Build a Water Barrel Hearth

hi reminds me of my first house,which used a ray burn no 2
woodstove with a bronze boiler insert; never thought i would need
to go back to that,but next place will need to meet solar &
passive challenges due to remoteness from main stream living aus .
regards phil

HNORMAND:I am curious how the donut worked. Where was the water
intake line and how was it hooked up? Did you simply fill the hot
water heater with the heated water from the donut--fed into it, I
presume, through one of the taps? How did you regulate the flow of
hot water from the donut to the hot water heater?DVolesky:I'm not
understanding how the s/s coil was arranged, how hooked up to the
garden hose, etc. I am assuming that the hose was connected to the
coil, the coil rested on the hot coals, and the heated water passed
from the coils into the barrel. Right?

Ref: DVolskyAll Nighter wood stove and the Stainless Donut hot
water adaptor. It looked like a pipe inside of a pipe sealed by a
welded ring on both ends. One end having the (2) welded pipe taps.
Appx. 6 1/2" ID X 8 1/2" OD X 10" long.This fits into a 5" deep
pocket at the rear of the stove with the 6" smoke pipe exiting thru
the ID. The lower pipe tap connected to the bottem of the 80 gal.
tank and the upper tap to the upper tap in this tank. "This
arrangement heated water" circulated by thermal siphon. The hotter
the stove the better. The volume tank prevented the water from
being overheated. 145* was about the max. temp. All components, had
50 psi well pump perssure. 07-14-06

Ref: DVolskyAll Nighter wood stove and the Stainless Donut hot
water adaptor. It looked like a pipe inside of a pipe sealed by a
welded ring on both ends. One end having the (2) welded pipe taps.
Appx. 6 1/2" ID X 8 1/2" OD X 10" long.This fits into a 5" deep
pocket at the rear of the stove with the 6" smoke pipe exiting thru
the ID. The lower pipe tap connected to the bottem of the 80 gal.
tank and the upper tap to the upper tap in this tank. "This
arrangement heated water" circulated by thermal siphon. The hotter
the stove the better. The volume tank prevented the water from
being overheated. 145* was about the max. temp. All components, had
50 psi well pump perssure. 07-14-06

Some years ago, We heated the house with A wood stove up in New
England.It was named "All Nighter"Made in Connecticut. A option was
a stainless steel doughnut that fit around the smoke pipe at the
rear of the stove. This had 2 pipe thread taps for heating hot
water. We heated all of our hot water with this setup connected to
an old (former) elect. H/W tank made of copper. 80 gal. Cap. NOTE:
all plumbing was to code with proper relief valves in place. Temp
& Pressure type..Today this same All Nighter is still in use.
However the tank is out of commission.We had the option to stoke
the fire or be cold just last week on a visit to the cold country.
Presently back in Florida under solid blue skys and, naturaly
warm.

I was introduced to the water barrel heat reservoir in a Boy
Scout Camp in Florida several years ago, where the troop connected
a coiled length of stainless steel tubing to a 1/2 inch garden hose
that drew cold water in at the bottom of the barrel. The water was
heated in the campfire coals and the hot water, by convection, was
deposited at the top of the 17 gallon tank. they were the only
troop to have hot water reserve at the campsite. I also used this
technique after the Katrina Hurricane. I heated the s/s coil in a
chiminea and mounted the barrel at chest height and offered hot
showers to the family during the extended power outage.