home made shop heaters

Can't beat in floor heating supplied by a water boiler preferably wood fired and located outside the shop. Lots of insulation helps too.

 

TWEED!!!!!!!?
Hi from The County

 

Pretty good, we have been a lil lazy for a year or so, busy with the toddler and job changes. I need to get the "pretty" finish coat of stucco on. And we realize with our wind and cool weather we need an entry in the back and are planning something in the front to keep the winter breeze away when you open the door.

Along with the wood heater in the shop, I plan on rescuing the old parlor stove from my grandads place. My aunt said I could have it, it has been sitting in the same spot in the garage since beofre my time..............thats at least 39 years!

I enjoy wood heat, something primal about it.

 

years back we were turning an old wherehouse into offices,,there were 20 foot ceilings and it was 5 below in side...you couldnt hold the studs to screw them in..my worker tells of an old trick using five gallon metel cans sand and deisal?? we lit up a half dozen and went to lunch ,, so there would be time to heat the place,,,,when we came back the fire trucks had the whole street blocked,,windows were black ,,it was warm but it took them months to get the smell out when we used a wood stove we would fit it to the top wt wood ,then paper, then a cup of kerosene,,lite a match upen the front of the stove ,put the leaf blower in,,it would get it going in a minute or less but the flames would shoot out the stack

 

birch bark is the best fire starter. nature's kerosene

 

Dolmetsh, I made one of your heaters for my mom. She likes to sew in front of a huge sliding glass door. Thought it might make her more comfortable.

Made mine out of 8" auger tube, which is .080-ish thick. My idea was that it would take longer to warm up but would radiate more heat than thinner material. I may have gotten that wrong. The heater works, but not as well as I'd hoped.

Also see relooking at your picture, you opened the pipe up more than I did. Which of course is more surface area, duh for me.

Considering this first one an experiment, going to make another one exactly like yours and compare the two.

Anyhow thanks, I'm learning if nothing else.

 

I have to work in the winter time cause its to hot in the summer. Our wimters are 85/70 at nite. Summer it 95/ 90 at nite. Iceman

 

Well my home owner insurance said I could not put a wood stove in that they would not insure my shop, Have you ever work in a shop that the temp guage says 15 * inide and 2 above out. I have 2 heater one elect and one oil heater and I haft to have both of them on with 2 shirts and a jacket with gloves on. its no fun....

 

did your insurance company say you could not use a new stove?, i know some places in the US do not allow wood stoves at all because of emissions, or would they allow you to put in a new stove that has been certified for safety?

 

Not sure did not ask that, I just ask if I could have a wood burning stove and they said no. around here we have a lot of wood as a matter of fact now is when everyone is burning off most of there brush now.

 

heres a guy selling firewood in your town, i bet he knows the rules about haveing a woodstove, http://boonville-missouri.olx.com/firewood-for-sale-iid-14756196

 

Yer a good man. I think the stove pipe works so well because it is thin and therefore heats easily. I have wanted to try alminum but these work so well I havent really been motivated to change them We have used them all week except today.(cloudy) House was 73 to 76 degrees F with no heat on but the window heaters during sunlight. Of course you are not long lighting a fire or starting the furnace after the sun goes down or gets too low to produce good heat. I applaud your experiment and your making it for your Mom. Smokey Yunick once said "One good experiment is worth 1000 expert opinions." Your right on track with that.
Don
The flat black of the Stove pipe also Helps big time. I know plain steel or light clours do not work.

 

Was 114 deg F in my shed yesterday, needs cooling, not heat, just now.
Winter will be a different story.

 

open the door!