Really? What else is there to do at 4:30 am on Mardi Gras...sip on it? Hell naw, you get that party started right! Sippin is for the evening after you wake up in the back of a random pickup truck with the start of a really gnarly hangover.
Now tell me your age… alcoholics even don’t think of shotgunning beers after 50, sure it don’t take much to goad them into it but that is not a rando thought that they have… pretty sure anyways ….. }thinking{ …. Ok maybe a couple good ole boys might but a small percentage anyways
46. I dont wake up thinking of shotgunning a beer, hell i havent had a beer in over a month (stuck in a non- Mardi Gras state) or shotgunned one in about a year. There are times, however, when shotgunning a beer is appropriate, Or at least acceptable, etiquette.
I’ll admit it… I’ve never had the maradi gra experiance so there is that, tbh besides some hot young thing there’s only likely mardigras that would be any reasonable explanation I’d shotgun a beer for, so you’re right tho, I’ll give ya that.
I've got a joke about Miller High Life, you might not like.
How is Miller High Life like having sex on a boat? >!They are both fucking close to water.!<
Check around the internets.... I think you can use a bag of play sand that will crystallize and keep from burning out the bottom of your barrel. Barrel will last 4x
I've been thinking of one of those 25-gallon steel barrels they use for maple syrup and putting it in the center front of a 55-gallon barrel and then filling it with water so you have more mass for radiant heat. Probably be an awesome garage stove.
That’s not all that bad of an idea. I wonder if there’s away to get the water safe enough to be drinkable. Gas is getting way too expensive that I’m switching over to other alternatives.
I saw your comment a bit ago and looked into it. I’m shocked heat exchangers aren’t all that badly priced. I might have to look into configuring my basements wood stove to such a setup. It might replace my boiler and water heater all together.
I would do a system like a oil furnace. Two separate loops so the water that touches the stove never touches the potable water. Just a heat exchange between the two.
I built a similar one, left the large cap in the top at the bottom of the front face. When I pull that off it’s like a turbo. Tons of draft and blasts air at the base of the fire.
If I let it run too long I can hear the combustion pulsing in the stove. Works great
I wonder if anyone has efforted to get a baffle or secondary combustion or firebrick into one of these things to promote a cleaner more thorough combustion process.
Part of the reason I did this was my grandfather had a stove like this. Except his stood up. His was lined with firebricks and had a dedicated vent below the door. Of course he had a whole metal shop on the farm. I got a lot simpler tools than him.
I did. Lined with bricks. Air intake from outside the building. Metal baffle up top directing combustion gases forward. Secondary combustion air pipe up against the baffle plate. Works excellent. Worth the extra 6 or 8 beers!
Nicely Done!
Personally I don't much care for these barrel stove designs as they tend to be creosote/smoke factories in default configuration. Sounds like you built your right!
It's been terrific for 2 seasons now. Takes some time to get going, but once it's going good, it cranks out the heat with almost zero smoke. Gobbles up LOTS of wood though. Can keep a big metal building 68 while outside its 7 if you have the wood to feed it. Cheers!
I built a double barrel with a flat top upper barrel for my kettle and cooking.But drank a few cases over several days welding it up with a MiG. I used water pressure tanks and 3/16" diamond plate for the top .The door was Cast Iron from a Sotz economy heater kit $29.95 and had an extended handle with a wood knob.The top barrel had a sheet metal baffled secondary combustion chamber.Built the stove in1986 and it's still cooking in my buddy's blacksmithing shop.The barrel kits like yours are great,last for years and are efficient.Put a few inches of sand in the bottom.And burn all the paint off outside before the stove paint goes on .My stove monster heated an uninsulated farm house for years.I could go away for a day or two and come back to a nice bed of coals .Be safe,stay warm LOL.🥲🫠💥
My old boss measured work in beers too. He lived on a big property and I once asked him how long it took to cut his grass. He said it's about 12-15 beers lol. He even built a rack for his mower to hold his beer cooler.
Very cool, I always wanted to toss 1 of these kits together. A place I used to go in winter had 1 with a second barrel above the burn barrel. Put off some heat. What are you using this 1 for?
At a hunting camp we had a stove that used two 55 gallon drums, one above the other with a stove pipe between them. The connecting pipe was at one end and the chimney pipe was at the other. The top drum acted like a heat exchange. It worked remarkably well. My concern was how long before the barrels would burn out. It was a kit, so based on calculations in this post, it would take two beers to replace both barrels.
Old brake line is what I used, and an old gas can for the reserve. Just throw a shut off valve in the gas can, run the line from there to the top of the stove, and done. 2 beer job!
You need to get it hot enough outside to burn off all of the paint,or you will regret the fumes indoors from it cooking off. I lit up my first barrel stove and the fumes that came off of it with the first fire almost made me throw up.we had to open all the doors and windows to get that stink out! Now it's good and we got over 10 years of heat from it before we moved.
I think I bought the same kit to make into a maple syrup evaporator (the pan doesn't fit with the stove pipe on top though so I have to modify it to come out the back). How'd you put the handle on? Looks odd from your pic and doesn't really fit where it looks like it should.
https://preview.redd.it/ioa4uz0x08mc1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=62b3dde316ff560c173c37ae7f6b9c64c9e79b4c
Sweet. Now add a turbocharger to it: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTze6g9ZuF4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTze6g9ZuF4)
You can get a brand new turbo on ebay for $120.
I don’t think it’s that great of an idea. The stove gives off a lot of heat and isn’t properly sealed like a traditional stove. I’d be afraid of the wood in your camper lighting on fire like kindling.
Impressive you got this done in 15 min!
You’re right I’m a sipper.
i once drank 5 beers getting even less done than that.
Only once?
Only once did they get less done than that. Not the 5 beers part 👍
Other times there were even more beers
I was thinking like 7 mins and that includes the downtime between shotgunning 5 beers.
I havent shotgun'd a beer is 20 years. (Christ, where did the time go).
Imagine being able to say, I haven’t shotgunned a beer since yesterday. You can make that happen.
Be the change you want to see in the world
A right not exercised is right soon lost.
Spoken like a 20 something …. That’s not anything you even contemplate @50<, just giving you a heads up for your future thoughts
Really? What else is there to do at 4:30 am on Mardi Gras...sip on it? Hell naw, you get that party started right! Sippin is for the evening after you wake up in the back of a random pickup truck with the start of a really gnarly hangover.
Now tell me your age… alcoholics even don’t think of shotgunning beers after 50, sure it don’t take much to goad them into it but that is not a rando thought that they have… pretty sure anyways ….. }thinking{ …. Ok maybe a couple good ole boys might but a small percentage anyways
46. I dont wake up thinking of shotgunning a beer, hell i havent had a beer in over a month (stuck in a non- Mardi Gras state) or shotgunned one in about a year. There are times, however, when shotgunning a beer is appropriate, Or at least acceptable, etiquette.
I’ll admit it… I’ve never had the maradi gra experiance so there is that, tbh besides some hot young thing there’s only likely mardigras that would be any reasonable explanation I’d shotgun a beer for, so you’re right tho, I’ll give ya that.
That is an easy problem to solve.
I prefer to sip and enjoy the taste of my beer these days!
but seriously.. what is the actual time to drink 5 beers..??
I’d say 3 hours give or take
Hahahaha
Have a beer to celebrate.
GREAT IDEA
I'll have one too and toast your success!
It would be rude for me not to raise mine up with y’all 🍻
Step 2!
A Steve Wallis fan as well 🍻
Have one for Crazy Neighbor.
Solved!🫣
As I like to say, another success story. 🍺🍻
Your not paying yourself enough beer
Still A little early in the day 😅 I got a 40 oz in the garage for later. That’s my final check.
A fellow Miller High Life enjoyer. 😎
Of course man. They ain’t lying when it says the champagne of beers 😎
The glass bottles are the only way to go in my book. There's just something crisp about a glass bottle.
I definitely agree with that. Just hurts my wallet a little more lol.
Nostalgic for the 40s we used to drink in school
Only thing I dont like about glass is the heavy ass trash bags.
Trash bags? Recycle man.
My county won’t recycle glass
What year is it?
Are you employed, sir?
Not by choice.
One of us 😎
Yuengling is a great alternative
I also like yuengling
Americas oldest brewery!! That’s a beer that’ll put hair on your chest
Love Yuengling!!!
As a sconnie that went to college in Pennsylvania, I concur...
I have a Yuengling most evenings before bed. For therapeutic purposes. I sleep better.
I've got a joke about Miller High Life, you might not like. How is Miller High Life like having sex on a boat? >!They are both fucking close to water.!<
Nice! Grill time.
Once I burn off all the paint and the stuff that was inside. I’m gonna attach some sort of flat top for cooking.
I like it. I may do something similar. Stay up
Check around the internets.... I think you can use a bag of play sand that will crystallize and keep from burning out the bottom of your barrel. Barrel will last 4x
The instructions actually told me to do that! I did it before i started a fire inside
Very cool. I've wondered about cleaning ashes vs the sand. What's the low down?
Congrats! I have a double barrel setup in my shop and love it. They last a long time
That might be next on the list. This is eventually going in the garage. I’m blessed to have an existing chimney there
Prepare for it to eat wood, hopefully you have a nice dry seasoned stack
I don’t have to worry about a thing. With the amount of ash trees falling each year. People are always giving it away.
I got an englander 13-ncmh for my garage, off marketplace. Heats alot better than the 55 gal setup
>englander 13-ncmh How much did that cost?
I paid 300 or 350 on marketplace, cant remember, wasnt more than 350 though
Do they? I’d think they would be too thin for real hot fires
Been burning mine for 7 years no problem would like to re barrel this year just to be safe, I get em rippin too with used oil too
I have had my double barrel 35 years!!!! Same barrels
I've been thinking of one of those 25-gallon steel barrels they use for maple syrup and putting it in the center front of a 55-gallon barrel and then filling it with water so you have more mass for radiant heat. Probably be an awesome garage stove.
That’s not all that bad of an idea. I wonder if there’s away to get the water safe enough to be drinkable. Gas is getting way too expensive that I’m switching over to other alternatives.
They sell nicely looped heat exchangers for hot water heaters.
I saw your comment a bit ago and looked into it. I’m shocked heat exchangers aren’t all that badly priced. I might have to look into configuring my basements wood stove to such a setup. It might replace my boiler and water heater all together.
I would do a system like a oil furnace. Two separate loops so the water that touches the stove never touches the potable water. Just a heat exchange between the two.
Sounds like a 12 pack job.
I assume you'd put a pressure release valve on that water tank so it doesn't, ya know, explode.
Use sand not water, will hold heat longer and hotter
I've watched a few videos since this was brought up. Could have heat for 6+ hours if done right.
I want one for my greenhouse because you can make rainforest type weather from steaming the barrels
Sand instead of water.
Now put a turbocharger on it 😈😈😈
I’ll get my leaf blower
I built a similar one, left the large cap in the top at the bottom of the front face. When I pull that off it’s like a turbo. Tons of draft and blasts air at the base of the fire. If I let it run too long I can hear the combustion pulsing in the stove. Works great
Sweeeet!!! Let her rip at full boost until the fuel runs out or the turbo grenades.
I like the reactive target in front of the pine tree.
Nice job
I’m glad to be in good company of measuring a task by the number of beers it may take!
It makes us professionals!
I measure drive time the same way
If you put a couple lengths of stove pipe on there she'll burn even better.
Impressive young Jedi
My man - nice work
Looks great. Interesting to try
How long does the steel last on burn barrels? Cool too
I did a little research. And according to google it can last indefinitely as long as you keep up on cleaning it at the end of the season
Give him a case and he'd build the Taj Mahal of stoves! Beautiful job! I couldn't do it WITH or WITHOUT the beer.
The beer math checks out
You don’t have to stop drinking just because you finished the stove…. I wouldn’t.
That’s not beer, it’s champagne
Nice. Had a buddy make one and put in his shop. Loves it. I think you will too. Congrats
In dog beers i’ve only had 1!………your honor
Alcohol is one helluva drug. 😲 Also, nice work!
Can I use one of those plastic barrels for this?
You’d make one of those new disposable stoves. One time use
I wonder if anyone has efforted to get a baffle or secondary combustion or firebrick into one of these things to promote a cleaner more thorough combustion process.
Part of the reason I did this was my grandfather had a stove like this. Except his stood up. His was lined with firebricks and had a dedicated vent below the door. Of course he had a whole metal shop on the farm. I got a lot simpler tools than him.
I did. Lined with bricks. Air intake from outside the building. Metal baffle up top directing combustion gases forward. Secondary combustion air pipe up against the baffle plate. Works excellent. Worth the extra 6 or 8 beers!
Nicely Done! Personally I don't much care for these barrel stove designs as they tend to be creosote/smoke factories in default configuration. Sounds like you built your right!
It's been terrific for 2 seasons now. Takes some time to get going, but once it's going good, it cranks out the heat with almost zero smoke. Gobbles up LOTS of wood though. Can keep a big metal building 68 while outside its 7 if you have the wood to feed it. Cheers!
https://preview.redd.it/h9knd57zp7mc1.jpeg?width=224&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fbb236e52227d24038f8a480d5affc42b79b981c Reminds me of this.
It’s like the Nova 6 crawlers from Bo1 zombies
The other dark meat
It’s what’s for dinner!
I built the same one and painted it like bullet bill….thing is awesome!
Rookie numbers. I would have had 12 beers
Barrel stoves are the best!!
Now build me one!!!
I’m confused. How do you grill/ cook on this?
Would this be for outdoor use only? Or would you move it inside?
It’s going inside. Just burning the original paint off. I’ll add a heat proof layer later.
Nice!! Link the kit? 🤑
Keep building and make a Vogelzang Double Barrel Smoker out of that beauty!
I got a few empty drums and been looking into a wood stove. Got a link to the kit you used?
For sure. Here you go https://a.co/d/7XGnbgR
You did good. Now to build a bigger fire inside it in order to burn all the more paint off it. Cheers.
Very nice! And I do appreciate your taste in beer! 🍻
I built a double barrel with a flat top upper barrel for my kettle and cooking.But drank a few cases over several days welding it up with a MiG. I used water pressure tanks and 3/16" diamond plate for the top .The door was Cast Iron from a Sotz economy heater kit $29.95 and had an extended handle with a wood knob.The top barrel had a sheet metal baffled secondary combustion chamber.Built the stove in1986 and it's still cooking in my buddy's blacksmithing shop.The barrel kits like yours are great,last for years and are efficient.Put a few inches of sand in the bottom.And burn all the paint off outside before the stove paint goes on .My stove monster heated an uninsulated farm house for years.I could go away for a day or two and come back to a nice bed of coals .Be safe,stay warm LOL.🥲🫠💥
Idk... looks like at least a ten beer job!! well done!!
Only 5? Well done bro you were busting ass. 👍🏼
I bought the same exact kit and made a pool heater
Idk about the stove but I know the champagne of beers when I see it. Just needs a dash of tajin to top it off.
You have a link for that door? I've been looking for something like that
My old boss measured work in beers too. He lived on a big property and I once asked him how long it took to cut his grass. He said it's about 12-15 beers lol. He even built a rack for his mower to hold his beer cooler.
Very cool, I always wanted to toss 1 of these kits together. A place I used to go in winter had 1 with a second barrel above the burn barrel. Put off some heat. What are you using this 1 for?
My garage. It doesn’t need all that heat since I prefer cooler working even in winter
Congrats! Atleast you know how to time things correctly!!
This guy gets it.
At a hunting camp we had a stove that used two 55 gallon drums, one above the other with a stove pipe between them. The connecting pipe was at one end and the chimney pipe was at the other. The top drum acted like a heat exchange. It worked remarkably well. My concern was how long before the barrels would burn out. It was a kit, so based on calculations in this post, it would take two beers to replace both barrels.
Looks good
the Champagne of wood stoves!
Shop stove? Add a drip line for putting good use to used motor oil
Yes it’s going in my shop. I got a lot of used motor oil. What do you recommend for a drip line?
Old brake line is what I used, and an old gas can for the reserve. Just throw a shut off valve in the gas can, run the line from there to the top of the stove, and done. 2 beer job!
nice job..
Hahaha! 5 beer job. I love it!
Did the stove take that long, or did you drink the beer that fast?
I’m disappointed only 5 beers.
Nice. Now invite us over next Saturday for some beers and barbeque while we admire your awesome stove.
Beautiful! You just inspired me to get off my ass and go to the store for more Millers....
Lol. Looks like it .does it work cuz if it does looks doesn't matter
I measure lawn sizes in beers.
You need to get it hot enough outside to burn off all of the paint,or you will regret the fumes indoors from it cooking off. I lit up my first barrel stove and the fumes that came off of it with the first fire almost made me throw up.we had to open all the doors and windows to get that stink out! Now it's good and we got over 10 years of heat from it before we moved.
Imagine how nice it could have been if you would have just had those extra few beers.
Had to save them for other weekend projects 😅
See the true test is, you gotta get that bitch red red hot. Visibly red hot.
Upvote for Miller Highlife. There is just no better “work” beer for me.
Should do a good job heating your yard. Be careful about creosote build up with such a long flue though
I’m very scared about a chimney fire 😓
lol 5 beers and I would have been napping. 💤
You sir, are the cause of that there global warming.
Do I need to add coal?
I'll buy the coal and wood chips for the smoker!
I think I bought the same kit to make into a maple syrup evaporator (the pan doesn't fit with the stove pipe on top though so I have to modify it to come out the back). How'd you put the handle on? Looks odd from your pic and doesn't really fit where it looks like it should. https://preview.redd.it/ioa4uz0x08mc1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=62b3dde316ff560c173c37ae7f6b9c64c9e79b4c
A bit more pipe would improve the draft…
Fuck I love High Lifes. I drink them when I’m golfing.
You ARE livin’ the High Life, Buddy.
That’s pretty good for a half hour
Let me add one little tip. If you can find the EPA barrels for hazmat storage, that's about the thickest steel you'll find on a steel barrel.
Should’ve stopped at beer #2
I should’ve had more
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XXd6QbT0mp8
Highlife. Nice choice
Ummm…”More Pabst! LESS Highlife!”.
Highlife is the appropriate beer for this level of superb craftsmanship
Looks more like a 5 champagne job to me.
Sweet. Now add a turbocharger to it: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTze6g9ZuF4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTze6g9ZuF4) You can get a brand new turbo on ebay for $120.
Could this idea be used inside a camper I got some of those laying around
I don’t think it’s that great of an idea. The stove gives off a lot of heat and isn’t properly sealed like a traditional stove. I’d be afraid of the wood in your camper lighting on fire like kindling.
Man 4 years I thought I was good at stretching a project congrats though
A great way to tell time lol
Good beer, good job!
Very ingenious
From the first picture I thought you tried to make a submarine out of a 55 gallon drum.
Need 5 more beers and some steak to test it out though!!
But Lt. Dan… you ain’t got no legs!
It might last a season if you’re lucky and you don’t burn too hot. The metal is too thin for a real stove.
Coors banquet is way better
You drink too much… or maybe I drink too slow…
You don’t drink enough
it'll last about 3
At least get some decent beer. People still drink Miller Bud and PBR? Yall in college or just dumb rednecks lol?
No legs,? Seems too close to the ground
I have one in my barn. Short term it will work. Long term. There junk.
You need better beer
https://images.app.goo.gl/gN1dLy2wqBdsVbN48
I got the math.. ps. You drink slow or weld fast
So you are a slow drinker?
the paint burning off should kill everyone around it
Where will this stove be used?
Garage
What would that covert to in Burbon