Vogelzang Barrel Stove kit

I know nothing about Vogelzang, but Harbor Freight has a coupon for their after-Thanksgiving sale. With it you can buy a cast iron Vogelzang woodstove for $149...described as good for a small hunting cabin, workshop, etc.

I've seen several home made barrel stoves. Most of them are put in shops or barns but I've seen a couple in hunting cabins and one is a home! The guy with the barrel stove in his home had his insurance canceled on him.

Years ago, i used a barrel stove. i had a welder make me the door and flue/pipe connector, similar to the barrel stove kit you can now buy. I put sand then brick both to just under half way up the sides. to cut the chance of burn through/burnout. It worked great. I buned a lot of ash at that time. I left it when i moved because i couldn't get it on the truck. Not real pretty, but it would throw the heat.

cass

Just to clarify, the HF stove I mentioned is not a barrel stove...it's a small cast iron woodstove on legs.

DanCorcoran said:

Just to clarify, the HF stove I mentioned is not a barrel stove...it's a small cast iron woodstove on legs.

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Which is the stove you constantly see on CraigsList with the big white over fire stripes on it. Run, don't walk, from that stove.

Barrel stoves are Ok when properly constructed and lined with fire brick. If you live in a rural area and you wont smoke out your neighbor they make a great shop stove. Then there is the issue of EAP cert. So if you want to burn clean use less wood and all the other stuff that goes along with modern wood heating get a modern wood stove... I'm not trying to be rude or stuff your idea, I just want to say there are enough people trying to stop wood heating where we live and I would hate to see someone else deal with it too. The goal being to stop the use of smoke dragons...

emt1581 said:

BrowningBAR said:

DanCorcoran said:

Just to clarify, the HF stove I mentioned is not a barrel stove...it's a small cast iron woodstove on legs.

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Which is the stove you constantly see on CraigsList with the big white over fire stripes on it. Run, don't walk, from that stove.

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Yeah, same goes from pretty much anything with Vogelzang on it.

-Emt1581

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VZ boxwoods are certainly inferior quality. I bought one once and after unpacking - said no way am I installing this. Now, VZ is now making EPA certified stoves - and probably too new for much of a track record. Their name may improve with these new stoves. Would I buy one when I could buy an NC-13 for same price? Nope.

I heated my 3000 square foot old farmhouse with a Sotz Barrel kit stove for over 10 years with the SAME barrel. It put out heat like you all wouldn't believe. The air intake was sized so at wide open it wouldn't overheat the barrel. I enclosed mine in a sheet metal shroud and installed a blower that really worked well. Not pretty but a heat factory.. My Harman p68 pellet stove puts out about half the heat that old barrel stove would. So before you look down your nose at something that looks like it isn't much, don't be quick to assume if you don't really know.
FB in Vt.

Use a barrel stove at the cabin, makes me appreciate the Napoleon at home. Yes the table is too close, this is from this summer.

I've got a homemade double barrel stove with a couple twists.

It's an old stove that was given to my father, so I don't know the origin.

Anyway, instead of barrels, the builder used a couple small (20~30 gallon) boiler tanks.
The steel is much heavier than a typical drum.
The top tank was cut in half lengthwise and a flat plate welded on, so that the upper section has a flat surface.

They also put a baffle at the top of the bottom section. Exhaust gases are forced to the back of the bottom section, then loop forward to the front before passing up into the top section.
There's a hole in the back of the lower section where a pipe connection was - this allows some secondary air in.

When I get it running just right, I get a good secondary burn going above the baffle. If I can see the top of the bottom barrel just starting to glow, I know I've got it going perfectly. When I get a 6" diameter area glowing, I get a little worried and turn it down some.
It doesn't hold a lot of wood, so it wouldn't be great for keeping a house warm, but works pretty well for warming up my detached garage when I'm working out there.

Don