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Cargo Master
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Originally Posted by JessyJ
Had a huge ice rain last night, it,s just below freezing. I hear thousands are without power. My power was out for about 8 hours which was bad enough.
Cargo Master
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From: Pryor, OK
We had a bad ice storm in Oklahoma back in Dec 2000. We were without power for 3 weeks and no water for almost 2 weeks. People go into survival mode real quick. Portable generators come up stolen everywhere. Even the small solar panels from railroad crossings went missing. Good luck you all over you going through that up there.
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From: Richmond
Speaking of cold, what is everyone doing for heat in their garages? It looks like this cold snap is for real this winter and I haven't bothered to install heat in my garage since building it 15 years ago. At my old house, which we bought from my father-in-law, he had a simple 55 gallon drum that he used in the garage. You can buy the kits online for fairly cheap. I already have someone that can give me the drum for free. I kept about 12 feet of insulated stove pipe from my old house that I can use, so I hope I can get this guy installed in a week or so.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/US-Stove...0aAu2KEALw_wcB
Chris
https://www.homedepot.com/p/US-Stove...0aAu2KEALw_wcB
Chris
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From: Calgary
I've got a pair of old non recertifiable propane saddle tanks from an old 88 f450 and am going to cut 1 in half and weld it back together into a stove. Will be putting an end wall on it for feeding, cleaning doors and a stoking vent, will be devising some sort of heat exchanger system so that I can run ducting in the garage and get heat through out. Its a bit of work but I want to start putting in some serious shop time now that I have a decent place to work out of. This garage used to have a gas stove and still has the chimney, I'll be burning wood as its free for me.
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From: Richmond
I've got a pair of old non recertifiable propane saddle tanks from an old 88 f450 and am going to cut 1 in half and weld it back together into a stove. Will be putting an end wall on it for feeding, cleaning doors and a stoking vent, will be devising some sort of heat exchanger system so that I can run ducting in the garage and get heat through out. Its a bit of work but I want to start putting in some serious shop time now that I have a decent place to work out of. This garage used to have a gas stove and still has the chimney, I'll be burning wood as its free for me.
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From: Calgary
We've got the better part of 7 months of winter and I'm semi retired with a few projects that I'm behind on. This garage is 24 x 28 and has potential as it was set up properly at 1 time but that was years ago. The electrical needs to be checked out and probably upgraded as this place was built in the 50's but the electrical panel is a lot newer. Theres a 220 feed but its not hooked up and I need a dedicated line that'll handle my lincoln welder that can draw up to 40 amps on a 110 line. Theres a lot of work that needs to be done on this place but it'll be worth it as I'll be able to work from home from now on.
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From: Richmond
We've got the better part of 7 months of winter and I'm semi retired with a few projects that I'm behind on. This garage is 24 x 28 and has potential as it was set up properly at 1 time but that was years ago. The electrical needs to be checked out and probably upgraded as this place was built in the 50's but the electrical panel is a lot newer. Theres a 220 feed but its not hooked up and I need a dedicated line that'll handle my lincoln welder that can draw up to 40 amps on a 110 line. Theres a lot of work that needs to be done on this place but it'll be worth it as I'll be able to work from home from now on.
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From: Pryor, OK
Well, I just have a single car garage. I have a space heater set on low, so none of my liquids freeze up, stays around 40-45 degrees. When I want to play in there, I fire up a second space heater. They sit in the middle of the floor so nothing gets hot and sparks up.
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From: Calgary
The 220 feed will be for an 80 gallon compressor and in the future I'll be looking into a Tig set up. I'll be going a bit overboard on the heating as I need to prevent freeze up or I may be needing to stock up on compressors, its not nice to freeze your compressor on a regular basis. lol
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From: Pasadena, Ca
We used to have a pellet stove in our garage as a kid. That thing would make you need to open some doors if you got it going. My dad had a cabinet shop and put one in there. He liked them so much and customers asked about it, he started selling them.
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From: S/W Missouri, Polk county
I had a wood stove in my shop, it took to long to heat up and used too up to much clearance space. So I use to run a older style small forced air kerosene, it finally gave up the ghost.
So I went and got a new style Dewalt DXH135HD thermostatically controlled forced air kerosene heater burns at 135,000 BTU/HR and can be used with kerosene diesel, fuel oil or JP-8 fuels. It will be T shirt work temp in the shop in about 10 min.
So I went and got a new style Dewalt DXH135HD thermostatically controlled forced air kerosene heater burns at 135,000 BTU/HR and can be used with kerosene diesel, fuel oil or JP-8 fuels. It will be T shirt work temp in the shop in about 10 min.
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From: Richmond
I had a wood stove in my shop, it took to long to heat up and used too up to much clearance space. So I use to run a older style small forced air kerosene, it finally gave up the ghost.
So I went and got a new style Dewalt DXH135HD thermostatically controlled forced air kerosene heater burns at 135,000 BTU/HR and can be used with kerosene diesel, fuel oil or JP-8 fuels. It will be T shirt work temp in the shop in about 10 min.
So I went and got a new style Dewalt DXH135HD thermostatically controlled forced air kerosene heater burns at 135,000 BTU/HR and can be used with kerosene diesel, fuel oil or JP-8 fuels. It will be T shirt work temp in the shop in about 10 min.
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From: S/W Missouri, Polk county
I got my new one from Meeks lumber yard when my old one quit on me on a real cold day. I was under the gun to get heat back in the shop. My old little one was ok, if you run kerosene in it. Pump diesel and it was a smelly beast after a while.
This new one is bigger, more BTU and WAY quieter (that matters when in the shop with it). And I only use kerosene in it, have no smell issues. 14 gal tank, fuel gauge, thermostat, put together in 1 min.
Mr. Heater Dewalt 135,000 BTU Forced Air Kerosene Construction Heater | L & M Fleet Supply
Military discount, no sales tax (since it is for farm use) and I could not say no.
This new one is bigger, more BTU and WAY quieter (that matters when in the shop with it). And I only use kerosene in it, have no smell issues. 14 gal tank, fuel gauge, thermostat, put together in 1 min.
Mr. Heater Dewalt 135,000 BTU Forced Air Kerosene Construction Heater | L & M Fleet Supply
Military discount, no sales tax (since it is for farm use) and I could not say no.
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My garage is about 20'x 55 1/2' but where the cars park (2 1/2 car) is separated with a wall from the rest. I have 2 propane heaters and 3 100lb. tanks. If I do a lot of work out there in this brutal cold the 3 tanks will last most of the winter. If it's not brutal cold then I only need 1 heater on.
Dennis