Build Your Own Woodstove For $100

[BeardyMan]

Yeah, we used one in the garden to burn stuff in. Good for a while, but it depends how much you're using it. We had a new oil drum for this, with a few holes in the sides at the bottom to enable air flow. By the end of the summer it had burnt through and pretty much collapsed. But we were using it every weekend and a couple of nights a week too.

I'm sure you could reinforce them somehow, bit of asbestos in the bottom etc.