Sometime back I had made an upright tent stove with an elk cutout on it. I still had another small barrel so decided to make a horizontal stove with a mule deer on it (I have done this before). Been pecking away at it for several days while it rained outside. Here is what I got so far. The basic stove is done and I am now working on the warming shelf. The deer picture will go on top as the warming shelf surface. Door opening is 8"X 8". Both the door panel and pipe collar are bedded in muffler cement. The door and collar are backed by standard washers and nuts and the leg and shelf bands are backed by 2" washers and nuts for rigidity. I will have some fires to burn the paint off before cleaning and painting with high heat black paint. When the barrel eventually rusts through all parts can be moved to a new barrel. I always fill the bottom of the barrel with sand or earth to prevent burn through. Used seasonally and stored in the dry these stoves last many, many years. I will play around with both stoves for a while using them like fire rings to sit around then one fall I will clean and paint them up and put them on Craig's List for hunters. Will post more pics as things move along.
Nice work. I like the vertical design one. The cutouts are sweet, as all the ones you show on here are.
Hey, I recognize those drums! My coworker bought a grip of them and is making deer feeders out of. Edit: Wait...not tapered. Color is spot on though. He got a whole bunch of tapered metal drums recently.
Thanks for the positive comments. They are very tight. To the point of slowly going out if you damp them completely down. They do have the same problem that all very small stoves have in that they hold limited amounts of wood so they have to be tended more often. The horizontal one will take larger splits of wood than than the upright since the whole barrel is the burn chamber. It will burn longer than the upright because in the upright 3/4 of the barrel is burn chamber and the bottom 1/4 is ash collection and clean out. The best barrels for tent stoves are the mid size (30 gal I believe) because they a good mix of compactness, capacity and the metal is usually slightly thicker. They are increasingly hard to find anymore.
If that is just a warming shelf then I couldn't imagine what you might consider " art work" . That is beyond amazing!
Went ahead and countersunk and bolted down the warming shelf. Also made a stove pipe clamp. Waiting for some buddies to get some free time to come over to sit around and drink Cafe Royale and/or Jameson whiskey as I burn the barrel off. Happy with it so far. Thanks for the pleasant comments!
How cost prohibitive would it be for you to weld up a box out of 1/8 or 3/16? Have plans to build a mini A-frame 'someday' and will need a little box stove. So far I've only found one that is both small and what I consider to be rugged. 20x11x13 which is right about the size I need if my planning is running five by five.
I made a stove for a customer a while ago out of 11G steel that was I believe 13"x13"x22" or there abouts. Had a removable side shelf on it. He called me after a season of hunting and said he was very pleased with it. I would have to go to the drawing file for exact measure and do a new takeoff as metal prices have changed so much since then. It would probably be comparable to similar hunting stoves out there. Also much depends on how many irons I have in the fire and what kind of mood I'm in. My Wif says I am sometimes grumpy!
That's a very nice unit! I'm still a ways from getting started on it, but am determined to make it happen in the coming future. Hoping another year or two will see me with a fair pile of cheaply acquired lumber. That whole project up there is running on the lowest possible budget I can manage. The 8x12 pavillion and store bought picnic table have me in for a little over $400. I certainly will not get the a frame built for that, but keeping costs low to nothing is part of what allows the project to continue.
