Homemade wood heater

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Only air intake would be ash pit door.
Then who ever built it really had no clue what they were doing. You really dont have a stove you have a wood storage box
 
Lol you can burn wood in the thing. Not just store it. Gonna fire it up in a couple days. My 260000 smokes to much when u open the doors,unless its a raging fire. The Ashley I traded on has small holes in top.
 
Lol you can burn wood in the thing. Not just store it. Gonna fire it up in a couple days. My 260000 smokes to much when u open the doors,unless its a raging fire. The Ashley I traded on has small holes in top.
You have no air intake the only way to make it burn would be to leave a door open. That is unsafe and uncontrollable. It is not a functioning stove.
 
And yes like i said those old bucks are not designed all that well and certainly wont run correctly on 6".

And no stove will run without an air inlet.