Built to heat my buildings as well as my home in the cold months only using free waste oil. • Waste oil burner heati... The link is to my other video where I show some upgrades I have done to increase efficiency
Cool! I worked at a truck repair shop in South Seattle for 24 years. We worked on the big rigs, trailers, dollys, etc. Fleet maintenance. We also had a body shop separate from us. Bay doors wete like 16' high. Super hard to heat in the winter. I found an ad in a msgazine for a waste oil furnace. We generated lots of that. An oil change might generste 10-14 gallons of oil, and another 6-8 gallons of gear oil. We got two of the oil burners. We had a 1000 gallon holding tank for the waste oil. Had a bunch of 55 gallon barrels too. We stored the oil in the wsrmer months, and pretty much bufned most of it up each winter. Had to take a big shop vac and cleanout the ash fairly often. The other oil burner heated our body shop. In the esrly dsys compsnies would buy up our waste oil for like $1.00 a gallon. Later, they quit paying, but pumped it and hauled for free. We used the waste oil money, and money forrecycling scrap metal, to fund a company picnic in the summer. We recyvled our waste coolant also. A big Kenworth radiator holds 10-14 gallons. There was a guy in a converted truck camper with all the equipment in the camper to pump, filter, revharge with ethylene glychol, and fill that into gallon jugs, to be sold to customers as 50\50 coolant. Thst coolant guy was having a hard time keeping up with that need and the travelling etc. I'm an old retired geezer now.
Hi, dunno if you are still around - but old retired geezer you may now be - you were certainly a smart unretired geezer in the past when you decided to Heat your workplace with the then available and plentiful waste oils from your business premises all those years ago. 😉 I'm also Guessing you might be a two finger/dit Keyboard typer/typist like myself and never learned to touch-type like the younger generations these days as I used to make exactly the same Typo- errors you have made in getting your points across - simply by hitting too many keys on the PC at once or off centre. 😉 Since I make comments on a wide variety of you tube video presentations - far too often -daily in fact - being a two digit typer myself - I constantly have to proof read what I've written and self edit what I write so as to not make typo's when I attempt to type too fast. Incidentally, I'm an old retired geezer from the so called 'baby boomers' generation also. But an Aussie one from the printing trade and I had my share of proofreading when I was an apprentice in the Lithographic printing side of the industry - but still make typo's from time to time as even the - real- proofreaders needed another proof reader to check their proof reading before going to press. 😉🙃
So I have to ask the question as another Puget Sound resident because my ears pricked up when I read it... South Seattle... Truck repair shop... Gary Ridgway wasnt one of your former coworkers right?? Just checking!
Negative. But, having worked for almost 30 years on or near the airport strip, I can tell you it's a rough neighborhood. Murders, bodies dumped into the Duwamish River, etc, etc.
For everyone asking where he gets the waste oil: He is a farmer. His farming equipment must all receive regular oil changes, even more so than a car. The engines on this equipment also hold a LOT more oil than a car. So just imagine the gallons upon gallons of waste engine oil being stockpiled throughout the warm months as the equipment is used and serviced through the farming season.
@@DanishSpeakerChannel I’ve seen one of these where they said that if you filter the waste oil you get a lot less ash. They ran it thru a large car oil filter with a external filter adapter. I’ve seen those adapters for sale on line.
I sell steel 55 gallon barrels with removable tops in Jacksonville Florida, I'm willing to give one barrel away to each person who undergos this project in Jacksonville Florida and does a video of the build
Man, that Heating unit you've made by hand is very well thought out and made - to say the least. Putting it outside certainly greatly lessens the possibility of accidentally setting fire to your house or your barn. And seemingly satisfies the insurance company's possible concerns as to safety issues to boot. Well done mate! Everything else in your build seems straightforward and practical but the interior of the unit needs some pictures of how you made that - especially - as that is the heart of the burner and it's not clear how that is constructed from just viewing it on your video presentation. I know this vid is 2 years old but I've just recommended your YT video to readers of a more current channel as a solution to safety concerns with Home made or home DIY projects of this nature so here's the back reference to that channel for any who come across your innovative home heating system from waste oils. This English or UK one that I'm referencing from my recent Yt viewing history is using used cooking oils I presume rather than auto industry waste oils - but is another interesting take on Home heating attempts using what are now at the present - Free oil sources - but may not always be due to soaring Oil and fuel prices these days: Free Heat .. Fantastic Tin can Waste oil Burner 564,204 views Feb 7, 2021 Super easy to make Free heat Tin can waste oil burner. I made this from a dog food tin and a sweet tin in just a few minutes. It wont last too long but it proves that my stove can easily burn waste oil for heating if I want. The conversion of the stove was easy too with just a bucket and a couple of valves. These things work great but you need to be careful and don't take any risks with your home. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hw3v2gN_sLk.html&ab_channel=GerrysDiy Conclusion: There were indeed a lot of naysayers to Gerry's innovative idea for a waste [ cooking oil ] oil burner in the comments section at his presentation - but I doubt they'd be able to say the same about yours - because you have certainly thought of most contingencies and safety issues with your very practical DIY home heater. So.... Cheers mate! From Country/rural Victoria, Australia. 🙃
Any CO and CO2 is going up the stack outside. The air is from the air jacket around the outside of the burn barrel. Similar situation to your gas central heat. The CO detector inside is for a crack in the smokebox. A good idea for any house that has fired systems even those installed by professionals and the gas company.
Why not.There is many offers for sale waste oil at cheap prices.I think if there is a big yard it worth to build something like this.Stay in,at warm room, drink wine,eat proshuto,hammon and cheese and wait for the summer😀😀😀
Absolutely brilliant. I have been researching oil stoves for a while and have seen many that have major setbacks. You have solved them all. Shop noise from blowers, insulating exhaust piping, lost shop space, indoor oil spills and mess, fire hazard, and the rediculous amount of fabrication most guys do. My shop will be heated with a variant of this design next winter. Thank you for sharing. FYI, I will be using a surplus Postal service sorting cart I have on hand as the base framework for mine. It's a perfect size, on heavy duty wheels and bolts together. I don't know how easy they are to find but finding one would cut down on fabrication time for those without a welder or welding skills. New subscription added.
My comment to another commenter above yours - as follows: TheFordtrucknut 1 year ago I've been looking to do the exact same thing, I love your setup. And will be using it as a template for mine. Reply SOLOman 1 second ago Hi, I don't think you'd go wrong with that design but you might need to ask him to illustrate how the central internal burner was constructed as that's the most important part of the heating unit - which when all is said and done is not that far off commercial grade or quality Or even better than many Factory made units that are perhaps neater looking in their finish maybe - but no better functionally - from what I can see. And it's practicality and usefulness that overrides pretty looking units anyways and even on that score it's still pretty good looking for DIY set up - nevertheless. 🙃
Awsome build. Wife and I are looking at restoring an old family home and I was thinking about something like this to heat it for the few days a year it gets cold here. Thanks for the added ideas
Gotta say, you did a nice job on it!! We have an oil furnace in the shop, I have everything to build a real nice waste oil burner, and at the moment, over 300 gallons of used oil.. soon to be much more, as it's about time to change oil in everything.. so another 120 gallons soon.. might as well use it!! Love the outdoor setup!! That would work great for me! Thanks for the video
Hi, I don't think you'd go wrong with that design but you might need to ask him to illustrate how the central internal burner was constructed as that's the most important part of the heating unit - which when all is said and done is not that far off commercial grade or quality Or even better than many Factory made units that are perhaps neater looking in their finish maybe - but no better functionally - from what I can see. And it's practicality and usefulness that overrides pretty looking units anyways and even on that score it's still pretty good looking for DIY set up - nevertheless. 🙃
It's simple and I won't critique it, as many would. I'd say you have a great idea there! I'd like to build something similar next to my house\ shop in like a permanent block wall structure, and duct it in like you did. It's great man, you have inspired me! Thanks for sharing!
Nice job I have burner in my garage. I used a retired hot water tank turned it upside down cut it off to hold about 8 gallons for my oil tank. The pipe fittings are now on the bottom where I need them.
Hi, Yeah, good idea - as there's always people dumping their old Burnt out/aging or just not working hot water heaters - on either annual solid junk drives - IF you have them in your country or area - but even in places that don't have junk drives people will tend to leave them on their nature strips for disposal or collection - IF the New Unit installer won't take the old one away free of charge as part of his/her installation. 😉🙃
you would make this much , much more effective with a return duct to your squirrel cage blower !! Something to think about . I really like your build , super basic affordable and effective , GREAT JOB !!!
oil burns rich, lots of CO produced together with CO2. When that 55gal drum gets thin and eventually burn through, the danger is that CO will get forced into the house. I'm not sure at what level CO detector gets tripped, but elevated CO levels are not great for people or dogs. CO is slightly lighter than air, especially a warm air being pumped in. That sensor belongs on a wall or a ceiling. Also, the higher the flue, the more air it sucks in. Most industrial smoke stacks are rated like that, so technically if you just make your stack high enough, there is no need for inducing draft with a motor.
I think that's a good point brought up by Andrei. I 'm not an engineer, but it doesn't seem to me that the drum is going to last for a long time -- it's obviously not made to stand up to high temperatures. For example, when people build wood stoves using drums, they usually put fire brick or sand on the bed, because if left bare, the drum will burn through pretty quickly. And your oil fire is probably quite a bit hotter (~2750F in an oil burner) than a wood stove (~1100 F). Yours is a great project, admirable for its ingenuity - but keep trying to upgrade it for safety! Good luck with everything.
Pretty cool I really love the innovation. I once designed in my mind an outdoor boiler that used a car radiator water pump and radiator fan in my head I never actually built it but I might someday still I bet it would have worked pretty well. The biggest challenge I see in most home owner designed heating systems is how to regulate the temperature and fuel usages but I heat with wood 100 percent and I keep my house at 72 no matter what so I guess it just takes experience.
Great build!! However you did build that for your shop at first (no need for hot water there). Wrapping some 3/4" or 7/8" copper tubing (with some sort of disconnection for in & out) around that barrel in the box & to have some water heating capacity as well. compost couldn't hurt for the summer time & year as well.
Slight mod/improvement for you- Build the fuel tank on top of unit, have chimney go up through the tank, warming the oil. No outside piping to ever chill the oil. Exhaust can be fabricated to be a "velocity stack" to harness it's pressure. Fabricate a "turbo" unit, inline with exhaust stream, to a pulley/belt, to run a 12v DC generator, that powers a pump for the warmed oil to spray through a nozzle in the Firing chamber. The turbo/generator unit could also power the burner blower feed. All generation is balanced with an AGM 12v battery. The only "outside" electricity needed is the actual heater duct blower- in times of outage, could also be generator operated.
Or get some small glass circles and silicone them into your drip t-pipe so you don't have to worry about putting a large metal chunk there to block window from blowing the stream. Very nice build. Would love to see some plans. I would love a safe outdoor based heater that could be used to heat a home versions lot if the waste heaters you see which would only be good in a ventilated garage. Keep up the good work man, you got a subscriber outta me cor this one.
A couple of pieces of Perspex would serve just as well and be easier to cut and silicone in place I should think and there's not heat at that spot to melt the perspex or any type of clear see through plastic for that matter. 😉🙃
Love the build. I considered using a 55gal barrel as well, but was detoured by it's thin walls. Building the heat exchanger is very cool. I cheated and used an old refrigerator for my heat exchanger. It isn't pretty but it works well and allows me to keep it outside for Insurance reasons. My waste oil burner works to well. It scares the hell out me. I quickly learned the importance of a flue dampener. The whole top will easily exceed 1,000 degrees. The flue pipe at base is around 500 to 700. If it isn't monitored until optimal efficiency the thing will fire up like a afterburner on a F18. It will go from 500 degrees to a 1,000 in seconds!Like I said, scairy.
Hi, yep any type of white goods - like buggered fridges, dishwashers, home Electric rotary clothes dryers, old and non functional washing machines etc all have square metal frames that could be adapted to make heating units of various sizes that would serve as the housing for the inner burner unit. But of course a suitable sized internal metal drum /burner to fit each type of throw away White goods unit - would either need to be sourced or cut down to fit the available outside framework. The internal drum from a rotary clothes dryer might serve as the internal burner but the metal is not as thick a gauge as a 44 or 55 gal oil drum. But on the other hand - could indeed be replaced as needed fairly often or cheaply because white goods are not made to last these days and are in plentiful supply on solid waste annual Junk drives - IF you happen to have that service by your local council once or twice a year. I'd even consider the drums on the older type washing machines - that were built to last and were pretty thick - even though they have holes in them as those holes might assist in ventilating or drawing heat away from the interior drum via an exhaust fan of some type being fitted to the unit that draws hot air away in the cavity between the outside square sheet metal frame - from the inner round drum. 🙃
Several years ago I built something similar using an old pressure tank inside the 55 gallon drum. I burn wood inside the pressure tank that's been opened and the bladder removed. The blower sits atop of the barrel which lays sideways. It works well except the blower uses a hell of lot electricity and electricity is very expensive up here in Alaska so I use heating oil to radiantly (in floor) heat my home instead. The "woodstove" is still set up in the shed next my house.
Hi, Electricity cost is high anywhere mate even though likely extremely high as you say in the case of Alaska and, not likely to get any cheaper - because of so called Global warming issues and the probably unnecessary move to replace fossil fuels and use so called 'green' energy sources as advocated by global warming/climate change alarmists! Personally I believe climate changes are cyclical and have very little to do with humanity's degradation of the ecological systems of the Earth and more to do with the suns' activities over which scientists or governments have no control whatsoever. 😉🙃
A gallon of used oil, if burned efficiently, should provide about 200,000 BTU’s per hour. That’s enough to heat 3-4 small houses (for an hour). Burn oil to heat water in a copper coil and run the pipes (supply and return) into the home to a coil-style heat exchanger in the air-handler. Set the flow rate of oil (using a valve) to the heat output required for the home. Have the thermostat in the home activate an igniter in the oil burner. A very simple but very effective heating system. Even in a cold climate, 2 gallons per day should be plenty to heat the whole home. Can also heat the domestic hot water in the same way.
nice video. your design is definitely more efficient than a lot of stuff I have seen online. I do have some food for thought for you. you might get better heat transfer if you change the design so that you cause the air from the squirrel cage fan to spin around the circumference of the drum before leaving at the opposite end instead of the middle of the box.
Great work! Be curious to know how well the drum is holding up being outdoors with that much heat being put on and off. Trying to get a vague idea of the life of a build like this and being outdoors. Appreciate the video, look forward to hearing/seeing how the compost heat idea goes.
Well, If you have lots of outdoor space like the Random farmer does it would be a good idea to build a shed over the unit to ensure that it's not exposed to weather and/or subjected to freezing cold or sub zero temperature conditions that would indeed slow the oil feed down if not stop it altogether. Plus to the outside observer it would not be apparent what type of heating unit is housed within the shed.😉🙃
Great build man! It does seem like having that unit indoors would give you a lot of extra radiant heat and that return duct would certainly up the efficiency as well
@@paulraymond1804 If you had a cellar it wouldn't be a problem - but in an attached but separate garage might be ok but there's still the risk of insurance issues in any case - should your house catch fire for any reason and unless you could prove it wasn't the heater that caused the fire you would be screwed over by the insurance company I'm thinking. 😉🙃
Use the water to heat the house, too. Air and water. The water could use its own heat to create flow out the top of the water heater section, into the house where it would cool off, and flow back to the tank via a lower connection. You would want a bleed valve somewhere on the water system to limit pressure buildup if it boils. Something as simple as a kitchen-pressure-cooker weight could do that easily and reliably. Also way to keep it from getting low on water.
You could actually slow that to a drip... Mine is set for 5 drips every 10 seconds. My oil supply is coiled around the stack to warm up the oil so it runs easier and isn't thick.and put a 90 to a 45 at the bottom of draft air so it forces a swirl action. Your burn will be better and no black in smoke at all
I got and old wick burning stove from an auction a few years ago . Oil drips onto a 6 inch wick made of asbestos and once it's lit you adjust the burn rate by the draft and oil in flow . No electricity needed ! Passive heat but works great ! Any oil works great so long as it's filtered for chunks of stuff or using old engine oil that it doesn't have anti freeze in it . Comforting watching it work through the glass AKA mica window on the front !
Great build my guy. I have also made my own waste oil burner in different ways. I am very interested in seeing how you used the inducer motor in the burning plate. Do you have any pictures of this that you can share. I would like to add this to one of my heaters. Because I'm having issues with not enough air.
It is a good construction and pretty efficient. You could buy a burn barrel kit (or the complete barrel wood stove), a blower fan and duct sheeting. The biggest trick is making the best oil burn point inside your drum. If you have central heat ducts, you could tie this into those ducts ahead of your central AC unit, which would be turned off or just have the fan turned on to aid on flow and return. There are wood fired external stoves just like this. Typically about $2000 new or $500 used. Best way to heat a whole house with wood. Put the fire, ash and soot outside.
@@STho205 I will PAY you for more detailed plans. I am not interested in using this on my home...cost of electric bill is too cheap and would only be lets say on an emergency...could use it...basis. I just have a shop and I HATE TAKING A FEW GALLONS A YEAR EVEN to the auto parts dump. I would have this sitting outside of my 24x24 garage and pumping air through a window as you have done with the front 16x8 door cracked 8" at the bottom while I work on something. Again, not sure where you live but I would like to purchase one you are getting rid of as you upgrade..or whatever. I would hope you live in the North East somewhere. Would love to have detailed description of just what you did to go along with the pics. I can see basically how you constructed it and then sealed it probably as a HVAC guy would any other ducting. But to just be able to hang a 5 gallon bucket of brew on there..maybe have a separate heater to pre heat that as it fed in and "got rid" of the oil I sometimes have...would be cool as the other side of the pillow...now using something like that to fire a boiler and make steam that could run a small steam motor and turn a generator which in turn charged a battery bank....OMG...I have to use the restroom. Please help, will work for free. Need any stalls shoveled out. lol Tks
A parting note...the boiler / battery bank thing would be doable as I want to go with a solar array with tesla battery as backup but...really, too expensive and not something that I created really. My garage is electrically connected to my home as well even though it is 40yds away. Battery bank being charged by a contraption that was running off waste oil...that beats solar to me anyday...bit hands on but I have to have some of that to live. Tks
@@gandl2123 just drop by a rural hardware store and look over a drum stove or a wood fired outside ducted heater . A double stove (fire box attached to heat box made with two drums) would be this completed. I see them at my ACE for $250. That view is better than plans. Motor oil burning apparatus is an oil tank of any sort, pipe, regulator tap (water faucet as shown) and inside the tubing sitting over a brick. Light the fire on the brick (like for a wood fire with as fire starter), then let oil drip onto the fire keeping it alive and growing hotter. Before much effort, make sure you can find the waste oil you need, EVERYDAY. Auto garages in the country have used this for decades. If they do 3 oil changes a day then they have 4 gallons of waste oil sitting around, everyday. However if you do two oil changes a year, you'll need to find a supplier. Buying fresh oil is $5 to $15 a gallon. Kerosene is cheaper and Diesel is half of that. Good luck to you.
I keep seeing so called inventive ideas, on RU-vid. Most are just pie in the sky nonsense. At last something useful and doable. My best to you from Scotland.
Very cool ! I change my own oil and should do this too,you got me thinking,with yhe price of fuel its not the dumbest idea living in wisconsin and all, thank you!
You should have the squirrel cage fan enclosed with another return duct to the house. That way you are circulating air from the house over the 55 gallon drum heat exchanger instead of pulling cold air from outside. Just a thought from a former hvac tech. 😀
I was noticing the same thing. But since his system is not set up to cycle off and on with a thermostat this might be better... Otherwise his house would get a bit too toasty. lol
It’s cool to see. But just go with the reliable furnaces and wood stoves that already exist. This item relies on a 5G bucket.... which will need refilled at least 5 times a day, maybe up to 8 times on the coldest days. Also, there is a reason oil tanks are inside of the house. Lastly, in order to even justify the oil heater you have to find enough waste oil ( without coolant ) and keep that demand up as if it were beer.... cool idea, just not reasonable anymore.
