Wood Stoves: How to Make and Use Them

Discusses the design of many types of wood burning heaters. None of them look like they meet code, but they are still excellent and provocative.

Author has a ton of hands on experience with wood stoves and conveys it all in this book. I learned a lot. Lot of information on safety. Helped a lot in teaching to make a distinction between different types of stoves and in helping to identify individual needs.

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This is by far the best resource on designing your own wood stove from scratch, whether via steel barrels, sheet metal, welding, etc. If you want to live off grid and build your own affordable wood stove this is the book to have. The author lived in Alaska, so his ideas work. Oldie but a goodie.

In this book the Author gives a good overview of stoves for heating a small space and excellent information on dealing with a wood stove as a sole heat source. Then, where he really takes off is on MAKING very simple stoves out of oil drums, old tins or used gas tanks. What had before seemed to me a difficult or near impossible task, was quickly transformed into a very do-able thing. For use as a cabin or garage heater, a stove to use in a large tent, or as the Author suggests, as an emergency stove, this is the way to go.

I was wondering why this book is so expensive when Barnes & Noble has it for $5.99?

This book is a popular book up here (Alaska) and many of the stoves are in wide use in remote cabins. A very practical, hands on book for anyone interested in constructing their own economical wood stove. Quite thorough and well illustrated but somewhat dated as are most books in the do-it-yourself outdoors genre.

Excellent