Convert an oil drum into an oven

What you need:

• Oil barrel
• steel plate
• 2 steel knobs
• Stovepipe
• Oven seal
• welding machine
• Jigsaw

People like to be in their garden in autumn too. However, the days are already quite cool here, which is why a heat source in the garden shed would be quite pleasant. There is a way to get this here. How you can build a furnace from an oil barrel is shown below. The oil barrel should not be very old, however.

Building a furnace out of an oil barrel - the preparations

• To build an oven from an oil drum, you have to have parts for a drawer sawed out of the steel plate, which you then weld together as a drawer for the ashes. You then weld a steel knob to this. to be able to open and close the drawer.
• You also have to make a ring from sheet steel on which the stovepipe will fit exactly afterwards.

Building the furnace - the work steps

1. At the top of the oil drum you have to saw a hole for the stovepipe on the edge. Then weld the steel ring that has already been made onto it so that the stove pipe can be put on.
2. Then turn the barrel over and saw out of the bottom a rectangle the size of the drawer you made earlier.


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3. Use the sheet steel to make a box that fits the drawer exactly. You then weld this to fit onto the rectangular hole. Now the drawer should fit exactly into the box.
4. A steel grate will later be placed directly on this box opening so that the ashes can fall through into the box.
5. At the front of the box you now saw out a large opening from which the oven can later be loaded.
6. With the sawn-out piece, grind the edges and also attach a steel knob in the middle to open and close.
7. At this opening you now have to weld a bracket on the left and right as well as at the bottom, which makes it possible to use the sawn-out sheet metal as a Insert the sliding door from above so that you can open and close it later by sliding it up and down to close the fire enable. You should then equip this bracket with an oven seal so that the door is absolutely tight.
8. Then place the barrel on 4 x 2 bricks.
9. Then saw an opening the size of the stove pipe in the house wall.
10. Then place the stovepipe precisely on the oil drum and wall opening. Seal the stovepipe well against the wall. Now place the steel grid on the floor opening and your furnace made from an oil drum is ready.