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COLTIMPALA

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Trying to get an early start on the winter here. I have a +/-600sq ft shop, and looking at heating solutions.

Initially I had planned to use a wood stove, but with piping, long heat up times, and having to bring wood in, I've been less interested in this method.

I have a reddyheater the needs repair. It's free basically. Runs off kerosene/diesel that's readily available. It's loud.

I considered buying a propane style jet heater. I'd be running it off a grill bottle. Not sure how long a bottle would last to heat the shop. My attraction here is this method seems like it would be healthier in the long term game than kerosene/diesel.

Electrical heat is basically a no due to amperage draw/ wire gauge to shop.

What method would you guys lean towards and why?
 
I would go with the wood heater, but I’m a big fan of them. I have one in my house and it does the job.
I currently have a corona kerosene jester for my little 10x16 workshop. I have to turn it down to low or it gets too hot. I also have a small electric heater that draws 800 low to 1500watts high.
That shed is not insulated, but will be before this coming winter. The other shed is insulated. A little electric heater in that one works perfect on low.
Propane/natural gas would work well. I would go vented and have a carbon monoxide detector.
It might be worth considering running a heavier line from the panel box. Electric is cleaner/cheaper and instant on and off.
 
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I have a propane reddy heater for the garage. It works good and heats up the space fast.

The bad is that it's LOUD, and after 30 minutes or so my eyes start burning.

For the shop I've been working on a dual fuel (wood and wmo) double barrel heater with the top barrel being a forced air heat exchanger. Similar to this:

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I have an old oil furnace burner that I still need to modify so I can either burn logs like normal or attach the burner to a port and burn wmo/wvo.
 
Ceiling mounted vented LP gas furnace will totally kick butt and heat the shop fast. There is another thread here about them.

I used to have an old LP gas furnace that was recycled from a house in my shop. It was a vertical model and all I did was vent it outside and add a duct to it to blow the hot air across the shop. basically free to me and effective.
 
Either commercial or homemade waste oil heater. Insanely hot and costs nothing to run.

We have a Lanair at the shop that will run you out of our 8000 sq ft shop from dead cold in winter in about 1/2 hour.
 
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Either commercial or homemade waste oil heater. Insanely hot and costs nothing to run.

We have a Lanair at the shop that will run you out of our 8000 sq ft shop from dead cold in winter in about 1/2 hour.
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I ended up buying a "used, acceptable condition" propane turbo style heater just now on Amazon for an unbeatable 65 bucks.
Disassembled my free reddy heater this morning and I think that's more of a project than I'm looking to get into at the moment.

I hadn't considered or even thought of a waste oil burner. Gonna go see if I have enough scrap around the farm to assemble one. We legit probably have 100 gallons of waste oil in drums around here. That would be genius.
 
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