im thinking of making a 275 gal oil tank in to a huge wood stove

IM thinking of making a 275 gal oil tank in to a huge wood stove to heat
hoping io could get 10 to 30 wheel barel loads of wood in the stove
so it burns for a week with out refiling it

 

I don't like to tell someone they can't without knowing their skills. But what are you planning on heating? How are you going to control the fire in something like that? What are you going to use for controls so that you can get long burn times. A week?

 

ill use a damper in the stove pipe
ill close it down all most closed

 

Do you have any experience building wood stoves? Welding/fabricating? What will you heat with it?

 

An 8 or 10" flue works good on that size fire box & don't forget the pics !

 

Friend of mine built one and had it in a 40x60 spray foam insulated shop.
Had a waste oil drip system . Lined with fire brick up about 18".
Kept a heavy ash bed in it.
Never put mare than 3-4 chunks on a good coal bed.
I'll tell ya that thing worked awesome and he never had a raging fire in it. I worked with him in that shop 1 winter at 60 degrees consistently at well below freezing temps outside.

 

I'm sorry to say, but it's not going to burn for a week and if you draw it back that far it's just going to clog up the chimney. I had a stove made out of an old oil tank in an old shop many years ago and it would put out the heat but also eat the wood.

 

A buddy has a large home built stove in his shop. You could load it up as full as possible and I still don't think you would get super long burn times. I would think with that amount of wood it would be either an inferno or a chimney clogging smolder.

JustWood what kind of burn times did he get? I mean did he ever load it up full to see, and if so how did it react?

 

JustWood what kind of burn times did he get? I mean did he ever load it up full to see, and if so how did it react?[/QUOTE]

I never remember him putting more wood in it than you wood put in a regular wood stove . Seemed to work well that way.
I did see him put some 8" rounds 3' long in as well as some long slabwood and some palletwood. But I never once saw it red hot or a raging fire in it.

 

I never remember him putting more wood in it than you wood put in a regular wood stove . Seemed to work well that way.
I did see him put some 8" rounds 3' long in as well as some long slabwood and some palletwood. But I never once saw it red hot or a raging fire in it.[/QUOTE]
I load my regular stove with big rounds and splits that are 26 inches or so. I'm just curious about the loading it to the brim idea.