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JDB

12-06-2005 10:20:18

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What do you heat your shop with? Mine is insulated but basically unheated. Curious about what everyone uses.

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CEB

12-07-2005 07:32:11

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Re: HEAT in reply to JDB, 12-06-2005 10:20:18

Old gas furnace from the house. Not one of the newer high efficiency ones, so it has to be vented outside with double wall pipe, instead of just PVC pipe like the newer ones. I just leave it on pilot when I'm not using it. Doesn't use much gas that way. When I'm ready to use the shop, I just turn it to ON and poof 10 minutes later the shop is nice and warm.

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wbcelec

12-07-2005 03:16:23

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Re: HEAT in reply to JDB, 12-06-2005 10:20:18

Saw two posts on drip feeding used oil onto a wood fire. Can anybody post instructions on how to do this?
Bill

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IaGary

12-07-2005 04:48:56

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Re: HEAT in reply to wbcelec, 12-07-2005 03:16:23

My oil drip is pretty simple. I drilled a hole un top of wood stove and ran a copper 3/8 tube in it. About 1ft. back is shut off valve to control volume of oil. |Line continues to a 15 gal.barrel mounted on the wall about 3ft. away.|Barrel has a shut off on it also. This is where I turn oil flow on and off. Barrel is on it's side with 2" elbow up to refill from buckets. I never never leave the oil on when I am out of the shop. I start a fire and when it gets going I just trun on oil and it will burn on the wood all day long. Only problem is the tube gets pluged once in a while with soot. Just run a wire in it to clean.

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Larry NE IL

12-06-2005 21:03:42

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Re: HEAT in reply to JDB, 12-06-2005 10:20:18

Just finishing a 42' X 65' insulated morton bldg with a natural gas boiler and in floor heat. Just need to get the ceiling panels up and blow in the ceilling insulation. Yesterday I turned the heat to 55 deg. to put a brake master cylinder on my Cushman truck I use to feed the horses. Cushman fell off jack and broke one of my ribs...after the ER trip for x-rays, I didn't think to turn down the heat. This AM it was -1 and sunny outside, raining and ice fog inside the barn!

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dn67

12-06-2005 20:36:05

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Re: HEAT in reply to JDB, 12-06-2005 10:20:18

I have a old house stove oil heated for heat. It does a nice job of heating the shop. (24x36) Had natural gas ran to the back. Have a force air heated just haven't hooked up yet. lots of 0 to 10 degree nights. some in to the minus. Last night 8 degrees

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Alberta Mike

12-06-2005 15:24:49

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Re: HEAT in reply to JDB, 12-06-2005 10:20:18

Well, my backyard workshop is only 12 X 18 so i don't get a tractor in there. I use one of my garage stalls in the summer for tractor projects but I refuse to park my truck outside in the winter so the tractors are tarped outside (stick frame around them with a plastic tarp). My little shop is uninsulated which sounds crazy up here but I heat it with a little cast iron parlor stove using coal (which is available here less than an hours drive away and pretty cheap. You can buy it in all sorts of sizes from stoker coal (like gravel) to huge chunks bigger than a loaf of bread, and all sizes inbetween. I just heat it when I'm out there working on stuff but it gets to room temperature and is quite comfortable, even when the temperature outside is minus 20 - 25.

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IaGary

12-06-2005 15:16:22

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Re: HEAT in reply to JDB, 12-06-2005 10:20:18

I use LP heater to keep 36by40 6"insulated shop at 40. When i am working i start fire in woodburner with used oil dripping on the fire. One 6" log and about 2 gal drained oil keeps it at 60 for about 8 hr.

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Dixieland

12-06-2005 15:04:16

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Re: HEAT in reply to JDB, 12-06-2005 10:20:18

Way down here about all we git is a heavy frost early in the morning and I use a fan forced heater like the one Allen has to knock the chill off.

If your shop is insulated, it depends on the size of your shop and how warm you want it but one of these should do the job and electric heat also eliminates any flame heat.

I would suggest you use at least a 3000 watt unit heater @ 230 volts to begin with. It might be all you need.

Chromalox aand Markell also makes a good fan forced unit heater and usually available at the local electrical wholesale suppy house.

Rex

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WyoDave

12-06-2005 14:36:54

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Re: HEAT in reply to JDB, 12-06-2005 10:20:18

We use a propane stove to heat our shop. Does a pretty good job as long as you don't keep opening the door to get a tractor in or out.
David

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730 virgil

12-06-2005 14:21:42

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Re: HEAT in reply to JDB, 12-06-2005 10:20:18

shop ?! what to heck are you guys talking about . i wish had a building to get everything in

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Allan in NE

12-06-2005 12:11:38

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Re: HEAT in reply to JDB, 12-06-2005 10:20:18

220 electric with a squirrel cage blower build in behind the heat coils. Cheapest heat I've ever ran.

I leave the thermostat on 68 to 70 degrees year around and of course know it is there somewhere, but I have yet to notice it on the electric bill.

It worried the heck out of me when they were building the silly thing, but they kept tellin' me it was gonna run cheap, which it does.

Allan

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kyhayman

12-06-2005 11:39:34

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Re: HEAT in reply to JDB, 12-06-2005 10:20:18

Our main shop is 24"x36", uninsulated corrugated steel over OSB with a 4" dead air space. Use a wood stove, takes about 6 sticks an hour. Other shops are smaller (20x24) and use a 2 burner infared heater that mounts on a 20# propane cylinder. The warm spots the photostudio, its got R-13 all the way around and forced air electric. 16"x20" takes about 20 kw in a normal day.

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old

12-06-2005 11:24:24

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Re: HEAT in reply to JDB, 12-06-2005 10:20:18

My self I use wood. I have a stove I built from an old water tank thats about 4 foot long and I built a frame of sheet metal around most of that with a fan to blow the hot air around. above that about 18 inchs up theres another smaller tank which helps burn off the gases that will burn. The stove pipe is 6 inch well caseing figure it will still be there when I'm 6 foot under. LOL

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4010guy

12-06-2005 11:03:53

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Re: HEAT in reply to JDB, 12-06-2005 10:20:18

around hear corn cobs are just used mainly fur persenel higean!!

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Tim...Ok

12-06-2005 10:46:42

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Re: HEAT in reply to JDB, 12-06-2005 10:20:18

I use a home built wood stove in the corner and one of the reddy-heat torpedo diesel burners to take around the shop with me..does ok in my 30x50 uninsulated shop

Tim

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rc in ct

12-06-2005 10:44:48

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Re: HEAT in reply to JDB, 12-06-2005 10:20:18

At the moment I hope for sunshine. My shops in a greenhouse while I'm waiting to finish milling enough wood to build a shop. I'm years away at my current pace to having a normal shop-- if I mill my own wood this weekend I'm a week or two away from completing my lumber list but thats a pipe dream.

On a sunny day its easily 75 degrees. At night if I'm in there I use halogen lights, propane heater or friction (aka rub hands together).

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Nebraska Cowman

12-06-2005 10:41:50

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Re: HEAT in reply to JDB, 12-06-2005 10:20:18

Corncobs

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JDB

12-06-2005 11:27:50

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Re: HEAT in reply to Nebraska Cowman, 12-06-2005 10:41:50

Hey Cowman you sitting in by that fire today?
It is cold about everywhere in Nebraska.

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Johnbob

12-06-2005 13:51:19

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Re: HEAT in reply to JDB, 12-06-2005 11:27:50

I use 30 gallon electrc water heater with 1500 feet of water pipe in the floor.Shop is 40X44 with insulation.Nice warm floor.

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JD9295

12-06-2005 14:25:05

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Re: HEAT in reply to Johnbob, 12-06-2005 13:51:19

how much difference do you notice on your power bill when you have the water heater running?

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Harley

12-06-2005 17:49:09

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Re: HEAT in reply to JD9295, 12-06-2005 14:25:05

Got an ancient 60x60 building covered with corragated metal and 1/2 insulation, and I built a 2'wide,4'tall,4'deep firebox with 2 rows of 2" water pipe running from one end to the other and a fan on the back. Burn scrap wood that's too knarly to use in the house, and supplement this with a 5'gal bucket sitting on top dripping used oil into it. About an hour and you can work in your shirtsleeves all day. But who wants to work all day? Harley

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