first snow hit in Nebraska 2 days ago. I have owned a couple garage heaters but no good ones. I am about to purchase a propane top 15k btu heater. Anyone have one? And how do u hear our garage, shop?
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first snow hit in Nebraska 2 days ago. I have owned a couple garage heaters but no good ones. I am about to purchase a propane top 15k btu heater. Anyone have one? And how do u hear our garage, shop?
I'm to cheap to heat my shop. Cuts into too much profit. I just dress warmer and only go out there on days when it's a little more tolerable.
If you need heat in your shop your not working hard enough. ;)
I KID!
Joking aside no heat in mine. Just a lot of crap to break down. Keeps the wind an cold at bay. lol
Sirscrapalot - Sunny for now...rain is coming. :(
Fully insulated garage here. Thanks to the previous owners and my furnace is in there so it stays toasty out there. Before this I had a kerosene heater in my old garage
Agreed I just put on layers of clothes!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by pjost
I work in a rented office. Heat is included. If it wasn't, I wouldn't have it.
I did a brake job on an Impala last year. In December. Outside. It was snowing when I finished.
I'd love a heated shop, but I don't have that type of money (Or the need, really).
You just need to toughen up!
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My father worked for a feed store. They used to have a propane type heater in the back room where he was. He loved it, and sang its praises. It may have been the only good thing about the job!
The one I want is on $45, and I can run on a tank of propane for weeks. The dual is $90, but it's too many btu. Way more than I need
I always thought I was the toughest SOB who ever walked the earth (not the baddest just the toughest).........LOL.........As I get older and do more computer work I realize I'm just a *****Quote:
Originally Posted by matador
No heater in the garage either. Keep moving around working on stuff. Cold never really bothered me. Its the humidity i dont like.
I think your talking about the "clamp on style" of heater and yes they will work. Our lights (heat) went out a few years back and a neighbor brought over one of those and it was able to keep bearable heat in the whole house. I think the only drawback is, it's on or it's off, no turning up or down as needed. Here's what I use now, no real hot spot to touch against something and portable to boot. They use a hand sized propane bottle and you can get an adapter for the bigger tank.Quote:
Originally Posted by DevinThaScrapper
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I'm not tough.
My Audi wouldn't start (Frozen Fuel), and the Impala was what I had. I needed that car! And, I was not about to drive it without brakes!
I just do what I have to!
Long sleeve shirts . ****ies jacket and workpants from walmart or a carhart. Theres your heated garage. Lol its already getting cold in jersey
I use a small space heater when I really can't bare it, but I do quite a bit of outdoor winter sports, climbing/skiing, so I'm used to the cold and have a good stock of winter clothes.
Usually warm enough here (Sarasota, Florida), but the wifey brought a 23K kero heater from Maine. It kicks butt so well I bought a yard sale 10K heater. When I want the garage warm, the kero heaters go to work.
I use one of these works great. bought it mainly because our pipes freeze.
Heat Stream 60,000 BTU Forced-Air Propane Portable Heater-HS-60V-GFA at The Home Depot
Eric
My biggest problem is my fingers. I can layer the rest of my body, but some(most things that you decide to do in the cold) things can't be done with gloves on.
Well guys it is eighty degrees right now, low Humidity now is the time to be in South Florida, My Dolphins are playing Buffalo tonight go Dolphins!!!!!!!!!!!!
P.S. I could not work any more in the cold,
I had the same problem. Most of my work is outdoors in the winter and it's hard to do carpentry with gloves on. My knuckles always used to crack open and bleed when i worked bare handed. Found a good solution:Quote:
Originally Posted by MattInTheHat
The 5 mil SAS Derma-Lite powdered Nitrile gloves ( from NAPA) are thin enough that you can easily pick up things like nails & screws. For some weird reason they help keep your hands warm too.
Those are good down to about 25 deg. When it get's below that i put on a pair of knitted wool gloves that are made with the fingertips missing. The combination of the nitrile with wool over top is good down to about zero.
(When it gets down below zero all of the power tools start to seize up and the wood splits when you drive a nail in it. No point in being out there anymore.)
Anyway .... no more bloody knuckles. :)
Sweat is warm and moist.. those gloves won't let it out. also why they don't do well in really cold temps.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrappah
I have a propane heater which I hardly use and a smaller electric heater that I never use...Currently my garage is staying above freezing so no real need for a heater. My main problem is also my hands, I have a hard enough time wearing protective gloves because I like to be able to feel what I am doing.
I think I am going with the Mr. Heater "little buddy"
Mr. Heater Little Buddy — 3800 BTU, Model# MH4B | Propane Portable Heaters| Northern Tool + Equipment
It's big enough for my space and wallet.
I agree with you all about the hands. Putting on clothes is no problem but fingers and toes (even with snow boots some nights) start having issues. I warm the hands up by crouching down every once a while and get them in front of my little space heaters (I screwed up when I had the house built and didn't do the electrical right in the garage-single breaker on both outlets, no wiring in 220 for an overhead big heater but it does have cable out there!). Have a couple of arthritic toes that have come on the last couple of years and they get cold the fastest, even in lined boots. Such is life at mid-century and some change...
I got a heater when needed here in MN it is coooold. Try working on small screws in 0 degrees your hands just dont work. We have a nice electric wall heater works real nice.
The short days are cutting my scrapping more than the cold, and there are shorter days coming, during the Christmas cleanouts.
I've had three or four different propane heaters over the years ranging from 35 - 120 k. btu's. They're generally good but there are some drawbacks. As the temp drops the fuel in the tank doesn't vaporize as well.It's not hard to freeze the regulator or the tank itself.
The other downside is that the thermocouples don't seem to last more than a year or two. ( It's that safety sensor / thingy that allows fuel to flow to the burner.) Once that goes the heater won't stay running.
If you're looking at propane you might want to verify that replacement parts readily are available.
The heater your looking at has 3800 btu, the one I am looking at has 15k btu. It's the same price, I would take a look at the propane top one.
Outside fire pit. When I get cold breaking down stuff stand by it and drink a beer.