Furnace with own hands.

Becoming the owner of the infield, we pondered the problem of rapid heating of stall and cooking hot food. We went through a lot of options and decided that the made stove of the bourgeois with their own hands would be the best of them. It remains to determine the technology of production.

Since the stove was needed quickly, and we did not have additional funds for its purchase at that time, we used the materials at hand. There was an old milk flask, which was no longer suitable for food, a piece of pipe, a small sheet of thick iron, a chunk of a fragmented old stove and several metal corners.

The stove of the bourgeois was made by one's own hands in just one day and served us for a very long time. For the firebox we decided to use an old jar. To do this, put her on his side. The lid served as a furnace door. To make an ash-bluff, I had to cut a gap of 1 centimeter and a length of 15 centimeters, placing it under the door, stepping down about 18 centimeters.

From the metal corners assembled frame on small legs, connecting the parts with bolts. The dimensions of the frame are based on the length of the jar and the width under the lid. The next task was to install the grate inside the furnace. Our pieces fit perfectly for this. Since the lattice was split, it calmly passed through the hole in the door. Inside, each piece was unfolded in the right direction and placed in a spacer.

To make the chimney useful metal pipe. Cutting in the upper part of the circle of the required size, with great difficulty inserted into it a pipe. She sat tight enough. A small gap on one side was covered with kiln clay. For the heating of the room such a burzhuyka made by themselves already fit.

But it was necessary to adapt it for cooking. Here we are very useful sheet of thick iron and lengths of the corner. Measuring the height and width of the finished stove, a frame was framed from the remains of the corner in the form of a table, placing the flask between its legs. To warm the hob warm, we put it on top. The sheet of iron lay flatly over the entire length of the flask and was supported on the sides by a metal frame. For fire safety purposes, the stove was placed in the center of the stall, having previously made a site for it from asbestos sheets. They led the pipe through the roof. To protect the roof from fire, put a small piece of the asbestos pipe over the metal, placing it at the junction of the chimney and the roof. It turned out a beautiful burzhuyka. We made our first stove with our own hands.

The following year they decided to improve the design, increasing its heat transfer. For this, a small amount of brick and furnace clay was prepared. First, we drew a model of a stone stove on paper, inside of which was a burzhuyka. With their hands laid the walls of bricks, having receded from the jar for ten centimeters from each side. The front and back walls were folded together. In the front part the oven was partially made. The brick wall reached only to the door. The lower row covered the distance to the puddle. The height of the walls was made equal to the metal table.

Between the floor and the jar, several more sheets of asbestos were put in addition, and all the rest of the free space was covered with sand from all sides. Now our hob lay on the brick walls. The back wall was laid slightly above the jar. Above, closed all the gaps next to the bricks. A metal pipe was also laid with a stone to the ceiling. It turned out an excellent stone burzhuyka. They covered it with clay on all sides and whitewashed with their own hands.

Our furnace has been excellent to keep heat for a long time. Although the sand layer was heated much slower, but cooled not so fast. For heating and cooking dinner, we used our burzhuyko some years, until they built a house on the site. In the future, they equipped in their time a very comfortable summer kitchen and used a stove for cooking jam.