This weekend's project - grassroots (or redneck, whatever) wood stove for my deck. The only thing I bought was the ringe for the door, and it was on sale for $4. the rest was scrap collected form work. The stand was even pre-made as a barrel transporter, I just cut the wheels off.
Heats the deck nicely with the free firewood I've collected from friends who've had trees fall over the summer.
I'm looking for a new s13 chassis and using the old clip from the old one as a towable grill complete with pop up tail lights. Your post made me think if it. 
ultraclyde wrote: Heats the deck nicely with the free firewood I've collected from friends who've had trees fall over the summer.
Heats the deck nicely???
Lets hope not too much heat...
Is the chimney a #10 can?
N Sperlo wrote: I'm looking for a new s13 chassis and using the old clip from the old one as a towable grill complete with pop up tail lights. Your post made me think if it.
build thread or ban
jrw1621 wrote: Heats the deck nicely??? Lets hope not too much heat...
I'd like to see a noncombustible surface underneath that thing, or your deck may get Really warm someday.
set it on a pad of cement pavers, and youll be fine.
was the drum coated inside? that can turn into some nasty stuff when welded or burned
The drum was full of Shell Thermia heat transfer oil when new. I think it was coated in some fashion, but not a heavy liner. Welding on it was.....intoxicating! 
The first 20 min of the burn in gave off some hellish fumes but it settled down. The paint literally smoked over the entire drum. Pretty interesting to watch.
It's a good 6" clear of the deck, so on a cool night the decking only gets warm since heat rises. I can easily keep my hand under it on the deck at full burn. My medium-range plan is to rip up the deck and pour a patio anyway. And there's a garden hose on the deck less than 10' away.
The chimney is a 2lb coffee can, and the weather cover is cut out of a tin paint tray. It can be pivoted over to give a better flow.
I think I need to have a bigger chimney, though, most of the smoke rolls out the front when the door's open. In retrospect maybe I should have left a deep lip at the top instead of cutting the door to follow the barrell. Ehh, oh well. Holds fire well.
If you have ashes in the stove your deck will be fine. My friend's black labrador sleeps under his drum stove with a roaring fire in it. The dog gets hot, but I have never seen him smoke.
Chimneas work because the entire clay shell warms up and heats a house with minimal fuel. (not a lot of wood out west)
I have seen wood furnaces where they weld two 50 gallon cans on top of each other; imagine one more horizontally on top of yours. I don't know how well they work .... 
Yeah, I've seen several tricks to create more radiant mass to more effectively use the heat. On an open deck, I'm not shure how effective it really is. I was considering lots of scrap sheetmetal fins mounted flower-petal style around the outside of the drum across the top as a heatsink/radiating array. Maybe down the road...
Nice stove.
It's not quite as grassroots, but my neighbor priced out some large dished fire pits, found their pricetags appalling, drove down to the local Asian restaurant supply store, and picked up a huge (3-foot-diameter) commercial wok for 30 bucks. It kicks ass.
914Driver wrote: Chimneas work because the entire clay shell warms up and heats a house with minimal fuel. (not a lot of wood out west) I have seen wood furnaces where they weld two 50 gallon cans on top of each other; imagine one more horizontally on top of yours. I don't know how well they work ....
Yep, seen that as a smoker. Mine is absolutely NOT intended for food usage!
In reply to jrw1621:
I saw that type dbl decker drum heater in the basement of a house we were looking at, appeared it was put together w/ a kit... base, door, flanges etc. , w/ single smoke pipe into the flue.
I'd have doubts about using one in the basement or even a shop maybe, outdoors OK
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