Good chance that would fail.

LOL! That's uh.... a creative use of a bucket.

NFPA is a code-writing body; they issue standards, but they don't approve anything--they're not inspectors.

The above installation shows the wood stove exhaust ducted through the steel arm of an excavator. It's creative. We simply don't know how the exhaust duct is constructed inside the arm or what it looks like above the ceiling level, but it's safe to say that the steel arm would not be considered a combustible.

If the construction was permitted and inspected by the locality, then the owner or builder convinced the local code official that the installation met the specific requirements or the intent of the applicable code.

Tripping hazard and design hazard.

Did they build the house around it?

@Kristin Petro Interiors, Inc.

Don't tell me you haven't read Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel! It looks like Mary Ann's arm.

You beat me to it! A rather well worn copy was part of our library as a kid

Ha! I must have missed that one!

How hideous!

High tech version

The high-tech version looks like something an engineer would design: it makes more efficient use of the bucket by integrating it into the stove, it has a larger radiant heating surface and it has yellow safety covers on each of the teeth. Still, it lacks a certain whimsy evident in the other version.