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If you have a wood stove just get a stainless steel container, drill some air holes in it, then fill it with wood and put it in your stove. This will produce smaller amounts of charcoal, but you don't need to maintain a big fire outdoors and all the energy goes into heating your home. If you prepare several containers in advance you'll have a large amount of charcoal soon :) Watch "Make Your Own Charcoal In Your Wood Stove (Wood Gasification) DIY" to see how it works.

Made it look easy.

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I do it very similar. Lots of videos of guys making these elaborate retort kilns and stoves, but I hate drilling and otherwise cutting up solid barrels… I also hate using 3x the amount of firewood as charcoal wood to get the finished charcoal… and I especially hate only producing a bucket full of charcoal at a time. I do almost the same as you here, but I don’t drill any holes in my burn barrel, and I use a rusted out old barrel for the jet chimney. During burn pile season, I use 2 or 3 full barrels and build burn piles around and over them, barrels have only 1 hole with a 3-5ft x 1” pipe attached to allow for the pyrolysis processes and so I can monitor exactly what’s going on in the barrels. Both methods are super simple, and efficient…

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Fresh wood or dry wood...when to close the steeldrum and the holes downside..what is the key?

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i love your way's. nice in simple

That is some TASTY LOOKIN. CHARCOAL. Mmmmm

How long does to burn the wood until tobe charcoal ?

Thank you for sharing 😊👍

I have some questions... how much time do you leave the afterburner. And for how much time do you leave it breathing from below holes...

This is by far the simplest method I've seen. I like simple.

Hi , I have this huge bur oak/white oak tree that need to come down ! Can this type of wood be used for charcoal ?

What do you us charcoal for...

We looked at a few videos and this seemed the most promising. And sure enough was really successful. Thanks very much for the advice and demo. Two very satisfied Brits!

i enjoyed the video, but i still don't understand the need to make charcoal for your grill. you had plenty of red hot coals in your small fire pit. i use oak & maple natural wood in my grill. i take the lid off my 22 inch webber and remove the cooking grate, then take small twigs that fall into my yard from my big oak tree and start a small fire on the bottom grate of my webber. once it gets going good i add some bigger pieces of oak. fill my grill about 1/2 full and let it burn with the lid off until i am left with red hot coals then it's time to put the lid back on and start cooking. i guess the only advantage i could see to using charcoal over wood is you get red hot coals quicker with charcoal than burning wood but not if you take into account the extra time and wood it took you to make that charcoal in the first place. what am i missing here???

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Hi mate, simple, elegant end result. Thanks.

can you sit the barrel on a fire ( making a fire beneath the barrel ) and seal it on top a make some holes?! i’ve seen this method on smaller objects like ( painting cans ). do you think it gives you same result? and by the way, thank you for your very quick, very informative video <3

Congratulations - I love the holes on the side!!!

I use this same method in making biochar. Only I use wood chips. Chips are easy to get from a tree service. I spread them out in the sun for a few days to dry. I then run it through a screen, half inch hardware cloth to remove the fine material. The fines impede air flow. It then goes into a barrel, light the top, put the lid on and let it burn, When the fire gets to the bottom of the barrel I remove the chimney unit and put a lid on it. Cover the holes in the bottom of the barrel and let it sit. Using wood chips I don't have to crush it any further and wood chips are easy to get. This is called a top lit up draft system. TLUD for short.

Hi, thank you so much for your very informative and interesting video, I would like to ask just about how many burns those barrels will be able to do, secondly, how many holes and what size ( they seem about 1 inch) did you put at the bottom of the barrel. Looking around I heard people trying a similar method but they moved to a different one because they were producing a lot of smoke no matter how many holes did they put at the bottom, I wonder what your thoghts are regarding this....maybe they did not use wood dried enough or they put something like woodchip which would prevent a good airflow within the barrel. Did you try your method with smaller wood sizes? Thank you very much for your help, Dami.

do I need to put holes in the top lid for when I close it? thanks!

I am probably the LEAST mechanically inclined male in the planet; so, your method was the first I tried. After 3-4 attempts, I am getting great yields for such little effort. Now I have too much and have given some away to neighbors who can’t believe I made my own grilling charcoal. Thank you for your video.

nice and simple!!! Thank you

Thanks! I tried this myself and have made three excellent loads of softwood charcoal for blacksmithing so far! I stack the barrel all the way to the top with kindling size pieces of pine and fir. It only takes an hour to burn to the bottom being that it’s softwood. Each load lasts over four hours of forging and gets hot enough to melt steel in my brake drum forge in about three minutes. I can now make great forge fuel easily and free! Thanks again!

Afterburner .. is there holes in it ??

What is red coal?and when to put dirt around the holes!

Where can I buy a lid cover like that one?

This is a good video and I appreciate your time doing I for us. I have to say that having made charcoal many different ways now and evolving to where I am, this way isn't the best. It's overcooked and the yeild is very low. I went through that although I wasn't using this method. Also the coals are soft. You have probably evolved by now as well. We all are in search of better, well; I am. Thank you, your video is a great help to me.

What time, fire of charcoal.????

After about 2.5 hours I need to take off second barrel from top and put the lib on first, right? What is the best way to take off that second barrel?

How did you get the red coals at the bottom when you lit if from the top? Am i right in thinking once its been charred enough its now recognised as a smokeless material. Can you do the same with wood chips?

Christ thank you for the simplicity

Ashy and incomplete. There are some better ways out on the tubes.

Bought barrels yesterday. Will start when rain stops. Any other tips or tricks? Watched the vid several times so...thx

Short, to the point, and practical. Thank you.

Simples

Wow beautiful! Thumbs up from Dublin (Ireland) ! :)

What kind of wood is this?

Put the holes on the bottom of barrel

Deep south Homestead is giving you a shout out!

i don't have any barrels, but nice way of making a lot of it :)

What is the woods(tree) name or shall v use any wood??

Should you use green wood, dried wood, or does it matter?

how do you put a lid on when the barrel's red hot? and where can I get a lid like that?

An the total rises on the good charcoal makers to the ones who lose because they lost half their charcoal because they forgot to prevent the oxygen from getting back into their cookers. Thank You Loader.

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