Wood burning Fireplace in my barn

[HoosierBuddy]

Shoutout to Mr. Earl Heise, who owned my property from 1942 until 1985 and for reasons unknown to me built this limestone fireplace in his (now my) barn, which I think he used for his woodshop. I have all my woodworking tools out here now as well. Really was nice Saturday when I needed to work out there.

I'm hopeful that some of my goofy projects will outlive me as well.

 

[svtride]

Scrap wood and mistakes disposal made easy. Congrats.

 

[finn]

Makes me nervous. A nice insert to control the open flame would make me more comfortable.

 

[micromind]

My Dads cabinet shop was in a wood framed building with a metal roof. We had a stove made from 2 - 55 gallon drums, door on the bottom one, basic 6" metal stovepipe for the chimney. 2 - 5/8" type X sheetrock on the wall behind it. It worked really well.

One day we came there to do some millwork, we had been out on a job and we were cold and wet. We stocked the entire barrel with 1X4 cedar T&G siding that has recently been stained.

In just a few minutes, both barrels and the chimney pipe were red-hot, flames a few feet high blasting out the top of the pipe and the sheetrock parer caught on fire. You couldn't stand 10' from it!

Warmed us up pretty fast.........lol.