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Does the same for me and also won't let me edit a post. It lets me edit but won't post the edited version. Cntrl and F5 doesn't help either....

My father was at one time a VERY skilled welder and claims cast is a PITA and won't say much more about it other than it involves pre heating in some sort of oven and burying in sand when complete to allow slower more even cooling....and it is very time consuming.

Mmmmm, Elmer Fudd LOVES rabbit stew!

Google has given me tons of info and instructions but I'm tagging this thread for interest. Someones first hand experience may give more pointers than the web pages give.

Another one I've heard is pretty tough and requires specific skills is welding cast iron. Anyone here with that type of experience?

Okay, enough of this mamsy pamsy stuff, who in here has experience forge welding? That being said, I'm just learning to use my wire feed. I've very little to no skill other than being able to stick some things together rather sloppily. Really good idea about the youtube vids...guess what I'll be...

well now, that's messed up.. I keep getting this error:

Shouldn't that be in a GMO thread? lol

Shouldn't that be in a GMO thread? lol

Shouldn't that be in a GMO thread? lol

Shouldn't that be in a GMO thread? lol

Those 2 barrel stacked stoves work pretty well at scavenging a lot of the heat that would normally go out the pipe. Oh yeah. It'll get burned off outside before it gets finished. My biggest concern about my welds is the lack of skill that went into them. I burned through in a lot of places and...

I have a 1/4 inch thick steel plate that I plan to fashion into a cooking surface that will just sit atop the barrel and perhaps create some sort of metal or even wood open bottom box that will set on top of the cooking surface to use for baking. I won't use it everyday but it will be nice to...

Agreed. The blower I have was salvaged from an old Ashley stove that was burned out pretty bad. There is a thermostatic control on it but I'll likely remove that in lieu of a toggle switch or variable speed control...In fact, the door and flange I'll be using also came from that old Ashley. I...

I have started a new project to try to get a bit more efficiency from our simple barrel stove. I have welded a barrel lid from a 55 gallon barrel to the top of a 30 gallon barrel and cut out an opening. I will put the 30 gallon drum inside the 55 gallon drum and pipe the stack through to the...

Sure, that wouldn't be a problem.

If you are concerned about the cans possibly being toxic, you should also be worried about moisture. Try to get some mylar bags and O2 absorbers, then put a bag in each can, fill it with food, toss in an O2 absorber and seal the bag before putting the lid on the can.

I disagree. Sauerkraut and kimchi are basically preservation methods that are canning in it's simplest form and both have existed for far more than 200 years.

Excellent use of a chicken! That's pretty much how we utilize them. I often buy the breast portions w/bone when they are on sale and debone them and freeze them in meal sized portions then boil the bones into a stock. The remaining meat on the bones winds up in the stock which gets divided into...

I'm from International falls, MN and grew up heating with wood. Everyone there has a barrel stove in the garage. Now I live just south of Indianapolis, IN. Our first winter in this house, we used LP and spent around $6,000 for it!!! The house isn't insulated very well I guess. After that first...