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Originally Posted by eldorado99  |
An easier way to get the same efficiency is just take two barrels and put one on top of the other with a 6" pipe leading from the bottom one to the top. Then have the chimney on the opposite side of the top barrel from the pipe connecting the bottom and top barrels together. You build the fire in the bottom and the smoke heats the top, creating twice the heating surface as if you just had one barrel. This type of set up was in a cabin I stayed in once and it was able to heat the thing up to 80 degrees in just a few hours. We actually had to let the fire die out because it got too hot to sleep.