Building an outdoor wood burning furnace

The entire process of building an outdoor wood burning furnace. This furnace is now heating a 5000 sq. ft. house and it's domestic hot water. This is the way to get off of using oil to heat your house. After 3 months of construction and roughly 00 in materials and scrap that was laying around, we are now heating the house for free. A Do it yourself (DIY) project.

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18 Responses to Building an outdoor wood burning furnace

  1. therealzane says:

    where did you get the blower with the draft control? (electronic flapper) or something you fabbed up? im currently building one similar out of a fuel oil tank and a 24″ sch 40 pipe all the way through it for fire “box”

  2. artsychic2000 says:

    great job guys..my husband loved this!

  3. sertox12345 says:

    wow next time use disel not gas wow

  4. 1Jinxed1 says:

    3.13 real man right there, welding with no helmet lmao.

  5. rm11417 says:

    Great motivation, and you guys are simply amazing! not to mention great builders.!!

  6. dhmarkley says:

    Awesome Job Guys!

  7. droptop68bird says:

    Amazing fab work u guys, i’ve made a living out of making my own stuff, to include my
    own wood furnace, and i am impressed. My furnace only heats 1500 sq ft, you said yours will heat 5000 sq ft, how many gallons does it hold? How far from your house is it? How much wood does it consume? And really only $3000? Scrap laying around? Do you have plans (I’ll buy them)? I have many questions, please contact me!

  8. materferguson says:

    Not only are you guys great craftsmen but you do great film production as well. I jealous, I used to be able to design and build most my own stuff but, now I’m crippled it’s mostly just design. You motivate me to try harder on my reabilitation. You guys need to have your own reality tv show, I’d watch. Again, thanks for the motivation.

  9. gwana8919 says:

    @doormaker2 You could burn trash and paper in it, but wood is the best source. And when using the term “free”, we get our wood for free from all kinds of sources.

  10. doormaker2 says:

    By “heating the house for free,” you mean you burn garbage? Dry, flammable scraps of things like wood or paper?

  11. devarkk says:

    Fuck yeah, awesome build!! You guys inspire me!

  12. dynodon427 says:

    Excellent

  13. kmcwhq says:

    Good bit of fabricating and welding
    THIS IS reality TV!

    Five stars

  14. 123raccoon1 says:

    so where can I get one?
    Raccoon

  15. nx2overide says:

    amazing!

  16. discountcontractor says:

    This was an AWESOME video. Its hard to understand the design of the water pipes though. How do they connect at each end after going through the tank?

    I’m going to build one of these this summer. I’m tired of paying hydro $700/month to heat a 2000 square foot house.

  17. localcrew says:

    This is some really fine work. You guys have some obvious welding and grinding skills. I want to make one for myself one day.

  18. fasterbike919 says:

    Nice work! this was my first winter with my homemade boiler, All the blood and grinding dust is worth it when the LP truck drives by while i sit in my 75 degree house. excellent video