick up more beer.

Don't forget to tell the viewers to stick the beer can in the stove when done, it helps cut down on the creosote

Nope. I use the empty beer cans to patch holes in the chimney pipe. I prefer to throw my old batteries in the stove. The chemicals help chew through the creosote. Makes cool colors too.

After you get a real good bed of coals you can put a small tire in there too to keep it going. Burns for hours. I find that the rubber coats the inside of the pipes pretty well. Since creosote doesn't stick to rubber it is a win-win!

Reminds me of the one that was on here a few years ago where the person had "a better use for used motor oil"!!

A large 5 gallon reservoir above but very near the stove filled with dirty motor oil and a copper line running into the stove with a petcock valve to keep a continuous drip of oil falling onto the burning wood. Holy dramatic failure waiting to happen batman!!

I would run my stove pipe in circles around my living space before I tried the oil can rocket launcher setup!! May be able to find it on the Google if anyone is ambitious enough.