Thanks JR!

Thanks! I enjoyed making them .

+Jim Waite Glad you like it Jim, thanks!

s mac, thank you, I made the hinges like that so the door would clear the flange around the door opening, the smoke venting idea came from our Morso wood burner.

Thanks!

+Paul King Happy to share!

+Dibby59 Thanks! Much appreciated!

Makes perfect sense! Always looking to improve on a design, thanks for the suggestions.

You might want to try using a powerplasma cutter if you are making more of these. I find the cut goes way faster and cleaner.

Thanks very much Paul!

+nick freeman Thanks Nick, I still use it now 4 years later :-)

Drew Speirs thanks! I will try that!

+remige2006 Thanks! Yes the one old girl was a walking dustbin, couldnt be trusted around sausages :-)

+R1FREESTYLE ALL labs are .... Trust me ..... One of the big problems is keeping the weight off them ..... :(

franckycath The air comes in via the middle vent and takes a long route so it warms up. It then gets pased through at the bottom of the door to feed the fire and at the vents at the top to get a secondary burn on the smoke and fumes comming off the fire, it increases the efficiency :-)

R1FREESTYLE again great job, when my smoker is finished i get to that stove with your blueprint, think it's the best i saw so far!! and also thanks for the reply, thanls dude! great§ings from belgium!

+Chris Dealny Hi Chris, if you watch it again you will see I welded 2 nuts onto the damper and then screwed bolts in through the chimney into the nuts :-)

Thanks Willy!

Thank you!

busca en youtube ....hand massive .....tal vez sea de ellos ...suerte.

Muchas gracias por la respuesta.

I am afraid it was....

Better aiming next time!! Did you grind of the galv prior to welding, the fumes can be toxic and lead to a poor weld?

Yes, I cleaned it well back with the grinder.

how fast did you have to hit the post pmsl ^^

Local kid must have wacked it pretty hard

+Chris Dealny The idea is to make the smoke take as long a route as possible and draw as much heat out of it into the burner before it escapes into the atmosphere. Also it routes the escaping gases past the small holes in the door where heated air enters the fire, creating a secondary burn effect, cleaning up the exoting fumes and generating nore heat :-)

Alan well spotted!! The sign was replaced by contractors after a young lad from the village drove his car over it. After concreting the new one in, they threw the old one in the hedge. It stayed there until the wombles spotted it 😊

R1FREESTYLE typical council throw throw throw.

+spaaggetii Point taken, but you cant buy one like this and its not effort, its a way to relax :-)

R1FREESTYLE I agree with you about it being something you do that you enjoy for relaxation. Also the guy who said it's an awful lot of effort for what it does obviously has never been in a position to have to find another option. I am building a cabin which will be off grid, now I've been looking at woodstove cookers and they're bloody expensive. If I could weld I would much rather make one like you've done because after the build I'm not going to be able to afford solar etc for around a year (cost of insulation, roofing etc etc) He's obviously got more money than sense. I think it's brilliant that you made this...basically it would mean that I could stay on site at the build instead of trekking a mile and back to my sister's every time I wanted coffee, something to eat, and heat because Scotland can be a lot colder than London where I am just now! Great job mate!

Anne Anderson Thank you Anne for you're very positive and comprehensive reply. we do this stuff out a love for what we are doing, re-using scrap materials and taking things back to basics. People only want to take the easy route, buy that throw away thing for instant gratification, then move on. Yet nothing ever gets thrown away, we use valuable resources making it, then it just hangs around on the planet, unwanted and choking up the enviroment. Make something useful that will last, that you need, make it well and use it every day, thats not too much effort, thats no effort at all....good luck with the cabin...sounds perfect!

R1FREESTYLE I'm going to be using as much recycled, reclaimed stuff as I can. I think I have just about everything from the composting toilet surround to the kitchen cabinets all planned with shipping pallets, I have found a couple of tent stoves that I can make with my Dremel and a Drill and a hand Riveting thing the only things I need are a decent sander and a circular saw (my sister has supplied me , well it's for us both but I think I will be the one using it, with a portable chainsaw mill for the trees that got blown down! ) there's also a full sized 'dozer JCB type thing that I want nothing to do with lol! I'm doing this to reduce my carbon footprint and get off grid. If it means we can put other people's throw away stuff to good use then I will be happier too.

Anne Anderson Wow you just hit us all with a brick text wall. Ouch.

You are right Steve the music was annoying, changed it for something little more calming...thanks!

Thanks S Mac, the smoke venting is to get the burn as clean as possible and make the stove really efficient. The hinge I just made up as I went along.