[TheForge] barrel stoves

[Andy Gladish]

When I was a kid I lived on a fairly remote island which at one time had  
shipped its gasoline in lovely heavy gauge 55 gallon barrels with kind of  
rounded sides. A stove made from one of these would last decades of long  
winters.
But what stands out in my memory is the examples that one welder kept in  
his front yard, of barrels that had exploded when he used a torch to cut  
the doors out...he always said, "Sometimes you just get unlucky..."
I kind of thought the luck was going the other way, but considering what  
else we had to put up with from that guy, perhaps it wasn't so lucky after  
all.

> My friend Marshall has a steel-barrel stove with a door like this.
> Flue at opposite end.  He has a shield over it IIRC.  Works fine.
> It's all he uses to heat his shop in cold weather.