[TheForge] Wood stoves

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Mike Spencer wrote:
> Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer <artgawk at thegrid.net> wrote:
> 
>> Mike Spencer wrote:
>>> Bob Willman wrote:
>>>
>>> bw> The drums were horizontal with one above the other. The fire was
>>> bw> in the lower drum and the smoke went from the rear of the bottom
>>> bw> drum up into the rear of the top drum and the stack exited the
>>> bw> front of the bottom drum.
>>>
>> If you rig these just right, you are supposed to get secondary 
>> combustion and burn the smoke in the top chamber.
> 
> Yeah.  Oxy hose connected? :-)  And if you *don't* get secondary
> combustion, I should think you'd get condensation of wood
> distillates.  Huge can of compustible crap waiting to become a flue
> fire.
> 
> - Mike
I'd wondered about that Mike.
The second drum is supposed to have a couple of adjustable air intakes 
for oxy. A " producer gas" burning stove ought to work. They make 
catalytic units to serve the same purpose but the exhaust has to be 
pretty damn hot for it to work.