Gas Bottle Wood Burner

[Stigian 1,234]

Good morning Guy's, as ever sorry about the lack of post from me of late, fingers crossed life might be settling down to a steady pace of life now.

To help make up for the postal lack, (and to show things have been happening at the shack) here's a slightly out to lunch gas bottle wood burner build

Having sold my big fan assisted wood burner er.. two house moves ago, a way of heating the new if much smaller Workshack was needed if any Wheel Horse building was to be done this winter.

To try and speed things up I splashed out on Fleabay and bought a ready build gas bottle wood burner thingy.... As ever with Fleabay the photo's make the item look a lot better than it actually is!!

Let's just say the build quality could of been a bit better

First things first though.. A stand was needed to sit the burner on..

This was the stand my power hacksaw thingy was mounted on..

Pete soon sliced a few inches out of it.

And after welding it back together, it slotted in the space left for it

Boring bit over.. Time for the fun stuff... Modification

Take one metal lamp shade/shield and trim it a lot..

Cut the joining flange thingy from one end of a section of chimney pipe...

Hhmm.. May of cut it off this pipe already..

Then weld the green bit and the black bit together

The chrome thing is a "Boy racer bolt on, make your exhaust look bigger" bit of kit!!

But a slice of it is quite handy as a "in between" filler bit when trying to weld a thin walled lamp shade/shield to quite a thick bit of pipe on the burner...

I'm not quite sure what Pete is welding up here, but welding he certainly is

The next day Garry gave the wood burner a trail run

Daft-ness over for a few seconds until we found out it was quite easy to pull off one of the wood burners legs

[Stigian 1,234]

Being legless can be fun

But not when the legs hold your wood burner up..

Time for an action shot

The legs which I attacked with the grinder and which Garry here is measuring to check they are being held in roughly the right place, were legs from a hidden toilet cistern!!

Garry armed with the "magical sparking machine"

Sparkle sparkle..

I'm not sure the new legs look any better than the old one's, but the do hold the bottle level and you can't pull these ones off

Before we got too carried away with welding, some tires, a filing cabinet and power cables needed some protection from the heat the burner will chuck out!!

Starting with a wooden frame.

And some OSB board..

We end up with this.. Ally sheet will be used to stop the boards burning.

Back to metal and this hole needed filling up where the gas bottles valve once lived.

I was not happy with the fit of the original door that had been cut out and re-fitted with a hinge... So I found something that's a much better fit!!

Yes... Your eyes are seeing right... It is a wok

More to follow... It's smoking time..

[Save Old Iron 1,571]

Stig,

it doesn't get any better than this ......

:ychain:

[Stigian 1,234]

Smoke smoked, so back to the plot

Even with a big handle on the wok (sorry) door, the burner looks right at home in it's allotted slot.

The boards at the sides and back now have a nice thick ally sheets fixed to them to keep the heat from burning any wood that's not inside!

The back and left hand sheets have a white coating on them and seem to not reflect the heat quite as well as bare ally!! I may at some point strip the coating off.

If your wondering why I am widening the chimney pipe, the idea is to make a kinda heat box to throw out a bit more.. er.. heat..

I always find masking tape handy for marking out something that's black..

I can see the pencil marks on it

This chunk of pipe will slot straight on to the burner.

Moving to a bit smaller pipe, the "boy racer" exhaust got sliced up a bit more.

So the part of the chimney that sticks though the roof has something to slot into..

The chrome bits need welding together in this photo.

To weld the small chrome bit to the big black bit, I had to find a way of reducing the big black down or making the small chrome bit bigger.. It all depends on which bit of pipe your looking through at the time..

This is where an old mower wheel came in handy..

Sliced in half, then chain drilled..

Ta-daa.

The chrome bit fits!!!

As did the big black bit.

I took this photo while it was busy ticking it's self cool after welding.

It looks like it was built just for the job

Only one problem.....

Somehow, somewhere my measuring had gone a bit wrong as it was too short!!! :ychain:

[Stigian 1,234]

Glad you like it chuck

Life is full of "first's", and this is certainly the first time I have "banded" an chimney pipe..

Marked and ready for slicing, getting to know the extra pipe that would soon be welding in.

Not having any long reach mole grips, the best way I found to hold things in the righ place for tack welding was this slab of steel

The top bit tacked on.

A close up of the welding.. It was all done with my arc welder which was a bit of a learning curve "arcing" quite thin metal.

Now the right height and looking very much like a truck exhaust

It's time for another break, this time for lunch.

Back after I've stuffed my face :ychain:

[Jim_M 179]

It's good to see you posting again Ian. I've been wondering what you've been up to.

[C-Series14 15]

Always a blast seeing what you guys are up to! :ychain:

[AMC RULES 37,196]

Smoke is smoked? Tell me that thing is vented to the outside. :D

[Stigian 1,234]

Hi Jim - It's good to be posting again. It's been one of those years that has kept me so busy I've not had much of a chance to find the time to sit at my pc!!

"A two house moves, two Workshack builds, our car being written off, and countless other things getting in the way of normal-ish life" kinda year!!

Thanks Mike, happy you enjoy the madness that is (now) Shack life

Lol, yes the wood burner is vented outside.. Smoke smoked mean I've just got back from smoking a cigarette

While on the subject of stuff that's bad for you, Garry dropped off a bottle of beer for me to try..

Normally only drinking vast amounts of beer is bad for you unless........

It's this stuff!!! I've never seen a bottle of beer with a health warning!!

As with most beers you need to have a few gulps to get the true taste...

And then it hits you!!

Once our mouths had cooled down, it was back to work.

Pete marked and cut a bit of big pipe to go through the roof and offer a bit of protection from heat.

While I did a bit of grinding..

A bit of welding..

And made the top of the chimney using another wok (thanks Garry for the second wok) as a cowl..

The moment of no going back had arrived as a hole was chain drilled through the Shack roof..

Only to find a Pete!!

Pete's bit of big pipe (oo-er) letting loads of light in the Shack..

I might look at some way of making a few sky/pipe lights as it did let loads of light in..

[Rollerman 290]

Ian good to see you posting again.

The wood stove is pretty slick, but kinda small.

How many square feet is your work space & what kinda temps do you get?

[AMC RULES 37,196]

Fellas, the reaction shots after tasting the Black Death are priceless. Funny stuff guys, had a good laugh right there. :ychain:

[Stigian 1,234]

Having made a big hole in the roof, the next job was to make it smaller!!

Another bit of ally sheet marked and getting chain drilled.

A few grinder cuts, lots of bending the ally until it breaks and quite a bit of filing later, the plate was screwed and glued down..

Pete's hand was a "no cost optional extra"

The idea is this plate will hold the small chimney pipe in the center of the big bit of pipe, away from wood or roofing felt that might go up in flames with too much heat.

Exhaust repair paste was just the ticket for sealing the gap between the the pipe and the ally plate

Only one thing left to do.. Try it out

Pete got the honor of lighting the wood burner for the first time.

A smoking wok

Kettle on and an open door to show loads of flames

And of course.......

The first cups of coffine being made

[HorseFixer 2,013]

Ian, I too was wondering where you blokes were hiding! Hmmmm as a 29 year HVAC contractor I'm not going to say it would pass Michigans Inspectors, but HEY you dont live in Michigan either! I give you guys an A because you do more with so little than anyone I have ever seen in my life! And Sides that you come up with some funny chit, the facial expressions after drinking that beer was priceless!

[Stigian 1,234]

Hi Stephen, I should be posting a lot more now life has at last gone quite..

Just this seasonal thing to get out the way, but that won't take long

Yeah my wood burner is a bit small, but it's all I have space for having moved from quite a big Shack into one that's only 12x24ft

Temperature varies depending on what the weather is doing. It normally sits about 14'c (57'f) which feels quite nice, but when it's been very cold and the snow is down, which it is at the mo, then it can reach the dizzying heights of 7'c (44'f)!!

It's amazing how warm 7'c can feel when I get in the shack in the morning and its -8'c (17'f)!!

Your welcome for the laugh Craig It's what both Pete and I did when we looked at the photos

The wood burner worked quite well for a week odd until the wind dropped, the burner would not draw air properly, and the shack started to fill up with smoke

I hoped a bit more air would sort things, so a few holes were drilled.

This didn't help much but it was worth trying the easy way first..

The harder way involved climbing on the roof and pulling out the top of the chimney and cowl for modification..

My guess was as the top of the chimney was flush with the wok no wind could get under to draw the smoke out!

Chimney cut off... not sure having the top of the pipe half blocked off by the cross of steel helped much..

More cutting, a bit of bending and a tad of welding had things looking much better..

Back up on the roof where it belongs.

The couple of bit of batten help divert water away. The roof is not fully watertight around the chimney but the battening has stopped any water coming in

And the final photo....

A smoking wok in the snow

[AMC RULES 37,196]

:ychain: A very entertaining post here Ian, thanks for sharing. A very happy Christmas and New Year going out to you guys across the pond. :D

[JimD 3,347]

As always Stig, very entertaining, and educational. :ychain:

[Kelly 1,033]

You guys are great, love the read.

[Sparky-(Admin) 23,147]

Allright....I gotta ask, what are you guys cookin your fried rice and veggies in now ? Or maybe you dont need to. Last time I was in England there was a Chinese Take-Away on every corner!

Great post Ian and its great to have you back behind the computer keeping us up to date on whatever your doing.

Mike........

[zieg72 209]

Very entertaining read as always, thanks for sharing...

[COMMANDO1 23]

The versatility of WH people never suprises me. great job

[6wheeler 669]

Its very nice to see you posting again Ian. I see there will be NO stir fry served at your home . The wife is probably still looking for that wedding present... Red Green would be proud..