DIY Smokeless Burn Barrel Build in less than 12 minutes

How to build a DIY Smokeless Burn Barrel. Inspired by @BuildingStuffIsFun • Smokeless Burn Barrel
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Barrel 1:
Measuring from the seam 5 & 6 inches out. Making the 5In line a solid line in the 6in line dotted. The 6in dotted line goes all the way to the top edge.
Cut through the solid 5in line and the seam in the center of the barrel.
Use a ratchet strap in the center to hold it together. finished cutting the seam and the 5in line down the length of the barrel. cut the gap between the 5in line and the dotted 6in line at the top of the barrel, including the lip of the barrel, remove the 5in strip from the center of the barrel.
take off the bottom of the barrel, including the lip. The ratchet strap holds it all together so it doesn't lay out flat.
Overlap the cut to that one inch dotted line using the ratchet strap to hold it together and screw it together with self tapping metal screws.
Put the barrel upright.
Using a 3.5 inch square template, mark around the top edge of the barrel. Label all even squares. On squares 4, 10 & 16, cut the sides and the bottom. Don't cut the top where the lip is at the top of the barrel. Bend those inwards and upright to 180 deg.
Bend the three legs into a U shape.
For the rest of the even tabs, cut the top, the bottom and one of the sides. Make sure the side that you start with on the first square is the same side that you cut on the remaining even squares. Bend those tabs inward at a 90 degree angle. Make sure that these tabs are all flowing the same way around the barrel.
Turn the barrel upside down and mark a horizonal line 1.5 inces from the top and three inches from the top around the edge. Mark a vertical line every inch along the top, going down to the first horizontal line. Cut each of those marks. Bend each 1 inch by 1.5 inch tab inwards at 30 deg.
On the second horizontal line, drill a pilot hole below the center of each tab. Using the Irwin Unibit, drill out each pilot hole to ⅞ inches.
Put Barrel 1 aside
Barrel 2 :
Turn the barrel upright. Mark two horizontal line around the barrel, one at 1.5 inches and the other at 3 inches. On the first horizontal line, drill a pilot hole every 1 inch. On the 2nd horizontal line, drill a pilot hole half way between the two pilot holes above it. (the two rows of pilot holes are staggered by 1/2 )
Drill out each pilot hole with the Unibit to ⅞”
Turn the barrel upside down. Cut out the bottom leaving a 1 inch lip inside the bottom of the barrel. Keep the Barrel upside down and place it over Barrel 1. The Tabs of Barrel 1 should be at least 1 inch above the lip of barrel 2.
With 3” metal screws, screw from the outside of barrel 2 to the legs of barrel 1, so the legs are pulled to the inside edge of barrel 2. Do this to all 3 legs.
Using the bottom plate of Barrel 2, cut off about ½ from the edge.
Make a 3” circle in the very center of the plate and a circle around the outside edge of the plate about 1” from the outside edge.
Divide the plate into 8 sections, using straight lines that pass from each edge through the center of the plate. It should look like you have 8 pizza slices.
Mark every other pizza slice (4 in total).
On each of these 4 slices,
Cut along the outside round edge (1 inch from edge of plate), the inside round edge (edge of the 3” circle and the right-side straight line. Don’t cut the left-edge straight line.
Turn the plate upside down, and bend up each of the 4 sections where the left-edge line would have been.
Turn the plate right side up (the tabs are facing downward now) and place that into the burn barrel. The tabs at the bottom of Barrel 1 will hold this plate in place.
Take the bottom of Barrel 1
Make a 3” circle in the center, and as many additional circles, each 1-2 inches wider than the next. Then split the plate into at least 12 “pizza slices” with straight lines that go from edge to edge through the center. . Each place the straight lines and curved lines intersect, drill out with the Unibit for a ⅞” Hole. This will be your grate for the top of the barrel.
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[@rook3504]

A friend of mine asked me about the design of these today…glad I found this video again!

[@ilene9349]

Great learning video. Our washing machine died & we used the stainless steel washing bin inside to use as a fire pit, we placed it on bricks & it works great.

[@amalias8888]

Sounds easier.

[@genesis1.111]

I have one too. Lol.

[@jrae6608]

These work great, much easier, can go to junk yard and get them

[@jamjar5716]

Inside? The house?

[@Christy.1]

Oh what a great idea. Mine crapped out and was trying to figure some use for it rather than dumping it.

[@GrowingLittleCountryhomestead]

Well built Nate. Very impressive

[@DinkTank369]

Good morning ☕ 🌞 Nate and Katie

[@Charlie12874]

Thanks for posting it again just reminded me that I need one. I did go back and watch the first one you created.

[@deborahparnell8862]

Wow!!! fantastic teaching..ty..xoxo 🥰🖐👍🤟✌🤪

[@mikerussell701]

Great job! Thanks for sharing!

[@TheWickerShireProject]

Wonderful build and killer design. This is how you do a burn barrel! Kudo's! We're working on water filtering videos.

[@timsutherland5089]

Thanks for the instructions and inspiration to build on of these burn barrels.

[@kristikey8320]

Cool, very nicely done!

[@DinkTank369]

Thanks for sharing Have a great weekend

[@shawndoe2834]

Very very impressive use of the square.

[@peppernc429]

Wow, I was wondering and there it was! Awesome

[@maryrutigliano1044]

In texas, a burn barrel is for trash burning, small branches, leaves, or house hold trash.

[@jerrystout3032]

Great Job

[@wasimhbaig]

Superb instructional video, thanks Nate! Yes, in retrospect the legs bent U inside would probably be a better fit. Reminds me of the BBQ Brethren UDS thread :)

[@lcostantino7931]

Ingenious hopefully I can find someone to make it....

[@bhavens9149]

interesting project, thanks for sharing!

[@brendarice5287]

Loved the video 😘👍🏻💕

[@LWYOffGridHomestead]

Very nice tutorial...thanks

[@DinkTank369]

Very cool

[@tammysarrazin7078]

great job Nate hugsssss

[@theguy9208]

Im curious at the mindset of someone who seeks out a video on how to make something yourself, only to comment "thats too hard" on the easiest guide one can find. With no welding or expensive tools, anybody confident with the tools could do this in 2-3 hours if they went as slow as possible, Im sure i could get it done in an hour or so if i laid everything out beforehand. Many of the other diy incinerator guides include welding and acetylene torches, hand fabbing big bits out of mild steel... expensive stuff i cant afford

[@charlenegrady8781]

Very interesting👍🇺🇸

[@helihoot]

Love it

[@donnamaeanderson3448]

Good job Nate. Maybe could sell a few of these.

[@patriciakeogh5008]

What a rigmarole

[@tibbs4000]

Genius 💡 And the asthmatics in your vacinity thank you!! 👏✌

[@jrae6608]

Good video, suggestion but angle iron on bottom of barrel, do the squares for air flow, the base is more stable. Use the bottom of the barrel as base.

[@kathylane5934]

Neat thanks

[@trudiedonnelly4776]

7/8th of an inch = approx 2cm. For those who use metric. :)

[@dasledogg64]

Thank you for the video. I was impressed with your angle grinder lasting so long. How many batteries did you go through?

[@terresiagregg9326]

Great video thanks for sharing

[@terresiagregg9326]

Yes you can burn outside in rural areas but not when wind is blowing n need a permit

[@MsCaterific]

Reruns 😁

[@TheKraemerLife]

just with a voice over, lol. we never published the ASMR version so only a few folks have seen that one.

[@AngelBluff]

huh look at that !

[@jshepard152]

Before you do this, make damn sure the old contents of the drum were not flammable. Vapors can be just as explosive as the former contents, and guys have gotten killed cutting into "empty" drums that exploded. I was just reading about a guy in Pennsylvania who got killed by a burn barrel last week. There was another incident in Iowa that killed a man who was welding on top of an empty barrel, using it as a workbench. Filling the drum with water before cutting into it can displace explosive vapors, if done correctly.

[@JerryStokes-rq6pm]

Great video! I just wish if it's going to say smokeless in bright red it's actually a smokeless burn barrel that would be nice not that I'm afraid of work but drilling a thousand and three holes and that much grinding and cutting I'm sure there is another way I'll be out with the next video shortly!

[@TheKraemerLife]

yeah, more like less-smoke. It was a lot of work, but I had fun doing it. It still works great and does a good job on burning hot and complete, with less smoke than a normal burn barrel - by far.

[@trudiedonnelly4776]

BBQ anyone? lol. Aussie here.

[@thegreenthing7603]

Was wondering if you burn plastic, will it still produce smoke? I have a recycling plastic granulator and screen mesh is use to filter dirt from plastic melt and overtime, this screen gets clogged up and the only solution is to burn the screen with plastic melt in it..

[@josephtimpanaro2353]

Burning plastic creates major toxins and pollution. Better to landfill it.

[@helihoot]

I used an acetylene torch for all those holes. Much easier

[@connieparker8896]

What is the purpose? Is it for cooking? Or smoking food ? Or just burning trash and clean up?

[@tinabloomfield7228]

Probably burning trash.. . That's what I use my barrel for 🙂

[@henryrollins9177]

​@@tinabloomfield7228 Organic trash i guess...not plastic or so, isnt it?

[@theguy9208]

​@@henryrollins9177it'll get rid of pretty much anything you feed it. The idea is that the extra air increases the temperature and burns everything that would normally be released as smoke.

[@andredsouza2320]

'Building stuff is fun', isnt it?

[@AShortDropSuddenStop]

I see what you did there😉

[@pbijhouwer]

The video is 12 minutes, but it obviously took a lot longer to make this barrel.

[@carlapierle8623]

I hope they don't ever mandate "smokeless" burn barrels because this is way too intense for my 65 y/o self.

[@ironhell813]

If they ever did, they would make em to buy…

[@squanchrat]

i have a feeling this is going to take longer than 12 minutes

[@TheKraemerLife]

12 min was the video length, not the actual build :)

[@dmarcdavinchi9152]

Stop hating with the “slick sh@&t comments!”. The world AMERICA wasn’t built in a day! My man is a genius! It takes trial, error and effort to come up with a innovative design. I have a couple of barrows that im gonna experiment in. Great work! Bro…!

[@whatsupshittafabraans1926]

90 * vane not aerodynamically spiralling, 40* be perfect

[@jamies3190]

1 hot fire bottom would be gone

[@TheKraemerLife]

So far it's held up. But it wont last forever, that's for sure.

[@sierraadams8009]

It's a BURN BARREL PEOPLE! It's not your fruity little backyard fire pit. Basically an incinerator! So you're not roasting marshmallows and having drinks around it.

[@jimarmstrong3873]

I doubt that this barrel was completed in 12 minutes as the author claims.

[@bobbyl8614]

The video is just under 12 minutes, not the project

[@loneninja]

Nice, except you ripped off the "Building Stuff is Fun" video from a year ago!

[@whatsupshittafabraans1926]

Half the cuts ca n be done before your long seam cuts, less flimsy drilling them holes-dude

[@helenhelps9619]

🪚🔨

[@susancampbell7279]

Too hard

[@henryrollins9177]

Like my dikk

[@williamlaughlin8148]

WAY too much work! Maybe you should go into business & sell them?

[@ironhell813]

Someone will one day…

[@jtltet]

You aren't building this in less than 12 minutes. Your video is 12 minutes. I saw someone else make this exact barrel in a different video so this is likely where you saw it also.

[@RAshby-ih7td]

12 minutes? LOL😂

[@genesis1.111]

Too much work for a woman. Just get an old washing machine and take the washing bin out and use it as a fire pit. I have one and it works great. Lol

[@carolmirci1233]

Amen

[@jamjar5716]

Inside? The house?

[@genesis1.111]

@@jamjar5716 No. I meant out.

[@tibbs4000]

You don't know some women that I know. Women are perfectly capable of constructing this, if willing.

[@genesis1.111]

@@tibbs4000 No, I don't know any women that can make something like that. I rather go buy one than built one. Time is money.

[@mick62569]

12 mins. Laughing my ass off. O that the video time.

[@jonathansimmonds5784]

These barrel burner videos are so mind numbingly boring!! Must you show every inch of every cut! Every tedious hole drilling???! Thank heavens for the fast forward facility. I also mute them, mainly because I can't stand the accents!

[@TheKraemerLife]

neat

[@m1ha1mateescu]

Less than 12 minutes? Really ?! 🙄

[@TheKraemerLife]

the video not the build