I've lived a few cold places without heat. I first saw this type of stove used in a tiny shack in New Hampshire when I was a teen. In that case they used an eight gallon ahem, stove. My next one was in a tent up in Alpine Wyoming when I wintered a couple miles up the Greys River. Kept me and my stuff dry and toasty no matter the weather outside.
At the time I just bought some asbestos to wrap the pipe with and keep it from burning the tent. Right about then they stopped selling asbestos and I had to go to imperfect fiberglass batting which still burns and smells a little. Being a cheap stove I used to stash the extra pipe inside and leave it in the woods moving my tent as needed but always knowing where I had a stove.
The next winter I lived in a place where they were trying to heat with fireplaces. I simply bought a trash can, put it in the kitchen where there was an existing hole for a stovepipe in the chimney, and I was a hero. Uses many times less wood, heats the air instead of creating drafts.
Above in all it's glory. I think this is a 40 gallon variety. Feeds from the top obviously. Good idea to plan out your fire so you don't have to open it up when it's smoking real bad. Fits a long piece of wood, big diameter too. I put dirt on the bottom but the best thing to keep the bottom from burning out is ashes. One of the more expensive parts of the construction is buying a pair of thin tin snips to cut the hole in the bottom to let in air and to cut a very precise hole in the back for the stove pipe.
Yes that really is a jar of empty cartridge cases and a roll of barbed wire.
It's good to have some tinfoil handy to shut off the air supply a little once it gets going. Hard to see but there's a small 2" diameter hole at the front bottom to let in air and serve as a way to shove in kindling and bits of trash to light to start the fire.
Above I use duct pipe for stove pipe. It's much thinner walled and costs a fraction as much. Problem is it comes apart in extreme heat sometimes. A little wire holds it together. You can see the 90 degree elbow right out the back side.
One thing that can't be bought cheap is the damper above. It allows you to control the air coming out of the stove and going up the chimney.
Above is the view from the outside. Looks kosher eh? This part is. I make homemade double wall pipe by using two pieces of actual real stove pipe of the 8" diameter variety and using sheet wall screws I hold a 5" pipe in the middle that's the actual chimney. Spark arrestor up top with rain cap. Just like downtown.
I used to do the whole thing for under thirty bucks, this one cost around fifty, those sections of real stove pipe and spark arrestor really cost.
Any fire inspectors out there? Forget you ever read this.
Summer Time in the tent, old panhead parked out back.