Barrel Stove Kits - How Well Do They Work?

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NorthlineExpress.com demonstrates the Barrel Stove Kits by Vogelzang. Great value, long burn time, holds a LOT of firewood, easy to build!
Transform a steel barrel into a heat radiating wood stove! The Vogelzang Deluxe Airtight Barrel Stove Kit is completely cast iron and easily converts a 55 or 30 gallon drum into a highly efficient heater. The Deluxe Airtight Barrel Stove Kit features a large feed door, a separate gasketed ash cleanout door engineered for "easy clean" ash removal, a "cool touch" cam-lock type door latch, two counter weighted spin dial draft controls, cast iron legs, installation hardware and a 6" flue with damper. Combine these features with a down to earth price and you have a combination which is tough to beat. Can be installed by any handyman within a short period of time. Some assembly required. Non-Airtight model also available.
* Large 9 3/4" High x 11 3/4" Wide, well-fitting, gasketed feed door
* Made of Cast Iron for long lasting durability
* Separate gasketed ash cleanout door
* "Cool Touch" cam-lock type door latch
* Two counter-weighted spin dial draft controls
* 55 or 30 gallon drum not included
* Door Opening: 9 3/4" High x 11 3/4" Wide
* Material: Cast Iron
* 6" Round Flue Size
* Cast iron legs hold barrel approximately 4 1/2" off the ground
* 55 or 30 gallon drum not included
* Some assembly required
* Item Weight: 31.00 LB
* Model: BK150E
* UPC: 086738211154
Stove Pipe not included
Vogelzang barrel stoves are exempt from having to meet EPA requirements due to how hot they burn and may not be suitable in all areas. Check local building codes.
May NOT be installed in mobile homes, manufactured homes, trailers or tents
Clearances from Combustion Wall.
Side wall...36"
Rear wall...36"
Corner......36"
1 Year Limited Manufacturer's Warranty

[@brdwonder]

I live in an area where peppermint is grown and its essential oil distilled. The barrels used to contain that oil are made of extremely heavy gauge stainless steel. They make a practically indestructible stove.

[@NorthlineExpress]

Interesting!

[@HighGear7445]

Myself and a friend fabricated our own barrel stoves ( no kit ) back over 30 years ago. Both of us had uninsuated farmhouses which would go through heating oil like crazy. We both had very good results with these type of stoves as they really put out the heat. Good memories.

[@SgtPickledic]

I think cabins should look like this.. I think the stove look cool! Vintage baby!

[@tracyl4383]

I have used the non air tight kit in a garage for 5 years and this year in my new (old mill) house replacing the small stove that was already there. I prefer these stoves over any box or furnace style stove. Forget about thick iron small cabinet stoves if you live in a cold climate like me (north PA) because these things hold a TON of wood and quickly get HOT! I have throttled this thing to turn the barrel orange several dozen times. They are downright top notch stoves for the serious wood burning people. Not to mention if you take the time to make baffles and a secondary burning system, they put typical box stoves to shame. I will almost certainly never be without some type of barrel heating system for the rest of my life. If you wanted to, you could configure ducting and run a dual barrel unit to heat a 4 bedroom stand alone home, I have NO doubts about that. They put out ALOT more heat that heavy thick iron units, be careful or youll be opening windows LOL.

[@scripps143]

Your presentation was spot on! I have been listening to a number of presentations on KZbin and many of them are simply painful. Great job.

[@speedsterh]

Ditto. Was redirected here by a web site where the owner bought the kit from the company and was satisfied with the product. If I had the space, I would have bought the kit already. I like the honesty of telling the kit is not for everybody and that with kids, the barrel stove is a bit dangerous. It's not something you see often nowadays.

[@zivaandzeusshenanigans1113]

speedsterh, this kit is no longer available

[@KompaLuNA]

Were could I find a similar good kit? I see many online for $50. I don’t know if they’ll last a whole winter.

[@752brickie]

I had one for years in my basement and it worked amazing ! My friend heated his two story house with one.

[@Bulldog187th]

I have one in my shop and it's 30x40. I had it so hot in there last winter I had to open all the doors and windows to cool it down. The Thermometer was reading over 115 degrees. We have used ours everyday all through winter for the last 27 yrs with no problems. Yes I do have the bottom lined with brick.

[@amstudio56]

thanks for sharing

[@nicholecrouch311]

Awesome news for me I appreciate you putting this comment down, it has been unbearable in my shop in the winter time in the past few years and I'm glad this idea does work well I I am definitely going to make this now because it has already been down to 25 degrees outside and even though my shop is insulated it's still 28 degrees in here LOL mine's 20 X 30

[@terrybeardsley6735]

.l&,;'

[@ignaciocalderon6937]

Thank you for this video. Very well explained exactly what i wanted to hear.

[@morg52]

I use a barrel stove in my garage workshop. I found that it would roast me right out of the door then freeze me when the fire died down. I built a concrete masonry enclosure for it and now it moderates the output and stores the heat in the concrete for a lasting heat after the fire burns down. An added bonus is being able to tuck the whole thing up against the wall so I have more room in the shop.

[@johnmazza9432]

Nice idea. Is it possible to just run a small fire in these stoves ? I am building a plastic covered greenhouse / workshop and I was looking for something inexpensive. I like the idea of being able to load large pieces of wood and branches . Don't these stoves need a grate to keep the wood off the bottom ?

[@JTB1956]

Not to be too picky, but I've been in this field for over twenty-five years and burned wood for longer than that. I've seen lots of these. They became popular when the oil got shut off in the '70's. The technology is the same as in the '70's...and the mistakes are the same too. Long (24 hr?) burns in an airtight stove which is not combustion engineered. That translates to LOTS of creosote and LOTS of flue fires and structure fires. Stoves have come a long way since then. Got any new stoves?

[@my_name_is_betty283]

That wood only burning for max 2 hours

[@sternstones4871]

I would love one or two of these for the deer camp and shop.

[@vermontjeff2535]

I can see how it’s s good stove and a awesome overnight long burn stove 👍🏻

[@souprchrgd]

You presented that stove very well. I enjoy this stuff.

[@nickguthrie9309]

What does your insurance agent say about it?

[@JonatanGronoset]

I like the look of this, it looks like a little boiler!

[@harrybobb6927]

Although you can make this into a wood stove / boiler to heat your hot water and install water pipe to pre heat your water and install a second extra 55 gallon drum to store your hot water in behind the stove or beside your stove or however you want to put and have your hot water storage it works so great ive done this before all you do is take your 55 gallon barrel wood stove and line some 3/4 ir 1/2 inch copper pipe ribs with U elbows running back and forth all around through the barrel and solder all the pipe ends together in for your inlet and outlet inside of drum and dont forget that as well to make the hot water pipe ribs and take a 45 gallon drum inside for your fire box for your your 55 gallon drum it kinda makes a Babcock boiler type and incase with fire brick making material concrete to in case the copper 3/4 inch or 1/2 inch pipe with the concrete on the outer diameter of the 45 gallon drum inside of the 55 gallon drum and and let that cure for a day or so but make sure to cut a 6 or 8 inch hole for the chimney for both drums to make it fit correctly in both barrels you can take a metal coffee can to extend the flu pipe enough for the concrete to cure in the barrel stove kit fit nicely but make sure you spot weld the coffee can to both inside the barrels so no concrete seeps out while your incasing the copper pipe in the concrete and after the concrete is cured for a day or so then light ur first fire inside the indoor boiler stove and get a nice hot fire going to cure the fire brick correctly before hooking any water lines up because it takes about 2500 degrees to fully cure the fire brick concrete and there you go you have a boiler/wood stove all in combined it works awsome for those who dont want to pay big gas heating bill to just heat your water for just taking a nice hot bath or shower or washing dishes ive put a hand crank black smithing bower on the bottom of ash door air inlet to get the fire hot enough water preheated boiling water just hot enough to put in my storage tank and i put a sliding flat steel plate over the blower air hole intake to air tight the air flow from the blower and blower inlet pipe now you have to watch what your doing because the hand crank black smithing blower can get your fire roaring glowing white in your fire box if your not careful and my blower set has gotten my metal stove pipe glowing cherry red once by accident when i wasnt paying close attention to what i was doing when my wife was talking to me and distracting me from to do what i was doing and getting some hot water going so i immediately shut down the stove tightly and quickly to cool the stove down

[@tom_olofsson]

Excellent. Thanks for sharing your experience.

[@johni6138]

looking for a wood burning stove on craigslist..barrel stove may be an alternative. great video, i learned something today, thanks for posting!

[@luketdrifter2100]

Just across the straits from me, in Cheboygan. Good video, thanks for doing it.

[@BourneAccident]

It looks good to me. Thanks for the info.

[@MrSIXGUNZ]

Looks perfect! air tite is a great idea as well!

[@claaaaaay]

I put together a barrel stove in about 1977 to heat a drafty old 5 bedroom, 2 story rent house in Texas. Cheap way to heat for 2 years. Kit cost $35 at the time, scrounged a barrel, cut the holes with a sledge and a railroad spike for a chisel, bought stove pipe from the hardware store. Stoke it to the brim at night and it kept a old house with little warm all night (windows covered with plastic). Wished I had that hot plate. Eventually got tired of busted pipes in the winter and moved out.

[@oilstovesandmore]

Nice barrel stove! Love the big door. I have built a waste oil burner myself for in my shed.

[@thesmirkingwolf]

This guy has a Walt Disney vibe. I dig it. America's cabin uncle.

[@HealthSupercharger]

Very nice idea and great job. I love how resourceful way you think.

[@Brackus2]

Had one in my family cabin/lodge. Its on the west side of the lake, and in northern ontario so gets pretty darn cold. Plus, the camp is almost 90 years old and pretty darn large as they go. Yet, with just one of these located on the main floor in the middle, you can just pump in the wood and take the heat out of the logs real quick. Ours can hold a nice log overnight, but thats more dependant on what door and venting you have. Took a heck of a beating for many hunting and recreational trips, it wasnt pretty, but did the job perfectly.

[@CavanalK5]

Brackus2 I'm in Eastern Oklahoma, and read every single word in my head with a Canadian accent lol. Awesome to think these can do so well in the wild cold up there! Greetings from the middle of the US!

[@jameslaw3740]

Canadian accent ???? Y'all don't know what her talking bout down dare douj ja

[@VincentHsia19681205]

A simple & efficient stove, I like it.

[@wiredforstereo]

Not really, cheap yes, efficient no.

[@wiredforstereo]

@Lachish There are things you can do to make it better, but the stove is fundamentally inefficient for the same reasons all metal stoves are inefficient in comparison to something like a rocket mass heater.

[@davidbass7593]

Wow I'd love to have one

[@rm42749]

Hello Rob. As soon as I started looking at this video I thought hey this guy looks like he is related to a friend of mine. I worked with Roger. Good job on this video and I'll keep you on my list.

[@amstudio56]

Thanks for sharing the info

[@andthesunsets]

Thanks for the excellent video!

[@Jax453]

Gosh that is nice, so rustic, so perfect

[@demonlust75]

Great video! These are probably better than the expensive versions

[@Rocker-tz2qk]

Great Video ty.

[@bing12345678901]

wow, I had one of these in my garage for years,,,,it's the last stove I would recommend for inside a cabin or house...

[@bonnememoires]

put one in my basement rec room used it for 3 years, instal lit right burn it right it will work.

[@ilililhy1]

These wood stove kits are the best,I used mine for 20 years in my Body Shop.as long as you don`t get water down your flue pipe from it raining outside ,it will not rust out.

[@vincentsally9972]

Do I run the duct through the vents in the house or out of the window

[@gordonredwine8559]

Dad put a barrel stove in his & moms house in the 70s. The only heat since that time. The barrels have never been replaced. Both top & bottom good as new. So no,you do not have to replace them every 3 to 4 years.

[@rigocarranza3588]

I have one like that and it works really good

[@therhythmslave1]

I THINK IT LOOKS NICE !!! ITS ITERESTING !!! WHY NOT !!!

[@got5at12]

robert: thanks for the video.in the next year i plan to have a mancave. and i will need one of these barrrow stove.

[@da4]

Helped me decide to put this in my barn. Thanks !!

[@MikeKincaid79]

Nice looking stove, thanks for the review

[@terrystowe2913]

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[@mykenwood830]

very good video ! Thank you very much !!

[@danielmorse6597]

Dude, I think it looks great!

[@user-ym2kb1cp5e]

I agree. I think it looks fine. The main thing is it does what it's supposed to do.

[@robertstormfield3555]

great video. thank you.

[@John-wr6yo]

The ultimate barrel wood stove is the hand made elm stove from vermont. Very thick guage tounge and groove cylindical steel ,with female grooved door and back held in place with gasket and long,long bolts. An s shape burn baffling with fire tubes and firebrick lined. They make one thst takes a 36 inch log to heat a whole vermont sugaring house operations.

[@Max_Snellink]

I'm about to leave to city apartment I have in favour of a rural barn and small house that's attached and half in the barn too. There's no central heating only a tiled stove in one room. I'm planning on converting the barn and insulating the dwelling and I'd love a rustic barrel burner on the ground floor of the barn for the workshop area and allow heat to rise into the main floor of the barn. It's so big I could have a mezzanine floor in the barn. My location can hit - 40 in winter. Great video and inspiration 🙏

[@robertkadow3367]

Great presentation

[@AStanton1966]

I made one of these barrel stoves from the kit. And I'm here to say, in my opinion, if you put all that wood in one, the stove pipe will turn as red as a cherry. I put pieces of pallet in mine. I also have a burn thermometer on my flue pipe. I find that 1/3 of a pallet or more, puts the thermometer into the "over heat" zone.

[@HotRodDave]

Thats what I need for my shop

[@99cachorro]

great video, thanks!

[@82raptor]

i had much the same setup in a 2.5 car 2 story shop/garage UN insulated and even when it was around 0 outside i t was about 70 inside! if you do it right and be safe about it its a great and cheap way to heat a space if you have access to wood. a bit of used engine oil gets the fire hotter without added wood burn!

[@kmarche100]

I think it looks fine as in aesthetics. Nice setup.

[@martinschulz9381]

Good video. Barrel stoves put out the heat, but they're thin and don't last long. A lot of shops had them when I was a kid, but they had to replace them quite often as they rusted out. Also insurance companies nowadays won't insure your house or shop unless you have an approved stove.

[@joshuamorris9050]

Depends how hot you make it nd clean it

[@joshuamorris9050]

Also if you put some grill grates on the bottom helps make it last

[@martinschulz9381]

@@joshuamorris9050 True, these were made from oil barrels. oil barrels are pretty cheaply made. We would get the top barrels glowing red. You know how boys are.

[@exposingthetruth3821]

My barrel is still going since 1996... not any sign of wear at all.

[@martinschulz9381]

@@exposingthetruth3821 The steel used was most likely heavier gauge and better quality back then. They put out the heat, but if you regularly get them hot, they don't last long. Especially if you drip lube oil, or diesel in them.

[@vermontjeff2535]

Great information and we’ll explained

[@Donnachaidh07]

I've seen double barrel wood stoves, stacked on top of each other. You get more heat out. Secondary combination could be added for a cleaner burn with even more heat output.

[@arrowsbysh01]

i have one in my worlshop, it works great. the temps are in the low teens outside, and i can get it up to 65 inside. this one is a little close to the kitchen stove behind it. they get quite hot.

[@firewoodguy2009]

i got a big 275 oil tank converted in to a very large wood stove holds a bought 50 to 75 split logs up to 100 logs burns for 1 to 2 days

[@BREGGREN]

Great Video! Thanks!

[@jo_boo]

I picked up a couple barrels for 5$ each this is going to be my shop heater can't wait

[@blackopsarmy]

NOW THATS A LOT OF WOOD

[@MrBlackbamboo]

brilliant stove

[@Athor4x4]

Saludos amigo, fantastica idea, felicitaciones,

[@rgrgrg7599]

Amazing I love it

[@cairnsandy1]

wow , that's an excellent firebox size.

[@WORRO]

Thats nice. I like it and thanks for the video! Thumbs UP.

[@kevinwolfe8886]

Very well explained, thanks

[@chainlinkdreams]

@ 1:30, man that thing looks perfect in that country kitchen!!

[@bradhub4405]

Do you still have the models you listed? All I can find on your site are those cheapos from U.S. Stove Wood

[@glenn9989]

We used to load ours up like that and then fill the voids with wood pellets . Ours is pushing 25 years old . We filled the bottom with sand so the bottom wouldn’t burn out

[@731Tactical]

If you don't mind me asking, how do you clean the burnt wood ash out of the bottom if there is sand in the bottom? Or do you replace the sand?

[@ddreuss]

making a DIY TEG module Stove Fan would inprove the heating a ton..Good Job. Thinking of buying one...

[@beverlybangasan8078]

Looking neat really

[@Ford-di6fz]

good thing to do at home, cheap and useful

[@rashidabdsalam8401]

That's vary good thanks for your

[@waeelwaeel1873]

This is a beautiful work for the comfort women

[@garyhirtz4392]

Good information.

[@raheem22222]

Good job

[@salahhroub1026]

Good job man well done

[@MothKeeper]

Nice video thanks.

[@xro5841]

I want to heat a LARGE Shop. At least 1 section of three. You made up my Mind. I think I can build this pretty easy. I will see how it goes. Good Video, right to the Point and opinion.

[@decho5647]

looks very nice and affordable

[@jumpers3]

love it

[@jimlee6472]

Looks like a great idea..

[@watchman4j]

Nice demonstration! The air tight draft / ash door, and the grate that is available really increase the efficiency. . Appears to be used part time, not a primary residence. Bear in mind that the model shown BK150E is NOT available on the website as of this comment. There is a BIG difference between this and the other models that Vogelzang markets. Looking far and wide, I found the BK150E to be out of stock, is it still in production? Will Northline stock and sell it in the future?

[@giovanyid]

Well, I find that barrel stove unique and very very nice. I'm from Puerto Rico and I'm thinking to live in Alaska and I what a Double Barrel stove with a crystal to see the flames.

[@papaoctopus]

Great video

[@victorkerik5351]

Set up my hunting camp last week n has been minus 20 every night in a wall tent, stove is awesome, instructions say put big bung hole to the top, dont, put it at the bottom and thread in a 2 inch nipple and a flapper on it for an extra draft, one on the stove door dont cut er, best build ever though its an awesome stove

[@keithhoward4059]

Thank You

[@maryzimmerman2699]

Honestly I think it looks cute and homey. We are wanting emergency basement heat but the battle ship color and the stones looks so home spun.

[@discipleofchrist5217]

Can we get a link to the air tite barrel stove kit with everything you mentioned please brother?

[@tonimas5140]

Very original

[@gordonwu1275]

This is a great, practical solution to get a stove - back to natural life !!! where can I buy it especially including the Barrel already been cut the holes there? thank you!

[@pocketdiy]

Like the idea, want to put one in my sun room /closed in back porch where we smoke and the animals stay at night. as a kid my dad put one in our house and I remember the exit pipe being 2 pipes one inside the other i guess to insulate the outer pipe when going thru the attic. is that needed when going thru the wall. and what tyoe chimney cap do you put on the pipe?

[@patata220]

ok sir ty for the vid ....how do you clean the ashes though?

[@BooKittyRadley]

Question: lets say you have two stove setups. (1) is a single barrel wood stove. there is straight single wall pipe indoors which doesn't hit the elbow until 8' up from floor. (2) is a double barrel stove. straight single wall pipe connects to elbow at same place as the other stove, 8' up from floor (high ceilings). Question: will the temperature of the single wall pipe directly before the elbow on (1) be lower, higher or same as temperature of the single wall pipe directly before the elbow piece on (2) stove?

[@ca92fd1]

How long do you expect that the thinner gauge steel will hold up to repeated heat stress?

[@timsmith6689]

me and his wife can stay really warm in that cabin without that heated stove

[@ablaylock4273]

a 2 year old comment like this and no one laughed???? come on people. thumbs up. great humor.

[@tomh4685]

I am not seeing the "airtight" version of this stove on your webpage.

[@betty_efn_white8136]

thinking of putting one of these in my basement. thoughts? this is the only video ive seen where its used indoors, i want to seal it up proper, vent it with triple wall duravent, and wrap the barrel with high temp flex duct. build a box for a blower fan i have so i can incorporate a filter, hook that fan to the flex duct and pip it into my plenum. hook up a thermostat upstairs on the main floor ( i have a 2100 sq ft ranch) run the wire to a relay then to that blower fan. so when the thermostat calls for heat it trips the relay, kick the blower fan on blows it around the barrel super heating it and blowing it through the whole house. once the house reaches temp, kicks the fan off. also in the summer i could use the fan system to suck the cool air from the un-finished poured concrete basement (hence the need for a filter box) and blow it through the house also. thoughts? sincerely, wanting to save some $$

[@19JEFFRO67]

Been using single & double barrel stoves for years. Line the barrel with sand & firebrick will last for years & years

[@houndjog]

How do you line it? Wouldn't that take up too much space? Thx

[@19JEFFRO67]

I just take sand say 2 inches deep on bottom of barrel then line the fire brick on top of sand the precut ones like you find at rural King or farm & fleet they are actually replacement fire bricks for higher end woodstoves about 2 bucks a piece I just line the bottom of barrel where the logs sit. It works well

[@houndjog]

@@19JEFFRO67 Thx! ...great idea!

[@HARMSWAY94]

What is the limit of the house/cabin size that a wood stove similar to this could heat effectively?

[@jimbrant9682]

Thay work great for A-frame houses. And duplex. Really puts out the heat. Use a double barrel. It doesn't let all the heat go up the chimney.