Back in my Country of origin 🇨🇺; my dad built one of those; He did it out of necessity, we had no fuel for our kitchen stove and since he is a carpenter, there was plenty of saw dust laying around!👍😃

Great video, simple, to the point with no extra BS. The frying pan at the end was a brilliant touch.

I've seen vids where a short log is split into 4 pieces then held together in it's original form and lit in the center ! Your stove works on the same principle but, using sawdust ! Absolutely fantastic design ! Fabulous, just fabulous ! Slightly larger pieces could be randomly mixed in such as 3-4 inch twigs and would clean up the yard debris !

My father made one in a 200l drum over 60 years ago, bought saw dust from a furniture maker workshop, and kept the whole house reasonably warm in a harsh winter.

My dad made one of these with a small metal biscuit tin and a dowel down the centre in the early 60,s. We would take it to the beach to boil water for tea. As a child I was fascinated to see it work. I thought he was a magician

Thanks for the great movie. It was a time travel for me. My grandfather has constructed this kinf of unit and it was heating our home when I was a child. It was in early 70's, but I remember it like it was this morning. My grandfather filling the internal barrell with the sawdust in the outside, then carrying the heavy load back home... I was always looking at the warm light of the flames when I was falling asleep...

In Afghanistan use almost 50 % of population saw dust ovens. We have been using it in our home since i was a child. Its2pretty good idea.

Very interesting! I've designed and built my own woodburners for years but have never seen anything like this

Коротко и понятно без лишнего бормотания. А главное показал сам процесс горения.👍

Very interesting. When I was growing up in the late 1940's and 1950's, we lived in Kelso and Longview Washington. The Weyerhaeuser lumber company had one of the largest lumber mills in the world, at that time, in that area. This was before particle board or OSB or presto logs. Most of the homes in the Longview, Kelso area were heated with sawdust from the mill. We would receive a truck load of sawdust that would need to be put into the basement. The sawdust was usually delivered dry. You would need to go down into the basement and shovel it into the furnace hopper.

Be careful where your sawdust comes from, or you could be burning toxic chemicals such as those found in plywood, fiberboard, MDF, etc.

great. now everyone around me thinks i'm watching 90's porn.

Thanks.This type of stove is not restricted to sawdust, try using very fine paper shreddings from a high security paper shredder.

Grandioso, que gran idea, gracias por compartir, y la música está genial 👏👏👏

@ElfNori Thanks for your comments. This stove has got a false floor and the damper is normally fitted to the flue, not the stove itself. The use of 2 flue outlets is of no benefit as the outer barrel transfers much less heat when using an outlet at the top.(we know we have built one). With parts and labour this stove would cost over £200 to build yourself here in the UK. Maybe steel and labour are cheaper in the US.

A friend of mine discovered this sawdust stove as a paratrooper in WW 2. He took measurements and tired for 40 years to replicate what he saw in Germany but never could. Thank you for sharing this.

I grew up with a sawdust furnace. Spent a lot of time filling that furnace and getting sawdust into storage. Unfortunately, it became impossible to get good dry sawdust and folks started replacing their furnace with either oil or woodstoves.

Oh KZfaq, you pulled through on your recommendations this time.

We used to use these on a mountain cottage during winter ski camps.. There was always a duty for older guys to prepare these for the whole building... damn it was fun.

That is about the most interesting thing I have seen about low cost heating, thanks for sharing...

This would be fantastic topped with a water tank - it would serve the dual purpose of providing constant heated water, as well as serving as a heat sink which would absorb excess heat while the stove was firing, and disperse it after the fire was out to provide heat 24 hours a day.

Yep. We had one long ago in the fifties of last century. A short time after end of WW II. Worked great.

I remember sawdust furnaces when I was a kid in Vancouver BC back in the late 50's....the whine of sawdust trucks pumping the sawdust into basement storage rooms....and the smell.....it was awesome. It caused a ton of air pollution though.....

Would it work, or could it be devised to work with wood chips from a wood chipper? Tree services are always looking for spots to dump very large amounts of chips usually for free.

Nice and efficient. I might experiment and make one of these with my everlast welder

this was my job when I first started, a mix of oak and old yellow pine,it would last all day.....memories

old concept that has always worked well. We dont have much sawdust here any more in the usa, as most the mills are closed. Solid wood stoves prevail as more and more ppl use them due to high energy bills and unemployment rises. Nice setup, hope you have plenty access to sawdust.

I heard of pellet stoves but not saw dust. I'm intrigued! I like that it doesn't have smoke coming out of the stack. Does it burn for 24 hours or just the course of a working day, 8 to 12 hours?

i was used to heat my workshop with sawdust (mdf) no smoke at the cheamny it also helped me to get rid off all the dust of a carpenter shop :))

I have a question what if I use a flower pot? It has a hole on the bottom and the cone shape could change something?

How does the ash tray function, & how hot does the stove get ?

I like this. Never seen this design before wow and thanks

You said to use "any fine dry combustible material". I tried some extra gunpowder I had laying around. My eyebrows still haven't grown back.

We used this for cooking back when I was young. We can't afford to buy a stove then

Hey bud that is very unique.....great idea.. And i know in upstate ny its very easy to find dust, small woodchips etc....just find where department of highways are working because they cut, trim back the trees from around powerlines.....

Did you just make a relatively slow burning rocket motor/stove?

hi how long dose the burn last for will it burn all night need one for my greenhouse thanks

i would recomend this for any workshop. i have plans of building a small one to experimen. with this size container what size workshop could you comfortabley heat for teh eight hours.

Wow m8 really cool design and might pick one of these up wow really good vid :)

The music in the beginning is from something I used to have on my computer YEARS ago. It was like a freeware Muzak thing. Does anyone know where it's from?

What do you do if the sawdust collapses on tube?

Relevant for the winter of 2023 in Europe especially. People were still likely paying for waste pickup not too long ago rather than using the energy embodied in the saw dust.

we used one of thease in our workshop 20 years ago. easy to make. centre drum needs to clear all around outside drum that includes the bottom 3 inch hole in bottom or whatever former pipe is. outside drum dust needs hole in bottm about 4 inch in centre with a sliding plate to regulate it flue comes out of the side of outer drum at the bottom then up and out of roof. no catchment try needed. to light it open plate and and light it simple

absolutely simple and thus presumably bulletproof...gotta love it...

I have use this stove at winter from last 14 years

I actually purchased one just like this a while ago for the workshop. My problem is no matter how I try to pack the sawdust/shavings around the former, as soon as I gently try to remove the former from the middle, everything falls in and fills the hole. Any ideas people?

Soooo you could make giant compressed paper or mixed stuff, leaves, wood chips, mold w center pipe to maintain opening, press & dry... for super long burns...I'm on it!!!

What is with coal dust? Can it be also compressed to something like that?

Could you use wood pellets

Is the purpose of using saw dust so that you can compact it and it will stay in place leaving a hole in the center? If there was a metal cylindrical grid in the center could you use wood chips?

can semi-dry husk work?

exactamente en chile por alla en los años 80 mi papa y mi abuelo tenian una estufa igualita a esa, funcionaba de maravilla. para calentar la casa, cocinar, secar ropa. etc

Super idea. I will make my own for this winter. But where does it draw inn air. Is it round the ash tray or? And what about the hole on the cover. Is't just all the smoke going up and out in the room?? At least in the start. Maybe this is the only inlet for air. Hope you can take time to clarify. Have a nice and warm 2013 winter. TR:

How do you adjust the damper?

Great stove if you have access to enough sawdust ,It would be good if it had a side feed shute to poke in wood offcuts in when it is lit and nearing the end of the burn and you want to keep going a bit longer.

I always heard that every one has a twin. Lol! We look identical!

I've never actually been in a room with one being used, but I have a feeling that it produces less heat than a wood burner of comparable size. My reasoning is that the fire being in the center is insulated by the sawdust to the outside. The only heat is coming from the bottom, top and the stove pipe.

now im assuming this is to big for my room lol. do they sell cheap wood heaters for single rooms??

Does it matter if it's sawdust from abricht or something?

is this song from the soundtrack la femme nikkita?

How many kilo of sawdust you can used for 8 hours

I went to the website mentioned in the description (because it says that these stoves are available there), and there is a link back to this video, but nothing else. Even if you search for "stove", or "sawdust", there are no search results. help?

How low down is the chimney outlet

they don't sell this stove anymore, but can you please show us how to make one?

more decades ago dust stove had been used in Tchechoslovakia - familiar system but a dust been loaded into capsules in size in this youtube and what more the stove had air input regulation which regulated heat. That stoves dependent on heat output could work between 7 till 14 hours !

we used this type of heather in Afghanistan , we normally add water to moisten the saw dust , it will make it burn slower and longer and prevent it from collapsing as well....

Tried making a smaller version. Trouble I'm having is the inner column burns and blackens, then goes out. The heat slowly burns the rest of the sawdust but produces great volumes of smoke. Not a nice pretty red heat like yours. I'm pretty sure the dust is dry enough, any suggestions? Thanks for the video. I'm not gonna ramble my opinions about benefits of sawdust or its role in sustainable future but thanks for the vid and good work.

How much sawdusat required for 8h heat

How did you get Peter Cetera to write your theme song?

Sor how is that stove vented? Do you happen to have a build video for that burner? It is a very clever and yet somple design. I appreciate the video!😁

Curious what the bottom inside looks like...

Seems to me that as the hole gets bigger, more fuel would be burning at a time, and it would get progressively hotter. By using a different shaped hole you might reduce this variation. There are solid-fuel rockets that use something like this to get evener thrust.

Amazing! Thanx for sharing.

instead of sawdust could i use shreded paper?

The fuel for this stove cannot be added while it is burning. The rate of burn can only be controlled by adjusting the air supply. It will not burn efficiently with a restricted air supply.

Plot twist: it only works if there is gentle guitar music playing.

I cant reach your site. Can i buy a stove like this ? Where ? Your site not working .

This the the 3am video I was looking for

For a second there I was thinking it was gonna turn into a cheap porno. Haha

I thought that there would be some sort of augur device to feed sawdust in.

How does the air for combustion get into the barrel?

have plans of your project, is amazing!!!

What kind of paint do you use on the drum? I need to do mine also , it looks good.

Was very popular in Eastern Europe many decades ago as a cheap heating alternative in garage, barn, even homes. S one can buy new one dirt cheap or build yourself out off 55 g drum and one smaller

I would wrap copper pipe around it for hot water just a idea you probably could even use it with radiant heating around the house to

Are you still making these

I thought you were sharing the design, but youre not and your link doesnt work.

Hi. I think you need top cover at forming tube.

How is this stove vented? I tried to follow your link but only thing that link sells is hardwood.

That probably gets extremely hot. Sawdust would be a great insulator and when it carbonizes ohhhh man.

Where does the exhaust go into room?, hope you have detectors

Cool, I learned something!

I appreciate you sharing this.

Where can a feller find a sawdust tamper?

Would love to know HOW to build this..

me gusto mucho tu proyecto felicidades un diez.

Why does the vent pip start at rhe bottom and not the top like on a conventional wood stove ? Thanks

No kidding... we all need to start volunteering 15 minutes out of our days to making all technology open source, not just software... A tip of the hat to the patriot Cody Wilson on this one.

Never seen one dude but what a great idea as most mills throw sawdust away 😁😁🤘🤘🤘🤘

I don't see were the chimney is?