RE: Shop heat

wjytexas · Feb 22, 2020

thanks for all the replies. the electric furnace from a mobile home or campers is interesting. I'm all electric here. The shop and garage have finished interior walls and light insulation. What I do now is light my 2 burner propane forge in the shop aimed thru the door to the 22 X 24 garage and put a couple of electric space heaters in there too. after holding the temp around 70 and allowing the tractor or parts to warm I shut everything off and shoot paint. after the fumes abate I turn on the electric heaters again. it isn't too often the weather doesn't warm to 60 or so in the afternoon and then I turn the heaters off. BUT I took a spill yesterday and injured my left rotator cuff. I fell forward onto my left hand and forearm and my face. luckily I didn't break any teeth but split my lip pretty good. stupid mistake not walking around something instead of stepping over. John

ztrmowers · Feb 22, 2020

done that earlier last year tripped over wagon tongue. dang that hurt still have elbows that ache today. lucky I did not hit head on huge forklift forks on way down. missed by few inches that would been bad

Janicholson · Feb 22, 2020

I am not sure the use of a propane flame is a good idea into a closed space. Too much CO is generated. I get a headache thinking about entering the room. Go with the electric Mobile Home furnace. Jim

Dennis(IA) · Feb 22, 2020

I have a propane stove that I never hooked up. But this is the first winter we have been home in 10 years. Even if the air is warm the floor is cold. In floor heat would be great in the long run.

Doing some landscaping last fall and laid a rake down and turned around and tripped over it. Slow reactions, I did not even put out my hands, my face landed in mud, so nothing hurt(glasses bent). New rule, all tools must be leaned against some thing (house, tree ect.).

jeffcat · Feb 22, 2020

That is something I am finding as I get older. We start to shuffle like an old person!!!!! Try steppin off the back porch steps just oneeee step too far on a dark night. Thank goodness I fell against the hand rail as I fell. Boy did i ever bounce hard!! After I carefully picked myself up and nothing was broken but talk about scare the you know what out of ya. I don't like wearing work boots anymore for the same reason. Wear Croks around home anymore.

DR. EVIL · Feb 22, 2020

I've always heated my shops with kerosene torpedo heaters, like a Knipco F-98 think it was, 75,000 btu, Ready-Heater 110,000 btu, just bought a DeWalt 185,000 BTU last weekend. I have a KIDDE CO detector in my 24x36 x 8 ft ceiling shop. My kerosene heaters do not set off the detector. Also, my '96 F250 diesel pickup does not set off the detector, but over 400 PPM it sets off a warning. If I start a tractor, Farmall H or M, even with the 7-1/2 x12 ft roll-up door open in about a minute I'm getting a warning. Gas single cylinder Kohler engine in a Cub Cadet sets it off in a minute or two also. So really depends on what type of heater it is whether it causes a hazard. The Kidde detector I get is $35 at Blain's F&F, unless your using electric resistance heating you should have one. Detects explosive gases too.

SweetFeet · Feb 22, 2020

Wjytexas,

Get well soon. Hope the rotator cuff is not damaged to the point of needing surgery.

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