Garage heater build FREE
1,233 views · Published 8 February 2018 · 27:37 · Indexed 12 November 2026
Channel: NOBOX7 · 2018 · Science & Technology
This video contains Paid links that gives me a 6% commission if you click and buy any product on that website . Check out my web site http://www.nobox7.com/ Check out my store front https://www.amazon.com/shop/nobox7 Support this channel on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=3620781 New wood burner design and a new intake air set up suggested by a veiwer . wood burners are great for heating shops as you can often find free firewood Making a Wood Stew The art of burning wood for heat depends on having dry wood. Wood that is too wet yields little heat but lots of creosote. If it's too dry, it will burn too fast. To start a fire, take four or five pieces of newspaper, wadded loosely. [Editor's Note: Newspaper printed with colored inks should not be used to start stoves equipped with catalytic converters. The metals present in some inks contaminate the catalyst and will result in premature failure.] Place the newspaper on the floor of the firebox. Take your kindling and lay a few pieces on top of the paper at an angle. Place a few more pieces on top of that at the opposite angle, forming an open cross hatch pattern. On top of this, gently lay a couple of slightly larger pieces of kindling parallel to the firebox walls. Light the paper in several places across the front. Open the damper if you have one. If you don't, instead of completely shutting the stove door, leave it cracked open a little for a few minutes. Never walk away from your woodstove when the door is open. You should be rewarded with the roar of the paper torching off. When that sound dies down, your kindling should be burning. When the kindling has truly caught fire, start adding larger pieces of wood to the fire. These must be graduated in size. It would not do to add a big thick split of wood too early. The fire would go out, and you would have to remove all the wood in the stove and start again. This can be very messy, and if a few pieces are just smoldering but not burning, it can be quite smoky. This is experience talking here. Sometimes your fire will burn down through lack of attention, and you have to revive it. Use the coals as your starter, and place small kindling on top. As that wood kindles, add the progressively larger wood. If you have pieces of dry bark, it is good to use them for this. They will burn hot and fast, and really kickstart an almost dead fire. My dad taught me a trick for when you have a smoldering fire that won't flame. He went to a secondhand store and picked up a cheap blow dryer. He disconnected the heater element. The hair dryer was now an electric bellows. It directed a stream of air to right where he wanted it (the area of wood that was smoldering), and got it flaming fast. After I saw his, I got one, and it really works great. It can be kind of messy till you get the hang of not blowing the ashes out of your stove at the same time. Woodsheds At our last house, on the Salmon River, we had an ace woodshed. Bob-O and his friend Cedar built it. It was a pole woodshed, 12-feet tall, about 14-feet wide, and 8-feet deep. It had two bays. One bay was for stacked firewood, and the other for stacked kindling rounds, ready to split. There was enough room on the kindling side for all the wood tools, axes, mauls, hatchets, etc. We always kept back a nice big flat round to be the chopping block. This is what you set the wood on to position it for a good swing of the axe. It also keeps your axe and maul edges sharper longer if you don't hit the ground with them. Since we moved here to the creek, we have had no woodshed. Every year we set out wood pallets, drive metal fence posts into the ground along the sides, and stack the firewood in between. After curing (drying) the wood during the summer, we cover the stack with a heavy tarp held down with pieces of firewood as weights. This method has worked, but I have never liked it. I am the person who keeps the home fire burning and fills the wood rack next to the stove from the outdoor ricks.
