posted 10 years ago
thanks tom, yes, burn burn burning lol, few things, it IS insulated from the slab, with a 6 to 1 perlite to portland slab 3" thick, i knew before building that was a must or all id have are happy worms under my house. i for all intensive purposes built e replica of amy and ernies 6" L bend "code" bench they made, theirs was brown with reclaimed tile here and there... anyways, about 25ft of horizontal run before a 5ft vertical pipe near the barrel dumping into a single flue mason chimney in the middle of the house. the drum is a 55 gal drum, and she rockets like a champ, havent heat gunned it yet, but the barrel puts out some serious heat, have floor registers cut in the first floor right above it. one mod i did that was for asthetics but did change some function was add a hand hammered copper top to the drum, which looks boss, but also adds a thin layer of airspace between the copper and the barrel, thus insulating it, so much less heat comes off the top than before the copper, BUT, sends more heat down into the bench, which i dont mind, and was hoping that would aid to make the bench super toasty.. plan on heat gunning soon. id say currently the barrel gets about 600, the bell of cob around the barrel gets to be 100 the bench seems to get to 70? maybe not that much, and the final stove pipe, which is only about 10" from the barrel may only be around 90 after hours of burning... just gunna keep it crankin, i just hope it wont be this much of a struggle until i finish and insulate the basement in a couple years. thanks guys.