Fred Flintstone's Stove

Yikes-the thought of someone trying to burn oil in that thing is scary. They do have their place though. If I ever get my pole barn built I'm sticking of them in there.

Vogelzang kit. Burns pillets- that's good kuzz I'm over run with them.

Be pretty good if I had a warehouse or something.

The double barrel double decker one is better. Ask BB about it. Hes the pro.

Looks pretty dangerous to me. I've seen a video of guy with one like that on utube, he starts his fires with motor oil.

He almost had me sold If he only had the double barrel stove. They are no more dangerous than anything else you just have to watch your clearances and burn it properly.
Heated a house many years with a barrel stove and then I made me the Cadillac of barrel stoves made me one out of an electric hot water heater tank. boy would they throw the heat
seriously a stove any stove is only as safe as its operator.

You know it's an energy crisis when you take a $59 door, throw it on a waste barrel and then claim it burns pellets.

Just think six colors to chose from and all the toxic fumes off non hi temp paint for no extra charge.

Had something similar in the yard as a kid, best part is if you burn long and hot enough it eventually cleans itself out.

Regards,
DP

I lived in a house with a stove in the garage made out of an old compressor tank. But I wouldn't have sold it on craigslist.

Grandpa built one for the shop years back. Double decker with copper tube wrapping the top barrel; water line came up through the slab heated up as it went through the coils, and came out from the spigot hot enough to make instant coffee in the winter. They had 80 acres of grapes and burned grape wood all winter.

The guy across the street from me has one of those, he used to have a double decker. He's an older guy and I cut him a couple cords of locust last year for him to burn this year. He burned it at the end of last year while it was still sopping wet. I don't think it would have even burned in my stove.

I know a guy who burned his garage down with a barrel stove. I don't know if it was the stove's fault though.

fishinpa said:

Looks pretty dangerous to me. I've seen a video of guy with one like that on utube, he starts his fires with motor oil.

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That guy on youtube also said his burns out after a couple years IIRC as well.
This craigslist guy is claiming it will last forever.

My dad has one that is over 10yrs old.
I heat my 30x60 wood shop with a doubble barrel stove . The shop is insulated with 300 straw bales and 4'' thick 4x8 sheets of stirafoame on the rafters.

We used one to heat a shop on the farm back in the '70s,they last a long time if you put a couple inches of sand in the bottom of them.Then we built one out of a 500 gallon fuel tank to heat a hog farrowing house,that baby warmed things up.

Now how on earth can you burn oil in a wood stove?????????

I know who the guy is on youtube, his username is "davesfarm" and some of his videos are absolutly hillarious...

I don't know much about barrel stoves, but I would think it wouldn't be TOO difficult to fab up a secondary burn baffle in one of these, unless it's already got one in there. Too bad there's no interior pics.

[quote author="CowboyAndy" date="1228851366"]Now how on earth can you burn oil in a wood stove?????????
You start off burning wood then open a small valve on a steel line connected to your waste oil tank and it drip feeds oil into the fire. We have done this for generations in the barns, as do most farmers who generate a lot of waste oil from equipment.. Barrel stoves are the original waste oil heaters.
Joe

Woodland Country said:

Grandpa built one for the shop years back. Double decker with copper tube wrapping the top barrel; water line came up through the slab heated up as it went through the coils, and came out from the spigot hot enough to make instant coffee in the winter. They had 80 acres of grapes and burned grape wood all winter.

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Ooh, I smell a summer project. And it smells like waste oil burning in my indoor salvage yard And a solution to the burned out water heater!

karri0n said:

I don't know much about barrel stoves, but I would think it wouldn't be TOO difficult to fab up a secondary burn baffle in one of these, unless it's already got one in there. Too bad there's no interior pics.

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I can absolutley assure you that there is nothing inside that barrel other than rusty metal, unless he got really fancy and threw some sand in the bottom and fabbed a rack out of rebar.

polaris said:

I can absolutley assure you that there is nothing inside that barrel other than rusty metal, unless he got really fancy and threw some sand in the bottom and fabbed a rack out of rebar.

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oh ye of little faith, I'm betting that the inside was painted beautifully just like the outside in order to insure a long life. Since it's the interior of the barrel he probably used a roller and latex interior paint.

CowboyAndy said:

Now how on earth can you burn oil in a wood stove?????????

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It is not that hard to do. I'm not wanting to advocate this practice but knowledge needs to be shared.

This trick is still a mainstay found in farm shop buildings in my area. If you have 3 or 4 tractors used for bailing hay all summer, you will have about 30 to 40 gallons used motor oil by winter.

Set your oil container at a higher elevation than the stove. Run a 1/4 or 3/8 inch copper tubing from the oil container into the top of the barrel stove. It works best between the center ribs of the barrel. Put a little valve of some sort that will let you adjust oil flow through the tubing line.

After you get the barrel stove fired up good on wood, you can start letting the oil drip in there and get a boost in heat output.

Not the cleanest trick in the world but in low population areas like mine, nobody seems to notice.

As mentioned on a few other topics, we have been using one at our club cabin for years, just not as fancy and ours only burns wood. I can't imagine coal, or oil.