😂 I thought I was the only one! I do mine similar but with more emphasis on speed of burning and everyone loves them because they burn like an incinerator. The clean out and chimney are so important. You can even pull a chair up and have a chat because the smoke is up high. My differences are I use larger pipe and leave the lid intact but hinge the whole thing with the chimney in the center. Also, I put four rows of four 5/8” holes, one hole at each 90 degrees, on the bottom half of the barrel. Each of the rows is rotated roughly 30 degrees counter clockwise in a spiral pattern from the one below it so that the top and bottom rows have the same hole positions but having rotated 90deg. Then I use a piece of rebar inserted into the holes to bend the angle of the holes to direct incoming air into a counter clockwise vortex. It’s all overkill, but when it’s ripping you can hear the air roaring into these barrels like a jet engine and have flames shooting 2 feet out of 4 feet of stove pipe. Easily burn a full barrel of anything in 20 minutes or less.
We just brought in all the material for a burning barrel,80 gal compressor tank,100 lb propane cylinder to go on top and 3" pipe on top of that,doing 2" pipe like your holes with the vortex,we built one out of a barrel once and it rusted out fast,anyhow,over the 3" pipe we are putting a 6" stove pipe over that to draw air up with a mixer like on a blowtorch ,this one will work way better ,more heating and more convection and draw. Nice that I am not the only one! I have hot glue guns and a plasma cutter.
One day I brought three of my pistolas to my inlays house, along with a lot of lead. Her 55 gallon drum which was going to be altered for a burn barrel, was our target. At least a hundred rounds of various caliber. She said it was the best burn barrel she ever had. The barrel burned out before she did. I miss her.
It helps to raise the bottom of the barrel by placing a heavy steel grill over some bricks on the inside, above the level of the air holes. I also just cut out the air holes entirely, so the material burns faster.
I saw a video on here a few years ago of someone trying to burn the paint off a barrel for a rocket stove. They put a flue pipe in the bottom to try and draw the fire down to the bottom. It ended up pulling the fire down completely and burning smoke free. I've tried this once myself, and I was amazed how well it worked. absolutely no smoke even burning trash. I don't currently have a need for a burn barrel, but if I do that simple set up would be my choice.
That stove pipe adapter coming up from the top of the lid-I see you drilling screws into the adapter, but what else is securing the adapter to the top of the lid?
@@WineberryHill Got it. So in that particular situation, it didn’t look like the screws were going through any portion of the top of the lid. Am I right?
I like the lid idea and think the chimney might help burn the smoke better. I still have holes I put in with a uni-bit , three rows of about 6-8 1" holes each. I use the cutout from one of mine and a metal pole keeping it mostly covering the top. I cut the bottoms out too. Mine were just rusting out in the bottom with the acidic ashes and rain. So I put it up on blocks like yours, fill it up and let it burn. When the ahses cover the blocks and start cloggin the under air flow, I take the barrel off, move the blocks and dispose of the ashes and set it up again. This barrel has lasted 3 years now and I burn the ever present Amazon and other shipping boxes along with paper trash. Any good food scraps go to the chickens and that leaves me with 1 or 2 burns a week. 3 or more on Christmas AND I have two Christmas trees to go here as well. But with the bottom cut out, you don't get the bottom rotting out AND you don't have to cut those doors in because you have more then enough airflow through the bottom. I still can see flames going around the holes further up the barrel SO the added oxygen there is still a plus.
I grew up on an organic farm and we always burned scraps and stuff in holes we dug in our gardens . But now I se a burn barrel in VA because there are dangers of causing root tree fires . On the back of my property we have lots of skinny pines that have beetle bore diseases . By the way I come from farming family in PA and grew up to a point in that amish community until ur family was shunned . I was 8 when we bought the NJ city farm and I am now 71 and still can my own food like I was taught as a child . But the garden state of NJ had better soil than VA does . I have my burn barrels on a big gravel pad nea my driveway it helps come winter to keep driveway from ice and snow . Though we don't get much of that here. I retired and bought just over 3 acres here in VA and I had house and dirt and now I have fruit trees and my gardens . But funny farmers here are Stingy with sharing cow manure . My dad always used it and always made cow manure tea to put in the garden with rain barrels which I still do . Right now I have 8 rain barrels with window screen on the top to keep bugs and leaves out . I have 2 burn barrels for brush a kitchen garbage and the ashs are great in the gardens By the way deer seem to love my house , which I don't mind sharing . I am a vegetarian so my veggie garden did get fenced in . I supply deer with straw and a water trough in the wooded area . Love the babies .
Good for small burns. After pruning my olive and other trees, everything goes in a big pile and set alight. Lots of smoke, but when you're burning a ton or more... 😊 This is what we do in Southern Italy. Buon Natale tutti!
The vent pipe should be installed opposite the way you did it. Going up installing the next pipe to the outside of the one below it. You can crimp the take-off to achieve that effect. They manufacture them like that because it is universal that way, depending on the orientation of your reducing adapter. Other than that, looks great!
I need to do something similar i just use a open barrel and burning today and got a flume of smoke in my face several times . I was thing pipe on side but on top might be a better idea. And a door at bottom makes sense to empty the ashes.
How do you get the lid off? I built a grid out of rerod with 6 inches legs. It keeps the new wood above the hot coals. And just tip over to clean. Also, I put fire bricks on the bottom, and then I put the cut-out lid down inside on them. It keeps the hot coals and fire off the bottom of the barrel, so my barrel will last longer.
In addition to being an interesting bit of building I gotta commend the videography, editing and mixing of the music. It really lends well to the whole process. 4 minutes felt like 1.
I cut both ends off since a bottom service no useful purpose vs being able to kick over a tube then relocate it a few feet for the next burn. I set mine on blocks to increase airflow. A good fire roars loudly because a tube with an open base supported a few inches off the ground flows so much air. There us nothing to "clean up" because the tube does not collect ash.
We cut the top and bottom lid out and set the barrel on blocks and old grill grating, Then when we burn we also put in a 5 foot stick to keep the air to fuel ratio better with the garbage bags and it is not unusual to get 8, 10 foot flames off the top when we light the bottom after a full load of garbage. We do not burn plastic. simple, and the barrel lasts about 3 years.
The problem with burn barrels is to burn cleanly they need heat and Air, and that balance must be correct. Enough air for full hot combustion but not so much as to cool the fire. Unfortunately to get them to proper temp and a clean burn, this heat also cooks the carbon out of the steel and the thin barrel breaks down and rusts out quickly. I have had far better service out of old water heater tanks, and they last a good long time. The older the better as the really old ones used batt insulation which is easier to remove. The newer units use spray foam which is harder to remove. They being thicker steel are also a bit harder to cut, but they last long enough to be worth the effort. And if you have access to a plasma cutter, prep for use very fast…
I like your idea I just bought a electric meat smoker and I would like to make a wood stove out of it but I don't know how can you help me seal the top so no smoke comes out
I hoard old hardware. I always have piano hinge handy to cut as needed...same with old metal handles. The main part I bought was the stove pipe and it's fittings.
cool simple build 💚 how do I do it? I don't, it is illegal here to burn green waste (dry or wet plants) at home, whether with a garden incinerator or in the open air.
Hell you should have used all that material and just went ahead and made a stove/ burn barrel. Just a couple of alterations and that bad boy would be a multi use barrel.😂😂👍🥇💯🔥🔥🔥🔥
I made one laying down with the door kits they sell then used angle iron from bunk bed made a frame 3 feet wide- 3 feet high & 4 feet long put barrel inside it closed in with sheet metal cut flue hole in & a 8 or 10in heat pipe reduced to 6in right b4 going into old oil furnace & the heat gravity feed through existing heat runs! I was a logger back then heated my house for free many years & my house has never been warmer!! If I was to do it again I'd cut ends out of a second barrel & slit down the side & make it double thick!
Спорная конструкция. Прогорит скорее всего, ну и соединения на саморезы выглядит так себе. Я себе купил измельчитель, и всякие остатки измельчаю и на грядку. А что потолще дюйма, то в очаге жгу, когда с детьми костер вечером устраиваем.
Good idea overall, but your burn barrel is hillariously overcomplicated. So much screws for such thin metal. Barrel will corrode faster than hinges and screws. And at the end you can't put really big stuff into it - it won't fit. I find open barrel works fine while you had unbstructed of ash pedestal for feed.
Need real safety glasses and definitely a guard on that grinder. Those cut off blades snap on a regular basis. Nothing better than seeing half of that blade zooming by your face at 10,000rpm. Other than that you did a great video!!
😂 I thought I was the only one!
I do mine similar but with more emphasis on speed of burning and everyone loves them because they burn like an incinerator.
The clean out and chimney are so important. You can even pull a chair up and have a chat because the smoke is up high.
My differences are I use larger pipe and leave the lid intact but hinge the whole thing with the chimney in the center. Also, I put four rows of four 5/8” holes, one hole at each 90 degrees, on the bottom half of the barrel. Each of the rows is rotated roughly 30 degrees counter clockwise in a spiral pattern from the one below it so that the top and bottom rows have the same hole positions but having rotated 90deg.
Then I use a piece of rebar inserted into the holes to bend the angle of the holes to direct incoming air into a counter clockwise vortex.
It’s all overkill, but when it’s ripping you can hear the air roaring into these barrels like a jet engine and have flames shooting 2 feet out of 4 feet of stove pipe. Easily burn a full barrel of anything in 20 minutes or less.
Great tips!
We just brought in all the material for a burning barrel,80 gal compressor tank,100 lb propane cylinder to go on top and 3" pipe on top of that,doing 2" pipe like your holes with the vortex,we built one out of a barrel once and it rusted out fast,anyhow,over the 3" pipe we are putting a 6" stove pipe over that to draw air up with a mixer like on a blowtorch ,this one will work way better ,more heating and more convection and draw.
Nice that I am not the only one!
I have hot glue guns and a plasma cutter.
I just shot a bunch of holes in it. Including the bottom. Burns great. Tip it over to empty.
Yep, that works too!
Big step bit.
Same.
I sell screws. Fully endorse this burner
lol...Thanks for watching!
Well burn barrels only last a year if your lucky the rust out and the heat is hard on the thin metal. I like your idea pretty nice
One day I brought three of my pistolas to my inlays house, along with a lot of lead. Her 55 gallon drum which was going to be altered for a burn barrel, was our target. At least a hundred rounds of various caliber.
She said it was the best burn barrel she ever had.
The barrel burned out before she did.
I miss her.
...makes sense!
It helps to raise the bottom of the barrel by placing a heavy steel grill over some bricks on the inside, above the level of the air holes. I also just cut out the air holes entirely, so the material burns faster.
Good tips!
I saw a video on here a few years ago of someone trying to burn the paint off a barrel for a rocket stove. They put a flue pipe in the bottom to try and draw the fire down to the bottom. It ended up pulling the fire down completely and burning smoke free.
I've tried this once myself, and I was amazed how well it worked. absolutely no smoke even burning trash. I don't currently have a need for a burn barrel, but if I do that simple set up would be my choice.
I love it!
Do you have a link of that video? Or some more descriptions to find it?
That stove pipe adapter coming up from the top of the lid-I see you drilling screws into the adapter, but what else is securing the adapter to the top of the lid?
I do it differently every time. That was the snuggest fit for that particular situation.
@@WineberryHill Got it. So in that particular situation, it didn’t look like the screws were going through any portion of the top of the lid. Am I right?
How long does it last? I drill holes around the bottom sides for airflow. Mine normal last about a year or less.
Yeah, maybe a year or two.
I like the lid idea and think the chimney might help burn the smoke better. I still have holes I put in with a uni-bit , three rows of about 6-8 1" holes each. I use the cutout from one of mine and a metal pole keeping it mostly covering the top. I cut the bottoms out too. Mine were just rusting out in the bottom with the acidic ashes and rain. So I put it up on blocks like yours, fill it up and let it burn. When the ahses cover the blocks and start cloggin the under air flow, I take the barrel off, move the blocks and dispose of the ashes and set it up again. This barrel has lasted 3 years now and I burn the ever present Amazon and other shipping boxes along with paper trash. Any good food scraps go to the chickens and that leaves me with 1 or 2 burns a week. 3 or more on Christmas AND I have two Christmas trees to go here as well.
But with the bottom cut out, you don't get the bottom rotting out AND you don't have to cut those doors in because you have more then enough airflow through the bottom. I still can see flames going around the holes further up the barrel SO the added oxygen there is still a plus.
Great tips!
I grew up on an organic farm and we always burned scraps and stuff in holes we dug in our gardens . But now I se a burn barrel in VA because there are dangers of causing root tree fires . On the back of my property we have lots of skinny pines that have beetle bore diseases . By the way I come from farming family in PA and grew up to a point in that amish community until ur family was shunned . I was 8 when we bought the NJ city farm and I am now 71 and still can my own food like I was taught as a child . But the garden state of NJ had better soil than VA does . I have my burn barrels on a big gravel pad nea my driveway it helps come winter to keep driveway from ice and snow . Though we don't get much of that here. I retired and bought just over 3 acres here in VA and I had house and dirt and now I have fruit trees and my gardens . But funny farmers here are Stingy with sharing cow manure . My dad always used it and always made cow manure tea to put in the garden with rain barrels which I still do . Right now I have 8 rain barrels with window screen on the top to keep bugs and leaves out . I have 2 burn barrels for brush a kitchen garbage and the ashs are great in the gardens By the way deer seem to love my house , which I don't mind sharing . I am a vegetarian so my veggie garden did get fenced in . I supply deer with straw and a water trough in the wooded area . Love the babies .
Good for small burns.
After pruning my olive and other trees, everything goes in a big pile and set alight. Lots of smoke, but when you're burning a ton or more... 😊
This is what we do in Southern Italy.
Buon Natale tutti!
Thanks for watching!
The vent pipe should be installed opposite the way you did it. Going up installing the next pipe to the outside of the one below it. You can crimp the take-off to achieve that effect. They manufacture them like that because it is universal that way, depending on the orientation of your reducing adapter. Other than that, looks great!
Thanks for the tip!
I need to do something similar i just use a open barrel and burning today and got a flume of smoke in my face several times . I was thing pipe on side but on top might be a better idea. And a door at bottom makes sense to empty the ashes.
Wouid have nice if you had lit it, to show it working after all that?
Fair enough...I didn't even think of pointing the camera down into the barrel. The smoke and the ash were real I promise!
How do you get the lid off? I built a grid out of rerod with 6 inches legs. It keeps the new wood above the hot coals. And just tip over to clean. Also, I put fire bricks on the bottom, and then I put the cut-out lid down inside on them. It keeps the hot coals and fire off the bottom of the barrel, so my barrel will last longer.
This one had a removable lid. Great ideas!
In addition to being an interesting bit of building I gotta commend the videography, editing and mixing of the music. It really lends well to the whole process. 4 minutes felt like 1.
Appreciate the kind words, Thanks for watching!
Would make a good emergency furnace
True!
I burn green tree branches in mine. Get a fire started first and fill with green branches. Add leaf blower to bottom vent and enjoy!😂🎉💯👍🤠
Great tip!
Same here....230mph leaf blower to supercharge mine lol
Was just thinking about making one. Perfect timing ❤
Glad I could help!
This video came to you because the internet read your mind. Happens to me all the time.
Good idea Lathe. Thanks.
Thanks Stewart!
I cut both ends off since a bottom service no useful purpose vs being able to kick over a tube then relocate it a few feet for the next burn. I set mine on blocks to increase airflow.
A good fire roars loudly because a tube with an open base supported a few inches off the ground flows so much air. There us nothing to "clean up" because the tube does not collect ash.
Nice!
I have nothing to say really, but I appreciate your content, and wish to help with the yt-algorithms.
Keeping me motivated Marius...thanks!
We cut the top and bottom lid out and set the barrel on blocks and old grill grating, Then when we burn we also put in a 5 foot stick to keep the air to fuel ratio better with the garbage bags and it is not unusual to get 8, 10 foot flames off the top when we light the bottom after a full load of garbage. We do not burn plastic. simple, and the barrel lasts about 3 years.
Sounds like you've got a good system!
Congrats on over 70 k followers
Thanks Michelle, crazy right?!
The problem with burn barrels is to burn cleanly they need heat and Air, and that balance must be correct. Enough air for full hot combustion but not so much as to cool the fire. Unfortunately to get them to proper temp and a clean burn, this heat also cooks the carbon out of the steel and the thin barrel breaks down and rusts out quickly. I have had far better service out of old water heater tanks, and they last a good long time. The older the better as the really old ones used batt insulation which is easier to remove. The newer units use spray foam which is harder to remove. They being thicker steel are also a bit harder to cut, but they last long enough to be worth the effort. And if you have access to a plasma cutter, prep for use very fast…
I agree, they don't last very long. But they are very useful while they are working.
Helping striking works stay warmer since...2024!
This is great! And it wouldn't be hard at all to use this as a TLUD base as well to make biochar. Easy peasy!
Totally
I like your idea I just bought a electric meat smoker and I would like to make a wood stove out of it but I don't know how can you help me seal the top so no smoke comes out
No idea...that might exceed the design of the smoker.
Do you have a list of the parts you used for this build
I hoard old hardware. I always have piano hinge handy to cut as needed...same with old metal handles. The main part I bought was the stove pipe and it's fittings.
cool simple build 💚 how do I do it? I don't, it is illegal here to burn green waste (dry or wet plants) at home, whether with a garden incinerator or in the open air.
Burn wood and cardboard. Put your green waste in a compost barrel.
@@PastoralTeacher sorry I wasn't precise enough, it is illegal to burn anything outside your house, it's an environnemental law
Where are you located?
@@st0mbi MOVE!!!
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Caleftornia.
Good job 👍
Thanks for the visit
Great idea!
Glad you think so!
Hell you should have used all that material and just went ahead and made a stove/ burn barrel. Just a couple of alterations and that bad boy would be a multi use barrel.😂😂👍🥇💯🔥🔥🔥🔥
Helpful...thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Why would you not screw the pipe into the larger threaded hole?
Too small. Thanks for watching!
Good idea.👍
Thanks 👍
Nice!
Thanks!
20 more minuets and I was expecting to see him replacing his home furnace with this baby holy cow hahah
I made one laying down with the door kits they sell then used angle iron from bunk bed made a frame 3 feet wide- 3 feet high & 4 feet long put barrel inside it closed in with sheet metal cut flue hole in & a 8 or 10in heat pipe reduced to 6in right b4 going into old oil furnace & the heat gravity feed through existing heat runs! I was a logger back then heated my house for free many years & my house has never been warmer!! If I was to do it again I'd cut ends out of a second barrel & slit down the side & make it double thick!
Ah, a classical music lover!
You should add a catalytic combuster to the stack. That will help reduce the smoke on startup and when the fire is dying down.
You just built a rudimentary wood heater....
yep, Thanks for watching!
Спорная конструкция.
Прогорит скорее всего, ну и соединения на саморезы выглядит так себе.
Я себе купил измельчитель, и всякие остатки измельчаю и на грядку.
А что потолще дюйма, то в очаге жгу, когда с детьми костер вечером устраиваем.
Cool!
Good idea overall, but your burn barrel is hillariously overcomplicated. So much screws for such thin metal. Barrel will corrode faster than hinges and screws. And at the end you can't put really big stuff into it - it won't fit.
I find open barrel works fine while you had unbstructed of ash pedestal for feed.
Thanks for watching!
Thanks god bless
Thanks for watching!
Need real safety glasses and definitely a guard on that grinder. Those cut off blades snap on a regular basis. Nothing better than seeing half of that blade zooming by your face at 10,000rpm. Other than that you did a great video!!
Good call!
Is there any risk to my mustache wax or bowtie?
There better not be! Defend that stache at all costs!
Like zoinks Scoob, come check out my burn barrel.
lol...yup I see it now, guilty!
Better yet stop burning your leaves
Yeah, leaves are too important for the garden!
What do people burn in these burn barrels? Trash? I'm hoping to start homesteading in a couple of years.
Often it's for paper trash...etc
Bodies? Sorry, been watching too many episodes of "Bones" lately...
Trash. I live out in the country.
You need stainless steel add phosphorus for that@@MrMEmEmEmEMEMEeeeeee