Re: OT: Water Tank deicer.

Posted by fixerupper on February 13, 2008 at 09:18:49 from (216.51.182.132):

In Reply to: OT: Water Tank deicer. posted by Kelly C on February 13, 2008 at 08:23:21:

All of us who go back a few years can still smell the wood burning ones. We had a couple of them and it was my job, because I was a kid, to light it up in the morning. We used cobs, so a small pile of cobs were thrown in and lit with the help of some kerosene. The smoke would want to come out the lid instead of the chimney but letting it burn a couple of minutes and then slamming the lid shut a few times would blow the heat and smoke down through the chamber to start the draft going the right way. After the cobs had turned to coals a couple of bushels of cobs were dumped on top of them and it would smolder away for a good part of the day.

After chores I always had to take a bath to wash away the smoke smell before school. On the way to school, I'd check out the neighbors to see if their tank heaters were still smoking.

Some neighbors had an attachment on their heater that would drip kerosene in the fire, but they were terribly hard to control. They either had boiling water or they had a skiff of ice. Jim

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