Shop heat....

[rusty ol ranger]

Does this look familiar Rusty?

Holy shit!

Rusty 3.0!

Well...3.1, dont want a 3.0 associated with rusty.

Is that yours?

 

[Josh B]

It was Rusty, from about 2002 - 2007. Wish I knew what motor it had, I think it was a six tho but not totally positive

My First Ford Ranger

My First Ford Ranger I was driving an 80 Chevy LUV. Someone at church said they had a friend who wanted a vehicle gone, i was like, "who cares", but eventually succumbed to going by there and checking it out. It was an 87 2wd I can't remember when I first talked to them, before or after...

www.therangerstation.com

 

[PetroleumJunkie412]

Ever consider a waste oil furnace? Easy and usually free to build out of an electric hot water tank. Have been considering one to take some stress off the natural gas blowers in my shop.

Quadruple win for you IMO - cheap to free to build, cheap to free to fuel, AWESOME radiant heat source, and you get to take something electric and make it spew CO2!

 

[ericbphoto]

The only other real option i have is i do have a wood stove i could hook up. But it takes up alotta room and would be a pain in the ass for the amount of heat it would put off. But its an option.

I dont need it roasting hot in there, but id like to be able to go out there in the dead of winter and work in a sweatshirt.

... And pants?

 

[Josh B]

The only other real option i have is i do have a wood stove i could hook up. But it takes up alotta room and would be a pain in the ass for the amount of heat it would put off. But its an option.

I dont need it roasting hot in there, but id like to be able to go out there in the dead of winter and work in a sweatshirt.

The way to get max heat out of a wood stove is put a fan behind it, just a small desk fan aimed across the hottest part of the stove and the riser pipe, towards the central area of space you want to heat

 

[fourhigh]

2nd on the wood heat....We heated our house with it when I was growing up. Out on my own for over
40 years and 30 of them I didn't have a stove at any of the places I lived. Finally moved to the
country 10 years ago, I installed a fireplace insert that was here ,not hooked up, in my shop.
The insulation advice is excellent, that was the first thing I did. When it gets to percolating, short
sleeves are all that's needed...depending on the outside temp of course. Granted I have access
to alot of timber, so supply is not an issue. A good Husky chain saw and a monster maul is what
I use to process it. I believe Henry Ford said a man who heats with wood warms himself twice !
I love to hibernate out in the shop in the winter, kinda addicted to the smell as well ! Josh B is right
on with a fan, my insert has a blower on it, also a ceiling fan is nice to keep the heat to the floor.
All I used for one is an old box fan screwed horizontally to one of the rafters.

 

[1990RangerinSK]

I don't think anything compares to wood far as cost and volume of heat is concerned.
It is a bit more work but in my mind well worth it. If you have to buy wood need to get on that early summer to get the best price.
Far as disposal of the ashes just keep it clean and dump it right onto the garden or into the compost pile

Coal burns longer. That's why, where I live, it was used right up into the early 1950's, rather than wood. Stoke the furnace in the morning, and you're probably good all day. Then stoke it again at night. My mom's earliest memories were of the coal furnace in the house she grew up in.

 

[Josh B]

My wood burner now is a coal burner, made in the 90s I suppose, by American Stove Company. Named a Wonder Coal, I believe prior to that Wonder Wood or something, but Regulations made them add a Catalytic converter to wood stoves of that type, so they just changed the name, but it burns either extremely well

 

[1990RangerinSK]

My wood burner now is a coal burner, made in the 90s I suppose, by American Stove Company. Named a Wonder Coal, I believe prior to that Wonder Wood or something, but Regulations made them add a Catalytic converter to wood stoves of that type, so they just changed the name, but it burns either extremely well

I find it intriguing that a wood burning stove could also burn coal as well as it could burn wood. Bear in mind, by the time I came along, everybody in the cities was heating their homes with natural gas, the coal suppliers had all disappeared. Out in the country, where natural gas wasn't available (and there are still areas where it isn't), most people use propane or oil as their primary heat source. I've only met one person in my lifetime who still burns coal for heat (and that was in the last year or two).

 

[ExploreNW]

Woodstoves are cool and all but... how much boost does it make?

 

[Dirtman]

Is anyone curious how a heat my furnace?

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

No.

 

[snoranger]

Is anyone curious how a heat my furnace?

Why yes... All Most Some of us would like to know.

 

[Josh B]

I find it intriguing that a wood burning stove could also burn coal as well as it could burn wood. Bear in mind, by the time I came along, everybody in the cities was heating their homes with natural gas, the coal suppliers had all disappeared. Out in the country, where natural gas wasn't available (and there are still areas where it isn't), most people use propane or oil as their primary heat source. I've only met one person in my lifetime who still burns coal for heat (and that was in the last year or two).

Fact is sir, it's a coal burner which also burns wood

 

[Jim Oaks]

A good friend of mine always heated his with a big wood stove. Kept it nice and comfortable.