CaptainMauw
ArboristSite Member
This is a topic I haven't seen much at all and I am now dealing with in heating my shop. I have a small shop roughly 25x15 with a nice 'like new' secondary burn wood stove that I am currently hooking the chimney up for. I work on everything from small engines & chainsaws to rebuilding large diesel engines and the like, do most of my machining, and store most of my tools/paints/etc in this shop. Throughout last winter season I was sealing woodworking projects and the like and I am finishing running data out for internet to wrap it up. Obviously my primary heat for any significant time I will spend out there is wood via the stove, but I am wanting a maintainer system that can hold the shop around 50ish F around the clock (easier to heat from 50 and keeps stored chemicals healthy) when I am not out there.
Natural gas isn't an option out here and I have actively dialed back any and all propane usage on the farm because its just not financially responsible right now (although, definitely doable with 100lb propane tanks). A waste oil heater would be perfect as the farm has plenty of waste oil, but space is the problem, of which I have none available. I could hang the heater, but its the oil tank and pump that I don't have room for unless I put it outside and then you deal with cold oil not wanting to flow. Im looking at electric currently.
Im curious to know what others do/run as a maintainer heating for an outbuilding that doesn't see round the clock heating from wood (unless of course a wood boiler). What fuel source do you run and what system do you use? Things you recommend/don't recommend? Most searching yields threads/forums/web pages discussing said forms of heating as primary heat at 70*F, not maintainer at 50*F.
Natural gas isn't an option out here and I have actively dialed back any and all propane usage on the farm because its just not financially responsible right now (although, definitely doable with 100lb propane tanks). A waste oil heater would be perfect as the farm has plenty of waste oil, but space is the problem, of which I have none available. I could hang the heater, but its the oil tank and pump that I don't have room for unless I put it outside and then you deal with cold oil not wanting to flow. Im looking at electric currently.
Im curious to know what others do/run as a maintainer heating for an outbuilding that doesn't see round the clock heating from wood (unless of course a wood boiler). What fuel source do you run and what system do you use? Things you recommend/don't recommend? Most searching yields threads/forums/web pages discussing said forms of heating as primary heat at 70*F, not maintainer at 50*F.