bumpytruck

The permit might be a good idea,only because if you were to need to file an insurance claim,it could be sticky.

sherod

Jim, thats a good looking job on the stove. Did you design it yourself?

I have a WonderWood/coal in my shop. Need to make a better one as shop is basically a 30x50 pole barn with no isulation. If you make a fire hot enough to stay warm, you'll burn out the pipes.

I use standard single wall up to bottom of the trusses, then triple wall from there on up. I have to replace the single wall every year.

Ed

NHDiesel

Thanks. Yup, designed it and built it. The only part I didn't build are the doors. My father built his wood stove and scrounged up several sets of doors from the dump, off old stoves. He had these left over. Our ceilings are 10 feet high, so I didn't have to worry about the heat from the stove. I welded in a bracket that holds fire brick in place around the walls.

I am kind of considering modifying it to use a smaller inner firebox, and run tubing between the 2 layers, and use it to heat hot water in our new house. We have a gas hot water heater, but I'm trying to come up with a way to pre-heat the water with the stove to help the water heater out. Anything to save a little energy these days!!! Our new house is very small...only 720 sq. ft., so I could make a much smaller fire box and put the stove in the basement. We already have a chimney.

Jim

redneckonthenet

Well I did it! This stove is rated to heat 1000 sq. feet it should do the job in my 28 x 30 garage. Hope these pictures work.

https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...cat=500&page=1

https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...cat=500&page=1

2500Ram

Looks good, now get some insulation on the walls

gunracer1

i am building my own, i used this as the inspration, not much on pretty but looks real good for getting all the heat out. i have my buddies down in the fab shop cutting out the chiminey set up with the laser. and i will make it look much nicer than this one. i will post some pics when i get it done.
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barracuda

I too heat my garage w/ a wood burning stove, i am 28x40 w/ 10' ceilings and exposed trusses so it's a lot to heat. I have an older, quite large, stove that has a blower and it works very well. I do have vehicles stored in the garage too and I am very careful not to disturb anything flamable when using it, always a concern. I did try a large pellet stove i found used and while it is much easier to deal with it couldn't quite get the job done, would probably of worked if their was sheetrock on the ceiling though. Good luck w/ it.