It would depend on several things. 1) Do you have a wood supply? If not buying wood in not much different than buying propane or fuel oil. 2) Are you going to be heating all of the time or just now and then? If just now and then I would go with something besides wood. A wood stove takes time to get producing good heat. Where a furnance is hot in a few minutes. So if you want it warm quick the furnance will heat it faster. 3) If you want heat 24/7 are you going to be around? Any kind of wood stove takes daily maintainance. Don"t believe the salesman that tells you that you can fire it once a day. You will have to add wood at least twice. Then you have ashes to go back out. I used to heat with outside wood boiler. It worked fine. It just took more time than I wanted to keep it going. I have a corn fired boiler now. It has a ten bushel hopper and an automatic ash auger. I check it everyday but it goes several days without any messing with it. Over night is no bother. Think about if you want to spend some time away. Are you going to need heat to keep things from freezing? Is there someone to check it? 4) Location. If you are in an area that is not very cold then wood makes even less sence. Fuel cost would be low with whatever you use. Also big temperature swings make wood heat hard to even out. Twenty degree mornings and a fifty degree afternoon will have you sweating. You build a big fire to warm up and them have to let it go out to cool down. 5) Cleanliness of your shop. Wood is a dirty type of heat. Wood bark and saw dust coming in. Then ashes going out. 6) Space: A wood stove and wood storage will use up more space than other types of fuel. You only are going to have 490 square feet. A wood stove and small wood pile will take up 75-100 square feet. Now cold climate, want heat full time and you are around. Then wood heat is a very good choice. If you have not poured your floor yet than floor heat is great. Wood boiler out side low fire hassard and cleaner shop. So you need to think these things through and then make your mind up. All types of fuel work if in the right place.
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