Art & Inspiration OT, how to heat your shop in Winter.

That's pretty crazy, Jeff!

 

Yeah, fooling around in the shop beats just about anything else! Nice job!

 

No excuses for not getting your build done in Winter now, everyone needs one of these.
Might as well knock one up for the home too.

 

Outstanding, sir. My garage already has a wood burning stove in it. Might have to do a little cosmetic surgery to it.

 

That is so cool.lol

 

NOW THATS A HEATER.LOL.Bruce.

 

All I have is a P.Tack and A.C. unit and a propane blower. lol.Bruce.

 

Sure beats a fart and a match!

 

Show us more please! I would like to see how you feed the fire. I am in the Home building industry and had my hvac guy give me a gas furnice that he had pulled out to replace with a more efficient unit. The biggest thing is insulate, insulate, insulate. My shop is in a pole building and my walls are R38, It only takes about 5 minutes and she is nice and toasty.

 

Funny you mention it; heating the shop has been what I've been working on instead of my build lately. I'm building a passive solar air heater out of some fresh lumber, insulation and some old screen and windows. I don't expect it to do much more than take the edge off on sunny days but with my only other option being electric units lacking the BTU output to heat a space that big, every little bit helps.

I sure wish I could put a woodstove in my shop, but I don't have the room and I think my homeowners insurance would have an issue with it. I've looked into the exterior wood furnaces but they're mighty pricey and doing a DIY build of one doesn't work out for me as far as logistics.

 

Very nice and looks well built. Around here our wood stove and chimney has to be certified( meet gov't specs) or insurance will be declined. I heat shop with high efficiency (74%) Pacific Energy stove. I keep heat around 70 degrees,,shop will cool down to 50 degrees overnight but warms up right away once fire restarted

 

Now that's a blower.

 

That's cool! How much wood do you go through in the 1/4 mile?

 

looks like a true "Hot Rod" shop

 

Nice to see this thread staying..
I was going to post that a few days ago, but figured it would get deleted..Way cool stove !!

 

isn't that photoshopped? looks phony to me.

 

Check out wood burning outdoor forced air. Easy to modify an existing stove and circulate the heat into your garage.

 

That method would have to be safer. Very cool heater you got there.
I use a propane central heating unit made to heat a much larger house. It has made a major difference in my productivity during cold months, but if you really want a cozy shop, which also has the side benefit of keeping rust to a bare minimum, consider a heated slab. One water heater will warm your shop floor and turn a shop into a place you WANT to be. If the floor is warm, so is the rest of the shop. You only have to raise the temp of that big concrete collector (of warmth) to a comfortable level.

 

I should have mentioned this isn't mine, a relative sent me the pic.
He found it on the inter web, so I have no idea about any details.
I too, wondered how the fuel was put in. Maybe its a propane or diesel powered.
Would be easy enough to make something similar.

 

Does it burn valves and Pistons?

 

HAha, too cool!

 

Jeff, Isn't it Summer down there right now?

 

Looking at the picture a little closer, it appears that the stove may be more than just looks. Probably a pellet stove with pellet hopper in rear. Now to the "possibilities". The exhaust stacks could be air intakes feeding cold air to the heat exchanger (blower case) to be heated by the fire underneath and by stovepipe passing thru it. Then heated air is released into room via scoop and regulated by what appears to be operable butterflies.

If it ain't so, I might have to build one that way to see if it would work.

 

The rising heat needs to drive a fan inside to make the pulleys turn.

 

That seems like a reasonable explanation. I have seen gravity fed pellet stoves that require no electricity. WiseWay manufactures one.
http://wisewaypelletstove.com/wiseway-stove-info.html

 

this is my BTU machine, but its not obumma approved

 

I just have a dumb old (about 3 years) gas fired, forced hot air, garage heater hanging in the corner of my garage. Its thermostatically controlled, set at 64 during the day and drops to 60 at night (any colder then that and all the steel gets cold and makes the garage cold). I suppose the fact that I work in my garage to earn my living, Monday through Friday, probably excuses the need for a more consistent heat source.

I'm also a welding gas dealer, so no wood burner here for me. Getting insurance to cover the garage is enough of a challenge as it is. Gene

 

My wood stove and insurance inspector...