residential weekend course

make your own woodburner from a gas bottle

venue: Redfield Community, Bucks

This course will teach you how to construct a wood-burning stove out of recycled materials quickly and easily.

Suitable for home, workshop, motor-home, yurt, shed or canal boat. Learn how to design, build and install a strong, effective, durable stove for your own needs.

Aimed at beginers, an opportunity to have a go at mig welding, cutting, grinding, and steel fabrication.

The course includes:

  • health & safety
  • good workshop practice
  • welding safety
  • use of power tools
  • cutting and grinding steel
  • basic mig welding
  • stove design and fabrication

The difference between this course and the one-day course elsewhere is that participants will build their own stove over the course of the weekend. This is a small wood burning stove made from a 15kg gas bottle. It is fitted with an internal baffle and a fire rope seal on the door.

The tutor, Grant Oatley, has been making wood-burners for over ten years also working as an artist in steel and wood for over twenty years.
You can see his work at www.ironshirt.co.uk

This course is designed to provide a taster in metalworking and does not constitute professional training.

dates: see 'book online' below

more on wood-burners


how to book:
  

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arrive:
  
Friday evening at 6.30 for dinner at 7.30
depart:
  
Sunday after lunch (served at 1.00)
directions:
  
click here for directions by bicycle, public transport and car
what to bring:
  
pen and notebook; towel; warm outdoor clothes; boots / wellies (meals and bedding are provided)
NO DOGS PLEASE
let us know:
  
if you are vegan or have any food allergies, or any special needs
accommodation:
  
3-4 people sharing single-sex rooms
prices:
  
£190 high-waged; £170 waged;
£150 student / unwaged
Refundable up to two weeks prior to course (minus £30 admin fee)
No refunds for cancellations within two weeks of course
car sharing:
  
visit our car sharing forum to offer or request a lift
 


one of Grant's stoves installed in the 'love shack'


 

 

 

 

 


a simple home-made slider for air intake

 

 

 

 

 

 


fire rope being positioned into the door channel