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What’s the triangular tunnel from the roof to the house?
im guessing that vans not going anywhere fast. or anywhere slowly, for that matter. FIRST.
Pretty sure that the van is also heating the house – judging by the ladder/duct running into the house.
Those damn kids and their modified exhaust pipes.
The stove is a bit Wtf, but really, I’m curious of that thing that goes from the van to the house?!
OMG. Are they using that van as a stove to heat that house?
SECOND!
In an old van, down by the…fuggedaboutit, mmmkay?
Worst Mother-In-Law suite EVER! (Or, best… depending on your Mother-In-Law.)
Who needs the furnace repaired when you got a perfectly good Chevy van?
Ewww! It looks like some creepy meth lab or something.
even worse than a heated van…that’s their furnace for their house!
I can’t imagine that they got all that stuff cheaper than a new furnace. Old van? $250. Wood burning/coal burning stove: $300. Ductwork: $150…cost of a new furnace…maybe a thousand. really…would it be that much different?
Wait, are they using that to heat their house, is that what that duct work is?
Seems an awful lot of work just for a furnace… I’m ASSUMING it’s a furnace… that is some epic ductwork, though.
or just like some sick Mobile Home
Looks like a water stove that has a make-shift cover in the form of a van. Us hillbillies need to stick together.
When this van’s a rockin’… better run for cover because its going to explode!
“Wanted: Delivery van driver. Non-smoker preferred. Must have valid drivers license and asbestos pants.”
Mobile BBQ vendor, of course (please say that’s what this is).
Maybe it’s a still. Or a peanut roasting oven, in which case the thing going to the house is a conveyor belt to carry the fresh roasted peanuts right to the TV room!
There’s some heat being generated in that van. The long duct protects the house in case the van catches fire. It’s gonna lose a lot of heat, but it’s worth it, considering the value of the professional wrestling collectibles in that house. Wouldn’t want those to burn.
Maybe the van just hit a stove while backing up very fast, and the unfinished chimney fell onto it?
I suspect they are also powering the house from the van. Check out the outlet.
Is that a moonshine still?
Looks like a redneck firewood powered furnace for forced air heat to me.
The ones I see are generally made of stainless steel. I have seen purpose-designed firewood furnaces made to look like metal sheds with the traditional barn roof.
“Hey man, I need to hitch a ride. My van’s got the flu.”
I think you’re looking at this wrong… Old van? Already in the backyard. Cost of a 55 gallon drum (aka wood burning stove)? Already in the backyard. Ductwork? Made out of stuff at hand…
That isn’t duct work, its a docking clamp. Some guy decided to make his very own functional Eagle Five and needed something to hold it securely until he needs to make a quick getaway from Dark Helmet.
So they converted an old van to a furnace… and built a duct out of OSB and plastic?!
Or maybe the duct is for transporting the coal / wood to the fireplace?
That would be much more logical (but nonetheless much less funny) than the “heated air transporter”-version, because hot air goes upwards and the house is on the lower side of the duct.
I don’t…Is that…I…
…What the hell?
zero to 60 in ……..hmmmm roasted hot dogs (said in crappy homer voice) “damn it cold in here Cletus throw another log in the van and get me a beer!!
Or wait…maybe it’s an epic Bong….mmmmmm weed filled house
maybe it’s something like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasification
the price of petrol is still rising you know?
@thatguy
but you missed the point
Old van? $250.
Wood burning/coal burning stove: $300.
Ductwork: $150…
cost of a new furnace…maybe a thousand
Picture of original hillbilly furnace…..
…..PRICELESS
Ingenuity: if you can make whatever you want with only what you have on hand, who cares of your neighbors think you’re nutty as a rabid squirrel.
@Paddy
That’s your funniest comment in weeks. Kudos, worthy commenter.
@KnightStryke
Classic reference. Now I need to update my Netflix queue…
@Badgirl
Don’t give up your day job.
@ShermanKent
Thanks! But be nice to Badgirl, she’s got great potential, and has come out with some great gems.
It appears to be some sort of rudimentary pyrolization furnace using a 1970′s-2000′s Dodge Tradesman van as it’s housing. At first, I was thinking it was a wood gas generator that was being used to power the internal combustion engine of the van, but the duct work tells me that it is instead a wood boiler using pyrolization to heat the house rather than run the engine ( Yes, you CAN run an IC engine off of wood, but it sees a 27% drop in output vs gasoline. It was popular in Germany and Japan during WWII. Toyota, Ford, VW, Opel and Volvo all had factory built wood gas vehicles.FEMA even released a paper in 1980 on how to do it in the US.)
Hope they stripped out the carpet and the seats before they tried this…
I’ve been in a van like this!
A farmer I know had modified it to be a sauna. It had a big potbelly stove and chimney like that, and wooden benches.
It didn’t run, but he’d pull it with his tractor and stick it next to a lake, or a snow bank, or a river…wherever he wanted to use it.
Sounds like the 70s were far out, man.
You are very kind Paddy, thank you. Means a lot coming from one of the top commenters. It is good to have friends.
@dono1
Actually, it was the 90s.
We’d go out to his farm as a scout troop since we could camp, shoot and build fires there whenever we wanted.
Heated van, definitely. When it catches fire, at least. Must be awful to stoke on those cold winter mornings though.
Next time Elmer builds something from plans in Mother Earth News, he may even use the directions on the even numbered pages, too.
i bet he teaches cooking classes in there…that’s no furnace it’s a stove for eating purposes… the guy is in his 40s and his parents got tired of him so they made a compromise.
Pass the peanuts!
@Timber Beast – AWESOME.
It is a home heater. As you might guess it was an experimental unit that was intended to only use for a very short trial. Uses waste vegetable oil. Worked so well its used got extended. Believe it was used for two winters. Since has been replaced with something not so hoaky looking and more efficient.
Red Green lives!
@steve
THAT MUST BE THE HEATING DUCT. LMAO!!
WIN!!!
ummm looks to me like its a water filtration system OR maybe a moonshine oven
“redneck heating”
ro
“heated water truck: call if your shower water is cold.”
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Fancy hillbillys… mobile home comes complete with a dumbwaiter!!!!
Man, and I thought it was far out to heat a persons home with those old heaters that were installed under the house in the floor. This beats anything I have seen before.
This is the other half of the Everlasting Gobstopper machine.