[TheForge] OT Wood Stove for Shop heat

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

There was an "Alaskan" version of those that used 2 horizontal 
oil barrels, one over the other. There was an air gate in the 
upper one and it was supposed to benefit from secondary 
combustion of the smoke in the upper chamber.
If you don't have codes to cope with, stoves can be a lot of fun 
to build ,for such as us'n...and if it doesn't do just what you 
want, it's already in the right location to modify.
I've welded up a lot of one-off stoves and fireplaces over the 
years, and i'm sure happy we work in a forgiving medium!...pf

Dave Mudge wrote:
> Bill, over the years, living in a rural area where wood was readily
> available, I have built quite a few wood stoves from 55 gal. drums,
> used water heater tanks and used well tanks. There used to be a
> company named SOTZ that produced the kits. They were made from heavy
> sheet metal and included the legs, door (air tight) and a collar for
> the stove pipe. Sometimes I would add a plate of 1/4" steel to make a
> flat cook top. These stoves worked really well considering the price.
> I think that the SOTZ company is gone now but Northern Tool has a cast
> iron kit that seems very similar and it's only $42.
> http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_6970_20894_20894 
> 
> dave m
> 
> On 1/19/07, Woolley <wjec at verizon.net> wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Does anyone have any experience with Nashua woodstoves?  I don't think 
>> they are still being made but the specs I found on hearth.com look 
>> pretty good.  I going to try to heat my shop with a wood stove. I need 
>> to heat approx. 18K cubic feet or 1500 sq. ft.  Is anyone heating that 
>> kind of area with a wood stove?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Bill Woolley
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