oil drip wood stove

**mark21742** · 02-26-2011, 09:30 PM

I lit the fire in the garage tonight, started working and cranked the oil valve opened on the wood stove.
After a while I started sweating, looked over at the heavy steel wood stove and it was glowing red!

It kinda scares me, but I love this thing!

**bluehawk2000** · 02-26-2011, 09:32 PM

Originally Posted by mark21742

I lit the fire in the garage tonight, started working and cranked the oil valve opened on the wood stove.
After a while I started sweating, looked over at the heavy steel wood stove and it was glowing red!

It kinda scares me, but I love this thing!

lol oh shit that could have been bad, but damn does that thing create some heat to actually get hot enough for it's melting point.

I would have shit myself

**mark21742** · 02-26-2011, 09:40 PM

Man $12 and about 10 minutes worth of work and the old wood stove is heating my 20'x40' garage (converted horse stable), no insulation and LOTS of air leaks in the garage lol

Both sides of the stove were glowing brite...now I see why they say not to leave them unattended.

But I told the guys at work what I did and if they had any old oil I'd take it. The next day I had 8 gallons of used oil sitting beside my car after work

**suede** · 02-26-2011, 09:41 PM

lol thats awesome, even our wood stove we have at one of the houses we are building... man you load that thing up with Clearspans and let it go, we had the chimney thermometer maxed out past 850 degrees one time, was just glowing red

**mark21742** · 02-26-2011, 09:53 PM

That's the best thing about this mod, put in some paper and wood and lite it like a normal wood stove. After it gets going turn on the oil and walk away...once lit I don't have to put anymore wood in it...the oil runs in, drops down into the hot coals and burns...even when all that left is ashes it will just keep right on burning.

So far its burnt for over 10 hours strait without wood!

**mark21742** · 02-26-2011, 10:08 PM

Here is a close up pic of the fire box with the valve almost closed

**bluehawk2000** · 02-26-2011, 10:16 PM

Damn that is pretty cool.. Good alternative heating source.

**pajeff02** · 02-27-2011, 05:49 AM

That is pretty cool how it works. Does the oil drip result in more, or less, crap being deposited in your chimney?

**mark21742** · 02-27-2011, 06:37 AM

It depends on how hot you get the fire going. Kinda counter intuitive...the more you let run in, the hotter it gets and the cleaner it burns.
Last night when I was finally able to pry the glowing red door opened lol the inside of the stove was spotless!
The chimney stays pretty clean, but the cap at the top is black from some soot buildup. the stove is in the single story side of the garage and my pipe extends up about 15 feet over the first floor roof, so even if I do get some flams coming out the top of chimney I won't hurt the garage

**tiny47** · 02-28-2011, 05:01 AM

Can you share what make and model it is?? I may buy one.

**mark21742** · 02-28-2011, 06:40 AM

If your asking about the stove, its just a normal old steel wood stove.
I drilled a 3/8" hole in the stove pipe just above the stove. I then ran a 3/8" copper tube down into the the stove through the hole I had drilled. Wrapped the other end of the copper tube around the stove pipe twice (think preheater) then up to a 1/4 turn shutoff valve. I took an old plastic 5 gallon bucket and drilled a hole about 1.5" up the side from the bottom of it (gives place for debris to settle and not clog the tube), put in a fitting and ran from the bucket down to the other side of the shutoff valve.

Inside the stove I bent a little piece of sheet metal into a "C" channel and placed in under the end of the tube so the oil drips out and runs down the "C" channel to heat it up even more before it drips onto the wood.

Dumped a gallon of old used oil into the bucket, put some wood and paper in stove, lit it just like normal...wait a few minutes for the wood fire to get hot and turn the oil valve open...watch it for a few minutes and adjust the valve till you get the oil flow you want. That's it!

I can lite the fire, turn the oil on and it will keep burning until you run out of oil or turn the valve off...even after the wood is gone it will keep burning

Sofar after I started a fire and turn the valve on it burnt for almost ten hours strait unattended

**Bandit02** · 02-28-2011, 10:59 AM

I knew a guy that made a similar contraption, except he cut a huge hole in the front about the size of a log 12" to 18" (somewhere in there) and an oil drip just like yours. He'd push the log in a little each day, the oil would drip on the log. One log would last a long time. He never had to split anything haha.

**9t8z28** · 02-28-2011, 02:28 PM

Can you take a pic of this ?

**blackSS01** · 02-28-2011, 05:33 PM

Originally Posted by 9t8z28

Can you take a pic of this ?

I agree!!

EDIT: This can't be good for Mother Earth

**mark21742** · 02-28-2011, 06:09 PM

you what pics of the outside where the tube goes in, the bucket and valve, and inside the stove? I'll try and get some tomorrow after work and post them